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by xethos 11mo ago
> Part of the surge of mass incarceration was that people who would have been hospitalized in an earlier time now get warehoused in a place that isn’t equipped to treat them. Puts a different spin on the System of a Down lyrics, "Th
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by xethos 11mo ago
The president of the United States of America pushed a horse de-wormer as a preventative during a world-wide pandemic Good luck getting him, his administration, or his Department of Justice, to hold YouTube to a higher standard.
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by xethos 11mo ago
Sure, it's not incredible, and it's biased to a headline style formatting, but I think the biggest factor is the HN submission character limit
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by xethos 11mo ago
This is probably a lot more work than you're willing to put in, but the Facebook Messenger bridge for Matrix has actually been reliable, set'n'forget, and headache-free for me, whenever I have to use it for Marketplace. I wou
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by xethos 11mo ago
Respectfully, not even close. Verification is when I sign in from a new device, I use an existing device or second passphrase (either-or) to ensure that yes, it is me on both devices. I never have to reveal my ID, name, phone number, or ema
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by xethos 11mo ago
@Arathorn would be an objectively better person to discuss this, but the Redditor isn't completely off the mark: metadata is (currently) not nearly as well-guarded on Matrix compared to Signal. However, work is ongoing to improve the s
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by xethos 11mo ago
I actually ordered the Q20 revival by the same team back in May or so! Very excited, should ship this week
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by xethos 11mo ago
I agree, and that's the exact point I would make. The problem though, is I want a small phone with a headphone jack (and a physical keyboard, but that's orthogonal to the point). Many OEMs sell their flagship as a shiny glass slab
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by xethos 11mo ago
Because while Android is "open", Google has no carrot (Verizon can't charge for OTT messaging and has no major incentive to push it), and no stick (pushing too hard will draw regulators' attention again) RCS has been s
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by xethos 11mo ago
That's because SMS is a horribly broken, hacky standard, and RCS has to inherit and deal with all the horrifying edge-cases of SMS, MMS, and legacy cruft going back prior to the turn of the millenium. Then it has to accomodate every
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by xethos 11mo ago
There are multiple laws that could have been broken to make it a felony, but if the only reason it would have been a felony was the dollar amount, I'm actually less inclined to side with the judge. This is all third-hand, through a gam
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by xethos 11mo ago
Snap-On is known for nice, warrantied-for-life, but incredibly expensive tools. A 10mm socket is $40, a 10mm wrench is $58. The cheapest OBD-II reader one can use with the Hyundai, per TFA, is ~$800, and Hyundai's required-for-this-job
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by xethos 11mo ago
> They introduced some BLE features before the spec was finished In their defence, they went with Lightning shortly before the USB-C spec was finalized. Then, to avoid their customers being screwed over by constantly changing the connect
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by xethos 11mo ago
Standing on the street holding a bag open, and catching a fish falling from the sky one time, would also be an absurdly good catch rate no matter how long I had to wait - it's just that shit of a system Only half the conversations bein
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by xethos 11mo ago
Now account for how many vehicles we can get off the road if we have proper bus service, and the impact on pedestrians and cyclists. Or consider the licensing requirements (class 2 + an air brake endorsement here in BC), and how difficult i
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by xethos 11mo ago
From TFA: > The latest episode was sparked after a Google AI agent found an especially obscure bug in FFmpeg. How obscure? This “medium impact issue in ffmpeg,” which the FFmpeg developers did patch, is “an issue with decoding LucasArts
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by xethos 11mo ago
Agreed, but bluntly: what's the effective difference for Russia? They can't give direct orders, but they also don't have the rest of the world calling foul [about an illegitimate American leader, as we ignore Ukraine for a mo
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by xethos 11mo ago
Without being in favour of it, this is one reason politicians are old. Not necessarily twenty years past typical retirement, but those relationships that were so useful to Biden were built over decades. Getting elected at 40 doesn't me
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by xethos 11mo ago
Android allows changing, and disabling, the default though. Last I checked, trying to open an MP3 will demand the Music app on an iPhone, and clicking an Apple Music link will do the same instead of allowing one to open a webpage
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by xethos 11mo ago
Having a framework that can be adaptable, like GTK, allows for padded, but IMO reasonably-sized touch targets. Designing an adaptive desktop app means the effort is only spent once, but can kickstart the virtuous cycle of "Mobile Linux
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by xethos 11mo ago
> things like primarily designing the interface for a touch screen, despite PC touch screens not really taking off. That was actually an absolute godsend using the Pinephone, and IMO laid the groundwork for the Librem 5 (and modern Lin
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by xethos 11mo ago
This is just Google doing what they've done for years now: start with the software, partner with hardware OEMs, then build their own hardware. Android to Nexus to Pixel line is one example, Google Now on Tap to their own smart speakers
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by xethos 11mo ago
Yes, because as it turns out, defensive driving works, the average American motorist is just bad at it. Fully agreeing with your point, just piling on because I'm exhausted (as both pedestrian and motorist) with how bad most motorists
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by xethos 1y ago
I've actually been enjoying the phrase "The Andrew formerly known as Prince"
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by xethos 1y ago
Some of the law professor quotes in Wikipedia's "Significance" section may be of interest as far as "Known For" vs "Means": > Among non-experts, conventional wisdom holds that corporate law requires boa
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by xethos 1y ago
> a lot of the nuclear reactors are running at like 80% capacity. This is presumably intentional. Beyond longevity, being able to shift one plant to 0 and take up the load across other plants allows for continued uptime even with a plant
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by xethos 1y ago
I like the CLI / scriptability of MPV so much better than VLC. Absolutely fantastic.
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by xethos 1y ago
Haven't worked in a commercial kitchen, and I've been wrong before (in this chain, no less), but how would the water be hotter without a heating element? Consumer dishwashers are plumbed into the hot water, so it can't be a d
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by xethos 1y ago
Commercial and consumer dishwashers are only the same in that they're both called "dishwashers" and use water. The former expect little to no food, have cycles measured in minutes, and run at temperatures that would eat more
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by xethos 1y ago
> The onus is on Apple to support their OS' software if they want to have my money Apple has done this exact same thing for every architecture change and every API they sunset, but you gave them your money anyways. Their history wit

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