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by pnw 5d ago
Seattle's push to add additional regulation, compliance, fees and inspections has resulted in an exodus of small landlords, which are down anywhere from 19% to 22% in four years depending on how you slice it, and an explosion in large
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by pnw 6d ago
An incredible show and such a creative vision of a future that alas never came to pass. The conspiratorial angles and the continued mystery around the aliens were engrossing. Add terrifying episodes like "A Question of Priorities"
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by pnw 8d ago
Why doesn't Chromium let me turn this 'feature' off?
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by pnw 8d ago
Blocking bank account numbers from being pasted is considered an error prevention measure. By forcing people to enter it manually at least once, you stop them from blindly pasting the wrong number twice. There's no real regulation requ
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by pnw 11d ago
Cool project! I set up an e-ink frame with this recently as a gift and it's been so much fun creating themed collections. https://github.com/defl/hokku_epaper
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by pnw 13d ago
When given the choice between privacy and convenience, the great majority of consumers choose convenience over and over again. I'm not sure what the solution is, but it's not going to be market based if you look at any recent tren
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by pnw 14d ago
FWIW, LG will connect to a public DNS and use encryption so a basic PiHole list doesn't help unless you combine it with firewall rules. See the caveats section of that Github link.
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by pnw 15d ago
Testing that on ten phones is hardly evidence. I am skeptical that the approach described would be very useful for reliable fingerprinting. IIRC Apple also specifically prohibits exporting device signals like boot time and available disk sp
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by pnw 21d ago
Great album and backstory. You can't really go wrong with anything he composed. Rest in peace Johann.
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by pnw 22d ago
Disabling "advertising ID" on iOS makes it extremely difficult to reliably fingerprint phones. Apple doesn't allow SDKs which attempt to bypass this, so the app would have to have a first party auth of some type.
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by pnw 25d ago
This is awesome! I just asked Hermes to deploy it for me at home and it's already listing some interesting birds.
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by pnw 25d ago
Grayanotoxin is a neurotoxin with a lot of unpleasant side effects. It would make a terrible drug for high blood pressure.
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by pnw 1mo ago
I ditched Google Workspace for Proton earlier this year and haven't looked back. Yes, the Proton apps don't integrate with everything and E2E encrypted data isn't as accessible as the data held in Google apps, but that's
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by pnw 1mo ago
I don't think all of the economic benefit stays in NYC even when you take a yellow cab. A significant share of NYC taxi medallions are owned by entities based outside the city. Marblegate Capital in Connecticut owns about 2,146 medalli
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by pnw 1mo ago
I installed Omarchy on an old laptop yesterday and was impressed with the smooth installation. The UI is definitely a different approach, I can see any developer who prefers the keyboard to the mouse would love it. Good to see some innovati
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by pnw 1mo ago
Which power utility do you use?
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by pnw 1mo ago
You can look up the NTT PH1 Datacenter from the study on Google Maps. It doesn't have much of a parking lot but due to poor industrial zoning, it's right next to a residential suburb. It's basically a failure of urban plannin
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by pnw 1mo ago
Neither did the data centers. Datacenters use less than 5% of US electricity. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.19777
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by pnw 1mo ago
It's the issue du jour because of foreign influence. The situation in Phoenix is due more to poor zoning since the DC is right across the street from a residential area. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09&#x2F
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by pnw 1mo ago
I switched away from Google and haven't had a single issue going from 'login with google' to a regular email/password FWIW. Every site has offered some kind of painless recovery.
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by pnw 1mo ago
If you read the article, most of the decline in gas consumption in Australia is from changes in industrial usage. Residential demand is only down by 6% and part of that is likely due to the effective ban on gas in new residential constructi
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by pnw 2mo ago
Your first assertion is obviously untrue. And fake celebrity endorsements pre-date the existence of the Internet, let alone Meta. There were lawsuits back in the 1800s on this topic. This is hardly a new problem unique to Meta.
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by pnw 2mo ago
Kindle regularly removes sideloaded books if it decides you didn't purchase them from Amazon. Allegedly it's due to an incompatibility between the Kindle DRM and the way Calibre tricks the Kindle into displaying book covers for si
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by pnw 2mo ago
The ACCC is the compliance and enforcement body for Digital ID for all Australians. https://www.accc.gov.au/by-industry/digital-platforms-and-se...
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by pnw 2mo ago
Why, do you want Sony to add mandatory Digital ID to their platform?
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by pnw 2mo ago
I think Brewster is one of those photos in your video. I met him because I set up the first WAIS server in Australia and he was kind enough to offer a tour when I mentioned I was visiting Boston. Good times.
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by pnw 2mo ago
Great video. I visited Brewster Kahle at Thinking Machines back when I was in college and that visit ended up being one of the major influences in my career. The CM was way ahead of it's time. Thinking Machines also pioneered WAIS whic
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by pnw 3mo ago
You mention a "Chinese economic report". Are you aware the CCP has an active propaganda effort against Western data centers? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/business/china-russia-ai-...
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by pnw 3mo ago
Large groups are also the most notorious non-tippers.
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by pnw 3mo ago
The same could be said for many companies in the last three decades. Sometimes investors are right, sometimes they are wrong. Cloudflare is a good example, and they weren't even going to space. It's less about current earnings and

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