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mipadaitu ,

Trade in value drops very rapidly for non-iphones after a year or two. You can often get 50% back on the purchase by trading in a functional phone.

If you buy a new phone every 2 years or every 4 years, it's often about the same total out of pocket cost (with a lot of exceptions)

mipadaitu ,

Me too. I'll go first, and if it works, he can do it as well.

mipadaitu ,

Should make that screen the first slide of the PowerPoint

mipadaitu ,

At LEAST it's low orbit so it'll burn up (relatively) quickly.

mipadaitu ,

I just started pirating Amazon shows, fuck em if they bait and switch me.

mipadaitu ,

Probably has less structure to the frame, smaller crumple zones, and probably no airbags in the pillars.

mipadaitu ,

Should never rely on a safety for that, though a gun in a proper holster should be impossible to discharge.

Guns should never be tucked into a waistband without a proper holster.

mipadaitu ,

Saw a neat ESP32 IR blaster on sparkfun. Might try to set it up to control some LED string lights.

mipadaitu ,

The article implies that it's a long term thing, but doesn't actually state if it's better or worse for older cars?

Do people that exclusively buy used cars have less exposure because there isn't as much off gassing of the newly applied chemicals? Or are older cars more susceptible due to the breakdown over time?

mipadaitu ,

For a dado, you'd better measure every board.

But in reality, if you're looking for a perfect fit for construction lumber, you'd also better let it dry out for a week before measuring and fitting, cause it was probably 1.5" soaking wet from the yard, and shrank a bunch.

mipadaitu ,

Even if it was 2" from the lumber yard, it would shrink or expand quite a bit depending on the moisture content. Expecting natural products to be an exact size would be crazy, especially when talking about construction lumber.

Now this is a very extreme case, but it was probably milled to 1.5" soaking wet, and shrank a bunch after drying out on the rack. That's also a big reason why they're all warped.

mipadaitu ,

Funny you picked that video, because even with all that experience, they still messed it up.

https://youtu.be/mG1meCTie1w

It was mostly a miscommunication with the engineer, but still, the guy stacking the boulders never realized they wouldn't be stable the original way it was done, with the support wall built the way it is.

mipadaitu ,

That's what I understood from the video.

mipadaitu ,

Should group X vote for Biden in November? Yes, no matter which group you are in, you will be better off with Biden.

There are zero groups that will actually be better with trump. There are only small groups of people who will feel better when watching people be worse off then them.

mipadaitu ,

Feels like some of that stuff, like the SSD's are a bit overkill for a media server. Most of them still use spinning disks to maximize size vs. cost.

Additionally, the CPU/GPU needs of a media server are pretty minor, unless you need to transcode on the fly, and even then, single streams aren't very intensive either.

So unless you're capping the outgoing bandwidth to multiple external sources, you're most likely just streaming the video source as-is to the destination, which just needs a stable network stream. If you don't need to transcode at all, you don't really even need a GPU on the hardware.

mipadaitu ,

Price in a backup solution too, you don't want to have all your movies disappear because of one hard drive crash, or an accidental reformat gone wrong.

RAID is not a backup.

mipadaitu ,

That would be a great platform to start with.

mipadaitu ,

Check out any small town fire department on July 4th.

It's dozens of those bags in the kitchen and hundreds of boxes of scrambled egg goo.

mipadaitu ,

Caravan Palace - Lone Digger

On repeat.

https://youtu.be/UbQgXeY_zi4

Anti-web discrimination by banks and online services - is this even legal?

Banks, email providers, booking sites, e-commerce, basically anything where money is involved, it's always the same experience. If you use the Android or iOS app, you stayed signed in indefinitely. If you use a web browser, you get signed out and asked to re-authenticate constantly - and often you have to do it painfully using a...

mipadaitu ,

A ton of these requirements are due to regulatory requirements for securing access to accounts at the state and/or federal level.

Requirements are then interpreted by each financial institution and implemented by different teams. It's most likely due to the fact that a desktop is assumed to be more likely to be a shared device, while a phone/tablet is most likely to be a personal device, which is password/bio-metrics protected.

As for security around a browser: if you look at how phishing/hacking attacks happen on a desktop computer, if you can be tricked into launching an virus, it can copy all of your browser cookies and login sessions to the attacker, then they can duplicate your browser session. If you have an unlimited login for a financial institution, then they now have a logged in session for your bank.

https://www.reliaquest.com/blog/browser-credential-dumping/

So if you add up all that, then they're more likely to allow long term login sessions on an application that they control than on a desktop/web browser that they don't.

mipadaitu ,

The ISP can see every domain, but not every page. That's what HTTPS everywhere was all about.

mipadaitu ,

It's actually more secure than that.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/https-protect/

They'd see the URL, but not the specific page.

They'd also theoretically see the size of the URL, and the size of the page, along with the transport type. So they can infer a lot of information from the exchange, but they couldn't say for sure what you were viewing on a specific website.

mipadaitu ,

It doesn't really help. The ISP needs to route you somewhere to get the data, so they'll need to know who you want to talk to. Even if they don't see the DNS name (like if you used a third party DNS server) they can still associate the IP address with someone.

There's things like TOR and VPNs that can route your information through other third parties first, but that impacts performance pretty significantly.

mipadaitu ,

That solves a completely different problem. The ISP can still see who you requested data from.

That's more about security around retrieving the correct IP address from a DNS query, and doesn't do that much for privacy.

mipadaitu ,

Wonder Woman was created in 1941. I assume this comic was created in the 1950's based on the dates.

