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by ocdtrekkie 4mo ago
Scalping is much easier to solve, people just wouldn't like it: Lock the device to the purchasing Steam account for a year.
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by ocdtrekkie 4mo ago
Ars Technica is one you can test I believe. I think I had to register with Gmail and put in a support ticket to ask them to change it to my real email. I use Fastmail, not a selfhosted setup or anything, some services absolutely have a doma
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by ocdtrekkie 4mo ago
The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent
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by ocdtrekkie 4mo ago
This is incredibly untrue. Many extensions can see and modify everything you see on any other site. Installing a browser extension is best described as installing a rootkit in your browser.
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by ocdtrekkie 4mo ago
We obviously know Chrome team is not doing things for security reasons, they are doing things for ad revenue reasons. But it's also true that blocking ads requires an insane amount of trust: The uBlock Origin author can choose to read
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by ocdtrekkie 4mo ago
Extensions are the primary threat to your security today. Nothing else comes close. Organizations are not basically competent if they are not restricting or blocking extensions, and you should not have more than one to three very trusted ex
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by ocdtrekkie 5mo ago
I think the service module is both structurally and functionally critical. If it is failing and you do not know why, catastrophic failure is presumably possible, not just some air loss. A hole or crack in the module is now apparently doub
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by ocdtrekkie 5mo ago
How does this differ if Spain decided to block AWS IPs?
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by ocdtrekkie 5mo ago
Have you ever seen a us-east-1 outage? Or when Exchange Online fails... weekly or so? There's a lot of huge clouds that are load-bearing for the Internet. Cloudflare is the one you can at least circumvent easily.
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by ocdtrekkie 5mo ago
IMHO Cloudflare ensures decentralization of the Internet: It provides an alternative to AWS, Azure, and GCE which gives your little personal selfhosting box or small VPS the same level of protection the big providers have. And generally, an
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by ocdtrekkie 5mo ago
I got quoted $4K, $6K, and $8K for the same enterprise SSD part in three different quotes within about a week. (I normally expect this part to be $1.5-2.5K.) In one case, a storage array with two SSDs in it cost approximately the same as bu
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by ocdtrekkie 5mo ago
The best part is the reason it conflicts with a lot of PowerShell is PowerShell shimmed Linux commands over to their Windows equivalents for years even though the flags were different. So ls in many systems will match the behavior of dir, a
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by ocdtrekkie 5mo ago
The thing I think is really funny is that if this takes off, frontier model companies and datacenters will end up holding the bag, and as per usual after the last few tech hype cycles, NVIDIA will still be selling. Eventually a lot of infer
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by ocdtrekkie 5mo ago
No worries, I disagree with your read on the text of the bill there, but I can appreciate there being reason for debate. ;)
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by ocdtrekkie 5mo ago
There are a bunch of these, and they are silly/unviable. I see a lot more free-to-play than single-purchase live service games, but the latter is a fun additional exploit in that they get you to pay up front for something that they nev
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by ocdtrekkie 5mo ago
I don't read it that way. "Free-to-play" games generally include games with microtransactions, and the bill text does nothing to disagree with that: > (b) This section does not apply to any of the following: > (2) Any d
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by ocdtrekkie 5mo ago
So this only really applies to games you have to purchase once but are online-only? That's... an incredibly narrow law, that only covers a class of games which are particularly stupid by design. (Continuous cost without continuous reve
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by ocdtrekkie 5mo ago
Labubu was last year: https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/21/us/labubu-doll-plushie-pop-ma... https://nypost.com/2025/08/02/us-news/this-is-the-most-expen... It burnt out muc
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by ocdtrekkie 5mo ago
Our helpdesk provider wanted a three year annual commitment at double the price we've been paying after they got bought by private equity. We are not continuing with our helpdesk provider. The correct answer to this behavior needs to
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by ocdtrekkie 5mo ago
Again the difference is though that if you are renting that money is not going into your net worth. The principal from your mortgage is . Concern about difficulty with handling it is resolved by having a good will that makes preferences
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by ocdtrekkie 5mo ago
Passing it down to your kids is huge. Unfortunately what I've learned is most people are incredibly selfish and do not actually care what happens to their family when they pass. Renting and owning may not be all that financially differ
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by ocdtrekkie 5mo ago
I don't want this enough to subject myself to WebUSB, but I am particularly fond of a no-longer-supported flatbed scanner I own which powers entirely off the USB port. It was super handy if you wanted to scan to like a tablet in a car
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by ocdtrekkie 5mo ago
No it's essentially just that a bunch of hype people sold everyone on the idea "the cloud is the future" and so even government types think they have to do it to modernize even if it costs more, is less secure, and less relia
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by ocdtrekkie 5mo ago
I used to gripe about various ERP companies but after having dealt with enough, yeah, that's just what the world of ERP systems is like. You will spend your time even with the best of them desiring to scream endlessly at everyone who w
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by ocdtrekkie 5mo ago
The entire domain squatting/parking industry exists because filing an ICANN dispute costs more than paying the squatter. Absolutely insane.
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by ocdtrekkie 5mo ago
This is the dumbest branding Google has ever come up with and I am here for it. I can't wait for the memes. Is that your Chromebook? No, it's my Googlebook! Edit: It lists five OEMs, so it's not a Pixel equivalent, not Google
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by ocdtrekkie 5mo ago
I think the interest rate is 7% so if you have other debts, not making the quarterly payments is probably the cheapest loan you can get.
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by ocdtrekkie 5mo ago
I am a Kagi early adopter. ;) But the reality is what can be on the web is dictated by Google Search, because nothing survives if you can't find it on Google.
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by ocdtrekkie 5mo ago
People forget that Sundar Pichai's entire claim to success at Google was injecting the Google Toolbar into the Adobe Reader installer which would hijack your search and browsing data on IE, and the launch of Chrome, which was then also
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by ocdtrekkie 5mo ago
> rapidly becoming Always has been. Google was creating cartels like the "Open Handset Alliance" literally decades ago. Via their control of Chrome and Search which are both monopolies, Google holds absolute authority on how

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