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by rekabis 3y ago
Prior companies always had a history of surrounding Musk with “handlers” that steered him in productive and non-destructive directions and manipulated him into making sane decisions. Twitter never had this, and was never ready for Musky-boy
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by rekabis 3y ago
Every hoarder I have ever seen - aside from those who hoard wealth, which is just unrestrained, parasitic greed - was actively suffering from or had in the past experienced significant suffering from a single societal ill: Severe economic i
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by rekabis 3y ago
> even if that means they need to keep the package on hold for days. Yes, but this would be at the final distribution points immediately prior to delivery, not at border warehouses right smack in the middle of the transport chain. Local
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by rekabis 3y ago
I have never had a shipping company pay import taxes and then just drop the package off. They have always rung the doorbell to get me to accept it in person, or if I was not at home, tried delivery again another day. They come up to the d
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by rekabis 3y ago
> there are something less than a couple dozen in-person locations nationwide About ⅔ of Canadians live within 2hrs drive of a Canadian Border Services office. This drops to about 56% of all Canadians if you limit it to a one-hour drive.
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by rekabis 3y ago
> You don’t have to pay in this circumstance as far as I can tell. If you accept the package in a way where they pay the import taxes for you (you are not paying the government directly, they pay first then you pay them), it does indeed
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by rekabis 3y ago
I believe the more common terms are “vulture capitalists” or “vampire capitalists”.
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by rekabis 3y ago
Or, if you use a desktop, build your own custom keyboard such that there is no hardware benchmark to work off of. Or use a keyboard which has a different key arrangement that alters the timing and press force of keystrokes, such as Dvorak.
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by rekabis 3y ago
Considering this works flawlessly on my iPhone X (due to be dropped with iOS 17), I have to say… really f*king impressive.
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by rekabis 3y ago
> darker faces reflect less light and it's harder to extract data on key facial features like eyebrows. Pretty much this. It gets even worse under non-ideal lighting conditions. I mean, me? I pretty much glow in the dark. You’d be h
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by rekabis 3y ago
You cannot rip built-in, purposefully-added spyware out of a cloud-based OS like you can with Windows 10 & 11. I still have a few apps that keep me tied to Windows, but it looks like I need to find ways to replace them or move beyond th
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by rekabis 3y ago
The core problem is that those people with the wealth and power to do something about this - the Parasite Class at the top - are too greedy and obsessed with the obscene wealth they are acquiring with “Business As Usual”. And they will neve
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by rekabis 3y ago
Methinks musky-boy doth protest too much.
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by rekabis 3y ago
> I had to lift the landscape in my mind, rotate it ninety degrees, and set it back down. Fully sighted, but I have been doing something vaguely similar for decades. As soon as I know an area decently well, or have taken at least one goo
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by rekabis 3y ago
Will there be any way to disable it within Chrome?
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by rekabis 3y ago
> And Mozilla is long past dead. I have been using Netscape/Mozilla, in terms of heritage, ideology, and codebase, for almost a third of a century now. I was there 30 years ago using NCSA Mosaic when it was first released for the VM
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by rekabis 3y ago
Looks like they discovered it just in time to watch it being boiled to death. The ocean surrounding Florida has hit highs of 38℃ in recent days… not much marine life can survive that.
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by rekabis 3y ago
A lot of publicly-published forecasts of climate change have been ridiculously - and I would emphasize hilariously so - conservative on their numbers and predictions. Pretty much every “worst case scenario” morphs into a “best case scenar
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by rekabis 3y ago
Stealing passwords from browser password vaults is trivial these days for most any malware, which is why password managers like BitWarden have become much more popular. And those can sync across browsers and systems much more reliably.
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by rekabis 3y ago
No. But you can block third-party ads on all apps that display them by using the AdGuard DNS plug-in for iOS. Not an app - it’s a system plug-in: https://adguard.com/en/blog/encrypted-dns-ios-14.html . It’s extreme
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by rekabis 3y ago
You can adblock at the DNS level using the AdGuard DNS plug-in for iOS. Not an app: it’s a system plug-in - https://adguard.com/en/blog/encrypted-dns-ios-14.html . It’s extremely effective across all apps that use
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by rekabis 3y ago
Win10Privacy can turn off the vast majority of these data spigots. The downside is that it’s a pretty advanced tool that can seriously screw up your system if you don’t know what you are doing. For example, several settings require Office t
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by rekabis 3y ago
Just like how it was tried (and quickly repealed) in Australia, news orgs in Canada will see their traffic plummet massively and significantly, and then scream bloody murder to have this law rolled back. Google and Facebook (along with othe
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by rekabis 3y ago
Killing off third party apps was the entire point of those stupidly high API fees. This was always about control - having the only app, forcing users to use only that app, forcing them to accept the enshittification of the platform - but li
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by rekabis 3y ago
Sounds like a Conservative/alt-right/Christofascist fairy tale that they look towards for inspiration. They are certainly implementing the thin edge of similar repressions in places like Florida and Texas.
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by rekabis 3y ago
As a web developer: your site is clean and crisp, with an almost brutal simplicity which makes it very attractive. Honestly, I like it a lot. It could use one or two very subtle tweaks in the super-fine details, but for a technical informat
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by rekabis 3y ago
This is why I use more than six numbers in my lock screen pin: the field itself turns from six slots into a single large field, such that you cannot tell if the password is seven digits or seventy. It massively increases the potential add
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by rekabis 3y ago
> Almost 70 percent of Americans own their own home But at what cost? To own a home, but to be grindingly poor in all other respects? To barely be able to make ends meet, to see retirement as a pipe dream, or only achievable in the final
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by rekabis 4y ago
Dangnabbit: no Windows option.
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by rekabis 4y ago
I wouldn’t mind the code itself to crib off of. Although the idea of continuing the site as a whole sounds really attractive if the domain name is included.

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