xethos

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by xethos 3y ago
If I may clarify: Unapproved here would typically mean engineering hasn't signed off. It does not mean engineering was asked and said "Hell no".
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by xethos 3y ago
The point is more the attitude of "Fine for me but not for thee", with the corporation in question almost undoubtedly recording the call, but balking when a consumer dares do the same
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by xethos 3y ago
Then set your ringtone to a "silence.ogg" track. All calls play the ringtone still, but the ringtone is dead air - and this has no effect on notifications.
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by xethos 3y ago
Hanging out in between jobs with a coworker, in between topics of conversation, he pulled out his phone to scroll. And so I asked if he remembered anything he'd scrolled past yesterday... and he could not. Nor could he remember anythin
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by xethos 3y ago
But a rank stack is cause for insurance because somebody is being let go. Needing to keep at least 94% of headcount, with no penalty to management for being above (and possibly a bonus for staying above the minimum) sounds like the opposi
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by xethos 3y ago
One of the more helpful-to-consumers uses for cellphone and app location tracking
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by xethos 3y ago
I don't like Apple. I'm cheering on the current lawsuit brought by the feds. I do not, and never have owned, an iPhone, and Apple is not the bastion of privacy they sell themselves as. That said, credit where it's due: https
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by xethos 3y ago
Sounds like you might be after a cold-climate [0] heat pump. They'll use advances in things like variable speed compressors and flash / vapor injection to draw useful heat from the air at well below -5C, without the need for auxil
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by xethos 3y ago
I had a family dinner last week, in the Pacific North West. One topic that came up was evil government regulations that required heat pumps, with the follow-up claim being that they do not work below -5C. I cannot express the amount of shit
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by xethos 3y ago
This leaves me screwed when I lost my phone in a cab [0], or when normal people irrevocably lose / break their phone or SIM card [0] ...on Saturday night of a long weekend, in a country I was leaving on Sunday, and that cab regulations
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by xethos 3y ago
We all love, love to kvetch and say spare us our E2EE - stick to older methods of investigation. And I agree! But the old methods take time. More importantly, we want thoroughness. Simply cutting off the leader and throwing him in jail fo
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by xethos 3y ago
Or that the Youtube subscription is free and none of the newspapers mentioned are
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by xethos 3y ago
Provincial instead of federal (in this case), but it absolutely matters whom you vote for: https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/david-eby-housing-supply-mun... https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news&#x2F
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by xethos 3y ago
> aspiring Korean husbands should be able to sponsor and marry foreign wives Nearly any foreign wife will be eaten alive by how competitive Korea is. Even worse, everyone else in that society will look down on them for not putting thei
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by xethos 3y ago
Physically and visually impressive, but unlikely to get up and do anything
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by xethos 3y ago
This is, at best, a weak reading of the comment. Of all the damaging and un-ecological features of Western society, in a comment about climate change, the personal automobile and the effects thereof should top everybody's list. You&#x2
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by xethos 3y ago
> even in watch stores they're most of the times set at random hours I can't imagine the proprietor showing, rather decisively, which of his products drift. Especially considering half the time, you can't tell how long ago
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by xethos 3y ago
> they’re not leveraging one market against another I'm sorry, is your point that "Music streaming service" is not a market? Apple allows signups via every way one could access the application - mobile, web, and desktop. T
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by xethos 3y ago
Following through the HDPE link in TFA, it leads to a seperate latimes article. Pulling from that: > In 2010, volunteers with the California Coastal Cleanup removed 65,736 plastic bags of all kinds from the shoreline, water, watercraft a
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by xethos 3y ago
Sure, but nobody calls them on it any more. Sounds like the Overton window shifted to people using less plastic too.
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by xethos 3y ago
I certainly think they would have been safe r . Bear in mind though, at the time, Windows had 97% of the desktop market [0]. This wasn't a corporation with ~50% of the market (like Android in the US) trying to muscle in, this was a c
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by xethos 3y ago
I can see your point, but prefer to stick to rock-solid, unimpeachible arguments (Apple Music for iOS, Google Chrome/Play Store for Android). I shy away from Safari/iOS because Apple is using iOS' dominance (in operating syst
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by xethos 3y ago
You're right, in that Microsoft used their dominance in one market (operating systems) to gain an advantage in another market (web browsers) Apple or Google would have to be doing something similar, like using their dominance in one ma
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by xethos 3y ago
The new recruits are actually a best-case scenario - going more than a decade back, ~75% of potential recruits that wanted to sign up were rejected for being clinically obese. Of the 25% left, a significant portion could not complete the fi
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by xethos 3y ago
Concerningly, his data for obesity ends at 2009, and is followed by a prediction for 2030. Overlaid with this data is the tagline "By 2030 [...] the U.S. government projects 42 precent obesity nation wide". The CDC shows an obesit
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by xethos 3y ago
Damn near every hobby imaginable will have externalities. Asking as gently as I can: Maybe this isn't a battle to pick? Tangentally, some clever children, when told to "Think of the starving kids in Africa. Finish your plate"
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by xethos 3y ago
The fact that you control the pace in your page turner example is part of what makes reading active instead of passive. You don't really get that watching a documentary or listening to a lecture or podcast
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by xethos 3y ago
> It might not be "reading a book" but I really fail to see the big difference between that and an audiobook. First, I reject the premise that audiobooks count as reading. We can agree it's consuming a book, or listening t
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by xethos 3y ago
Being in love with the tech doesn't make someone a good CEO. Notably, sometimes standing too close to a problem prevents one from seeing solutions. Let's maybe start with actual admonisions against her (and her replacement's)
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by xethos 3y ago
I cannot help but wonder just how many commenters here will start to donate to Mozilla now. I've lost count of how many "I'd love to donate, but if only Mitchell Baker weren't making such a mess of it" comments I&#x

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