noasaservice

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by noasaservice 5y ago
Retail workers individually have 0 sway in corporate anything. They're just a cog. And if your (mental) health is in jeopardy at your job, quit. Literally. Clock out and walk out. You're not a slave, although with the screaming fi
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by noasaservice 5y ago
Same here. Except I'd also like to add in the extra problem of "stability" - or lack thereof. I had them on ethernet. Disabled wifi, verified they're getting enough power. And between 18-30 hours of operation, all the no
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by noasaservice 5y ago
Citation please?
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The Sacklers have caused more pain in more people because of the "abuse". And the med establishment has only fed onto those fears. Now, everyone in med is 'deeply concerned' with abuse, that many people with legitimate p
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by noasaservice 5y ago
And these people are the ones who also have singlehandedly made legitimate access to opiates for things like surgery and after-care. Now, any opiates being prescribed have to go through stupid levels of approvals including the actual doctor
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by noasaservice 5y ago
Hm. I'm sure it can. However, in my line of work, pirated software leads to furtherance of proprietary and unexportable/hard-to-export file formats that further push others to piracy. Switching to FLOSS systems and open data forma
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by noasaservice 5y ago
If employee steals from store, they're fired and arrested. If store steals from an employee, they're told to pound sand at a state level office and hope and pray that some mid-level bureaucrat looks into the issue and writes a &qu
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by noasaservice 5y ago
I've worked in retail before (walmart) as a 3rd shift stocker, ages ago. Never once would I even consider saying anything to a suspected thief. In fact, I walked away from at least 2 times where I knew people were destroying the spider
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by noasaservice 5y ago
Dont take a critique of the job title as a slight against you personally. We, frankly, don't know you. And as a whole industry, front-end devs have implemented atrocious dark patterns and all manners of disgusting anti-user choices. Ha
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by noasaservice 5y ago
Lets remind people why this happened in the first place: extremist christian org "Exodus Cry" petitioned high power people in board roles to defund sex work companies. Exodus cry's mission is seeking the abolition of the lega
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by noasaservice 5y ago
If the browsers were the only thing affected, you'd be completely right. But the truth is that browsers are only a part of the issue here. We have to deal with: WWW browsers (firefox, chrome, edge, ie, brave, "browser" etc) e
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by noasaservice 5y ago
> The Internet is often described as a global network of networks, but if this network is truly global, why is it nearly impossible to have an email address in a non-Latin script like Chinese, Arabic, or Hindi? This is not just true for
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by noasaservice 5y ago
This tripe is straight up Qanon incel crap. You would be best to keep scrolling past this.
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When the very mainstream news media is under the same financial umbrella of all the defense contractors, is it no surprise we see the "undesirable political opposition, LGBTQ+ activism, women's rights activism, and historical even
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by noasaservice 5y ago
"If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class." -Final Fantasy Tactics
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by noasaservice 5y ago
So... Why did you give permission for a washer/dryer to talk online? And, since you did the bad thing, have you revoked/changed passwords/locked this piece of shit hardware out from the internet? Rather than begging HN or yel
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by noasaservice 5y ago
Proof #32767 why monopolies are bad
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All managerial metrics account for the appearance of work, and not work itself.
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by noasaservice 5y ago
1. how many false positives have there been? 2. is it really reviewed by a human? I see how YT works, and automated failure at scale is the name of the game 3. apple has said that the on-device scanning only provides a binary yes/no
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by noasaservice 5y ago
This on-device scanning is even worse. They cant even tell what was violating, or what hash, or what image. Just that the computer said you are violating. We have no idea about the hash collisions. When talking about whole world, 2^256 isn&
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by noasaservice 5y ago
He's uh, a prince, or something. (Probably got the crown out of a cereal box.) But from the looks of his numbers ( https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/IRC_top_... ) he's doing a
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by noasaservice 5y ago
Your comment reminds me of this comic: https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/
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by noasaservice 5y ago
> Smaller house, solar panels, don't drive, don't eat meat, and don't have kids. And don't vote for politicians who are busy spreading nonsense. I already live in a trailer. Solar wouldn't make sense since we hav
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by noasaservice 5y ago
I'm sitting in my air conditioned room, in the USA. Doing computer stuff, naturally. I look at what I can do about this. I can turn up the temp in my room, and the house. Meager difference. I can use less water - I already am, with get
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by noasaservice 5y ago
I've always referred to this as a roach motel model. Most proprietary vendors do various tactics under this to retain customers via lockin, versus actually good products. Software file formats serve the same for proprietary software. &