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by windthrown 4y ago
Is there really no way to allow this other than a giant website banner that says "THIS IS A PARODY"? For goodness' sake the page was even posting images of bacon referring to old and well know pig/police jokes...
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by windthrown 4y ago
I think already knows what current and former employees think of his performance, and increased his security allowance as a result: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/16/meta-to-p...
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by windthrown 4y ago
The latter. These tanks are still supplied by the municipal water system but storing it in the tanks allow for consistent water pressure in tall buildings.
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by windthrown 4y ago
Those are water tanks/towers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooftop_water_tower https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/27/nyregion/inside-citys-wat...
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by windthrown 4y ago
Ah that makes sense. Thanks!
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by windthrown 4y ago
The picture is all you need. They added some small felt walls to their desks which still do not provide as much privacy as real cubicles and dubbed them "cocoons" to seem innovative.
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by windthrown 4y ago
I agree with your overall point, but it sounds to me like the former CEO's "incontrovertible evidence" was not quite as strong as you felt, given that you go on say that these factors are not qualifiable. Numeric metrics are
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by windthrown 4y ago
But if you ran the company with the confidential information would you trust that? You would have no way of knowing if they actually honor those requests.
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by windthrown 4y ago
Certainly not 100% of cases but very common: "As ransomware attacks crippled businesses and law enforcement agencies, two U.S. data recovery firms claimed to offer an ethical way out. Instead, they typically paid the ransom and charged
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by windthrown 4y ago
Does Snapseed fit the bill? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.niksoftwar...
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by windthrown 4y ago
This man is 30 years old and committed fraud on a global scale with open eyes. Please stop calling these company executives "children", distinct from "adults" even if that's how they try to downplay ther own culpabi
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by windthrown 4y ago
I have had good experiences with both Sharedrop ( https://www.sharedrop.io/ ) and Snapdrop ( https://snapdrop.net/ ). While they don't benefit from the slickness of being integrated in iOS, they both try t
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by windthrown 4y ago
I know public perception of US news outlets is on shakey ground but holy shit this is a cynical take. Whatever you think about the New York Times and its employees, they are not evil. You may not like how they are covering the war but the
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by windthrown 4y ago
The developer actually addresses this point: https://www.goatcounter.com/design
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by windthrown 4y ago
I have heard good things about Mozilla's TTS: https://github.com/mozilla/TTS
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by windthrown 4y ago
That's a fair stance but also worth mentioning that System76's logo on the Lemur laptop is a sticker and very easy to remove. I removed mine the first day I used it.
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by windthrown 5y ago
That sounds interesting! Would you be willing to share it with those of us that don't work at Zillow?
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by windthrown 5y ago
I've had great battery life and overall experience with my System76 Lemur Pro. However, I have only used their PopOS and don't know if Manjaro would fare differently.
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by windthrown 5y ago
This is disappointing as I have really been enjoying using Firefox Relay to cut down on the email spam I receive. It looks like they are even planning on blacklisting the "custom" @personaldomain.mozmail.com domains that come with
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by windthrown 5y ago
And even then, "some" of the alerts being "likely" triggered in error makes it sound like quite a few may have been actual security issues.
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by windthrown 5y ago
No, in fact copying from Google Maps is a violation of their terms of service: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/FAQ#Why_don.27t_you_just...
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by windthrown 5y ago
Yes, it trades on the Australian exchange ASX: https://www2.asx.com.au/markets/company/360
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by windthrown 5y ago
There isn't a speed limit but by placing strict limitations on the engine design, they indirectly limit the speed of the cars.
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by windthrown 5y ago
At 14 years old, is Backblaze still considered "young"?
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by windthrown 5y ago
It sounds like you are incredibly privileged to not have "pre-existing" or chronic medical conditions. For many, the ACA saved their lives and the lives of their loved ones even if the premiums were as universally outrageous as yo
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by windthrown 5y ago
The initial incident: https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/22/22740701/microsoft-dotne... Reversal: https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/23/22742282/microsoft-dotne...
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by windthrown 5y ago
What you saw in Texas is actually quite common. In most other states I have lived, there are typically many more fire trucks than ambulances available. Because if that, Fire response times are much shorter and as they are are trained parame
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by windthrown 5y ago
I think people are referring to the practice of effectively creating footnotes with HTML anchor tags [1] [1] http://karlwinegardner.blogspot.com/2011/02/how-to-create-fo...
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by windthrown 5y ago
From the linked post: > Also, as of this month, SourceHut is a bronze sponsor of the OpenStreetMap Foundation. We are proud to support a critical resource for free software and open data.
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by windthrown 5y ago
One such improvement is the Sealed Sender feature: https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/ It's unclear to me is these are part of the "protocol" or just the Signal client.

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