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by hdgvhicv 5mo ago
https://youtu.be/ebGLFVzvdfM?si=kJNHWJ5zuF3s9JIb Turns out it’s not a major thing
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by hdgvhicv 5mo ago
Maybe I should rephrase it Only America loves having unaccountable private companies collect data but hate it when the accountable government does.
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by hdgvhicv 5mo ago
James Bond had a solution for this decades ago
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by hdgvhicv 5mo ago
Only america can think there no harm in mass collection of data, and actively is against any attempts to limit it (gdpr for example) because it’s “anti growth”
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by hdgvhicv 5mo ago
Fuck@off.com tends to work but I’ve sometimes had portals give refuse that as a “fake”, same with bob@bob.com. Billg@microsoft.com is my fallback.
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by hdgvhicv 5mo ago
I know half a dozen. All from the 80s and 90s, and only two which actually exist today. Other than that I know mine and my wife’s. Oddly enough I knew a company which had a phone number which was two digits transposed from my home number -
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by hdgvhicv 5mo ago
Certainly isn’t today. In the U.K. solar panels have about a 14 month payback, no incentives other Thant hey are currently tax free (like food. Electric from the grid has a 5% tax) On top of that there’s an inverter, and if you can’t use al
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by hdgvhicv 5mo ago
Countries should be sanctioning the warmongers that caused this. Confiscating trumps golf courses would be a start.
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by hdgvhicv 6mo ago
The mass surveillance industry doesn’t rely on ips or even cookies to track you.
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by hdgvhicv 6mo ago
Every other country seems to solve it
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by hdgvhicv 6mo ago
Ok so you’d win a community upstream on a river and you build a dam and hive off the water Downstream 500 miles away another community loses their water source Those externalities still exist
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by hdgvhicv 6mo ago
I don’t think it should be a requirement to talk to cloudflare at all to host content on the internet. I certainly don’t.
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by hdgvhicv 6mo ago
Isn’t a lot of that due to currnecy and inflation? 12 months ago 4300 yuan would cost 1000 NZD. 4400 yuan today (3% increase) would be about 1100 NZD.
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by hdgvhicv 6mo ago
They haven’t stamped passports at TLV for about a decade. My last Israel in my “dirty” passport was at Erez coming out of Gaza. Very few people have two passports nowadays.
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by hdgvhicv 6mo ago
There’s about 180m us passports, so about half the country has one, about the same percentage as France.
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by hdgvhicv 6mo ago
My gut feeling would be Chesham/harrow/rayners lane/hammersmith/edgeware/earls court/green park/stockwell/embankment/elephant/bank/aldgate east/liverpool st/bond street/b
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by hdgvhicv 6mo ago
Squeezing the extra 2% of revenue through making it shit has “no downsides” Voting with wallet doesn’t work, the power imbalance ya too large. This isn’t boycotting your local deli because they get rid of your favourite sandwich. Eventually
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by hdgvhicv 6mo ago
I found some prs in one of my GitHub projects which were over 12 months old. I just hadn’t noticed.
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by hdgvhicv 6mo ago
American exceptional used to be “we can do this no one else can” Today it’s “everyone can do this but we can’t”
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by hdgvhicv 6mo ago
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance Just because we’ve spent he last 30 years running Linux and not worrying about the nonsense in the wider computer world doesn’t mean we’ll be able to do the same for he next 30 years The era of the
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by hdgvhicv 6mo ago
Why would you have to “review a pr or issue”? You can choose to Or you can choose to ignore them
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by hdgvhicv 6mo ago
Nuclear costs far more per kWh than solar/Wind plus storage Yes we need lots more electric. Nuclear isn’t the answer.
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by hdgvhicv 6mo ago
> This is YC The home of the advertising and data broker industry.
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by hdgvhicv 6mo ago
> Banks aren't stupid. If they can gamble with other people’s money then why won’t they. If they can get rid of those liabilities by offloading them in a hidden way why wouldn’t they. If it all collapses and the government bails The
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by hdgvhicv 6mo ago
Wouldn’t that debt knock down the market cap as much as the value Otherwise take out a $20b loan and put it in the bank. Assets increase $20b, job done.
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by hdgvhicv 6mo ago
Doesnt that calculation assume you value your privacy and owmership at zero too?
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by hdgvhicv 6mo ago
originally it was directory only, wasn’t until fairly late they adddd an alta vista fallback.
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by hdgvhicv 6mo ago
This is the attitude that killed the web. And kills pretty much everything it infects.
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by hdgvhicv 6mo ago
I would hazard the majority of devices are connected via cellular today.
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by hdgvhicv 6mo ago
Sorry difficult to tell!

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