mmerlin

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by mmerlin 5y ago
The deal was a sad joke to begin with to get "the pompous poodle" re-elected (which worked). He then soonafter resigned and went to work for the people he shadily brokered this (good for them / bad for us) deal for Basically
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by mmerlin 5y ago
the French deal was absolutely crappy to begin. Follow the money. Christopher Pyne brokered this $50Bn deal to get re-elected (some boatbuilding would happen in SA) which blew out to $90Bn and rising. Pyne immediately retired (got his poll
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by mmerlin 5y ago
the French deal was absolutely crappy to begin. Follow the money. Christopher Pyne brokered this $50Bn deal to get re-elected (some boatbuilding would happen in SA) which blew out to $90Bn and rising. Pyne immediately retired (got his poll
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by mmerlin 5y ago
No it's not too early. We know the French deal was absolutely crappy to begin. Follow the money. Christopher Pyne brokered this $50Bn deal to get re-elected (some boatbuilding would happen in SA) which blew out to $90Bn and rising. Py
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by mmerlin 5y ago
I got one in Australia with Extended Basic, speech synthesiser, joysticks and cassette. The sprites were next-level cool compared to my friends Apple II, Vic-20 and Trash-80 I wrote a pretty good frogger clone (with only the road part to
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by mmerlin 5y ago
Let's not forget the Liberal Party recently throwing out the fairly-newly-enacted loan suitability consumer protection laws, so that the mortgage brokers could reduce compliance and go back to the boomtime days of being the legal human
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by mmerlin 5y ago
Probably decent ROI which is why it keeps on happening! They just need one person in each 10k spammed on average, to click the phishing url asking them to pay a fake bill and then charge them $328 instead of the $3.28 displayed o the page.
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by mmerlin 5y ago
Thanks "Everything" looks like something I will install and use. I previously used a manually-triggered disk search indexer called Cathy.exe which works well [1] For "real time (i.e. without the pre-cached index) live searche
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by mmerlin 5y ago
Maybe Kite could consider introducing the unique label kitegraph, a bit like Go being searchable as golang
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by mmerlin 5y ago
The banks in your country sound much more reasonable and fair. I'm in Australia and our 4 banks are way too powerful, and some of the worlds most profitable on a percentage basis, with nearly the highest paid executives globally. In th
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by mmerlin 5y ago
Internet Explorer became Chromium under the hood (MS Edge) Windows might be fully Linux under the hood one day! WSL2 is one of the early bridges across the divide.
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by mmerlin 5y ago
JuiceMedia are awesome! Presented in satirical style, but they are basically stating the truth of how much we are governed by vested interests that capture profits whilst creating or perpetuating negative impacts for the vast majority of th
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by mmerlin 5y ago
My speculative guess is they raised the bar on the low-pass filter by tightening up the algorithm after losing way too much to credit card fraud. It was absolutely scary the amounts of fraud I dealt with running a dropshipping shop a decade
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by mmerlin 5y ago
Proceed with launch as planned and validate your market first of all. After you have validation of customer buy-in and market acceptance, when you have time and/or funds to spend on your Stripe-alternative feature sprint, setup and int
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by mmerlin 5y ago
Yes, Scrapy is quite a good scraper technology for some features, especially caching, but for some websites it's like doing things the hard way... The easiest scraper with a proxy rotator I've found is in my current fave web-autom
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by mmerlin 5y ago
Yeah good point on the program logic there. I uninstalled Signal instead of blocking him
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by mmerlin 5y ago
Pipewire seems more like a multiplexer/bridge for the existing standards.
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by mmerlin 5y ago
I happily found Chromium-VAAPI almost 2 years ago and it works great with Intel integrated GPU video acceleration on Arch Manjaro Xfce https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/chromium-vaapi
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by mmerlin 5y ago
We could punnily label this dark pattern as (psychological) credential stuffing. They are breaching the psychological defenses of your wetware trust-service by re-purposing the same credentials you previously trusted elsewhere ;) ...and the
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by mmerlin 5y ago
Yes! I expect any app or service to at least warn me first before they instigate unsolicited actions on my behalf. Signal has no doubt already legally covered their ass with regards to me giving this consent. However in reality I never woul
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by mmerlin 5y ago
Mailvelope and it's browser plugin is fairly easy for encrypting gmail (and other major email providers) conversations: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mailvelope/kajibbe...
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by mmerlin 5y ago
The guerilla growth marketers working for Signal would probably be unable to resist the viral temptation of spamming all your email address list who have already joined signal to "let them know" about your newly installed contact
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by mmerlin 5y ago
Arch Manjaro with Xfce is my hearty recommendation for you
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by mmerlin 5y ago
Very true! I still use my 10-year old Samsung Galaxy 2 phone (mainly as mp3 player and spare phone when I want to take a more expendable one). Flash it with cyanogen and you have a basic smartphone that still feels snappy. https:/&#x2
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Framework Laptop review: The anti-MacBook has arrived(tomsguide.com)
37 points by mmerlin 5y ago|17 comments
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by mmerlin 5y ago
In Australia we allow briefcases of cash for property purchases. Lawyers, Accountants, Real Estate Agents are all exempt from having to report anything suspicious involving property. Since year 2006 the govt keeps promising (but failing to
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by mmerlin 5y ago
Brett McFall sold a $3000 scammy course and service that taught you to do something like this (monetize expired domains that have traffic and hope to sell the domain later) including create SEO spam blogs packed with Amazon or eBay affiliat
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by mmerlin 5y ago
Auspost offers free "Parcel Collect" addresses for everyone who registers at auspost.com.au It's approximately as good as a dedicated paid PO Box for my usage. e.g. it's free for receiving stuff I dont want left outside
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by mmerlin 5y ago
it's the literal name of the product https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24256883
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The Excel Formula Language Is Now Turing-Complete(infoq.com)
4 points by mmerlin 5y ago|1 comments

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