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Use Firefox. The crypto bros running Brave have been caught multiple times gathering and selling user data. You use Chrome as the base when you want to hoover data.

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It's the 90s webguru all over again!

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I've seen this before in the 90s. The companies that forced out the best, highest paid staff always suffered.

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Working from home does help the local economy, just not the right ones for the C-suite.

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Part of it is management that can't handle their duties if they can't walk over and intimidate workers. The other bit is many companies have cash reserves invested in commercial real estate instruments, and can't handle the profoilo hit. And many of those company leaders are also personally invested in that same real estate.

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This is going to be a pyric victory like when they sued Google where they won, but then the traffic and views dropped through the floor.

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The job of a programmer is to reintroduce a bug that was fixed in the last patch.

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My best comment ever in Reddit was describing Lord of the Rings as programming.

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We did do something permanent: We let the private sector fuck us all in the ass while the rest of the world passed us by.

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Because these access companies DO NOT COMPETE with each other. Without that competition we all get the shit end of capitalism. The landlines all have their own fiefdoms. Wireless is balkanizing based on tower placement, and satellite is for rural areas that don't rate wired connections or cell towers. The politicians can point to all this and say we have options, but really you're lucky if you have two options.

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NO TRUE SCOTTSMAN!

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From my experience, the wireless carriers are trying their best not to launch in the same areas for home Internet. They're trying hard to avoid the competition like they do in phone service. Example: I get T-Mobile home Internet, but Verizon doesn't in my area. Asking friends, I'm finding that to be a common situation where one or the other is offered, but rarely both. Completely anecdotal, so take it with a grain of salt.

"Digital sovereignty": German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein ditches Microsoft for Linux and Open Source alternatives (blog.documentfoundation.org)

Schleswig-Holstein, the northern German federal state, will be a digital pioneer region and the first German state to introduce a digitally sovereign IT workplace in its state administration. With a cabinet decision to introduce the open-source software LibreOffice as the standard office solution across the board, the government...

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Then the brutal reality hits: Your app vendor, "We don't support that."

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Libre office and Linux desktops are not line of business apps. They are platforms to run/supplement line of business apps. There are very few line of business apps that run HR, the finance department, EMR if you're in a hospital system, etc, etc, etc as open source or run on open source solutions. For decades Open Source advocates kept thinking it was the ability to run Office that shut down "The year of Linux desktops!!!" But that isn't it at all. It's those specialized apps that run the businesses that prevented it. I work in a hospital system, our line of business app is Epic or Cerner. Apps that digitize the health records. The requirements to run these apps is Windows Server, because that is what the front ends are built on. And these apps, especially the front ends, are heavy and complex. Any attempt to turn them into web apps has failed miserably because the performance just isn't there vs running say, the Epic/Cerner front end in a Citrix solution. Client-Server isn't dead, it just doesn't get sexy press anymore. Obviously if you work in web development, it is a very different story. But even in those shops, I'll bet the business support apps (HR, finance, etc) run heavily on Windows.

Lord knows I've tried to advocate for open source solutions where I can, but if the apps the business picks to suit their needs only runs in Windows? You're infrastructure has already been chosen for you. And THAT is what the average wannabe IT person on the internet doesn't understand in the slightest.

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And you'll get the same story.

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It's ok. 99% of the AI articles are about how AI is going to kill us all with the proof being the movie Terminator.

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A TOS isn't legally binding.

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    Odd, normally Wall St is all about slave labor.

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    Dollar short and a day late.

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    The directions show how to take a transitional POTS phone and hook it up with a VOIP device. I do want to do that with a fancy looking old phone (but new construction). But with my existing VOIP phone I thought I could skip the conversion device.

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    Update: I got my MicroSip soft phone working. But HA doesn't like to hear me properly. Example: When I ask it to "turn on office light" it works 70% of the time. The "turn off office light" only has worked once. Looks like the system is seeing "officelight" as what is spoken. I'm going to through all the exposed devices and creating one word aliases like "officelight." I'll test again soon to see if that improves recognition.

    MicroSip setup:

    https://midwest.social/pictrs/image/fe901bd2-d724-4809-83aa-035224693a37.png

    Note: SIP Proxy and Domain IP address are the same, the IP of my Home Assistant.

    Now I just have to figure out if I can get my Grandstream IP phone to use something similar.

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    In the 90s, they shipped recovery CDs with viruses baked in. Knowingly shipping destructive code and hardware is kinda HP's thing.

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    This was 95ish. We were under strict orders not to confirm it. HP worked hard to keep it under wraps. Now layer on the fact the web was still in its infancy, you likely won't find a whole lot about it.

    Assist Widget

    Hey everyone, I've started playing around with Assist to use voice to kick off actions. However, I want to put an Assist widget on my Android home screen. The directions from HA say to open your widgets, go to Home Assistant, then long press the Assist widget. However, when I go to select a widget, there is no Assist widget...

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    That did the trick.

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