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qjkxbmwvz ,

I just say my name is Bigus Dickus whenever they call me. They usually hang up or insult me.

For the "car's extended warranty" I just tell them it's a 1969 Wayne Industries Batmobile. They usually just say they don't provide coverage for that car and hang up.

qjkxbmwvz ,

The Chevy Suburban is about the same weight now as in 1973 (5837lbs then, 5785-5993lbs now, according to Wikipedia).

It was huge then, it's huge now.

The BMWs pictured are not the same class of car either --- one is a coupe/sedan, one's an SUV, so of course they will be radically different.

Don't get m wrong, I think modern cars are too big and, in the case of BMW, way uglier than they used to be.

qjkxbmwvz ,

Bigger does almost always mean more emissions/worse economy for a given technology. In this case someone else pointed out that the economy is about the same for both, which is due to the fact that technology has improved; if you put the engineering effort of the big car into the form factor of the little car, it'd be much more efficient.

qjkxbmwvz ,

Right --- and I think that is a real issue that deserves real attention, and closing these bullshit carveouts for high GVWR vehicles should absolutely happen.

That said, I take some issue with ragebaity posts when less ragebaity posts (such as the article you linked) are more informative, offer fair comparisons, and ultimately are more critical of the problem.

Just my 2¢.

qjkxbmwvz ,

Disappointed that there was no "Rule 34" reference. I expected more from this community...

qjkxbmwvz ,

Don't believe me? Just google "Trump Stormy Rule 34."

PayPal Is Planning an Ad Business Using Data on Its Millions of Shoppers (www.wsj.com)

Wall Street Journal (paywalled) The digital payments company plans to build an ad sales business around the reams of data it generates from tracking the purchases as well as the broader spending behaviors of millions of consumers who use its services, which include the more socially-enabled Venmo app....

qjkxbmwvz ,

There's a certain irony in bemoaning subscription news paywalls on an article about the alternative, unsavory monetization paradigm...

qjkxbmwvz ,

I just tried that and got the same result. It's from a site that just quotes a snippet of an Onion article 🤦

qjkxbmwvz ,

So it's a security camera pointing at your screen, but with AI involved.

Honestly though, this sounds like the kind of thing you could hack together with a shell script and OCR on a *NIX system in an afternoon. Cronjob to take screenshots and run them through OCR, keywords to a database. Add hooks to your window manager to take additional screenshots on relevant events (change desktop, application opens/new window on screen, etc.).

qjkxbmwvz ,

https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/2b32f923-e9e7-4449-a9ba-c876912b10f6.jpeg

qjkxbmwvz ,

A perk of belonging to my city's bike advocacy group is that you can rent this for no additional charge:

64″ aluminum truss-frame trailer; easily carry a 4×8 sheet of plywood, eight bags of groceries, or whatever else you can fit on it up to 300 lbs; holds 4 plastic tote boxes before stacking

Nosireebob, can't haul stuff around with that... /s

qjkxbmwvz , (edited )

Anyone else getting Lando Norris vibes?

Coming to terms with no longer having privacy and control over my technology

I miss the days of VHS and DVD shelfs in homes, for example. If you bought the tapes and had them in your home, no corporate entity could alter those tapes without your consent, monitor how many times you watch them, sell your data to whomever they please without your knowledge, roll out new mandatory conditions to a 'user...

qjkxbmwvz ,

For the Spotlight issue, was this certainly a local change without consent, or was it a change in the way the query is processed on Apple's servers?

There is functionally no difference but it's a big philosphical difference.

qjkxbmwvz ,

I did this in undergrad. Campus security stopped me, I argued, he called his supervisor on the radio. We chatted for a while, and turns out he was from Venezuela, had studied what I was studying, and was an overall pleasant character. Supervisor response was basically, "wow college kids think they're really clever don't they?", and I was asked, politely, to cease.

I felt like a bit of a dick after that.

qjkxbmwvz ,

I think this is the real question.

