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phoneymouse ,

Neighbor’s tree dumps leaves all over my concrete patio, every week. Rake doesn’t work well on concrete, doesn’t fit in every crevice the leaves fall in around my yard, and also takes awhile. Leaf blower does the job in 5 minutes. If you’re faced with this problem, you’ll pick the leaf blower over using an awkward rake for 20 minutes every week.

Also, leaf blowers are now battery powered, so concerns about gasoline emissions are not as much of a factor.

After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year (www.billboard.com)

When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...

phoneymouse ,

Wut

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What’s the plan if we run out of oil? I mean seriously, it’s gonna happen eventually. Even if you want to ignore the science on climate change, you can’t ignore basic laws of the universe that oil is a finite resource. If we don’t have a plan for when it runs out, there will be utter chaos.

phoneymouse ,

With the cat next to him, he’s channeling Dr. Claw energy

phoneymouse ,

If you ended up with a file open and don’t know how to get out, there’s a good chance you shouldn’t be changing that file in the first place.

phoneymouse ,

Yeah, but don’t give the power company control over the temperature in your house. That has gone poorly in Texas with people unable to turn on their AC on super hot days because they opted in to some program that they may not have understood.

The built in features of occupancy detection / geo fencing are cool though.

phoneymouse ,

Most thermostats would fail in that timeframe. Our original Nest thermostat failed this year because the connection that turns on the furnace wore out or became thin. Caused our furnace to click on and off repeatedly and ruined a relay on the furnace’s circuit board. Had to replace the thermostat and the furnace circuit board. Costly repair. Upgrade your thermostat before it wears out.

phoneymouse ,

They don’t build em like they used to

phoneymouse ,

Non paywall: https://archive.is/yzWfH

phoneymouse ,

This also encrypts your data.

phoneymouse ,

I always love how they make you go through a labrinythian menu before you get to a human as if I hadn’t already exhausted all options to help myself.

phoneymouse ,

Also, property tax is really high in Texas and unlike California, you aren’t shielded from spikes in property value greatly increasing your property tax burden.

I believe it’s to a degree that the average tax burden is actually higher in Texas than California.

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So force your phone to require a passcode by holding volume up and off button

phoneymouse ,

Does Mullvad let you use a custom DNS?

phoneymouse ,

Thanks Jessica Rosenworcel.

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FCC Chairwoman who made this happen. She was also there voting against Ajit (Shit Pie) Pai when he pushed to overturn Obama era net neutrality back in 2017. She also initially set up the net neutrality rules during the Obama admin. She can be credited for fighting this fight for many years now on our behalf.

phoneymouse ,

Same, but I want to be reimbursed. I don’t know how people who want their debt forgiven now don’t support me being reimbursed for mine. They seriously set my life back.

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What if it rains?

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How is this even constitutional. Does the 4th amendment even exist?

phoneymouse ,

What is unreasonable then?

How Political Campaigns Use Your Data to Target You, and What You Can Do to Protect Your Privacy (www.eff.org)

Political campaigns tap into the same intrusive adtech tracking systems used to deliver online behavioral ads. We saw a glimpse into how this worked after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and the system has only grown since then....

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If you ever once donate to a candidate or sign up for a candidate newsletter, you are forever on some master list and can never get off it. You can unsubscribe from individual candidate lists, but every year when new candidates join, they’ll just put you on those candidate’s lists and you’ll have to unsubscribe all over again. It’s obnoxious as hell and should be illegal. And, I might be interested to hear from a political candidate from time to time, but it’s not like that. They email you up to 5 times a day with annoying click-spammy titles.

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Fine print will say it’s still your fault though if they crash

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Someone on here posted the dialogue from a conversation with an NSF “terrorist” from the game and I initially thought it was a pretty reasonable assessment of modern society and its problems. It was only when I read the comments that someone pointed out that the post was quoted verbatim from the game. Need to see if I can find that post…

phoneymouse ,

Here is another:

Human beings may not be perfect, but a computer program with language synthesis is hardly the answer to the world's problems.

