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by sdoering 8mo ago
I can mightily relate. The would pay my bill. I just value my time higher than 190€ for navigating a shitty XLS file and the unnecessary comms afterwards. Yes, abso-f*ing-ly a position from privilege. That's why at the next opportunity
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by sdoering 8mo ago
I didn't even put in my last hotel bill, because my time was worth more to me than navigating a shitty, always borderline broken excel file that once filled out leads to a back and forth of clarifying questions always with an undercurr
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by sdoering 8mo ago
I always say, that finance departments can easily calculate costs. But opportunity costs most of the time don't make it into the books.
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Things: Reusable rockets AI via satellite and a real-time free speech platform(justin.searls.co)
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by sdoering 8mo ago
To me that seems like a spurious (maybe even false) dichotomy. You can have crappy results without AI. And you can have great results with AI. Your contrast is an either or, that - in the real world - does not exist. Take content written by
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by sdoering 9mo ago
I have two laptops that - even being 8 years and 4 years old fit the specs MS decided to set. I still kicked itin the can. Am a happy Arch User & Ubuntu (will probably migrate that one to an Arch derivate as well, though) nowadays. I st
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Andrej Karpathy (Inspired) Skills(github.com)
2 points by sdoering 9mo ago|0 comments
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Building a Personal CTO Operating System with Claude Code(obie.medium.com)
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by sdoering 9mo ago
I have been on both - actually on all three - sorry, make that four - sides. 1. I tried to ship crap and complained to my manager for being blocked. I was young, dumb, in a bad place and generally an asshole. 2. I was the manager being tol
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by sdoering 9mo ago
Back in the day, I was able to enter a video rental store without ID. But the erotic section was cordoned of to my younger self. Today, my younger self would go to Reddit, click any of the myriads of subreddits catering to any kink and just
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by sdoering 9mo ago
Sorry, if I was not clear enough. I explicitly did not want to limit devices - on the contrary. I am all for my device, my ability to use it how I like. I meant that it is the responsibility of Facebook/Meta/Instagram to ensure th
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Animated AVIF for the Modern Web(arthur.pizza)
62 points by sdoering 9mo ago|37 comments
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by sdoering 9mo ago
> I want it for cross-origin frames but after taking users permission Sadly not to my knowledge.
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by sdoering 9mo ago
I could just as easily turn this argument around: If my younger self, went into a store to buy a bottle of Vodka, before I came of age at 18 here in Germany, it wasn't my parents fault. It was the shop that did not check my license tha
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by sdoering 9mo ago
If you mean capturing click metadata (coordinates, timestamps, target elements) rather than actual pixel recording - yes, that's what tools like Hotjar/FullStory do. They record DOM mutations + interaction events and replay them.
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Don't update to HyperOS 3 until you check these settings(xiaomitime.com)
1 points by sdoering 9mo ago|0 comments
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by sdoering 9mo ago
The reality is usually less dramatic than "water completely gone" but more chronically exhausting. For a sub-Saharan family, "severe water scarcity" often means: Daily life shifts Wells and water points yield less or run
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by sdoering 9mo ago
Curious, what do you think about > PRAGMA synchronous = NORMAL; I am just not experienced enough to form an opinion.
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by sdoering 9mo ago
To be clear: I find Trump contemptible. But I also try to understand why (powerful) people act the way they do, beyond the surface-level explanations. The gold discussion imho misses the point if it’s reduced to “Trump is unhinged.” What we
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by sdoering 9mo ago
I host a few client marketing & transactional mails. Mostly sending stuff from marketing automation/newsletter software. Not an issue. Will be migrating the first few domains of off paid google workspace E-Mail to a self hosted sol
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by sdoering 9mo ago
This reminds me of the recurring pattern with every new medium: Socrates worried writing would destroy memory, Gutenberg's critics feared for contemplation, novels were "brain softening," TV was the "idiot box." Tha
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by sdoering 9mo ago
IF I were still a Spotify user - this would be the nail in the coffin. Not that the founder wouldn't give me enough reason. But they lost me due to other reasons. I am still paying for streaming, though. Still. Not sure if it is really
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by sdoering 9mo ago
> I tend to need to solve All The Problems before I can do any self-care I can so relate. I once read something that shifted my perspective a bit and helped me start the work of learning to better care for myself. It was basically somebo
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Don't send customer-generated content(wordtothewise.com)
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by sdoering 9mo ago
> It is almost impossible to escape the constant barrage of takes and news headlines these days without being a total luddite. Then I am very proudly one. I don't do TikTok, FB, IG, LinkedIn or any of this crap. I do a bit of NH her
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by sdoering 9mo ago
I am always wondering, if initiatives like these are a way to get a system in place that enables governments (by proxy of these platforms) a way to ensure any online activity is tied to a governmental id. Because if you want to use these pl
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‘ELITE’: The Palantir app ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid(werd.io)
443 points by sdoering 9mo ago|375 comments
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by sdoering 9mo ago
I once installed a private DNS with advertising block lists on a home network level. My SO was not amused, as her Android based games with "watch an advertisement for ingame credits" now did not work anymore. Nowadays only the TV
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by sdoering 9mo ago
In German it is Steuerbord und Backbord. And my mnemonic is the "r" in Steue r bord = the "r" in r ight hand side (when looking to the bow that is).
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by sdoering 9mo ago
Not quite accurate anymore. The UK was indeed the world leader from 2008 until around 2021, but has since fallen to second place behind China. China now has over 41 GW installed (>50% of global capacity), while the UK sits at ~15 GW (~22

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