thedanbob

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by thedanbob 9mo ago
> Why did NYC release it in the first place? Did they not QA it? Considering Louis Rossmann's videos on his adventures with NYC bureaucracy (e.g. [0]), the QAers might not have known the laws any better than the chat bot. [0] https
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by thedanbob 9mo ago
> Ask me for some random information you shouldn't need? Get bogus answers. I've never understood software that's free but you have to fill out a form of personal information to download it. Even if I was willing to share,
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by thedanbob 9mo ago
Yeah, Spark. Shame because I really liked their client, but I refused to use it anymore after I realized what they were doing.
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by thedanbob 9mo ago
It's more common than you might think. I know of at least one popular email client that stores your credentials on their servers to enable features like multi-account sync and scheduled sending.
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by thedanbob 9mo ago
> MS made it that much worse by wrapping these in dark patterns that may change without notice > It's truly dangerous if it can and does act against your wishes, interests, and reasonable expectations. Do you really not consider
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by thedanbob 10mo ago
> I could also write the same article about this website, how it was so full of bloat and ads that nobody wants I could barely get it to scroll, and it eventually crashed before getting to the end of TFA due to general resource exhaustio
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by thedanbob 10mo ago
Same. I tried LibreWolf for a while but as TA mentioned, it required too much tuning. (It also isn't signed on macOS so installing has extra hoops.) I'm on Waterfox now and it's just about right for me.
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by thedanbob 10mo ago
As a counter-anecdote, I've had far more trouble over the years swapping physical SIMs than eSIMs. You'd think that going between two phones that use the same size card would just work, but in practice that isn't (wasn't
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by thedanbob 10mo ago
I haven't tried since that one attempt. I've picked up a few words from learning German songs as part of my voice training, but otherwise it's not useful enough to me to take the time and effort.
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by thedanbob 10mo ago
It's been almost 10 years so maybe they do it differently now. I just remember they made a big deal about the gendered nouns but nothing about the fact that sentences weren't even close to correctly structured. And too be fair, ma
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by thedanbob 10mo ago
> "A friend who had been learning some language in Duolinguo and then couldn't say a sentence to a native", should be proverbial nowadays. I tried picking up some German via Duolingo once. I thought it was going great, pre
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by thedanbob 11mo ago
> And generally speaking out in the country, there won't be pedestrian foot traffic, so it's not as if you need the bright lights for them. Animals, specifically deer. That said, you can use brights when no other cars are nearb
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by thedanbob 1y ago
That was my first thought as I was reading. Of course, I imagine almost every serious business would be extremely uncomfortable doing something like that. On the other hand, if the alternative is getting your account closed anyway, there&#x
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by thedanbob 1y ago
It seems like Shorts keep getting worse, at least the Shorts that I get presented with. For a while the most popular format was a clip from a movie or TV show with annoying royalty-free music slapped on top and a badly chosen title. Now I&#
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by thedanbob 1y ago
Don't worry, some of us got it. That part made me chuckle.
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by thedanbob 1y ago
I was trying to help a friend recently with a bizarre issue with a Dell laptop: the 2 key (and only the 2 key) is unreliable. Normally I'd say "hardware problem" but it acted more like a software bug. Among other signs, it&#x
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by thedanbob 1y ago
File systems seem to be a particular weakness of Apple. HFS+ is pretty terrible. APFS is better, until something goes wrong and then it's just as terrible. Add "network" and the situation is 10x worse. I recently gave up on T
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by thedanbob 1y ago
Those lines are only needed on the VPN server, not the client(s).
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by thedanbob 1y ago
I wrote a script that runs periodically on my home server to update DNS (Cloudflare) if my IP changes. In practice, it almost never changes and my ISP's general flakiness is far more of a problem.
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by thedanbob 1y ago
A number of the titles appear to have 69 or 420 cents added to the amount that appears in the story.
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by thedanbob 1y ago
I set up authoritative nameservers at home using unbound, which appears to be considerably easier than configuring BIND, but I still can't say that I fully understand it. DNS (and networking in general) is a bit of a dark art.
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by thedanbob 1y ago
Interesting! I just got done creating my own Tiptap-based editor but I might still check this one out. Last time I looked it wasn't really possible to swap out the Trix editor in ActionText, so if they've fixed that I should at le
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by thedanbob 1y ago
I didn't realize that nesting is official now, last time I checked it was still a proposal. Nice! CSS has a lot of weirdness but I feel like it's been following the trajectory of Javascript toward becoming decent language. Flexbox
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by thedanbob 1y ago
Adding another +1 to Pocket ID. I looked at a couple of the ones you mentioned but they looked too heavy and complex for what I wanted. Pocket ID does one thing and does it well.
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by thedanbob 1y ago
Bundler has always been the best package manager of any language that I've used, but dealing with gem extensions can still be a pain. I've had lots of fun bugs where an extension worked in dev but not prod because of differences i
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by thedanbob 1y ago
I rented a car in the UK a few years ago and by the end of the trip I was ready to set it on fire. - Adaptive cruise control would randomly slam on the brakes on the motorway (just passed a 30 kph exit, the speed limit must be 30 now!), or
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by thedanbob 1y ago
To be fair, the AI probably hallucinates more efficiently than the human.
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by thedanbob 1y ago
> But, maybe it would be best not to have “yay” available. Using something like AUR without reading the package build files is… pretty bad, right? And it is bad for the community, because if there is a convention of doing that sort of th
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by thedanbob 1y ago
Yup, they can probably rebuild ICQ the way it was when I was 16 but they can't make me 16 again.
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by thedanbob 1y ago
I thought it went without saying that she's on board with it, and that "need to get a hold of her" meant e.g. "I'm trying to call her but she's out in the shop". 99% of our communication during the day is

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