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by plorg 1y ago
I'm going to genuinely miss the bicycle headlight I have bought under like 4 different brand names. I won't miss the 36 other grotesqueries sold as alternatives and produced by the same business and manufacturing environment, but
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by plorg 1y ago
I would absolutely love to see my federal tax dollars doled out to schools and institutions where they would more directly benefit a wider set of people. If that was what was under discussion it would be great. The administration isn't
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by plorg 1y ago
If I had to guess the biggest problem for most roads is the height, followed by the width. Weight might still come into play for some potential routes that otherwise had enough clearance. It's not clear from that video but it's qu
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by plorg 1y ago
You won't find me defending The Big Bang Theory, but it's worth noting a lot of actually funny television would have this kind of dead energy if you removed the laugh track, because it's both written for that environment and
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by plorg 1y ago
He would appear as whatever he set his profile name to.
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by plorg 2y ago
Anecdotally every beginner violin student (and most players) I know use specifically Kun made shoulder rests. Instrument rental companies (where I'm from students rent instruments either through their school or a company, often run by
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by plorg 2y ago
I think you're claiming the Ekrem İmamoğlu case is completely different, I don't think that's what anyone else is saying. In any case Columbia had ample time to address it's students before granting them diplomas - no fa
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by plorg 2y ago
Eh, I attended a conservative Christian college and there was a pretty strict religious code of conduct students were required to abide by. I would find it pretty disturbing for the school to retroactively rescind my engineering degree du
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by plorg 2y ago
The article lists the features that require a subscription and it's just the generative AI. It also (shame on PCWorld) leads the article by listing the newer, actually useful features including spell checking and tabs, which is confusi
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by plorg 2y ago
Revealing my ignorance here, but was (is?) there a telephone equivalent of anycast such that, say, the 1-800-... Or 1-900... numbers would be routed differently based on location? My basic knowledge of phone systems suggests it would at lea
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by plorg 2y ago
They were requesting it from Amazon, not from the neighbor. And it absolutely is wrong (weird is not a word I would use to describe police using their power unscrupulously) to take data that you know is irrelevant.
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by plorg 2y ago
I don't know about Alexa specifically, but I've seen stories where the police requested Ring videos from a neighbor's house, including cameras inside the neighbor's house that they could not have known of without Amazon&
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by plorg 2y ago
Sure, but AIUI they generally are not leading with a lawsuit, they're sending a cease and desist notice to your ISP, which doesn't require that kind of proof. Operators like Comcast won't require that to drop you - in fact th
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by plorg 2y ago
It isn't worth my time or risk to test it myself, but if you disable seeding will Warner Media still send a notice to your ISP? If you set your client to 0B/s I assume it's still broadcasting hashes. I suppose if you disable
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by plorg 2y ago
My state has a telecommunications network that was responsible for bringing the Internet to schools and libraries in the 90s. As a result many of these institutions were assigned domain names under ia.us, which the network controls on beha
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by plorg 2y ago
There is no EME DRM, but they actually go through some means to prevent the user from downloading the ebooks. That includes anti-devtools mitigations and storing much of the ebook contents encrypted in the cloud.
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by plorg 2y ago
After the recent press for Bookshop.org I saw an author I like had a new book and thought I'd try out the service - I am okay with paying slightly more for a book if the money is going to someone other than Amazon. But I should have lo
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by plorg 2y ago
The title here is deceptive and I'm not sure the study authors did a good job of characterizing their results. They found that Democrats were likely to see less Democrat-aligned content than Republicans were to see Republican-aligned c
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by plorg 2y ago
In fact if you listen to what they actually say, at least half of what they're doing isn't even about efficiency, it's about ideological purity.
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by plorg 2y ago
The abortive OPM memo attempting to suspend all payments by the government claimed it was necessary to root out all DEI and "transgender ideology". If you substitute "communism" it is straight up the language of the Red
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by plorg 2y ago
I assume any one person's decision would rest on some kind of risk perception that TikTok becomes/remains non-viable for the given period of exclusivity.
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by plorg 2y ago
One is the capital class, the other is not.
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by plorg 2y ago
SCOTUS explicitly avoided ruling on this justification, and it seemed at argument that even some of the conservative justices were uncomfortable with the free speech implications of it.
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by plorg 2y ago
From my memory CHDK was a project for Canon's consumer/point-and-shoot cameras, and Magic Lantern is for the DSLRs.
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by plorg 2y ago
By observation the current approach is for authors to narrate the book themselves of they think their readers will want it and if they feel reasonably confident in their own narration.
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by plorg 2y ago
Once the government is issuing digital IDs to grant access to speech you can split that hair however you want I think it's a pretty uncomfortable idea for a lot of people.
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by plorg 2y ago
So far as I have ever seen he might have acted as a courier between some of the intelligence officers involved in that particular attempt, which might have been as little as transporting a parcel in the course of his existing travels.
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by plorg 2y ago
Just a small aside, are Stirling engines used on other spacecraft? The Wikipedia article suggests development was largely abandoned a decade ago. My first glance concern would be that because it's reliant on moving parts it is liable t
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by plorg 2y ago
He has for some time been telling his listeners to buy supplements from a new company set up in his father's name that is a thin cutout for the one ostensibly run by himself. It seems likely a good lawyer could pierce that corporate ve
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by plorg 2y ago
The auction included all of the InfoWars and several associated corporations' assets, including the studio and the supplements business. At one point the settlement administrator was trying to get Alex's Twitter handle. I believe

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