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by fooqux 2y ago
> And especially especially not when the founders have previously shown their colors when they rugpulled all their customers and effectively bricked all the devices they'd sold. As a Pebble user for a long time, I'm not exactly
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by fooqux 2y ago
> Netflix wants to get those views and autoplays. It's all about the stats boosts. I'm confused why this would be the case. Can you explain further? It seems to me that what Netflix actually wants is paying subscribers that do
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by fooqux 2y ago
I was taught during grade school that capitalism drives lower prices, and since capitalism is good, it's alluded that paying less money for a product of similar value is almost a moral obligation. That company selling the "same th
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by fooqux 2y ago
> incremental change I think this is key for other reasons as well. A country, especially a global superpower like the US, has an incredibly slow turning radius. Even more so when you need to stop and consider ripple effects, as politi
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by fooqux 2y ago
I think you're spot on. Damn failures are on the rise, and usually it's due to the simple fact that maintenance is expensive and everything has a shelf life. A lot of these dams were built during the same time period and the cost
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by fooqux 2y ago
> Plus, you're anonymous with Google but you're not anonymous with Kagi since you pay them. The idea that you're anonymous with Google is laughable. The amount of data they aggregate is well known. Their entire business mo
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by fooqux 2y ago
Why? I've personally seen more news articles about Tor users getting de-anonymized than I have VPN users. Purely anecdotal, I know, but the point being Tor is obviously not foolproof, so I am curious why recommending one over the other
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by fooqux 2y ago
> That said, if anyone honestly believed it I don't see how they could not sit by and watch it happen. And what, exactly, is someone supposed to do about it? Legally. Besides voting, obviously. That ship already sailed.
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by fooqux 2y ago
Thanks for that explanation. I didn't realize the fuel costs were quite so bad, and extrapolating it to all aircraft per day makes sense as well.
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by fooqux 2y ago
I'm learning today that black boxes don't have any sort of built-in emergency battery power, apparently. For a device that is meant to be a data gatherer up until the "last gasp" of the airplane, that seems like a pretty
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by fooqux 2y ago
>> they still don't sell to the USA. > I'm just addressing this comment, which is not strictly true. And you CAN still get the phone, the partnership does not appear to be over. Well, if we're going to get pedantic,
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by fooqux 2y ago
Sure, but paying Fairphone 5 prices for a less-powerful Fairphone 4, and then needing to flash an aftermarket ROM on it and live forevermore in a grey area support-wise? The value proposition just isn't there for me.
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by fooqux 2y ago
> Anyone tried the Fairphone? I wish I could say yes. Sadly, they still don't sell to the USA. They tried doing some sort of partnership a bit ago with the last Fairphone and an USA vendor but it seemed to not go very far. Can'
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by fooqux 2y ago
A few years ago, my bank mailed me a letter basically saying "A partner got hacked and lost your personal information. It was totally the partner's fault, not ours! We care about keeping your identity safe!" And guess which
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by fooqux 2y ago
How so? All he had to do was continue to fly under the radar for a few more weeks until everyone forgot about it. Being on the lam implies they knew his identity; they did not.
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by fooqux 2y ago
> So the shopping festival after thanksgiving should be called "black-friday"? I would say this is a prime example, yes.
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by fooqux 2y ago
Yes, many words that started out as two words separated by a hyphen merge to become one as language evolves. Notebook is a good example of this; a more recent example would be email.
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by fooqux 2y ago
At least in English (I don't know other languages well enough to speak with any any kind of knowledge) whenever you want a term containing 2+ words meant to be taken together, you use a hyphen. Compound words, I believe they are called
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Amplipi – hackable home audio amplifier(micro-nova.com)
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by fooqux 2y ago
I have one of these and frankly it's a joy to play with. After my first-generation Sonos was bricked by the vendor for simply having the audacity of being a few years old, I vowed the next audio system I got would be open, or at least
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by fooqux 2y ago
I could see this being used to create an interesting password storage system. I already use Pass but the one thing I wish it could do is use different keys for different folders, so that I could setup family accounts. This looks to solve th
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by fooqux 2y ago
You're not wrong, but all this amounts to wishing. At the end of the day, the majority only care about their utility bill. Telling them that X will cost more today but lower the bill for the next generation isn't enticing. For tha
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by fooqux 2y ago
> Running hydro, biogas (e.g. in Denmark) and offshore wind (UK, Spain, France, Italy) can definitely fulfill base load demand on the basis of renewable energy generation. This seems entirely region dependant, but even so, I think a cita
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by fooqux 2y ago
I agree, but I was talking about the supposed point of the article. This is taken from the first words in the article: > Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will ex
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by fooqux 2y ago
You say lavabit, but that's actually an example of them needing the private keys... so I'm not sure what you're on about there. But regardless, I've seen this argument plenty of times. However, I don't know how much
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by fooqux 2y ago
For anyone in a group that is worried of being retaliated against due to Trump: it's too late to use any tips in this article. Even the most private among us likely have decades of data in various data centers about our typical travels
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by fooqux 2y ago
He's 78. I think there would be plenty of people willing to enable him to sit on his throne indefinitely because they know that's really only ten years or so at best. And then, once he's gotten it warmed up and did the hard j
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by fooqux 2y ago
I've yet to see a single ISP (I live in the US) that even allows customers to host services. If you look in the TOS for services like Comcast, AT&T, T-Mobile, etc, you'll see a part about hosting services being forbidden. And
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by fooqux 2y ago
Frankly, you lost me at "if your ISP cooperates".
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by fooqux 2y ago
Did you miss the part about CG-NAT? Once your ISP runs out of their IP4 addresses and puts you behind a CG-NAT, you can punch all the holes you like; nothing is going to get to you. At least not without doing fancy stuff like using an exter

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