Did they quit and join a competitor who offered a better WFH option? Or did they get a taste of the good parts of white collar pandemic life --- no commute, flexible hours, work from anywhere --- and decide that actually, their entire identity is not just their professional life, and maybe they should retire to see the world/spend time with family?

There are definitely some high profile rage quits over return to office, but I think there are a lot more of the "hey this was fun but time to take care of myself" quits.

qjkxbmwvz ,

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-06/hamas-says-accepts-proposal-for-cease-fire-with-israel

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-hamas-war-humanitarian-aid-8659eae6e0a7362504f0aa4aa4be53e0

https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/israel-rejects-latest-hamas-offer-but-says-it-will-negotiate-to-try-to-reach-a-cease-fire-210460741925

qjkxbmwvz ,

The headline in the linked article says something which is patently and demonstrably false. That's my only point. Yes, it's "just the headline" and we all should RTFA all the time, but still --- it's a factually incorrect statement. (Had it been, "...Isn't Telling Us The Whole Story," that would have been nice --- it's a matter of opinion still, but it's not patently incorrect.)

From the linked article:

Israeli officials just rejected a cease-fire deal that could have brought hostages back because Israel wants to continue waging war. This should be a scandal — but American mainstream media isn’t reporting on it.

From the AP article:

Egyptian officials said that proposal called for a cease-fire of multiple stages starting with a limited hostage release and partial Israeli troop pullbacks within Gaza. The two sides would also negotiate a “permanent calm” that would lead to a full hostage release and greater Israeli withdrawal out of the territory, they said.

The linked article is very much an opinion piece. Claiming "Israel wants to continue waging war" is an opinion, and yeah, it seems pretty obviously true, but "Netanyahu wants to hold on to power, and waging war is his surest bet" is another valid (IMHO) opinion. But again, opinion, so at some level it's a matter of taste (my point really is that ascribing motive to someone or something is getting into the opinion business, no matter how obvious things are). But to claim that the "American mainstream media isn't reporting on it" is pretty disingenuous.

qjkxbmwvz ,

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/5533vs3904vs4922/Apple-M2-Ultra-24-Core-vs-Intel-i9-11900K-vs-Apple-M2-8-Core-3500-MHz

Benchmarks are of course just benchmarks, but the single-core performance is better for the M2, and the range-topping M2 is about 2x faster than the i9.

Also, regardless of how something compares, if it is ever memory-bandwidth bound, then faster RAM should help. While most tasks may be CPU or IO bound, AFAIK there can still easily be memory bound tasks in real-world workloads.

I picked the i9-11900k for comparison since I think that was the last one to only support DDR4 (making it "DDR4 era"). Ryzen maybe faster in the DDR4 era though?

qjkxbmwvz ,

"It's more performant than the old SODIMM sticks, vastly more efficient, it saves space, and it should even help with thermals as well. All that, and it's still about as repairable as anything we've ever seen," iFixit concluded.

Yes, there was a perfectly fine, upgradable memory standard before. And many 486s were also perfectly fine, upgradable computers.

The fact that a new technology makes it so we can have our cake and eat it too --- upgradability without any compromise --- is a fantastic innovation.

qjkxbmwvz ,

I can suggest an equation that has the potential to impact the future:

H|ψ> = E|ψ> + AI

Here, I have chosen the time-independent Schrödinger equation, to symbolize the fact that AI is the most important innovation of all time.

...

This is all bullshit of course. Everyone knows that the AI term should be included in the Hamiltonian anyway 🙄

qjkxbmwvz ,

Does McDonnell Douglas count as Boeing?

qjkxbmwvz ,

Someone else pointed out Tailscale; I've had luck with free tier VPS+WireGuard.

I have an Oracle one which has worked well. Downside is I did link my CC, because my account was getting deactivated due to inactivity (even using it as a VPN and nginx proxy for my self hosting wasn't enough to keep it "active"). But I stay below the free allowance, so it doesn't cost.

That said: as far as anonymity goes, it's not the right tool. And I fully appreciate the irony of trying to self-host to get away from large corporations owning my data...and relying on Oracle to do so. But you can get a static IP and VPS for free, so that's something.

qjkxbmwvz ,

Wikipedia page has some explanation.

