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by rekabis 1y ago
> i was thinking "You need to use the backend the info shouldn't be traveling to the client".... If it leaves the server, it’s available to anyone who has access to the display device. And if it’s meant to be displayed to
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by rekabis 1y ago
doublespeak wanders into the chat, nods approvingly
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> If only as a PR move, the insurance industry could easily build some examples of such construction, push for building codes friendly to them, and offer far-cheaper hail damage insurance for them. That wouldn’t lower costs for consumers
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by rekabis 1y ago
As long as debloat and spyware-removing software such as Win10Privacy continue to exist, I’ll have at least one system still running a pro workstation version of Windows. But damn, they seem to be doing everything they can to drive users aw
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by rekabis 1y ago
> You can raise taxes on “the rich” and many will cheer, but the wealthy are also the most mobile. They move jurisdictions, restructure assets, or simply stop realizing taxable income. This is largely a false narrative that doesn’t hold
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by rekabis 1y ago
Are you taking about other models like the v600 and v700? Because I’m not. I’ve never really seen those models with film scanning tools, it was usually only the v850 that came with film scanning tools. So I have always expected to have to s
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by rekabis 1y ago
>Epson stopped making their flatbeds that do film I don’t understand this… the V850 Pro is still being publicly sold with film and slide trays… what am I missing? And even eBay is selling them at only about $1,200-1-700 CAD, which is con
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by rekabis 1y ago
JFC, for that price I can get a NiB Epson Perfection v850 Pro, and have something that can scan film almost as effectively and is a full-blown generalist scanner, to boot. The best consumer scanner ever released, IIRC.
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by rekabis 1y ago
Every corporation I have interfaced with over the last few months has demonstrated massively epic levels of FOMO over AI. And yet, when I ask them how they are tracking AI’s effectiveness, especially with regard to degrading skill sets, low
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by rekabis 1y ago
The one thing many people miss - or utterly fail to acknowledge - is how the entire edifice of capitalism is violently against any attempt to reverse fossil fuels, simply because it is far too profitable to turn away from. And when you real
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by rekabis 1y ago
> This has never happened in history Historians and social scientists widely agree that a significant surplus of unmarried, low-status young males can cause substantial social and political unrest, a pattern observed in ancient societies
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by rekabis 1y ago
If you read my comments, at no point did I ever veer into anything approaching dominance . Having a physical advantage is not dominance. It is merely capability with regards to the objective in play, which is where the argument of divisi
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> There are few if any true differences in mental abilities. Science disagrees with you there: • https://stanmed.stanford.edu/how-mens-and-womens-brains-are-... • https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles&#x2
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by rekabis 1y ago
> the hidden legacy that gave lesser able men places at the societal table would vanish. These men who are castaways were included earlier as the effluvia of dominance. Now they’re not included. Lovely pro-female sentiment, but be aware:
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by rekabis 1y ago
I would agree with the vast majority of your sentiment. Unfortunately, biology and evolution has seen fit to make the sexes noticeably different, for which some amount of “division of labour” makes absolute rational sense. And the flip si
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by rekabis 1y ago
As an early/mid GenX, my empathetic view based off of real-world observations: Young men are still being nailed to the wall with patriarchal standards, such as having good incomes and prestigious careers and owning a house and being (l
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by rekabis 1y ago
> DEI is the exact opposite of that. Tell me you have absolutely no clue what DEI is without actually saying you are totally ignorant of what DEI is. I predict that for your next bout of intellectual bankruptcy, you’ll be linking DEI to
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by rekabis 1y ago
Holy shite. I never knew. Or, at least, this rings no bells. I have several iPod classics, now I know what to look for on eBay.
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by rekabis 1y ago
Which still doesn’t make much sense because there are already some walkers which are designed to lock into most types of shopping carts. So you just bring the cart back to the stall, detach the walker from the cart, and use your walker to g
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by rekabis 1y ago
Consider me old-fashioned, but I have never been comfortable with my financial data sitting in someone else’s domain. Especially a third-party domain. General summary reports for legal or taxation on hard copy is one thing, the nitty gritty
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by rekabis 1y ago
Considering that the RoR (Return on Research, how much discovery accumulates per dollar spent) has cratered by over 98% in the last century, we cannot afford sub-par researchers just because they fit our racist and sexist caricatures of who
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by rekabis 1y ago
Haven’t we seen this scenario before? As in, within the next few days - or even hours - of this site becoming widely known, griefer hackers will bring the site to its knees by leveraging critical security exploits and workflow flaws that wo
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by rekabis 1y ago
With or without capitalism, a good scientist will produce good research, and a bad scientist will produce bad research. But in order for a good scientist to produce bad research, that requires profit-at-all-costs capitalism. apologies to S
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by rekabis 1y ago
> Ideally, you’d probably want more than 20TB of traffic per month. That little? Hell, my BitTorrent traffic on a SOHO symmetrical 1Gbe connection usually does about 2-3Tb per day . And I haven’t pulled anything particularly popular (to
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by rekabis 1y ago
An AdGuard employee working their Reddit subreddit let slip that the legal order that forced them to block those domains (from their ad-blocking DNS) was a - claimed! - result of Archive.today having saved CP and refusing to delete it. Meth
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by rekabis 1y ago
Not mentioned: switching the firmware away from the stock one to something like DD-WRT or OpenWRT. Upside with open-source firmware is that at least the firmware is going to be (relatively) top-notch and free of major bugs and major securit
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by rekabis 1y ago
> he told me AI made him at least twice as productive. He’s not only lying to you, he’s also lying to himself. Recent 12-month studies show that less than 2% of AI users saw an increase in work velocity, and those were only the very top-
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by rekabis 1y ago
> Verifying control of an email address is a frequent activity on the web today and is used both to prove the user has provided a valid email address LOL WUT?? This is also ideal in “war dialling” eMail servers to get accurate lists of
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by rekabis 1y ago
The only reason why I still have Windows is because of a handful of apps that are Windows-only and don’t play nice with WINE, and because so many of my clients are similarly locked into Windows with certain programs, or cannot otherwise swi
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by rekabis 1y ago
Except if there are tells that can be quickly distinguished, that would save a lot of us a lot of time and effort. I would personally find the answer - if there is an effective one - very valuable. And I would likely employ said answer to f

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