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by stinkytaco 3y ago
I realize your probably leaning towards "naive web", but I think it might actually be reddit you miss, or at least the club that you identified as reddit. I say this because I felt the same 10 years before that about watching the
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
I also don't know the solution, but I'm reasonably sure closing essential services like hospitals is not part of it. Unfortunately, the kind of policies that might keep those places open get soundly rejected by people who live in
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
If you decide you like it, let us know your username. I'm always looking for interesting people to follow.
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
If you click the gear in the bottom right (at least of my screen) the menu that pops up will have an option called "Import or upload sites". That has an OPML upload option. It's a cluttered user experience, though fairly conf
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
> I do find myself wondering what a system that connected my rss feed reader with global comments about webpages might look like. Newsblur has this. It would probably be fine with more people. Occasionally there's something interest
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
Or misinformation. Or phishing. Really, any type of moderation is one of the biggest ongoing challenges for a small operation like this.
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
Perhaps. But I'm also a big advocate for a social safety net because people make mistakes. I was a pretty poor kid because my parents made some bad decisions. They weren't bad people, but they were immature and unlucky. Without th
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
Privatizing profit while socializing risk is not a new phenomenon. But it's not all bank bailouts, Golden Parachutes and bitcoin millionaires who run to the SEC when things go south. It's also rescue services when my backpacking e
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
Debian releases generally have a 5 year support cycle, at least the last several have, which is the same as Ununtu LTS. It also seems pretty standard for most distros now. EDIT: I forgot that Freexian also provides a few more years, but I&#
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
> Interestingly SteamOS is quite nice, but will it be something outside of gaming on a Steam Deck? Considering their website[1] still says it's Debian derived but they switched to Arch some time ago, I doubt it's in their plans
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
I think in Florida v. Voigt someone was sentenced to 6 months for not handing their iPhone password in an extortion case. If I recall, the phone was ultimately hacked to get the evidence.
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
Is it possible that people just don't want to talk to you about their medical treatment? I know perfectly productive, happy people that use marijuana for a variety of purposes, both recreational and medical. But in general, people don&
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
This is sort of a "what's a computer" question. I find that for a number of specialized digital interfaces, I don't want natural language. I don't want to stand there and talk to my microwave, I just want to punch i
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
I think they want you to rebuy old content in new forms, pure profit. Or better yet, rent it in perpetuity.
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
I started to really notice this during the pandemic, when pieces about tracking software for work-from-home employees started to pop up. Being constantly measured is nothing new to service workers, call centers, delivery drivers or any numb
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
I have probably a thousand ratings and I know they are allowing a PDF export of your history and ratings. If I could find the right service I wouldn't mind spending a rainy afternoon or sick day migrating them by hand. That would allow
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
What I'll really miss about Netflix DVD is the recommendation system. It adapted to the user rather than showing some pointless average. I graded things from 1-5 with 3 being a movie I liked and when it showed me ratings, it would show
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
I've never heard this, I've seen both movies and read the book. They are so dissimilar you'd hardly know they were related barring the plot. And they are all very good in their own way. It's a pretty interesting case stu
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
Do that search with Google and you will see that Wirecutter recommends a number of Vizio TVs. I've personally bought and been happy with a Vizio TV they recommended. I do not connect it to the Internet and it works fine. EDIT: here is
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
I work at a public library and like any good public library we regularly evaluate our collection, adding new stuff and removing old stuff. We also get a lot of donations that aren't really fit for the collection. Our local friends of t
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
More that controlling a platform is no longer seen as a monopoly position. If Apple can get away with effectively driving Tumblr out of business and taking a cut of everything transacted on its platform, it seems unlikely that regulators wi
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
Of course, then Microsoft faced a major lawsuit related to their browser monopoly. That seems highly unlikely in today's regulatory environment.
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
Doing the dishes has a purpose, but I still don't want to spend 80 hours a week doing them, especially not at the rates it would pay. Lots of meaningful work is also quite hard work that has an upper limit even if it is purposeful.
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
But if the supply went down, presumably they have fewer eggs to sell or higher costs thus making less profit, right? But since they are making record profit, that seems to imply that the rise in prices is not tracking directly with the drop
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
I skeptical that non upgradability increases reliability. I have never heard this claim before. I have heard it decreases thickness and weight, both of which people might like, but increasing reliability? How much of that can just be attrib
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
I use KeePass, but keep the file in cloud storage because I need to log in from multiple places and it's a tradeoff I'm willing to make. I don't want to excuse bad security practices, but in the end I've decided I'm
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
You could cut it out yourself [1] But I've read that doctors do need to have their appendix removed, but not other people. I can't find a source on that, however. [1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-3248144
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
Wow.... > Now that I'm pretty much poverty-trapped, at least for the next few years, I'm fine with death. If you're poverty trapped for the next few years, I'll warn you now that death is fairly long term. Longer than
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
The great irony is that while emaciation is hardly a problem, malnutrition is. It's a country that is both malnourished and obese and there just doesn't seem to be much of a public policy push to change that.
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
I use Newsblur, mostly. It feels a bit dated at times, but does what I want it to do and has an email address that you can send newsletters to to read like feeds. I've been meaning to switch over to miniflux for a while, but can never

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