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by kstrauser 26d ago
This right there. No, you're right, it's not a panacea. However, it absolutely fixed the period back problems I've dealt with most of my adult life. Now if I do something to tweak my lower back, I can't wait to get to a
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by kstrauser 26d ago
Ugh. Yeah, I'd have that back at the store an hour later. I did not agree to this before handing over my money, therefore the sale was fraudulent.
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by kstrauser 26d ago
Good grief. "Bet I don't!"
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by kstrauser 26d ago
And in any circumstances, the ludicrous notion of adding a contract after a purchase is made is unconscionable. You buy a car. You pay cash. It’s yours. Afterward, the seller says “oh, and you have to agree to these terms before you’re al
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by kstrauser 26d ago
This vulnerability, which doesn’t affect my installation, would take approximately 5 minutes to patch if it did. With that exception, my server will have had approximately 99.999% uptime over the last several years. It would take a boatload
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by kstrauser 28d ago
Wait until you find out about smoke detectors. Or microwave ovens. Or light bulbs. Or anything with nonzero temperature.
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by kstrauser 29d ago
That’s the most insecure thing I’ve heard in a while. What other things randomly flashing across your screen disturb you? Do you imagine your coworkers keeping count of which ads are displayed in your browsers? Do you imagine that they don’
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
> incredible development of the aesthetics of simplicity and emptiness compared to the ostentatious and sometimes baroque western aesthetics We're just going to pretend that Japanese web design is identical to the rest of the world&
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
For the love of goodness, if I'm having a heart attack or something, please do not waste 5 to 7 seconds total of my life to screw around with footgear instead of just coming inside and getting me. I promise I'd vastly rather have
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
Where I grew up (suburbs in the Midwest in the US) no one took their shoes off, ever, until it was bedtime. I cannot remember a single time taking my shoes of at a friend's house, or when visiting somewhere with my parents, or going of
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
Forklift. Lots of people like QSpace, but I’ve bumped into weird privacy issues with it every time I considered trying it. Life’s too short to worry that my file manager is spying on me.
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
Gotta agree. Turning tracking cookies off? Sure! Turning session cookies off and then complaining that the server doesn’t remember you? Uhhh… And while I’m sympathetic to the idea of not wanting to run JS, to a first approximation modern br
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
As government representatives, they’re limited to the behavior that the Constitution grants to the government. Here’s an explainer to said Constitution you may find useful: https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan&#x2F
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
The US Constitution, by itself, grants US citizens everything as a right, then enumerates the exceptions to those all-encompassing rights carved out as necessary for the operation of a government. The correct question is: Where does the U
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
That's true, but hear me out. I wear reasonably priced, "nice" watch — a Seiko 5 GMT. Quartz watches tell time better. I wear this one because I think it's a good looking watch and like the way it looks and feels on me.
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
It’s not only that. Lab diamonds are superior in every way I’ve heard of. The emotional appeal of their provenance is the sole remaining reason I’ve heard people claim that slave diamonds are superior. I contend that they’re worse there, to
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
I love a good cheeseburger. I’ve enjoyed ones from Michelin restaurants and from local holes in the wall; I’m not choosy. To me, the taste and texture of a cheeseburger is one of the best testing things on the planet. I do not eat cheesebur
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
Given the infamous conditions of diamond mining, to me that reads like “won’t someone think of the jobless slaves?” Someone no longer being forced to slave away in the mines is not exactly a great loss to workers rights. “De Beers: Because
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
I personally find lab grown much more beautiful, in that they’re an amazing accomplishment of mankind’s science and technology. So a tree got squeezed underground until it turned into a crystal? Cool, I guess, but big deal. Humans learned e
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
How severe should your workplace grievance be before you’re allowed to decide to protest? Are only coal miners allowed to grouse about their jobs?
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
Won't someone please think of the poor advertisers? /s
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
I'll say this for Apple Mail (the email service, not the email client): it's dirt cheap and works really well. You can bring up to 5 self-owned domains to it on the $1/mo iCloud+ plan. That price includes 6 users, and up to 3
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
Huh, that 2nd to last article almost sounds like Amiga mod files. You pieced together samples, often, um, “borrowed” from other mods, into song-specific selection, then included a list of which samples to trigger at which frequency at which
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
Ah, got it. That makes sense from what I casually know about the project.
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
> Also, they had no idea how to deal with either images or distributed systems. What would make images harder than anything else? My naive self thinks, "hey, isn't that just one long base64-encoded word?" Apparently not, o
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
Let me stop you right there: no one is claiming that buying a book gives you copyrights to its content. That's a strawman. When you own a book, you own that copy of it. You can do whatever you like with that copy, short of distributing
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
> the legal contract which you choose to agree to when Sony accepts your money for a license Tell me more about this nonexistent contract I have with Sony.
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
No. I can buy a book. That gives me ownership over that copy of the book. No one is claiming it gives me the right to do things like make copies of it to distribute to others, so we can ignore that goofy argument. The fact is, I own the b
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
LOL fuck off with that. The Amazon link[0] to a Final Fantasy game has a "Buy Now" button, not "License Now". I'm buying a copy of a game, exactly like I'm buying a copy of a book.[1] If they want to pretend in
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
BASIC, while not a language I'd use for any reason today, is Turing complete. You can write any program in BASIC that you could write in Rust. Of course, you'd mainly do that for the same reason you'd write something in, say,

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