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by kobalsky 3y ago
> I refuse to connect my TV to WiFi we are one deal away from having TVs that autoconnect to xfinity hotspots / amazon sidewalk, to upload telemetry and download ads. I can see people having to open their TVs to cut the wifi chipset
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by kobalsky 3y ago
imagine if you were saying this about vaccines or antibiotics. this drug has side effects on some people but it’s may make obesity a thing of the past. especially if generics could be made so cheaply
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by kobalsky 3y ago
Also, some companies[1] have been caught being naughty and installing CA certs which allowed third parties to MiTM local connections. This was a major issue and, at least in my case, what drived many to pin certs at the time. [1] https:&#x
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by kobalsky 3y ago
things changed, and they want a piece of the cake now. they get the chance to adapt to new stuff that's happening and profit from it, however the only ones left without a say are the users that generated that content. I think it would
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by kobalsky 3y ago
Reddit was good before that "manpower". Infrastructure costs were covered by reddit gold. This was displayed on each community, some accrued years worth of server time. Instead of organic stuff like the first IAMA's what that
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by kobalsky 3y ago
reddit gold worked fine to cover infrastructure and administration costs. of course it all went to hell when they went from a small dedicated team to a startup raising millions to add hundreds of employees doing god knows what
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by kobalsky 3y ago
if you don’t want EU laws applied to you don’t sell phones on that market.
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by kobalsky 3y ago
I had the inverse experience. I setup 5 x $220/month servers and I wanted to make sure my payment method worked, contacted support a couple of times, wanted to make a prepayment or something. No dice, they didn't want to take my m
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by kobalsky 3y ago
the post says: "Just to make it clear, the montly price you will pay will NOT change, even if you see some short-term changes in monthly totals on your invoices during the transition period."
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by kobalsky 3y ago
> Just looked at the prices. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck quacks like a duck... fees to sell on amazon are very high. clothing is specially expensive with referral fees of 17% plus per unit fixed fees for shipping and retur
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by kobalsky 3y ago
there is a middle ground between “I missed the spotlight because the service went down” and “this bill has ruined my life”. they could ask the user for their budget when they are setting up their account as a basic guardrail, or they could
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by kobalsky 3y ago
> Personally have no problem with dynamic pricing if you don't care paying for the premium then it's obviously a privilege for you. not fun for the people on the other end of the spectrum, though. next stop, pricing depending o
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by kobalsky 3y ago
society is a never ending ponzi, as long as people keep having kids.
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by kobalsky 3y ago
accessing chromium safe storage? maybe they are trying to get session cookies for something, seems naughty
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by kobalsky 3y ago
that balloon wasn’t a toy either. the payload was the size of a bus
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by kobalsky 3y ago
to be fair, the comment they were responding to is just some weird flex without substance, fishing for attention. a good thing about being a bitcoin millionaire is that you can prove it while remaining anonymous, in like three clicks
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by kobalsky 3y ago
I thought the IRS popped a claim of $44b out of the hat [1], did this change? If they collect that, customers are bound to get pennies on the dollar. [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/05&#x2
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by kobalsky 3y ago
There's a world of difference between building networking equipment and GPUs though. While Cisco was THE brand at the right moment, they didn't have any secret sauce. Nvidia though (sadly), the industry has been playing catch-up w
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by kobalsky 3y ago
> especially when there isn't even a hint of anti-competitiveness by apple from the article: "Apple also prevented Spotify and other companies from informing customers on their phones that they could avoid the commission – and
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by kobalsky 3y ago
the article talks about the pollution of “aerosolized” aluminum particles in the atmosphere, not about the kinetic hazard.
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by kobalsky 3y ago
I have the cameras to prevent surprises. If someone walks near my house I immediately get their picture on my phone and/or tv using home assistant with frigate.
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by kobalsky 3y ago
https://science.nasa.gov/resource/what-is-a-lagrange-point/ similar thing that keeps the james webb telescope in its current position
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by kobalsky 3y ago
having something like zelle on your phone makes it hard to understand. I'd recommend reading "Check Your Financial Privilege".
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by kobalsky 3y ago
> Why does he have any money at all at this point? wasn't one of the big points during the IPO failure that he borrowed money from the company, bought property and then leased it back to them? it seemed jail-worthy at the time
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by kobalsky 3y ago
read the jaunt by stephen king
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by kobalsky 3y ago
I’ll say one that is taboo. Don’t have kids.
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by kobalsky 3y ago
how much does installing an AC cost there?
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by kobalsky 3y ago
if everything you do is move over stuff from the whiteboard to the computer yeah you wont type much. but that’s not the kind of programming that exists, there’s a lot of trench digging.
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by kobalsky 3y ago
I’m nowhere near audiophile level but I’m slowly upgrading my stuff one thing I learned is to appreciate a lot of new music by how good it was mastered. I mean yes, there’s a lot of good but badly recorded music, you don’t upgrade for those
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by kobalsky 3y ago
do non active speakers support balanced audio? I mean

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