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by redserk 2y ago
Yeah, I think it’s worth emphasizing: we are in Month 4 and there’s already been an enormous amount of chaos. We haven’t even seen the effects of the agencies getting cut. Sure they’re running for now, but burnout can set in quick for the r
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by redserk 2y ago
Considering the current administration’s lack of respect for rule of law, I personally would not place much value on relying on these limits. Especially given other administrations’ attempts to stretch surveillance authority, which happene
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by redserk 2y ago
I want to like RetailMeNot but every time I try it, I very seldom come across functioning coupon codes. I don't understand what incentivizes people to submit bogus codes.
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by redserk 2y ago
But a lot of scams don’t require this. The international transaction side isn’t with the victim, it’s with a completely different person happily sending cash over. Say you run a gift card scam. Victim buys $100 in gift cards and provides yo
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by redserk 2y ago
TurboTax handles it fine with what are effectively a bunch of defined if-else statements.
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by redserk 2y ago
The article reads like a lot of finance articles from western outlets about China. It continues the multi-decade angle that — regardless of China’s successes — somehow they’re set for a full and total societal collapse any minute now. So o
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by redserk 2y ago
There are a few ways to keep cycling through supplies if you’re already using food/water that can last some time. For water, could get a water cooler. Keep a few 5 gal jugs around, and just use it for some drinking water. By periodical
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by redserk 2y ago
I don’t think that would do much. The states that went for Harris have a fairly higher degree of passport ownership than states that went to Trump. As someone who grew up in an area leaning hard conservative, the trope of “American who does
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by redserk 2y ago
I don't understand the angle of remarks like this. Russia invaded Ukraine, Germany pulled back money going to Russia, and Germany is now investing where it's appropriate. Are we expecting them to re-litigate this problem until the
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by redserk 2y ago
This seems like a fun way to monetize the platform, especially if they aren’t running ads. I’d imagine it’s easier convincing people to buy fun swag than to persuade people to sign up for a subscription tier or throw money into a donation j
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by redserk 2y ago
I’ve removed every app I can over this because. Highly recommend. For the remaining apps that I can’t avoid like Uber, I turn notifications off. There’s a 5 minute window where I’ll have to switch between the Uber app and whatever I’m doing
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by redserk 2y ago
Strictly looking at GDP is a terrible way to compare economic conditions between US states and countries. GDP of Mississippi looks great only because of a strong dollar. It doesn’t really account for living conditions.
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by redserk 2y ago
Elaborate?
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by redserk 2y ago
There was, bluntly, a mountain of bullshit from many angles. When trying to keep tabs on stuff for my sanity, I determined there’s multiple variants of the lab leak theory: First, there’s the question of if it was an accident or a deliberat
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by redserk 2y ago
You contradicted yourself. Whether you want to call it a “restriction”, “a lack of permission without being X type of activity”, or “it works because the app exhibits Y behavior”, it’s all functionally a restriction. You can run some backgr
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by redserk 2y ago
Yeah, “business impact” is measured entirely on a short-term basis. In 3-4 years when you need to make a drastic change, that’s when the actual business impact comes into play, but this is never measured. In my experience with some groups,
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by redserk 2y ago
That’s a workaround, that’s not a solution. That is a solution for 2005 when the iPod wasn’t an internet connected device. In 2025 when devices are connected, performing network backups is overwhelmingly the correct answer.
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by redserk 2y ago
I’m not sure I can recommend Qubes entirely due to the usability aspect. I’ve used Qubes several times for a week at a time over the last few years. It’s gotten better, but they really need someone to look at the user experience of it all f
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by redserk 2y ago
I’ve been doing all of my dev work in a virtual machine as a way to clamp things down. I’ve even started using a browser in a VM as a primary browser. Computers are fast enough where the overhead doesn’t feel like it’s there for what I do.
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by redserk 2y ago
The problem is if you want to back up the content of your device securely. Without ADP, you’re stuck sending it into iCloud in a way that allows a government to access the data. If you wanted to avoid potential prying eyes, you can’t backup
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by redserk 2y ago
Word of mouth worked fine in Firefox’s favor for a few years. I switched to Chrome years ago because it ran so much smoother than Firefox, and anecdotally I know of many others who did the same. With the switch, so did the recommendations.
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by redserk 2y ago
Let’s go back to December 2019/January 2020. Hunan shut itself down. There was video of hundreds of people in makeshift hospitals. Trucks with some kind of disinfectant spray were roaming the streets. It was real-world impact. It was n
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by redserk 2y ago
Concerts and merch are exactly how a lot of artists actually make money…
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by redserk 2y ago
Europe is a pretty big place with a lot of disparate governments. Abstracting it to merely "Europe" is ignoring how the world operates. Many European governments have been actively expanding and enshrining rights of individuals. S
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by redserk 2y ago
What freedoms would they lose?
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by redserk 2y ago
Unfortunately this makes the assumption that logic and critical thinking skills are used when assigning blame. Instead, it’s a crude game of corralling people with emotions.
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by redserk 2y ago
It's wild how disconnected from reality he is. The fastest ways I've seen coworkers demoralized has been: 1) Managers who regularly insist their way is the only correct way 2) Low compensation/raises/bonuses 3) On-call c
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by redserk 2y ago
I'm confused at the "free market" implication here. What resembles the free market has been deciding "Florida isn't worth it" and companies have been pulling out in response. I'll concede in that a few bad
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by redserk 2y ago
I don’t understand this notion suggesting Americans are the only people on earth capable of software development. This comes up in various threads about China, too. For independent indexes, Brave’s search came from a German company and Yand
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by redserk 2y ago
That’s just looking at theoretical costs but completely ignores the actual revenue side. If they annoy the most active streamers to the point they leave to another site, why should a viewer stay at Twitch versus just using another site? I’m

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