geekamongus

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by geekamongus 1y ago
Then you are losing out on the insurance the company is supposed to provide, usually through bonding, in case the cleaner pockets your favorite jewelry, for example. Or they knock over the Faberge egg while dusting.
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by geekamongus 1y ago
I make 90'S-ish indie rock. I play all the instruments (drums, guitar, bass, keys) and sing. Having to self-promote is the main struggle, and that's the only way to "make it" anymore. Similar with the book publishing ind
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by geekamongus 1y ago
One of the big differences between the old days and today is that you have exponentially more musicians releasing music every day due to how easy it is for bedroom producers to create and release tracks with very little barrier to entry. I
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by geekamongus 1y ago
Add these up-and-comers: https://mirlo.space - Collectively owned & managed by musicians https://ampwall.com - Competitor to Bandcamp with better features
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by geekamongus 1y ago
"Not available on other platforms." But it is...
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by geekamongus 1y ago
I've been a Firefox die-hard since it was called Phoenix a couple decades ago. That said, over the last two months I've been testing Orion Browser (from Kagi, to which I subscribe), and am smitten with it. It's Apple only at
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by geekamongus 1y ago
"The entire test will take about an hour to complete." Doesn't that skew things? That is a lot of time a lot of people don't have.
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by geekamongus 1y ago
Today's situation seemed very far away from us 6 months ago.
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by geekamongus 1y ago
This doesn't seem to be going over well.
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by geekamongus 1y ago
This seems difficult when you can order a Ford fleet key off Amazon and get access to most Ford trucks and vans for about $15.
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by geekamongus 1y ago
I usually just go here first.
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“That Deep Romantic Chasm”: Libertarianism, Neoliberalism, & Computer Culture(uvm.edu)
71 points by geekamongus 3y ago|88 comments
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by geekamongus 3y ago
The more things change…?
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by geekamongus 3y ago
Tweez is my favorite album of theirs, though Spiderland is excellent.
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by geekamongus 4y ago
So much for this playlist at my house party.
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by geekamongus 4y ago
I wish _weird_ was all it was these days!
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by geekamongus 4y ago
> Google has an incentive to rank pages that contain Google ads because it makes them more revenue. Google has an incentive to rank profit-making sites higher so that they make more money. Is there evidence that they do this?
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by geekamongus 4y ago
Did 10,000 monkeys finally do this thing?
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by geekamongus 4y ago
Easy to remember, not not as simple as https://icanhazip.com
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by geekamongus 4y ago
How can you write an article dissing Google and not mention YouTube?
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by geekamongus 4y ago
I like Jira because it hides the crap I don't want to do or think about in this thing called the backlog, which I can point to as a "see, it is something in the works but we don't have enough resources" thing, and then I
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by geekamongus 4y ago
CNN Underscored is trying to be a competitor with legit reviews, as I understand it, but it still feels a little "affiliaty," if you will. (Disclaimer: I work for CNN Digital).
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by geekamongus 4y ago
Strange...it's been rock solid for me for years, across multiple devices and OS's. I cannot remember the last time FF crashed.
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by geekamongus 5y ago
This is cool. I wish it had some kind of a wizard to walk you through so that you could get some personalized (but not too personal) results, and build out a profile for you, to make it more relatable. For example, ask me my income, my fami
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by geekamongus 5y ago
It will only be a matter of time until the AI learns that what sounds pleasing to most humans is often some form of, or extract from, Pachelbel's Canon in D.
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by geekamongus 5y ago
Agreed...this is a good sign in many regards.
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by geekamongus 5y ago
Maybe you could get the Flex Seal guy to do his next commercial there and seal it for free.
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by geekamongus 6y ago
It is just obscurity.
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by geekamongus 6y ago
Kinda bummed you didn't use security.txt for this.
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by geekamongus 7y ago
So that is what is going on with my search results. I hate it. It makes me feel dirty.

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