There's also this gem:

In October 2016, McDonald's decided that Ronald McDonald would keep a lower profile as a result of the incidents.

That said, a 16 year old was killed in relation to these incidents, so not completely fun and games.

qjkxbmwvz ,

Buying Twitter was, arguably, a consequence.

qjkxbmwvz ,

Or, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Serpico

qjkxbmwvz ,

The bees were relocated to a bee sanctuary.

For those wondering.

Bees are friends, and if you have honeybees in your home, try to get them moved rather than exterminated. I think some beekeepers will do this pro bono.

qjkxbmwvz ,

Can you post the syncthing logs, as well as the nginx logs?

I assume you've seen this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48626459/refused-to-execute-script-because-strict-mime-type-checking-is-enabled

Can you post your nginx config? Is it just this one with different variables? https://docs.syncthing.net/users/reverseproxy.html

qjkxbmwvz ,

I'd definitely take a look at the syncthing logs...

qjkxbmwvz ,

403 Forbidden doesn't necessarily mean a bad login attempt. Are you sure that's the error?
My troubleshooting steps would be to access directly (no nginx), and look at the logs for a successful login. Then, look try to login with nginx, and look at those logs (both access.log and error.log on nginx, and any/all logs from syncthing). Find out where the two cases diverge and go from there.

Does syncthing have a domain name specified? If it doesn't know its domain name it may work from IP directly but not via reverse proxy. Just a hunch.

qjkxbmwvz ,

This suggests nginx options to use re: hostname. Unsure of your nginx config...

https://forum.syncthing.net/t/web-gui-over-nginx-proxy-only/13767

qjkxbmwvz ,

Would fit on dual layer DVD.

qjkxbmwvz ,

Docker and git I think.

qjkxbmwvz ,

We're considering a new car (current car is an old econobox that's been to the moon), and range anxiety does factor in for the "weekend adventure" use case. We live in CA, and something like a trip to Yosemite or Tahoe requires refuelling/charging. But these places can get inundated with weekend warriors (like us!), who are all on the same schedule. We've had friends who have had stressful incidents e.g. charging in Yosemite valley, or on the way back from Tahoe. Add a toddler in the mix and it gets even less fun.

Not insurmountable, but infrastructure and timing are still not as good as for dinosaur blood.

For 95% of the time though yeah --- commuting, single-day adventures, or bopping around the city would be no problem at all.

qjkxbmwvz ,

Not a battery expert, but I think there are safety implications.

qjkxbmwvz ,

Some false premises in this thread --- corporations are not required to maximize profits. Even if maximizing profit was mandatory, this is a pretty subjective topic --- is short term profit while pissing off your customers "maximizing profit," or is sacrificing short term gains for long term customer loyalty "maximizing profit"? It's not a rhetorical question, and I think you can find examples of both.

Corporations are also not all pursuing endless growth; in addition to "growth stocks" there are "dividend stocks." Some companies aren't aggressively pursuing growth, but are making profit, and the stock reflects this. It feels almost antiquated in the "to the moon" era, but these companies do exist.

Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone (www.theverge.com)

Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users. After testing these briefly with Windows Insiders earlier this month, Microsoft has started to distribute update KB5036980 to Windows 11 users this week, which includes “recommendations” for apps from the Microsoft Store in the Start menu....

qjkxbmwvz ,

I hate it as much as the next guy, but I certainly don't see why it should be illegal (and disclaimer --- Debian on all my personal machines, macOS for work).

Should it be illegal for books to have a list of similar material from the author/publisher? Should food staples not be able to list recipes on the back?

I completely agree that pulling the rug out from under the customer should be illegal (i.e., effectively changing the terms of service for an already-purchased product), but having a shitty product shouldn't be illegal IMHO.

qjkxbmwvz ,

Yeah I think we're in violent agreement to an extent --- as I said in my last graf, if it's effectively changing the user agreement, absolutely not ok. But if it's a shitty product to begin with, then I'm just not going to buy it in the first place.

