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by pavon 3y ago
I've gotten to the point where I will flat out boycott any new service that expects tips. Tipping at restaurants is deeply ingrained into our culture and will be hard to change, but the ever expanding set of places where tipping is now
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by pavon 3y ago
1b) Revert the setting every time there is a system update.
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by pavon 3y ago
I get the most random articles by selecting around the mode (peak) of the distribution. The lowest of the low is all Daily Mail gossip all the time :puke:.
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by pavon 3y ago
Some changes that I would find useful are: * Make it easier to browse back in time. My biggest annoyance with news sites I've subscribed to is that they have no way to find articles after they have moved off the front page so I feel co
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by pavon 3y ago
Firefox currently uses the same icon to configure site permissions (microphone, location, etc). However, it is only displayed if you have granted permissions. You can see it here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb&#x
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by pavon 3y ago
I'm pretty sure they have all been used by this point. Expanding to other cultures is the best way to keep with the theme.
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by pavon 3y ago
Until these companies turn around and sell that data to the government, which doesn't require a warrant since the company is volunteering to provide it, and if they don't want to sell it, the government will happily use one of it&
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by pavon 3y ago
I would add that their culture is a good match. They are Lawful Good through and through. Historically their church youth programs were tightly integrated with the Boy Scouts (until a recent split as BSA became more inclusive), and are rais
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by pavon 3y ago
For most of the west coast it is only voluntary if you are in the 1% who are rich enough to be selective about housing. The rest are lucky to find someplace they can afford that is within reasonable distance to their jobs at all, and all ne
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by pavon 3y ago
>If SpaceX starts launching routinely — as it plans to — wildlife may leave the area around the launch site. > “If these major disturbances, in addition to actual damage to the habitat, happen consistently every month, every week, bir
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by pavon 3y ago
To add to what other have already said, electricity generation in the US has be flat since 2007. There has been no significant increase in supply.
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by pavon 3y ago
It goes further than that. Kris Kashtanova made a comic book named "Zarya of the Dawn" using midjourney for all the art. When registering for copyright she claimed copyright over the art for herself, under the theory that she was
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by pavon 3y ago
> The idea of a social network where almost all of your friend and family are on, is really something that started in the 2020'. I would disagree with the timing here. I think the peak "everyone on one network" was Faceboo
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by pavon 3y ago
I greatly preferred JC Penny Home Store as it had better prices than BBB but better selection than general stores like Target/Walmart (and I often liked the bedding/curtain patterns they carried better). Unfortunately their financ
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by pavon 4y ago
> I've become a bit advocate of replacing lawns with meadows. This is a great idea. > The simplest route is to just stop mowing and let whatever comes up after a few years stay there. This is a horrible idea. In most suburban env
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by pavon 4y ago
That won't be sufficient for a few reasons. First, in a significant number of cases where people have been exonerated for crimes, they were convicted based on the police coercing testimony, hiding evidence of innocence, and even fabric
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by pavon 4y ago
Perl is mostly forwards and backwards compatible (or less generously it has frozen). Python is backwards compatible, but continues to add new features, and some packages are rather enthusiastic about adopting these features quickly, and end
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by pavon 4y ago
And it puts a suit on for you if you don't select one. No stickman snuff animations here.
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by pavon 4y ago
And dogs that had previously been used to their owners going into work got accustomed to them being home all day and needed time to adjust. Before I was approved for permanent WFH, I was gradually increasing the amount of time I went into t
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by pavon 4y ago
The article doesn't say that Ben-Hur was lost. It says that another movie, The Devil Dancer, by the same director was lost.
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by pavon 4y ago
Not the same. Redbox is a good Blockbuster replacement in that they have a good selection of recent hits, but not much else. What made Netflix magical was that it had a huge back catalog - larger than any rental store or library I have ever
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by pavon 4y ago
The way I heard it, Netflix started with the intent of being a streaming company but found it more difficult than expected so they pivoted to mailing DVDs, but continued to work on the streaming in the background until the market forces mad
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by pavon 4y ago
It is very sad. I still use the DVD service more than the streaming service simply because most of the content I want to watch isn't available streaming. The back catalog on Netflix gets smaller every year as publishers move content of
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by pavon 4y ago
Nope, you only need a rental license to get copies of movies to rent out before they are available to purchase (and the contract for those often made you agree to only use rental licenses for any movies from that publisher). If your renta
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by pavon 4y ago
Producing counterfeits is a completely different issue from piracy and it isn't surprising that people would have different opinions about them despite some lawyers having bundled them together under the label of "Intellectual Pro
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by pavon 4y ago
And that is how I still do it to avoid paying processing fees and giving up my tax information to some third party who uses dark patterns to try to get you to share your private tax information with marketers.
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by pavon 4y ago
The original screen saver is still covered by copyright for at least 61 more years, and Berkeley Systems previously sued the makers of an Opus and Bill parody screensaver. So it is understandable that xscreensaver doesn't have a faithf
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by pavon 4y ago
No it had nothing to do with Firefox writing files. Firefox was making a bunch of calls to VirtualProtect. Windows Defender (MsMpEng.exe) was then writing to file (an sqlite database) every time one of these calls was made, which was slowin
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by pavon 4y ago
It looks like the US prosecutes about 300 people each year for fraud, out of a population of 300 million. With a pool of about 7000 US citizens on the list you would expect about 1.4% chance of one of them would be charged with fraud in the
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by pavon 4y ago
If the subject of the libel is a public figure then you must show that the defendant acted with actual malice - that is you must show that the defendant knew the information was false, or acted with reckless disregard for whether the inform

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