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Could be twice if it's a 12 hour clock and doesn't mark am/pm.

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This isn't really accurate for either side. For Linux, I've had crap shove configs in ~, /etc, /var, at least.

On Windows, it could be literally anywhere or in the registry.

Reddit Is Taking Over Google (tech.slashdot.org)

Reddit, Quora, and other internet forums that have climbed up through the traditional set of Google links. Data analysis from Semrush, which predicts traffic based on search ranking, shows that traffic to Reddit has climbed at an impressive clip since August 2023. Semrush estimated that Reddit had over 132 million visitors in...

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Really rolls of the tongue

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Would be cool if Google search indexed public discord servers.

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Say hello to Miguel Sanchez.

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Makes me miss a time where they couldn't tell if ads were actually watched or not.

Sooner or later, ad blockers should just simulate the ad being played (in the background) with the real content going in the foreground to act as if the ad was watched.

Kind of like going to the bathroom during commercials.

Then again I wish we had a real alternative to YouTube. (Don't point me to the fediverse video stuff ... that's not what I mean.) There is no real competition for a place to freely upload videos ... or on the other side find all that content. No one wants to scale enough to compete. (Very few probably could considering the amount of new content per minute).

If only there was real competition, then YouTube would have to fight over our attention/usage by lowering ad count.

No competition means worse for all.

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The problem is the term quality would be used to block out certain creators. The definition would wind up being vague and/or arbitrary.

What one person thinks is quality may not be quality to someone else. In a way that's a niceness of YouTube. We can each upload what we think is good.. or bad.

Even then if a video goes big viral (which is arguably something a creator may want), the bandwidth costs could skyrocket.

Then it's like: maybe we need CDNs and more storage and boom now it's even more expensive. I just don't see fediverse video working great long term without big money to back it.

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I remember seeing a startup at one point that wanted to put mini-CDNs in people's homes. Small black boxes that would automatically be a CDN not just for your home, but the whole area. Of course, sites would have to use their CDN network, etc.

I actually thought it was a really interesting idea. Almost like federated CDNs.

Imagine if every Xfinity router has a built-in 16TB CDN: it would be an interesting way to possibly change how bandwidth works and makes it back to the DCs. Most popular stuff would be closer, faster.

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In their defense, advertisers weren't seeing those same people.

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I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but most people can lookup most other people's addresses in the US for free (or cheaply) on websites like whitepages.com. Even without that, if someone is very determined, they can visit the record office for the area on get public info on you, which also likely includes address.

What's the benefit of paying such a premium for an anonymous delivery if your address is likely already available?

The only thing I can think of is if buying something sketchy, but I'm genuinely curious here.

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It's public knowledge. If they want to know where you personally live, they could look it up via the ways I previously mentioned.

Heck, even if you never visit their sites, they could easily get big lists of names and addresses that may include you: all legally.

Any attempt at fighting that is likely not to be fruitful. It's basically security by obscurity, you're trying to complicate it via one way, but they can just go another (more obvious) way if they wanted.

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Ah. Then just buy a gift card in cash from CVS, etc. Then use it on an alternative account and delivered to one of those pickup boxes.

Still sketch though lol.

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Kind of funny that they sent an email with like 3 benefits of Google One being dropped but nothing added back.

They should drop Google One. It's literally just storage afaict.

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I'll be that guy here and start a small fire.

If it's not OK for OpenAI to violate YT's terms of service, then it's not OK to use an alternative frontend or ad blocker that also violates ToS.

You should be for enforcing the ToS or against it. Allowing one version of breaking it without the other is fickle.

Some people think OpenAI should stop, but they should still have their ReVanced, which boggles my mind a bit.

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I actually don't care here lol. It scares me when it makes noise but I just play with my phone anyways.

I wouldn't condone vandalism or anything like that here.

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Walmart actually did when I had Walmart+ years ago.

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But will they fix my Pixel 8 just missing and failing to send RCS messages?

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Unless you lose it or have it stolen.

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I never get to be the 1 millionth visitor anymore

Revealed: a California city is training AI to spot homeless encampments (www.theguardian.com)

Last July, San Jose issued an open invitation to technology companies to mount cameras on a municipal vehicle that began periodically driving through the city’s district 10 in December, collecting footage of the streets and public spaces. The images are fed into computer vision software and used to train the companies’...

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So instead of spending X dollars to ensure people have homes, we spend X++ dollars to evict them from their spaces?

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How do we know that these solutions are more private than Discord?

Even if open source, how do we know the compiled version wasn't altered?

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Sure but how do you know those encrypted requests don't contain personal or unexpected information?

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A lot of compilers have things like timestamps in the finished product that could mess with hashes. I guess hashing the rest of it could work if hashes for non static regions are given.

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I like htop

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A lot of the comments here are straight up nuts. Do what you do at home. If that's a VPN, go for it. If you rawdog it, whatevs.

Https is on almost everything at this point, so just be smart like normal.

I doubt anyone cares enough to bug you that much.

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Exactly the same boat. But man Cloudflare is better in every way. Having an API to update/fetch records for a zone does wonders.

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I would say make laws about data collection, usage, etc. instead of banning TikTok.

