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by gwbrooks 2y ago
Self-hosting the mail-composing, mail-merging and tracking functions while using third-party SMTP is well-trod territory. The former can be done on a pretty basic box and the latter, at scale, is a heavy lift. My guess is Plunk is for peopl
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by gwbrooks 2y ago
In the U.S., it happens regularly.
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by gwbrooks 2y ago
In the U.S., only about 30% of homeowners are subject to housing associations. I get how that seems odd if you live in a big city, a multifamily building, etc. -- associations and their problems are ubiquitous there. But it's not the e
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by gwbrooks 2y ago
>>The unifying theme (from my perspective anyway) is to try, earnestly, to take steps towards a kind of real-world everyday utopia. Reached pragmatically, by any means necessary.<< I had no idea Utopian was a synonym for Authori
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by gwbrooks 3y ago
Does it preserve and/or allow editing of the text metadata (typically, the generative prompt) appended to PNG files created with Stable Diffusion?
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by gwbrooks 3y ago
I don't want to simp for the billionaires... but here we are. This is fallacious nonsense: "Honestly, I don't think this mild tax hike for billionaires will happen even if Biden wins his reelection because the richest America
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by gwbrooks 3y ago
It was a ~$600 million (2024 dollars) investment to build the plant and its economic footprint is about $1.5 billion a year. No matter how MB management feels about Alabama and its laws, stockholders would hang 'em from lamposts if the
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by gwbrooks 3y ago
It'll come up against a 1A challenge in federal court and, based on precedent, likely be ruled unconstitutional. But if we're going down this road? Also ban subnational governments from using taxpayer money to lobby. There's
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by gwbrooks 3y ago
They're paying less than one year's revenue from their ad business alone.
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by gwbrooks 3y ago
That's not a corporate-law issue -- it's a First Amendment issue with a lot of settled precedent behind it. tl;dr: You're allowed to lie, as a person or a corporation, as long as the lie doesn't meet pretty high bars for
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by gwbrooks 3y ago
Defense spending is roughly half of what the federal government already spends on healthcare.
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by gwbrooks 3y ago
Tell me more -- please -- about opening an agate mine. I know the Mojave and know I love agates so I'm going out on a limb and saying I'm the man for the job.
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by gwbrooks 3y ago
Designing Your Life, by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans. Lighter in some areas than I'd like, but the overall concept -- applying Design Thinking to designing your own life -- is a good one that proved useful in sorting through some life&#
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by gwbrooks 3y ago
If all I needed was SMTP? I'd likely just use Amazon SES or Mailgun. I know some folks have concerns with the privacy of that(1), and really want to run their own SMTP. If that's the case, Mail In A Box can do the job, or you can
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by gwbrooks 3y ago
This sounds amazing. Know of any walkthroughs online?
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by gwbrooks 3y ago
Used MIAB for years -- one install, about 20 domains, most low volume but 1-2 sending tens of thousands of emails a month. Some notes: * Every thread that mentions hosting your own email brings out the it's-pointless-do-do-your-own-mai
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by gwbrooks 3y ago
Journalism as an act is something societies need, benefit from and can be performed by literally anybody, albeit better by some than others. Journalism as a business is what looks increasingly unsustainable. Against that backdrop, we sh
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by gwbrooks 3y ago
I wonder what tiny bit of the world he could have improved by repurposing the time and energy it took to write that.
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by gwbrooks 3y ago
Notion.
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by gwbrooks 3y ago
If you're not running your hot sauces in containers, I don't even want to talk to you.
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by gwbrooks 3y ago
Both things can be true, right? The demand side is hosed while at the same time regulation is ~40% of the cost of new multifamily development and ~25% of the cost of single-family development. Yes to the bubble dynamic. Yes to the far-out
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by gwbrooks 3y ago
I suppose the best response to her would be: You first.
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by gwbrooks 3y ago
It's a political problem rather than a legal-powers problem; most mayors and city council members are (rightly) afraid of the local police union publicly calling them out. That's why, even at the local level, forfeiture reform usu
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by gwbrooks 3y ago
Cities and counties can address this on their own, without waiting for the statehouse or Washington. The nonprofit I work for has a model policy and research that makes it nearly turn-key. https://better-cities.org/wp-conten
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by gwbrooks 3y ago
Finland data center, where I have dedicated hardware, is fine.
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by gwbrooks 3y ago
According to the World Bank, global poverty has decreased by nearly 20% during that time; the rate of decrease for those in extreme poverty has been even greater. That's something like a billion and a half people who absolutely think t
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by gwbrooks 3y ago
As a clarification: Freedom of the press under the First Amendment doesn't confer special protections on journalists. Rather, it protects the rights of all Americans not merely to speak freely, but to write freely as well.
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by gwbrooks 3y ago
Or -- hear me out -- you entice newcomers who want a big ol' rack of boxes and wires. Like me.
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by gwbrooks 3y ago
Or - hear me out - maybe just use taxes to fund government rather than pursuing political/social agendas.
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by gwbrooks 3y ago
It's not your username; it was always theirs.

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