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by jsiepkes 4mo ago
> Some drugs are available online / locally through compounding pharmacies as transdermal creams that you apply to the inner surface of the cat's ear. > Can confirm, transdermal maropitant (cerenia) worked very well for my c
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by jsiepkes 4mo ago
Its not always that easy. For example cerenia tastes very bitter for a cat. My cat will start drooling almost uncontrollably if he tastes it. He has a kidney condition and needs it for the rest of his life. I've tried crushing it, but
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by jsiepkes 4mo ago
Proton, the Steam machine, the Steam deck, etc. were probably never about making money. It's Valve's "Plan B". They started with Proton after Microsoft suddenly made a move with the Windows store and also started bolting
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by jsiepkes 4mo ago
If this is a deal breaker, then you want to avoid KIA. The KIA connect app also doesn't work on GrapheneOS due to the use of NSHC DxShield [1]. [1] https://en.nshc.net/
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by jsiepkes 4mo ago
Isn't that even worse? They even knew they couldn't protect their high value asset? As the article states, this center has been around for a long time and seen plenty of wars. But this time was different.
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by jsiepkes 5mo ago
> Trump fits this moment well. He is a salesman at core, and Larry Ellison is too. Larry just fired 30% of his people at Oracle because, apparently, he is in an immediate need for cash. Because Oracle's early AI bets aren't pay
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by jsiepkes 5mo ago
As far as I know the more expensive UPS models are all still "online" (ie. double conversion) UPS'es. These are also the only variants which will protect you against things like a phase ending up on neutral in a 3 phase power
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by jsiepkes 5mo ago
It would be way more complex for AWS to look at data in VM's then for cloudflare to look at unencrypted HTTP traffic. Heck they probably already do for various monitoring.
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by jsiepkes 6mo ago
> Yes. Hence the stories of people (Brezhnev?) being astonished and baffled at simply walking into an American supermarket. Way later even; It was Yeltsin who wandered (it was unplanned) into a grocery store in Texas [1]. [1] https:&#x2
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by jsiepkes 6mo ago
None of your opinion on Java changes the fact that Microsoft used it's monopoly to execute an embrace, extend, extinguish strategy on Java. It is well documented since they lost an anti-trust court case on it [1]. [1] https:/&#x2
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by jsiepkes 6mo ago
If you claim something might "very well" be something you state you need some better proof. Otherwise we might also "very well" be living in the matrix.
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by jsiepkes 6mo ago
That's a pretty bold claim. Seemingly by adding some numbers without explanation. Since you didn't bother to explain why you think you can draw that conclusion from those numbers, I won't bother to do the opposite. Sufficient
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by jsiepkes 6mo ago
There is more. For example his Start menu story turned out to be bogus too: https://adamdemasi.com/2024/07/24/windows-nt-4-start-menu-wa...
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by jsiepkes 6mo ago
> Pardons granted by Donald J. Trump (Second Term) Not Including the January 6th Pardons Why not include the January 6th pardons?
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by jsiepkes 7mo ago
Tucker Carlson quite clearly just had a sleep paralysis [1]. I had one too. Scared the shit out of me when it happened. Since you can't move or breath and the hallucination of a robed figure sitting on top of you is really vivid. Quite
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by jsiepkes 7mo ago
So it's a cold war law which is still in place but not being enforced. Same for conscription laws in the Netherlands, which are also still active. They just don't ask anyone to report for conscription. It was even expanded a coupl
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by jsiepkes 7mo ago
On top of that you would need something to secure DNS. Like DNSSEC or at the very least use DNS with TLS or DNS over HTTP. None of these are typically enabled by default.
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by jsiepkes 7mo ago
If you can get someone to do all these steps, you can get someone to wait 24 hours as well. We use Android based devices internally with apps which aren't signed. I've had way too much trouble with Google flagging an internal app
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by jsiepkes 7mo ago
While the Neo is a nice notebook, I think you are overestimating it's durability advantages. > If you're a school IT department buying these in volume, you want something that actually lasts more than a year before pieces of p
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by jsiepkes 7mo ago
The article literary addresses this: > Economists aren’t necessarily worried by the total level of debt (in fact, government debt is a necessary foundation of global markets). Rather it’s the debt-to-GDP ratio, which measures a nation’s
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by jsiepkes 8mo ago
I have a story about this; People had an HSM (in USB key form) which needed to be shared. The question came to create some elaborate piece of software for lending to prevent people from accidentally leaving it in their pockets and accidenta
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by jsiepkes 8mo ago
That, and the IntellIJ plugin of Claude is basically the Claude CLI running in a terminal. Also pretty underwhelming.
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by jsiepkes 8mo ago
In the Netherlands, before VISA, there already was a national debit card standard called PIN [1]. Sure, times have changed and it's probably not super easy, but it's also not going to be super hard. [1] https://en.wikip
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by jsiepkes 8mo ago
> The system validating the authentication needs only to verify that the credentials are correct. If users want to use TPMs, HSMs,etc.. or none at all, that's up to them. That's not up to the user in a corporate environment. If
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by jsiepkes 9mo ago
In the Netherlands Signal is getting traction. I talk to most people via Signal, about 85% of my messages are via Signal. Which includes my parents, and I didn't even put them on Signal.
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by jsiepkes 9mo ago
Going to be interesting to see if these machines will be capable of running anything else than Windows. Or if they are either so incompatible (no UEFI, etc.) or so locked down they can't run anything else.
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by jsiepkes 9mo ago
Still pissed over the fact the EU made Greece pay their debts when they thought they never had to repay their debts and could just get free money?
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by jsiepkes 9mo ago
All that hardware (with chips) is made by machines from ASML. Mobile devices? That's all ARM. Mobile infrastructure like 5G? Mostly Nokia or Ericsson.
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by jsiepkes 9mo ago
There are plenty banks owned and operated within the EU. One bank folded for US pressure but when push comes to shove the EU can force banks in the EU to uphold EU rules and regulations. That's not the case for digital infrastructure l
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by jsiepkes 9mo ago
Those are quite some claims. Got any facts to back them up?

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