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Software Engineer by day

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“Egyptians are twisted and bitter people with a sense of humor"

  • Roman poet Theocritus

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andrew , to news
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IRS Announce Direct File will be a permanent, free tax filing option and invited all 50 states to utilize it for the 2025 filing season

https://home.treasury.gov/news/featured-stories/us-department-of-the-treasury-irs-announce-direct-file-as-permanent-free-tax-filing-option-all-50-states-and-dc-invited-to-join-in-filing-season-2025

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GBU_28 ,

Does the filing division of the IRS handle that?

Zachariah ,
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No, not it’s a rather neutral change that just makes sense. Now that I’ve got a taste, I want more.

andrew , to selfhosted
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Netris: An open-source cloud gaming platform (GeForce NOW alternative) that can be self-hosted, integrates your Steam game library.

https://github.com/netrisdotme/netris?tab=readme-ov-file#self-hosting

@selfhosted

mal3oon ,

Noob question, how’s the lag? Playing games like Sekiro for example locally on my desktop, I can’t even use a shitty controller as it comes with high latency. I imagine a solution with a game hosted in a remote server would even suffer more than just a laggy controller.

SchizoDenji ,

Basically you could run a gaming cafe with a beefy card and few cheap desktops, once netris matures.

andrew , to oldschoolcool
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Lyndon Johnson post presidency with longer hair during an interview in August 1972

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arymandias ,

Having read the Caro books, if there ever was a president with big-dick energy it was LBJ.

dharmacurious ,

Denl Niro needs to play him in a movie asap

andrew , to fediverse
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Mastodon establishes non-profit in the US, while Germany revokes their nonprofit status

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-forms-new-u.s.-non-profit/

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poVoq ,
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while Germany revokes their nonprofit status

For unknown reasons, and those tax authorities are pretty well know for revoking it wrongly.

andrew , to news
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DOT Announces Rule Requiring Automatic Refunds of Airline Tickets and Service Fees for flights that are canceled or delayed more than 3 hours domestically and 6 hours internationally

https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/biden-harris-administration-announces-final-rule-requiring-automatic-refunds-airline

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Kostyeah ,

It is, but after spending like 5 hours arguing with different customer service reps about it I decided that it wasn’t worth my time. The company went out of business later anyways.

ZMonster ,
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Cash or original form of payment: Airlines and ticket agents must provide refunds in cash or whatever original payment method the individual used to make the purchase, such as credit card or airline miles. Airlines may not substitute vouchers, travel credits, or other forms of compensation unless the passenger affirmatively chooses to accept alternative compensation.

andrew , to technology
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General_Effort ,

Huh. You’d think they need a reliable power supply. Is that what the money is for?

Corkyskog ,

Depends what level of “building”. I have seen land bought, stripped, foundation prep work started, then all the sudden the plug is pulled.

andrew , to news
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Dali owner Grace Ocean Private Limited files petition to cap liability in Baltimore bridge collapse at $43.7M

https://www.mdd.uscourts.gov/news/matter-petition-grace-ocean-private-limited-et-al-exoneration-or-limitation-liability-2024-04

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plz1 ,

Good point

CraigeryTheKid ,

That wouldn’t even cover cleanup

andrew , to android
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Google Pixel 9 design revealed through 5K renders

https://www.91mobiles.com/hub/google-pixel-9-renders-design-exclusive/

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Pantherina ,

Those Gaming phones have nonexistent updates, and others are way less secure than Googles and thus not supported by GrapheneOS.

I switched from a Nokia with unofficial LineageOS to GrapheneOS, simply because I need this level of security to feel safe.

Xylight ,
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Noo what did they do to the visor

it looked so good before

andrew , (edited ) to worldnews
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"Looking at Gaza, it almost appears that the four horsemen are galloping across it."

  • UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres

https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/statement/2024-03-24/secretary-generals-press-encounter-the-foreign-minister-of-egypt

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bobs_monkey ,

Religious relatives arguing revelations when I was younger

JustZ ,

Seriously. What a nonsense thing to say.

andrew , to fediverse
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yo_scottie_oh ,
andrew , to news
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House passes bill that would require ByteDance to either sell TikTok, or get banned in the U.S. Will go to the Senate next.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521

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Substance_P ,

Perhaps it’s because the Biden campaign joined TikTok for all that sweet younger gen voter support.

gedaliyah ,
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Unfortunately, this is not a space for original reporting. Please repost this from a reputable news source in order to comply with the community rules (see the sidebar for details.

andrew , to news
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During a presentation by an executive with Google’s Israel branch on Monday, a Google Cloud engineer stood up and shouted, “I refuse to build technology that powers genocide or surveillance.” They were later fired.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/8/24094687/google-israel-project-nimbus-employee-fired

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Carrolade ,

It’s easier to sniff out nice-sounding bullshit than it is to find actual progress.

Psychodelic ,

Fair enough. That hasn’t been my experience for the last almost 2 years. Teams in our org have been told that if they lose people they can’t hire replacements. Shit’s sucked

I’ve also been hearing about massive layoffs at tons of the biggest companies. I’d be surprised if they were still hiring, obviously.

andrew , to technology
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Comcast: "Starting today, new and existing customers can take advantage of the following speed increases:

Connect: 75 Mbps to 150 Mbps,
Connect More: 200 Mbps to 300 Mbps,
Fast: 400 Mbps to 500 Mbps,
Xfinity Prepaid: 50 Mbps to 200 Mbps"

https://corporate.comcast.com/press/releases/comcast-boosts-speeds-xfinity-internet-customers

@technology

forbiddenlake ,
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The marketing fluff doesn’t, but they actually did increase upload speeds. Mine went from 10 to 20 up. And here is the DSL reports forum thread from when this round started.

Also, they are testing larger increases. I could get 100 up today, if I had a supported modem.

So, check your actual plan and modem to see what you have now.

forbiddenlake ,
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None that article, but check my other reply and check your plan. You may be pleased, I was.

andrew , (edited ) to selfhosted
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Feishin: An open source self-hosted music player that can connect to your Navidrome and Jellyfin libraries

https://github.com/jeffvli/feishin

@selfhosted

khorak ,

Symfonium is great, it supports a bunch of sources and works really well. Absolutely worth supporting the dev (check his ko-fi too)!

LittleZaZa1 ,

I am very picky with my music player apps,b but symfonium is crazy good. And still get new features. Give it a try :)

andrew , to news
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FDA Approves First Medication to Help Reduce Allergic Reactions to Multiple Foods After Accidental Exposure

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-medication-help-reduce-allergic-reactions-multiple-foods-after-accidental

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Fondots ,

From the article

Xolair is intended for repeated use to reduce the risk of allergic reactions and is not approved for the immediate emergency treatment of allergic reactions, including anaphylaxis.

Epi Pens are for immediate emergency response for allergic reactions, they aren’t preventative in any way.

Epi Pens are basically just a shot of adrenaline, they don’t actually act directly on your immune system at all, it’s basically just sends an override message to your body to forget about whatever else it’s doing and focus on opening up your airways, pumping blood, or whatever else you might need in order to, for example, run from a lion.

Which buys you some time, but you’re still probably going to need some treatment or monitoring once the adrenaline wears off, and you’re probably going to feel like shit afterwards, and epinephrine isn’t without it’s own pretty significant risks and side effects.

Evilcoleslaw ,

Yeah OIT will slowly “train” your immune system to not react to increasing amounts of an allergen. This is literally a monoclonal antibody that binds to free IgE antibodies so that there will be fewer of them around if you’re exposed to an allergen.

It seems much more well suited for its originally approved uses of allergic asthma and nasal polyps (which are caused by recurrent allergic inflammatory processes involved in sinusitis/rhinitis) than it would be for food allergies.

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