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ptz

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Ask me anything.

I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks

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Re: landlines

Technically they are from the CO (central office) once they hit the carrier’s trunk.

Re: Cell phones

I’m not sure about 3G, but VoLTE (voice over LTE) is VoIP.

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Assuming $25 per meal, that $90M could have fed 1.2 million people for a day (3 meals/day). Or fewer people for a longer period of time.

Instead, it was spent on hatemongering.

The wrong people have money.

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Oh, don’t even get me started on that. lol. I had a very long rant about that earlier this year with a family member.

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Probably. lol. You look out the window to see what’s making all that racket, and you see their logo on their truck / shirts.

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More like a replay of the same train wreck we already watched in slow motion. He planned the same thing on the last election.

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The moment you think you understand it, that superposition collapses and you’re back to “huh?”

Every damn time.

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That’s literally how I got mine, though from Babbages when they were still a thing. I think I paid like $35 + tax for the unit (which came with Mario Tennis) and Wario Land.

Loved it, but I can see why it failed. Still, 3D Mario Tennis was amazing.

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Yeah, it was a cool concept, but the execution was terrible. For all its faults, the one I can’t overlook is the fact that it required 6xAA batteries (that it would chew through in 2-3 hours). LIke, WTF? Its design literally required you to use it on a table/stationary location. They sold an AC adapter for it, but it was a separate purchase.

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Was it? The one I remember clipped onto the back of the controller in place of the battery box. Or did it have a power port on the unit itself ?(it’s been forever lol)

My OG Game Boy had a 6v DC input on the side. My off-brand rechargeable pack for it plugged in there instead of clipping into the battery compartment.

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Seems like solar power with extra steps lol.

(Sun -> Plants -> Food for people/other food)

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True. All just inefficient ways of harnessing fusion power.

Connected cars’ illegal data collection and use now on FTC’s “radar” (arstechnica.com)

The Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Technology has issued a warning to automakers that sell connected cars. Companies that offer such products “do not have the free license to monetize people’s information beyond purposes needed to provide their requested product or service,” it wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. Just...

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Carnac the Magnificent holding an envelope to his head predicting the contents

In 6 months, automakers will be suing all the way to the Supreme Court challenging the FTC’s regulatory authority (like every frigging industry is doing for every regulatory body nowadays).

!RemindMe months

They’re like a bunch of petulant children screaming, “I don’t want to, and you can’t make me!”.

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Sigh. AI has basically added a rocket booster to the enshittification train.

Hopefully this doesn’t impact DDG.

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Same. I don’t mind it as an option if that’s what some people want, but stop “enhancing” the default experience with it and shoving it down my throat. No lo quiero.

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I fear that as well. I use Searx-NG at home, so am expecting that to start dying a death of a thousand cuts soon.

Was thinking about standing up (or contributing to) either YaCY or Stract, but you made a good point about the bot allowances for the Googlebot et al crawler UAs. Wonder how frowned upon it would be to spoof the crawler UA in a self-hosted one?

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s it because you expect other search engines to follow suit until there are no search engines anymore, only hallucination machines?

Basically, yeah.

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…yeah.

I had that thought after I replied when I realized that most of the reputable search crawlers will publish the IPs/ranges they use in addition to the UA. The disreputable ones (cough Bytedance cough Xiaomi cough) will just spoof Chrome on Windows 10 and flood you with requests from AWS datacenters in Shanghai or Singapore.

That said, I may still continue looking into working with one of the actual self-hosted search engines (vs meta search) and see how well that works.

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On the bright side, at least it wasn’t labeled as “up to 10 bars” like ISPs get away with.

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Thank gods I’m able to use Linux for my work PC. Group policy and enterprise config can only hide so much of Windows’s BS.

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Microsoft needs to go back from “This Computer” to “My Computer”.

When they renamed that OS staple, it really highlighted how they see the device you paid for as theirs.

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If only this would remain within the idiot population. The increased risk of them getting infected and allowing the virus to mutate in a way that makes it more virulent/transmissible in humans is bad for everyone.

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I deleted FB 15 years ago and haven’t missed it once.

