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by nulbyte 3y ago
> Does OpenWRT have good support for automatic, unattended security updates? I don't think this would work similarly to how it does on ISP hardware. ISPs have the ability to test their updates against known network conditions. OpenW
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by nulbyte 3y ago
So, a driver supposedly reported a customer made a racist remark. Except the customer wasn't home and wasn't using the doorbell remotely. What investigation did Amazon do? I don't know of anyone that would trust a contractor
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by nulbyte 3y ago
Those third party apps aren't commercial use of Reddit. I am the user, not the app. That's like saying you can't use Chrome to view some website that prohibits commercial usage. That argument makes no sense.
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by nulbyte 3y ago
> Exactly. I always thought Mastadon could have been so much more successful if they had just proxied cached versions of the most popular instances through a single larger server. Relays serve this purpose. I use one on my personal one-u
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by nulbyte 3y ago
To be fair, the author of the article states that 173 graphical applications take up that much space, not just a handful of browsers. I think gp misses the point the author is trying to make, that over 100 apps takes up less space than expe
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by nulbyte 3y ago
To the sibling: Where else do you go when no one will let you use the bathroom?
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by nulbyte 3y ago
> It's very hard to work around human nature and the whole "why am I paying rent like a sucker when the drug addicts on the street are getting free apartments?" Easy fix: Give them a free apartment, too. Let them see what
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by nulbyte 3y ago
Brave is okay. I don't like that copying a URL on mobile requires one tap, while everywhere else you tap and hold to select. I also hate the tiles that replaced the list of "tabs." And I don't like the fact that it'
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by nulbyte 3y ago
No, I'd rather read the documentation than wait for a response to a question that should be addressed in the nonexistent documentation.
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by nulbyte 3y ago
Actually, text editors are pretty good these days. But on a(n only slightly) more serious note, maybe the data is generated outside of the web server. Different projects have different needs, but there are plenty of them that just need to s
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by nulbyte 3y ago
> I can't help but feel compelled to pause my current tasks and contribute wholeheartedly to this. That is interesting to me, because I had the complete opposite take after less than a minute on the website. I actively avoid QuickBo
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by nulbyte 3y ago
I'll preface this by stating that I work for a large bank, and the opinions I express herein are my own. > ... how do you square that with one category of business causing way more chargebacks than average? Simple: Liability shift.
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by nulbyte 3y ago
In no specific order: the new Proton UI, Pocket, overemphasizing Mozilla's VPN, innocuously-sounding by sometimes privacy-invasive 'studies', automatic updates, the archane method of disabling automatic updates despite having
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by nulbyte 3y ago
Several countries have flouridized table salt. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24308394/
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by nulbyte 3y ago
I wanted to like Firefox. So much so that I used to carry my keys on a Firefox branded lanyard. Eventually, I gave up and switched. Presently, Im trying Brave. I don't really like it, but I'm now at the point where I don't th
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by nulbyte 3y ago
Most people install cameras to monitor their own property. That is where reasonableness begins. If some installed a camera to surveil their neighbor on their own property, and that was the end of it, no one would know. But if as a result of
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by nulbyte 3y ago
I wonder who owns the pole. Most utility poles are owned by the incumbent utility, not by the government. If an ordinary citizen attached a camera to property they did not own and it was, say, pointed at a police officer's home, I thin
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by nulbyte 3y ago
+1 for Oracle. Their free tier for compute is better than Google's: Up to four free ARM VMs and up to two AMD VMs.
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by nulbyte 3y ago
I agree. I wish the credit card networks didn't give into this, even if I might agree with other parts of the recent reforms. Cash discounts were always allowed. I think the real problem is that merchants don't want to discount ca
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by nulbyte 3y ago
Even a flat fee would be better. Cost doesn't really increase with higher dollar transactions; cash doesn't physically move just because a card was used.
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by nulbyte 3y ago
> It really is not "incredibly expensive" to deal with cash. Yes, it is. Cash counters cost money to buy and operate. Storage and security has a cost, and even if it is not "expensive" in isolation, storing and securi
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by nulbyte 3y ago
Following controversy about the dark patterns tax preparers engaged in (thanks, ProPublica), the IRS negotiated a new agreement that eliminated the restriction on entering the tax prep software market themselves. https://www.thev
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by nulbyte 3y ago
That would be rational, but I haven't seen anyone accuse businesses pushing for RTO of being rational.
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by nulbyte 3y ago
> Separation of church and state doesn't mean churches can't voice their opinion or run political campaigns... You are mixing up three things as if they are the same. Opinions are fine. But no, churches cannot run political cam
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by nulbyte 3y ago
> Theft in general is seen as so low a risk that people leave their car windows open a crack in the summer so the car stays ventilated. This isn't just a Korean thing. I'm in the states, and I've done this with every car I
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by nulbyte 3y ago
> I think parent's point is not cultural as you are implying but rather practical. I think this is exactly what I find distasteful in the original comment: Culture is ignored in favor of what is practical for someone other than a su
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by nulbyte 3y ago
> However, spending time learning base 20 arithmetic has obvious disadvantages that the article ignores. They aren't learning base 20; they already use it in their language. They are learning how to write their language in their wri
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by nulbyte 4y ago
> If T-mobile, AT&T, and Verizon say "no iPhone", guess who is out of business? If Apple said, "no, you can't force users onto Wi-Fi networks without their consent," T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon would just
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by nulbyte 4y ago
Several countries classify cryptocurrency as property subject to capital gains tax, making it more complicated than cash for ordinary uses like buying goods and services.
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by nulbyte 4y ago
I don't think that answers the question. Suppose I want to go to the movies on my day off. I can't, precisely because everyone else is off, too.

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