Only connection I can think of.

mipadaitu ,

A - it's DC comics for wonder woman
B - often pop culture borrows similar themes, so when an Amazon character becomes popular, other people tend to piggy back

mipadaitu ,

http://cristinafaleroni.blogspot.com/2015/10/joseph-lorusso.html

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Actual artists page.

http://www.josephlorussofineart.com/featured-artwork

Though this particular painting isn't represented on his website as far as I can tell.

mipadaitu ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/dd0e4de1-cc04-41ea-bc9b-5433e6748ff1.gif

So glad they selected this super not creepy intro.

mipadaitu ,

Ya got to mix it up, sometimes you really do have an 83 page slide deck.

mipadaitu ,

Just keeping lunch warm.

mipadaitu ,

It's not "for sure phishing" Discover does send emails like that. They have a service where they scan the internet for your personal information, and they sell you credit monitoring, and other stuff to reduce the impact.

Here's a screenshot of part of their website for this monitoring.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3c0fda08-0eb9-4b78-85cb-0505fdaad9c2.png

Of course it's ALWAYS a good idea to go to the website, and never click a link on an email from your financial institution, but I'm like 80% sure that this is a legit email.

Also, your SSN and other financial details have likely been compromised dozens of times, so just having your SSN floating around out there isn't surprising. It's a fault in the system for using an unsecured SSN as an identify instead of what it was initially used for.

mipadaitu ,

Oh great, I clicked too many of their links on their website and now I'm getting targeted ads for their "super special identity protection"

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/802ce474-9795-476e-8f1a-2e0602a0bbd6.png

Do you take pictures with GPS tags on?

Hiya, so quickly wondering wether you have enabled this or not. Obviously it's not great for privacy, but it also seems very nice to have for image cloud solutions, so that images can be sorted based on location. Are there any good solutions for this? I'd like have it enabled, but also afraid of sharing images with sensitive...

mipadaitu ,

Whenever I post a picture, I post a screenshot of the picture. It's good enough quality for posting online, and ensures that there is no metadata on it.

mipadaitu ,

I can see someone who is in a very sensitive situation, like trying to escape domestic abuse, or starting a protest, might want the anonymity but still need the communication.

mipadaitu ,

Nah, a cable modem costs anywhere from $60-$300 depending on if you want one with a built in router/wifi. That's a pretty good return on investment. Mine has been running just fine for over a decade, and I've replaced the wifi router behind it 3 times to get improvements in WiFI speed that I wouldn't have gotten from my ISP. $11/mo would have cost me an extra $1,300+ of fees by now.

I have mediacom, and they're pretty good about support in my area, even if they are pretty shitty about other things. They can and do send signals to be able to manage a self-owned cable modem, and they'll send a tech to your house and diagnose issues, even if you roll your own network.

The US has some decent laws around protecting you from getting shafted by ISPs for this specific situation.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/router-and-modem-rental-fees-still-a-major-annoyance-despite-new-us-law/

mipadaitu ,

I would just write down the steps I would take, just some psudocode. It doesn't have to work, it just has to make sense in the style of the language you're talking about.

import random library  
import any GUI/display libraries required for the outcome desired

build array of integers [1..52] (or 0..51 if you're being fancy)
for loop 1..1000
       select random number A 1..52 (or 0..51 if you used that above)
       select random number B 1..52 (or 0..51 if you used that above)
       swap elements in the array A and B
pop first two elements from array
decode at display time what the two numbers represent in terms of playing cards

If the test requires more than that, then they're crazy. The syntax doesn't matter, just that you can logic yourself through the problem.
You can use the IDE, google, or whatever to fill in the specifics. If you wanted me to do that in literally any programming language, once the psudocode is done, you just spend an hour or so looking up the details.

mipadaitu ,

Tilt them up so the band is on the crown of your head instead across the top of your neck. That's what I do when I'm laying down or wearing a stocking cap.

mipadaitu ,

Are you a Chuck Tingle protagonist?

mipadaitu ,

So it costs about $625 per vote after the first one. Seems cheap.

mipadaitu ,

Played WoW when it first came out with WINE. It was miserable. We had to mess with configs, install hacked patches, manually start jobs with scripts. And every patch broke something so you had to start from scratch again.

This was probably 2004/2005?

mipadaitu ,

Sounds like he should have put stronger protections in place, and definitely shouldn't have tied us to a FPTP voting style. Even the electoral college and the 270 vote requirements force us into a two party system.

mipadaitu ,

Right click for paste, they have \n in the clipboard

I made wanderer - a self-hosted trail and GPS track database (lemmy.world)

Over the last two months, I developed wanderer. It is a self-hosted alternative to sites like alltrails.com or in other words a self-hosted trail database. It started out more as a small hobby project to teach myself some new technologies but in the end, I decided to develop it into a fully-fledged application....

mipadaitu ,

Very interesting, I like the screenshots! Will definitely check this out.

mipadaitu ,

This dude moved a lot of TVs in the early 2000's.

mipadaitu ,

Absolutely nothing in that article says how it could backfire aside from the title.

The closest it gets, is that more people might be interested in selling, due to the lower commissions, but buyers wouldn't care about the commission overhead. Buyers would only care about interest %, which is higher than it has been recently, but still pretty low historically.

It's weird to think that "only the seller pays" because it's a 6% trim off the transaction price, which equally impacts the buyer and seller. They have to negotiate a price knowing that amount will be taken off the price. Sellers can sell for less and get the same profit if the commission is lower, so the buyer would pay less. Just because it's slightly transparent in the transaction doesn't mean it isn't there.

mipadaitu ,

Don't worry, we've seen this before. Case dismissed because of lack of standing, due to the fact that there were no damages.

mipadaitu ,

It's way cheaper if you only have to use one match a day.

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