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by pwg 6mo ago
The journalist on the article missed the mark here: "Manufacturers tend to be less supportive of right-to-repair efforts, as corporations stand to make more money charging for tools, replacement parts, and repair services than if they
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by pwg 6mo ago
Sadly, for those of us with somewhat less than perfect color vision (typical male some percentage red-green deficiency) the colorful version is not more useful (actually, it is way less useful, because some of the color choices made are bor
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by pwg 6mo ago
All the way at the bottom of the page is this text: Final Thoughts While the idea of requiring fully transparent bags at TSA might actually speed up the security process, you can breathe a sigh of relief. This is just a joke as part of our
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by pwg 6mo ago
> 1) What was your typical routine for using BBS? How often would you log on and check it? Typically every couple days, but that all depended on how much free time (and available telephone time) one had. > What program would you use?
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by pwg 7mo ago
> They seem to be actually implementing a lot of high effort scam protection features recently in android This all happened recently because a court case was recently decided that broke Google's monopoly on play store money flows (G
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by pwg 7mo ago
> Not even a small fraction of a percentage of scams come from installing software normally, but only from Google Play store. This change is not about stopping malware/scams. Malware/scams is just the gaslighting excuse for th
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by pwg 7mo ago
Run uBlock Origin and you will have few (and in most cases, none) animated ads.
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by pwg 7mo ago
It was, but xdamage is part of the composting side of the final bitmap image generation, before that final bitmap is clocked out to the display. The frame buffer, at least the portion of the GPU responsible for reading the frame buffer and
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by pwg 7mo ago
In my case it began with 16K (yes, 16 1024 bytes) and 90K (yes, 90 1024 bytes) 5.25" floppy disks (although the floppies were a few months after the computer). Eventually upgraded to 48K RAM and 180K double density floppy disks. The
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by pwg 7mo ago
That's how you end up with "Hollywood accounting" where movies that gross over 100M dollars still show as a "loss" for tax purposes via creative accounting methods.
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by pwg 7mo ago
> What they're actually trying to do is obsolete the devices faster This is exactly why. Obsoleting older devices keeps (in their eyes) the purchase treadmill running. Making a device that could be updated forever means never maki
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by pwg 7mo ago
> the engineer can operate the server but can't copy data out Someone forgot about uuencode or base64.
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by pwg 7mo ago
If it was an "inside the app" setting, then Uber did not behave. > but the app should not have my location made available to it when I am not using it Unfortunately, not how Android works. You can turn "location permissio
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by pwg 7mo ago
Best guesses: > I had not even taken my phone out of flight mode yet, but somehow the app knew where I was, despite not having mobile service, wifi or bluetooth enabled. None of which are GPS, which is likely what Uber used to know you h
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by pwg 7mo ago
Browsing with Ublock Origin blocking all of the javascript resulted in the article appearing, but zero ads.
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by pwg 7mo ago
There is already one for posts, "flag" them.
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by pwg 7mo ago
Flag them when you see them on the new page.
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by pwg 7mo ago
Downvote and/or flag and move along.
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by pwg 7mo ago
Because movies (in film form) are projected an entire frame at a time instead of scanned a line (well, actually a dot moving in a line) at a time onto the screen. I read somewhere (but no longer have the link) that when projecting the enti
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by pwg 7mo ago
> It is a completely normal garden-variety ARM SoC To mis-quote the politician quip: How can you tell a marketer is lying? Answer: His/her mouth is moving.
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by pwg 7mo ago
> I'm not sure I fully grok the hypothesis that Meta is materially advantaged by pushing for OS-level age verification. These laws, that attempt to move "age verification" into the OS, 100% absolve Meta (and all the Meta o
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by pwg 7mo ago
That is client dependent. On rtorrent, there is a separate "off" setting for the speed throttle that means "no throttle" with the result that "zero" actually means "no uploading".
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by pwg 7mo ago
With ublock origin, none of that appears on the site.
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by pwg 7mo ago
> I fail to see the logic of how "other countries" pay the US when the tariffs are paid by the importer and not the other country which is exporting. The "logic" is/was that this was a lie directed at his "l
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by pwg 7mo ago
There's no mystery. The way any story makes the front page is enough users upvote it from the "new" page for it to appear there. So the answer to the question of "how did it make it there" is exactly what I said,
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by pwg 7mo ago
Much of that was his lie that "other countries pay the tariffs" that, somehow, a huge number of his supporters swallowed completely.
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by pwg 7mo ago
If the amounts are under the limit you might sue the company who cut those invoices in small claims court for the amounts of the tariff line items on the invoices. The invoices give you slam dunk evidence that you paid that amount in tariff
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by pwg 7mo ago
Paywalled.
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by pwg 7mo ago
Because enough readers upvoted it to cause it to appear there.
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by pwg 7mo ago
If you know where some of them are, you can add the data yourself: https://mapcomplete.org/surveillance

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