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by rbritton 7y ago
I worked at a hotel for ten years. You’d be amazed at the number of things that are suppressed. Dead bodies, bed bugs, etc all happen far more frequently than you’d think but are cleaned up quietly and quickly.
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by rbritton 7y ago
Do you use Fastmail’s aliases? Those are one way to pinpoint which service revealed your email address if you’re diligent about creating them.
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by rbritton 7y ago
Zoomed out, those photos aren’t terrible, but if you click to view a higher resolution version, you can see the softness created by the noise removal algorithm. Based on my experience, the image quality is comparable to DSLRs of about ten y
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by rbritton 7y ago
I've increasingly had reCAPTCHA refuse to give me an audio challenge.
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by rbritton 7y ago
Not reCAPTCHA, please. It’s horrendous in any environment that blocks any real amount of tracking. Rate limiting would solve the bot issue without inconveniencing regular users.
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It provides you protection on a hostile local network, such as a hotel or a restaurant. Like you said, it does not achieve the anonymity level a public VPN would.
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by rbritton 7y ago
Anecdotally, Google+ failed for me because I got stuck in an authentication loop for a business page. It wanted to verify the business, but the link to do so always errored out, which made it impossible to ever change the page content beyon
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by rbritton 7y ago
It's a common feature of payment processors to reduce the number of transaction failures due to expired but not updated payment records. Here's Braintree's page on it: https://www.braintreepayments.com/feature
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by rbritton 7y ago
Respectfully, why do you feel taxes are the best avenue for your philanthropy rather than donating personally to one or more organizations/causes? It seems like the former would result in far more waste and ultimately less getting to t
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by rbritton 7y ago
eBay has become my first stop for many categories of goods. It's not always the best choice, but it is often enough that it's worth checking. For example, both of my carbon monoxide detectors expired at the same time, and Amazon a
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by rbritton 7y ago
I actually print and use paper maps a lot, specifically topographic maps. We do a decent amount of backcountry riding, and while not completely accurate, the USFS and USGS maps have various trails marked on them that are useful. USGS publis
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by rbritton 7y ago
Mine loves cantaloupe. I’m curious which part of that she likes other than the sweetness.
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I think that's only one aspect of the current arrangement. At one of the extremes is the rise of the cancel culture. A subset of people have learned that if they complain loud enough, even in small numbers, corporations will bow to alm
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by rbritton 7y ago
WP itself usually puts the estimate at 25-30%.
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by rbritton 7y ago
By only profiling the top 1M sites, I wonder if this may be sampling from a set not normally distributed? I suspect the frequency of use of WordPress might go up the further down the list you go — some random blog is less likely to be on th
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by rbritton 7y ago
A Synology NAS + Synology Drive has replaced Dropbox for me. Drive isn’t quite as polished, but I have effectively unlimited space, and it’s more private.
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by rbritton 7y ago
I do similar but with an RV. Most of the time I work from my house, but I built out a network suitable for work and can effectively work from anywhere I choose to go. Sometimes I’m on cellular, other times I’m on satellite. No campground ha
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by rbritton 7y ago
I could imagine it tied into Find My iPhone and associated login stuff where the tech support member of the family can link in to it rather than making it a class of app that can be built.
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by rbritton 7y ago
I’m split on that. On one hand, I have fewer tech support calls because my mom generally has fewer problems with an iPad, but when she does have problems, there is no option to use any kind of remote desktop software. For me, the killer “pa
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Pretty much the only time I’ll use them is when the checkout form has a promo code field. I’ll check each of the social media profiles for something recent.
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Comes with. They’re actually fairly separated from the rest of Ubiquiti’s offerings. I have seven cameras currently and would like to add a few more.
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by rbritton 7y ago
I replaced my Nest with a Sensi once Google took over. In doing so, I extensively researched the available options searching for an acceptable one that could be used without a cloud server somewhere, but those just don’t exist in any decent
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by rbritton 7y ago
Maybe. It depends on your luck in getting a professional who is actually knowledgeable and competent, and as a secondary aspect, knowing enough to do it yourself generally enables you to accurately judge the job someone else does. For the
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by rbritton 7y ago
Capture One is another alternative to Lightroom. I've since switched to that after Apple abandoning Aperture. I still vastly prefer Aperture's UI, but it's barely usable anymore after several years of OS updates.
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by rbritton 7y ago
iTunes DRM can be stripped quite easily. I do it to everything I purchase through it.
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by rbritton 7y ago
I have a Synology NAS with their "Synology Drive" software. The UI polish isn't great, but the functionality has been solid in my experience. Bonus points for keeping my data entirely local aside from the dynamic DNS piece to
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Doing as much as possible yourself, you’re around $80-100/sq ft finished in normally-priced housing areas. Source: my dad’s a builder.
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Do you trust their judgment on this? Will you always? Like other similar happenings, the side you agree with may not always be the side making the choices. No one can objectively make that call in 100% of circumstances, and the risk of depl
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I have the same. I rip DRM off of all content I have, both for futureproofing and to allow me to use the devices and playback software of my choice. I currently have around 6 TB of content.
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by rbritton 7y ago
There is no due process. Due process would be (1) a hearing prior to your property being confiscated; and (2) the ability to face your accuser. None of these happen with any existing red flag laws and violate multiple items in the Bill of R

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