So yeah, Windows doing shitty things for users who have already paid for the product is definitely not cool. But for all users going forward to have a shitty experience? That's... shitty, yeah, but I personally don't think it should be illegal?

qjkxbmwvz ,

Yeah, I guess it's a matter of what the analogy is to "page." I would say my computer is the book, and the pages are the software. If some developer wants to make a piece of shit ad ridden software, well, great --- but I won't install it :)

qjkxbmwvz ,

I don't think that's true at all. I'm ok with systemd, but I don't really like it, and find much of the criticism valid. At this point the reason I use it, and am more-or-less fine with it, is that it has become the de facto standard and is very well supported.

Which is also one of the reasons I dislike it --- it is such an integral part of modern Linux systems that it can be hard to change, which reduces a lot of the appeal of Linux --- flexibility and freedom.

qjkxbmwvz ,

In grad school I had an old (though not that old) HP networked (Ethernet) laser printer. It was awesome. Cheap toner, worked flawlessly with Linux.

I totally get the hate that inkjets (and many modern printers) get, but there were some older printers that kinda just printed what you told them to print and that was it.

qjkxbmwvz , (edited )

We tried personally evaluating people for loans on their individual merits, and shocker, there was rampant racism and sexism. Having strict metrics, instead of relying on the whims of a dickwad loan agent, is a good thing.

The new system isn't perfect, and yeah, it completely favors people who have parents who know how the system works. But at least it's not explicitly racist or sexist (again, there are of course systemic issues that feed into it).

I get that it's frustrating to, for example, need to have debt in order to qualify for more debt. But in other contexts this is pretty standard --- it's essentially "financial experience."

But yeah. It sucks that you should pay expenses with a credit card rather than debit in the USA. Personally it doesn't matter to me (I pay them off every month), but it sucks for merchants who get stuck with the credit card transaction fees.

qjkxbmwvz , (edited )

In the US, I think you would be entitled by law to know the reason why you were rejected ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Credit_Opportunity_Act ).

Does the UK have something similar?

qjkxbmwvz ,

even though the bank technically owns this shit

Nah, they just have a substantial lien against the property :)

qjkxbmwvz ,

I don't hate it now, though I did when it first came out, as it borked my system on several occasions. I'm still not a fan, but it works so eh.

One borkage was that the behavior of fstab changed, so if there was e.g. a USB drive in fstab which was not connected at startup, the system would refuse to boot without some (previously not required) flags in fstab. This is not a big deal for a personal laptop, but for my headless server, was a real pain. The systemd behavior is arguably the right one, but it broke systems in the process. Which is somewhat antithetical to, say, Linus Torvalds' approach to kernel development ("do not break user space").

It also changed the default behavior of halt --- now, it changed it to the "correct" behavior, but again...it broke/adversely affected existing usage patterns, even if it was ultimately in the right.

In addition to all of this, binary logs are very un-UNIXy, and the monolithic/do-everything model feels more like Windows than *NIX.

qjkxbmwvz ,

In some ways I think the filesystem is philosophically the exact opposite of systemd --- I can boot my system with an ext4 root, with a btrfs /home...or vice versa. Or add some ZFS, or whatever. The filesystem is (with the exception of some special backup schemes) largely independent of the rest of the system, despite being of core importance.

On the other hand, I can't change my init system (i.e., systemd) without serious, serious work.

qjkxbmwvz ,

And do you think these child predators had charming upbringings? Or perhaps they were filled with horrors and trauma?

Yeah, there are absolutely evil people out there, and if you think the state should execute them, that's your opinion. But to think that all heinous crimes come from a vacuum is naive.

qjkxbmwvz ,

A life in prison and state sanctioned execution are different, though.

It's also worth considering why these criminals are criminals. If they were, say, violently abused as a child themselves...does that matter? Functionally, it doesn't matter to the victim --- I get that. But should the state be in the business of executing such people?

qjkxbmwvz ,

I don't think Mitch is gonna be able to eat two thousand of those...

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