mahogany

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by mahogany 3y ago
> Of course, never use SMS as a 2FA Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any US banks that have non-SMS 2FA. Happy to learn about one if it exists.
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by mahogany 3y ago
There is not a dichotomy between a post-Industrial Revolution society and living in the woods.
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by mahogany 3y ago
You still need to pay property tax in perpetuity (in the US at least). Taxes can only be paid with USD aka “system money”, so you’re not really outside of the system in this situation. Plus there is eminent domain. The only way to avoid nee
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by mahogany 3y ago
Huh, I have a Thinkpad t450s from 2015 which I’m sure has less power than a 2017 MBP, and I use it for email and streaming YouTube just fine. It runs Linux and I use an adblocker, so maybe that’s a difference? Or maybe I don’t mind the decr
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by mahogany 3y ago
Energy usage isn’t the only thing to be concerned about. There are resources that have to be extracted, and non-recyclable waste piling up in huge quantities. Seems like a fine fruit to pick if you consider broader environmental impact. (Al
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by mahogany 3y ago
> I remember going to an actual bakery in Belgium, you know, the guy who wakes up at 3AM to make bread. Get a fresh bread. Still warm. If you leave it on the counter for 2 days it is rock hard. Because it is unprocessed (or at least a lo
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by mahogany 3y ago
There has been at least one case in the White Mountains where the leader of a search and rescue team recommended charging the person they rescued, because that person acted with negligence and put the lives of the search and rescue team in
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by mahogany 3y ago
> The same person who is involved with Plan 9 also made Go. Taking one look at that programming language doesn't leave me very optimistic about Plan 9. Hilarious how in any thread on HN tangentially related to Go, somebody will inev
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by mahogany 3y ago
> Human and animal waste is compostable but only at industrial scale. Not true! Plenty of people use composting toilets, for example people without plumbing (e.g. off grid houses) or homesteaders that embrace a re-use philosophy. You can
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by mahogany 3y ago
Couple questions as I try to understand: > I can log into Mastodon and search and find the user I created on lemmy. I can also search, follow and look at the posts @technology@beehaw.org. All from my Mastodon app/account. So is your
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by mahogany 3y ago
No, but (1) you are trusting the extension to not do that, and (2) even if you vet the extension now, it could change in the future. Or am I mistaken? My understanding is that by default, extensions update automatically. If you accept these
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by mahogany 3y ago
Exactly - it blows my mind how normalized the permission Access your data for all websites is (I think it's Read and Change all your data on all websites for Chrome ). I use only one or two extensions because of this. Why does a pro
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by mahogany 3y ago
Yeah, fair enough, it doesn't necessarily invalidate the statement. But it's odd, don't you think? It's like if a group released a public statement that said "Stop Oil Now!" and one of the signatories was Exxon
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by mahogany 3y ago
> It's the risk of belief in algorithmically derived information, and deployment of autonomous, unsupervised systems. And Sam Altman, head of one of the largest entities posing this exact risk, is one of the signatories. We can&#x27
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by mahogany 3y ago
I'd take a few hundred over a few. My concern, as another commenter suggested, is mostly around radical changes without any longevity in testing or understanding. Even though a lot of our "natural" foods were created via arti
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by mahogany 3y ago
> provided they are the right nutrients in the right quantities But isn’t that the tricky part: how do you figure out what is “right”? If you eat synthesized sugar and vitamin C in place of an orange, is it really the same thing? Perhaps
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by mahogany 3y ago
Huh, what an interesting and specific rant toward Habitat for Humanity volunteers. Is it your experience that those volunteers pretend to be "real" construction workers?
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by mahogany 3y ago
Unless you're claiming that everyone making $300,000 a year could retire immediately, then of course they need a paycheck to live. Maybe you're thinking about the phrase "living paycheck-to-paycheck" which has a differen
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by mahogany 3y ago
Sometimes people are given a shirt as a gift, or they just think it looks cool. I never knew others took shirt-wearing to be such a serious activity.
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by mahogany 3y ago
But what are the environmental effects of harvesting & manufacturing the food for the cats that are kept indoors? This is always left out of the equation in these conversations. Cats have to eat some animal to survive. To me, it seems
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by mahogany 3y ago
I always start running semi-regularly for a few weeks and then stop. I'd love to be more consistent about it, so this sounds enticing. What about the watch made you run more consistently? Was it that the built-in plans gave you motivat
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by mahogany 3y ago
You may be right about processed food, but I have a more boring speculation: most people lose weight by starting any diet simply because they begin to think more carefully about the food they are ingesting.
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by mahogany 3y ago
This reply (and several others) is focusing on one part of the comment and ignoring the overall point. The question is: if companies are no longer giving dividends, no longer giving voting rights, and you get nothing if it goes to zero, t
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by mahogany 4y ago
The CIA helped him defect and change his name. Years later, he appeared on TV in the US repeating neoconservative talking points in the 80s. But I guess he was just your ordinary Canadian.
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by mahogany 4y ago
Did he even work for the KGB? Where does this claim originate? Wikipedia says he worked for a Soviet press agency, but I don't see a good source that documents his involvement with KGB that doesn't ultimately track back to himself
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by mahogany 4y ago
Honestly, none of the language you're quoting is reassuring. There are qualifiers like "most likely" and "relatively safe", and the not-at-all-reassuring "Ingestion of PTFE is not reported to be toxic". Th
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by mahogany 4y ago
> Companies are subject to the scrutiny of customers, shareholders, the stock market and a highly competitive job market. This creates a level of democratic accountability that, in my opinion, exceeds even that of Scandinavian countries.
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by mahogany 4y ago
FYI - if you don't have a lot of time, you can get away with a much simpler solar kiln than the one in this article, which is still a huge improvement over the natural seasoning process. I highly recommend it with a newer-style wood s
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by mahogany 4y ago
I don't know if the original assertion is true. I'm only pointing out that median income doesn't say much about wealth and power within a group.
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by mahogany 4y ago
Median income is a very different measurement from "wealth, corporate power and political power" within a group, especially one so large.

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