Heck, fix more important problems like income disparity, hunger, homelessness, healthcare, our wasteful spending, so many things more important and yet we're wasting time on TikTok.

I don't think people think this is a good use of time.

Seriously, it's government overreach and ignoring freedom of speech, etc.

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I'm not really ok with that type of anti other country behavior in (edit to add the word: almost) any case. Heck, I want cheap Chinese EV options in the US too.

Make government (and other) tracking opt-out-able by law. That is the law we need. Not this bs version.

This current bill literally sounds like it's written by American companies to squash a foreign competition. You know Facebook, YouTube, etc. are biting at the teeth for more users (and ad revenue) of short form content; especially if TikTok users scattered to other platforms.

Once again: give users the freedom to chose what they want. This is a government overreach.

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Why not just build a wikipedia mirror?

All the data is available for free via download, torrent, etc.

Idk I have no complaints about wikipedia to lead me to look for a federated alternative.

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Probably but I think the point they were making was more along the lines of: what if the Internet archive itself ran out of money or closed up.

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Obligatory: I work there, but I am responding in an unofficial capacity.

On LinkedIn please report bad job posts via https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a513290

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If the same videos TikTok had were instead on YouTube shorts, would all you people be happy? What about if Meta had it? It's pure nationalism and old people being scared of short form woke-ness.

I believe every social media has a misinformation problem, but I'm not just pinning it on TikTok.

Heck, our fear is the same reason we don't have cheaper EVs. We say 'the CCP.. ' and poof less competition and shitter availability for Americans.

I think it's ridiculous. I could care less if the CCP knows what type of short form videos I like. I'm sure our government has the same type of data. Obviously users could care less too. Leave choice to the people: hence freedom.

I believe in freedom of speech. Trying to take this (stupid) app away is a violation of it. I don't care about who owns it or gets data from it.

And no: I don't regularly use TikTok.

HP’s 'All-In' Printer Rental Watches Everything You Print, Tells HP All About It (www.extremetech.com)

In addition to tracking the printer’s online or offline status, page count, and ink levels, your rented printer will look at the types of documents you’re printing (e.g., PDF, JPG, Word), the types of devices that initiated the print job, “peripheral devices,” and other “metrics” related to the service, the All-In...

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I've yet to meet one person who I think is dumb enough to subscribe to this.

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I'll just point out that I have a 20 year old Dell business class color laser printer. Got it off Craigslist a few years ago for 40 bucks. It has Ethernet, with a webui. You can disable the toner chips if you want and only lose toner amount estimates and then use any toner you want. We even got the duplex attachment for it a few years ago.

It is literally at least 3 feet tall and weighs at least 50 lbs.

It literally makes all the lights in my house flick when we turn it on. We once blew a circuit when it turned on.

We lovingly call it the Old Ding Dong Printer.

As long as it works, why would I ever replace it? Products have gone downhill.

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Considering I have no hydrogen stations within a 100 mile radius, if they give me the car I would only get one tank out of it.

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.. checks to see if catworld.com is real.

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Funny enough we now have prompt engineering which is specifically for talking to ai.

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Next week, they'll announce "Google Money"

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I had one of the SanDisk flash drives that had some launcher thing on it and I had a password for some reason on it.

In high school, a classmate tried to guess it, 3 times and I lost everything on it forever, since it stupidly locked forever after 3 tries.

I had software projects from back then that I can never get back.. including a web browser. I could have had the next Firefox..

If you're out there, Liz: I'll never forgive that.

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I didn't know what that was yet.. but probably.

More 128TB SSDs are coming as almost no one noticed this launch — another SSD controller that can support up to 128TB appeared paving the way for HDD-beating capacities (www.techradar.com)

More 128TB SSDs are coming as almost no one noticed this launch — another SSD controller that can support up to 128TB appeared paving the way for HDD-beating capacities::Phison quietly revealed an updated X2 SSD platform at CES

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What's the biggest HDD out there? I mean at sizes this big it's a lot of data to lose in one go if it dies. Even if you have backups or whatever that's a lot to have to restore.

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Rust proofing. Wasn't that something dealers would add in as a scam for a few bucks?

Once again, there is a Seinfeld reference here.

I need a Seinfeld reference bot.

The White House wants to 'cryptographically verify' videos of Joe Biden so viewers don't mistake them for AI deepfakes (www.businessinsider.com)

The White House wants to 'cryptographically verify' videos of Joe Biden so viewers don't mistake them for AI deepfakes::Biden's AI advisor Ben Buchanan said a method of clearly verifying White House releases is "in the works."

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Man some Chex mix sounds good right now. They have this one that has chocolate pieces now.

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For me: probably. Either way, transactions cost money. Either pay the block chain fees or just use cash/credit card.

I'm ok with credit and cash.

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Ya say you want this. Use Windows in S mode and you have it.

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    Technical question: How would posts federate if private?

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    I hadn't thought about this, but you may be on to something. I had a car issue, googled it, found nothing but crap and generic articles. I searched the same on YouTube and found a couple videos about fixing the exact issue on my type of car.

    Really interesting observation.

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    Anyone remember Intel Optane? Nah, just me.

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