-JC Denton

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...

phoneymouse ,

Agree… you’d think Google would prioritize sites that are actually useful. Quora isn’t useful unless you want to jump through a bunch of hoops to sign in.

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America will completely fail to regulate this as it always does. Soon enough advertisers and credit agencies will be reading your thoughts.

Why? Because it’s a gold mine for some individuals willing to throw $5000 at a few dozen politicians reelection campaigns. Public interest be damned.

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For anyone wondering, this is a response to a review Marques posted about Humane’s AI pin, which he called the worst product he’s ever reviewed. A member of the company complained he was going to kill their business:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/marques-brownlees-humane-ai-pin-review

phoneymouse ,

It’s the American way. Aligns with the Supreme Court ruling on Citizen’s United.

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Maybe it’s a factor of watching the bands you like become more popular, but 15 years ago I remember being able to get concert tickets for $10-50 bucks a pop after all the fees. $50 was ultra rare and you’d probably be seeing multiple bands in that scenario. Now, I can’t find tickets that don’t end up costing a minimum of $150 for nosebleed seats.

phoneymouse ,

Getting a VPN from Google is like asking the police to safeguard your drugs

96% of US Hospital Websites Share Visitor Data with Google, Meta, Data Brokers, and Other Third Parties, Study Finds (www.theregister.com)

Academics at the University of Pennsylvania analyzed a nationally representative sample of 100 non-federal acute care hospitals – essentially traditional hospitals with emergency departments – and their findings were that 96 percent of their websites transmitted user data to third parties....

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This is just a guess, but I would assume the hospitals doing this are unaware. They probably just put Google Analytics and Meta’s SDK on their website, completely oblivious to the fact that that shit vacuums up everything on the page, including text box inputs.

phoneymouse ,

suck a nice wording

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Okay, I’ll use my own DNS provider

phoneymouse ,

Not commenting on the merits of the blogpost’s arguments, but Proton is selling their own product here too

phoneymouse ,

A library running .2s slower will get flagged by your perf testers and you’ll need to get escalated approval to release your changes. It will be a pain.

Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads (www.lowpass.cc)

Roku is exploring ways to show consumers ads on its TVs even when they are not using its streaming platform: The company has been looking into injecting ads into the video feeds of third-party devices connected to its TVs, according to a recent patent filing.  ...

phoneymouse ,

Over my dead body

phoneymouse ,

CNET can generate more articles for free

phoneymouse ,

Jessica Rosenworcel is a champ. She has been fighting this fight for years. The week Ajit Pai (Ashit Pie) ended net neutrality using falsified public comments, a group gathered in front of the FCC to protest the change. I went down there for a few hours and Jessica came to the window and waved to us.

phoneymouse ,

Thanks for organizing!

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You’re talking about one country, worldwide Android has about 70% market share.

phoneymouse ,

Has anyone used pass keys? I have been hesitant to try them out. Using them, do they basically keep you logged in all the time to a given site?

phoneymouse ,

I believe passkeys are supposed to replace 2FA and passwords. If you have a passkey, you’re not supposed to need 2FA.

Please, for the love of God, VOTE! (pawb.social)

I don't like Biden either, but anyone with half a brain knows there are two choices in the 2020 election. If we had a sane voting system, voting third party might be worth it, but as it stands, no one but you knows your favorite candidate exists and unless you want to become their campaign manager that will still be true in...

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Thanks to leftists who wouldn’t vote

phoneymouse ,

Visible has an unlimited hotspot

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It’s too expensive. Visible is cheaper and unlimited everything, even hot spot, and no soft data cap.

phoneymouse ,

Yeah if you pay for the $45/plan it’s 10Mbps speed

phoneymouse , (edited )

lol… 30 terabytes?! Okay. I’m sure even Google Fi has a cap like that. Most people would struggle to even come close to that. It’s 30x the cap of even a home internet provider like Comcast, which usually limits you to 1 terabyte. Most people would have a really hard time hitting even that on their mobile.

The other thing to consider is Visible is cheaper than Google FI too. And most people aren’t going to use anywhere near 30 terabytes.

phoneymouse ,

Oh, you’re right the M1 chip is not real. It’s just a figment of marketing. 😂

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