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by plorg 3y ago
In the case of queer.af (as noted in TFA) they registered the domain in 2018 when the government was significantly different, and, recognizing the political situation, were working on moving to a different one.
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by plorg 3y ago
To elaborate, the power conditioning circuits in flat screen (often plasma) TVs would interfere with the non-60hz signaling of the powerline ethernet. That's certainly not the same as breaking into the network, but it may have been eno
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by plorg 3y ago
Back in the noughties plugging in a TV was enough to break some powerline ethernet.
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by plorg 3y ago
Depending on what features you want (I'm not sure how it is with, say, streaming outside your LAN) Jellyfin works pretty well for me and is extremely simple to set up.
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by plorg 3y ago
Ken Forkish says basically this in Flour Salt Yeast, but I also assume it is relatively well known among the more empirically-minded bakers. In any case the flavors developed in the bread will have much more to do with both the hydration of
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by plorg 3y ago
I remember at the time having MTP- only PMPs and every piece of software (WMP included but also Foobar2000 and Winamp) was miserable.
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by plorg 3y ago
And in many places the trees that grow back are not the same species that were cut to begin with, and don't necessarily function in the same fire ecology, either because they have evolutionary advantages in clean cut environments or be
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by plorg 3y ago
I'm with the author on the critical eschewing of abstraction, but I don't think that leads so clearly to the strong leader form. It suggests we need to be wiser technologists - understanding why we are making abstractions and what
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by plorg 3y ago
This is a bad take, chief. You're not a smol bean. If someone is telling you that the technology you are using is harmful to many people and to society as a whole the least you could do is to make an argument that either those harms ar
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by plorg 3y ago
Excited to see how Gab users react to having to provide a government ID to use it.
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by plorg 3y ago
Seeing this opinion all over this thread. Unenforceable laws are one way to create the pretext for discriminatory enforcement. And you have to be trolling with your second paragraph.
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by plorg 3y ago
Yeah, hell no.
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by plorg 3y ago
Or when you try to unsubscribe from a mailing list and are prompted: Unsubscribe from the following: [X] List A [X] List B [X] List C [ ] Unsubscribe All Lists But if you check the "all" button it clears all of the
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by plorg 3y ago
This is interesting, but the telling is fairly vague. It cites a congressional report, which would be interesting to read, but there's no reference that helps me track down such a report.
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by plorg 3y ago
Siting, of course, is the other big factor. I assume the project developer has priced this in and judged this project to be at least profitable, so you might assume they have good wind.
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by plorg 3y ago
Titanium fan disks, for example are all required to be inspected not just when installed but also at regular engine maintenance intervals. The inspection requires essentially complete disassembly of the fan (so it is required during particu
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by plorg 3y ago
Snaps are also built into Ubuntu in such a way that if you don't reenable it and try to upgrade releases you can seriously mess up your installation. Yet, while they take great pains to disable 3rd party repos and PPAs they won't
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by plorg 3y ago
But then why are we talking about having giant houses with huge dining tables? Invite as many people over as your living quarters can accommodate. Do whatever with them. Make whatever food. I agree with you that the value is not in the food
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by plorg 3y ago
More like people with relatively low familiarity with a field posting with the confidence of ChatGPT and, like LLM spam, recycling and reposting so much material that adds nothing to the conversation that any actually useful content is buri
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by plorg 3y ago
HN was absolutely choked with the same sort of would-be experts, reading the Wikipedia page for Superconductors and trying to post their way into a position of authoritative knowledge. Certainly there are more on Twitter as a consequence of
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by plorg 3y ago
If I were John Roberts I, too, would rather talk about the shiny robot god than all of the specious, inconsistent rulings on literally made-up court cases I had been deciding.
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by plorg 3y ago
If they threaten to beat you with a $5 wrench and you refuse and refuse and refuse and eventually cave and unlock the wallet with $10 of Bitcoin they're going to hit you with a wrench because you wouldn't resist so hard over so li
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by plorg 3y ago
I keep dreaming of good article->epub conversion, but the options out there aren't great. Most of the browser plugins run through "reading mode", and if that doesn't work (especially if the article is posted in a SPA)
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by plorg 3y ago
That could be because there are a dozen replies fixated on the use of the wrong word and maybe one that responds to the substance of the comment.
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by plorg 3y ago
Browsing her post titles and guests she seems to be self-consciously anti-feminist regardless of which words she uses to describe herself.
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by plorg 3y ago
I think implied here is also that putting yourself in that dangerous situation on purpose negates whatever goodwill claim you have to self-preservation. Or, at least, introduces more reckless endangerment/driving for which you are culp
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by plorg 3y ago
Is there anyone here with relevant expertise about this valuation? I have seen a lot of claims about "rare earth elements" that suggest that rich veins of these elements are not that uncommon - in fact, that the elements themselve
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by plorg 3y ago
>...aren't even trying to pretend to be... Suggests GP is not making a legal distinction, it's a description of how they are actually running things.
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by plorg 3y ago
This seems like a silly way of understanding deceleration. By this comparison the USSR was decelerating the cold war because they were a couple years behind in developing the hydrogen bomb. Microsoft can and will be using GPT4 as soon as th
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by plorg 3y ago
That sounds like a cult more than a business. I work at a small company (~100 people), and we are more or less aligned with what we're doing you are not going to get close to that consensus on anything. Same for our sister company, abo

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