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by mingus88 3y ago
Nextdoor sent me a PHYSICAL LETTER that was even shadier It tried to look like a letter from a neighbor, but it was postmarked from SF. The letter read like it was someone from my neighborhood, with a real address and name, inviting me to j
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by mingus88 3y ago
I’d start with the same type of RICO suit they are threatening the luddites with The corruption clearly organized crime As an aside I have recently started leaving my phone at home for mundane things like a run to the store or walking the d
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by mingus88 3y ago
I can only imagine this is going to destroy resale value. Any kind of rust, flood damage, bad paint etc are instant red flags for me when I’m looking at a used car. I mean, how can we even do an inspection of an EV if we can’t do the usual
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by mingus88 3y ago
Regardless of that we all should have cameras running everywhere all the time It is only recent history that cell phone cameras have become ubiquitous and it has caused a huge shift in the authorities ability to squash their abusive behavio
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by mingus88 3y ago
Seriously, the article cites one example of four times in a single day On one hand, you’d hope the cops stop busting down doors with guns drawn after the first time On the other hand maybe the exploit is to swat some place twice then you ca
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by mingus88 3y ago
If buying is not owning, then piracy is not stealing
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by mingus88 3y ago
Just because the fraud is obvious doesn’t mean it’s not fraud
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by mingus88 3y ago
The whole point of Threads seemed to be the flex that they could blitzkrieg their app to market at the precise moment that Musk was floundering with the service and shedding users Even Bluesky with a ex-Twitter folk and have been seemingly
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by mingus88 3y ago
The very first thing I do when setting up any new dev environment is trying to attach a debugger to my local build It’s setup time that pays dividends for years afterwards. I think many folk don’t bother until they need to fix a bug and at
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by mingus88 3y ago
The quality of Game of Thrones directly maps to how much source material they had to adapt. The show runners have taken all the heat, but the fact is GRRM knew he needed to wrap up the novels before the show caught up. He wrote many blog po
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by mingus88 3y ago
Counterpoint: this is vintage internet and needs to be preserved and shared I haven’t seen a tripod/lycos site in the wild in well over a decade
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by mingus88 3y ago
People love the Star Wars they grew up with. The resurgence of support you see for the prequels is just the kids who saw them at the age appropriate time are now grown up and posting to social media. Unpopular opinion but I don’t think any
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by mingus88 3y ago
Rotate through some 30 trials and see. I did this with Tidal and Qobuz, both were good in different ways. I ended up with Bandcamp+Spotify. I find new stuff on streaming and then buy it on bandcamp. Store all the FLAC files in a plex serv
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by mingus88 3y ago
In 2024 you can buy directly from the artists in many ways that are more beneficial to them than a streaming subscription. I make it a point to buy a couple of albums a month from Bandcamp. The artists get a much larger cut than whatever I
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by mingus88 3y ago
It will be interesting to see how collector vehicles evolve There are still Delorean owners and meetups, because 80s cars can be maintained and operated pretty much as they were back then In 40 years will a cybertruck even have a cloud serv
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by mingus88 3y ago
It was less, way less, than promised Elon got on stage and told us we’d have a bulletproof, amphibious, 500mi range truck that can haul far more than it actually can for under $40k and deliveries would start years ago
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by mingus88 3y ago
If you are an enthusiast, as these EV guys certainly are, you’ll want to buy a lot of weird things that are unique but failed to land well in the market. I know I have bought my share of scrappy computer hardware, like early PDAs or netbook
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by mingus88 3y ago
This tracks my experience. My 2008 mini had an iPod adapter. The Bluetooth feature only supported BT calling. No GPS or touchscreens, plenty of knobs and physical switches. My 2012 Ford had Sync 2 which added Bluetooth audio for music, but
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by mingus88 3y ago
The light phone mentioned in this article can still make calls and send texts This seems to be more of a ban on social media apps in school, which I 100% support and honestly wouldn’t mind it being nationwide.
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by mingus88 3y ago
How old are you? Xillenial here and the internet was a utopia when I first explored it. Everyone you interacted with was similarly curious and interesting. All the content was some flavor of passion project. I’ve recently been getting into
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by mingus88 3y ago
We already have AI generated audio and video. This is a stopgap at best. Maybe the mods will have to trick the AI by asking it to threaten them or any other kind of “ethical” trap but that will just mean the AI owners abandon ethical contro
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by mingus88 3y ago
Yeah there is a nice crossover also in religion, where some sects have agreed that theories like the Big Bang are not incompatible with a creator. But my initial take on Godel’s belief here is that even if he is correct, and the order of th
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by mingus88 3y ago
You’ll get an answer with all of the linguistic flavor of Gödel’s texts and absolutely none of his insights or reasoning. LLM is a language model, not Deep Thought from the hitchhikers guide.
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by mingus88 3y ago
Applying admin controls to Slack is completely different than firing employees for raising concerns For starters, firing someone introduces legitimate damage and liability for those damages if done illegally But also, firing a group of peop
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by mingus88 3y ago
Kudos to this person for forcing Italy’s hand on the definition of pizza, but the rest of the world moved forward ages ago I had a pizza in Sweden once with banana, seafood and curry powder and honestly it was better than most of the authen
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by mingus88 3y ago
No I think this is a good faith effort to protect their trademark It won’t work, but legally if they don’t make an effort then they lose it by default.
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by mingus88 3y ago
The vagueries of DHCP can be learned best with a home lab, IMO Back in the day, setting up random hardware or VMs on an isolated subnet taught you everything you needed to know about low level network protocols like DHCP, STP, BOOTP, ARP, R
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by mingus88 3y ago
Sony Walkman. It’s wild that 40+ years after they pretty much invented the portable music player, people need to be reminded that they still exist The NW-a30 I bought years again sounds exactly like what you are looking for. The software is
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by mingus88 3y ago
Do public defenders work civil trials?
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by mingus88 3y ago
So many, really. It seems to depend on the agent. I’ve passed through US customs and not gotten stamped. Israel famously does not. They’ll give you a small slip with your details on it. I was told that an Israeli stamp on your passport woul

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