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Parental controls on the cable/satellite box are a two-way street, IMO. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Problems with creating my own instance

I am currently trying to create my own Lemmy instance and am following the join-lemmy.org docker guide. But unfortunately docker compose up doesn’t work with the default config and throw’s a yaml: line 32: found character that cannot start any token error. Is there something I can do to fix this?...

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Try this docker-compose file: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/…/docker-compose.yml

Here’s the docs for pict-rs: git.asonix.dog/asonix/pict-rs/src/…/pict-rs.toml

Everything in the config file has an env var you can set. The most important one is the PICTRS__SERVER__API_KEY

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(Fake coughs passive-aggressively from the next table over)

Dated reference, but if you grew up in or before the 90s, you’ll know what I mean.

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I’m not aware of any, but I hope to be proven wrong (edit: maybe PayPal - see below).

AFAIK, NFC payment apps have to be linked to your bank and have some kind of relationship with them. The app doesn’t just “spoof” your card over NFC (which would make card cloning terrifyingly easy).

So, any other Google/Apple Pay app would have to be setup similarly and have relationships with banks and card providers/payment processors. I don’t know of any third party services that have done that since there’s likely a lot of financial regulations around it (just guessing on that part).

Just realized PayPal might be able to fill the same role? www.paypal.com/us/money-hub/article/tap-to-pay

I haven’t tried that since there’s always a line of people, and I’m too embarrassed to cycle through several apps to test if they work at any particular retailer. lol

You may also check to see if your bank’s mobile app allows you to setup contactless payments.

But if you’re looking for a FOSS solution, I doubt there is one for the reasons mentioned above.

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Ah, so it depends on Google Pay/Wallet for that. Didn’t read that far lol.

So I guess that’s a “no” then.

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Is there a Wikipedia list of international incidents caused by inability to keep it in your pants? If not, there should be.

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TIL. Looks like a good read. Thanks!

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lol, right?

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Crossposting to !quite_interesting

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“Even though you just wished, on television, for my marriage to fall apart, I still consider you an adequate colleague”

😂

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Hey, that’s my line!

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I think VOY - Counterpoint might fit the bill.

Reasons:

  1. It’s got a double double-cross plot with pretty high stakes.
  2. It’s traditional in the “alien of the week” format.
  3. Janeway and Inspector Kashyk have excellent chemistry
  4. Hefty abuse of the pattern buffer
  5. Basically a self-contained episode that’s largely confined to the ship
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Yeah, same. I felt bad recommending it as “average” episode, but it checks all the other boxes. Still, it’s a fun, easy episode to just drop into without needing any background info besides “They’re on a long journey home, and then this happens”.

“The Void” is definitely a solid choice, too. Teamwork and Federation principles save the day, a little action, and a first contact.

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I mean, they probably know there’s no chance in hell of that bill gaining traction let alone passing (for so many reasons ‡). It’s all performance / pandering to their base in an election year.

The scary takeaway should be that’s what the Republican base wants to hear.

‡ The fact that you can’t just “deport” a citizen to a random country is the least of the things logically wrong with this bill.

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Yeah, that one I could get behind.

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As with any statement I make when I make fun of Republicans, I sincerely hope it turns out to be silly.

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Yep, there’s two:

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If it’s such a nasty place, he’s free to step down and leave 🤷‍♂️

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The rub is you have to opt out rather than in.

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He was about to be but guess who pardoned him?

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Well, good, because I was on mobile when I replied, and the wrong article got linked 🤦‍♂️. Fixed it.

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I run a Nextcloud server and use DavX5 on my phone to sync my contacts and calendars over WebDAV. Works great.

If Nextcloud is more than you need, you might try Radicale which just does CalDAV and CardDAV.

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Jack and Liz saying ‘Shut it down’

Russia Victory Day parade: Only one tank on display as Vladimir Putin says country is going through 'difficult period' (news.sky.com)

On 9 May every year, Russia celebrates Victory Day, putting on a large parade in honour of the country’s victory over Nazi Germany 79 years ago - in what remains an important symbol of the country’s national identity....

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I also thought the one, lonely tank seemed familiar (had to check the article date to make sure it was new). Thanks for posting that so I didn’t have to dig up last year’s.

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Social Media: Not even once

Bryce Dallas Howard’s character from the Nosedive episode of Black Mirror

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