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Oh no! Anyway...

Supreme Court weakens federal regulators with Chevron overturning, threatening net neutrality, right to repair, big tech regulation, and more (www.theverge.com)

The downfall of Chevron deference could completely change the ways courts review net neutrality, according to Bloomberg Intelligence’s Matt Schettenhelm. “The FCC’s 2024 effort to reinstitute federal broadband regulation is the latest chapter in a long-running regulatory saga, yet we think the demise of deference will...

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Considering the context, I took it as an inclusive or.

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Hilarious that the story is from SI

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/sports-illustrated-found-publishing-ai-generated-stories-photos-and-authors

Microsoft Account to local account conversion guide erased from official Windows 11 guide — instructions redacted earlier this week (www.tomshardware.com)

Microsoft has been pushing hard for its users to sign into Windows with a Microsoft Account. The newest Windows 11 installer removed the easy bypass to the requirement that you make an account or login with your existing account. If you didn't install Windows 11 without a Microsoft Account and now want to stop sending the...

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Where's the "please drink verification can" greentext when you need it

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You wouldn't build a foundation with lithium batteries though. This is additional power from something that would take up this space anyway

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retractable

I can tell when someone hasn't used a DEF pump for diesel vehicles. The hose not retracting on DEF pumps happen pretty often. They also try to retract while pumping making filling DEF a 2 hands required operation.

I hope that whoever designed DEF pumps will step barefoot on a lego block daily.

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The level 2 charge point chargers that are retractable I've seen twisted and turned into knots. Sometimes the retractor on those are broken and the car parked in the neighboring stall parked on top of the cable I wanted to use.

As EV adoption increases, the amount of asshole and indifferent behavior is also increasing. Any design with moving parts will need to take that into account

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I look at 'source available' software as the right to review the code yourself to ensure there's no malicious behavior, not for community development.

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I'm more apt to believe that the government asked Microsoft to name it that to get SEO for Snowden messed up.

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I used to, until they started changing links for actual results to have trackers built in. I couldn't click on specific websites i was searching for without my adblock putting a stop to it. Asked them about it in their discord and they basically told me to turn off adblock. Dropped them like a sack of potatoes and spun up a SearXNG instance. Before that I thought about spinning up a presearch node. Glad I switched to SearXNG. It basically accomplished what I wanted from Presearch without the ads and crypto shitcoin.

If I had to switch to a new engine not run by me, I'd consider Qwant or maybe Kagi if paying for it is worth it. I'm old enough to be used to having stuff for free on the internet, doing it yourself to keep from having to pay for a service is a perfectly fine option for me.

My search engine lineage:
Alta Vista

Yahoo

Dogpile

Metacrawler

Google

Cuil

Google

DDG

Google

Presearch

My own SearXNG instance

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Yeah, I would-be been fine if they just added a listing that was actually an ad, but replacing actual results with no option to not click the tracking injected link was enough for me. Ignoring their shitcoin is fine, it's not required to use their search. But I don't take kindly to bullshit if it's forced on me.

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Of all the things I've self hosted, it's by far the easiest. TrueNAS scale's kubernetes chart was pretty install and run. See ya over in !selfhosted

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I always viewed the think pad line as more of a business line of products. I know it isn't owned by IBM anymore, but considering how much involvement they had with Redhat, you might have better luck trying a fedora based distro. I'm running fedora Fedora 40 beta plasma and it was basically install and start working.

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https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/505cdf6c-cd60-4ee4-b16a-609827dd9bae.png
I also like this setting for displaying separate up and down votes

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Not to take up for his point, but windows 10 was in development years before Nadella. The only version of windows totally under his governance has been the disastrous windows 11. So I guess I have him to thank for finally giving me the kick in the pants to fully switch to Linux.

I guess the point I need to make is that Microsoft was not good before or during Nadella. There have been bright spots, but not enough for me to have then outweigh all the other crap pulled both during and before Nadella.

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Isn't that what caused cinnamon to come into existence?

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That's what the Mint guys did until they said fuck it and made Cinnamon

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Censorship of words makes me not know which definition of regarded you are using.

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I mean they are doing missions to the ISS for the US and private corpos and just recently the bandwagon mission where they flew 9 satellites which they advertise a price for at $300,000 per. The axiom missions are $55,000,000 per seat. That's not unreasonable for launches considering Artemis is $4,200,000,000 per launch ($1,050,000,000 per seat)

I guess it's just 19 times cheaper.

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The way to get around this is to have your router block outgoing dns requests to anything but your dns server (which I have my pihole do double duty for)

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Your terms are acceptable. I've taught my kids a lot about anatomy from butchering.

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Remember when Nokia was king? Yup, lack of regulations then. I'm not saying it's not a coincidence, but it certainly could be. I am glad to see Nokia's resurgence in the infrastructure area in tech though.

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That's the best. I went to a sporting event last year and parked a couple blocks from the arena. The cost to charge and park was less than parking at the closest parking garage.

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One of my favorite stories dealing with fax spam

https://consumerist.com/2008/09/17/man-tells-fax-spammers-to-go-fax-themselves-and-they-comply/

AMC to Pay $8 Million for Alleged Violation of Video Privacy Law Through Use of Tracking Technologies, Including Meta Pixel, X Tracking Pixel, and Google Tracking Technology (arstechnica.com)

According to subscribers suing, AMC allegedly installed tracking technologies—including the Meta Pixel, the X Tracking Pixel, and Google Tracking Technology—on its website, allowing their personally identifying information to be connected with their viewing history....

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It physically exists on my hard drive after being converted from an encrypted version

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... I ... thought that's all we do in c/piracy...

Walmart in talks to buy Vizio for more than $2 bln, WSJ reports (www.reuters.com)

Walmart in talks to buy Vizio for more than $2 bln, WSJ reports::Walmart is in talks to buy smart-television manufacturer Vizio for more than $2 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, a move that could bolster its advertising business and give it control of more than a fifth of the U.S. television market.

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Guess I better figure out how to redirect DNS requests to my pihole on my router

Or just give myself an excuse to build an opnsense router and upgrade my WiFi infrastructure

‘What do you mean, the tower is gone?’: thieves steal 200ft structure from Alabama radio station | Alabama (www.theguardian.com)

‘What do you mean, the tower is gone?’: thieves steal 200ft structure from Alabama radio station | Alabama::Small radio station forced to go silent after ‘unbelievable’ theft of giant tower, which would cost over $100,000 to replace

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Carmen Sandiego level crime

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Truck drivers have to take breaks every 4.5 hours for 45 minutes.

Is this a specific state requirement? I ask because that's not what the FMCSA says. It's 30 minute break every 8 hours (USA) and it can be any activity including including work (except driving) that would satisfy the requirement. Source, am a truck driver and https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/regulations/hours-service/summary-hours-service-regulations see 30-minute driving break section.

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All of our driving has to be completed in 14 hours (11 hours driving total). When I drove over the road (not home every night) I usually tried to aim for a leg stretch every 4 hours. I'd usually walk around the rig and check things out for leg stretchers. For the 30 min break I would find a rest area or a truck stop and have a proper meal and I usually took longer than 30 for that break unless the place was boring. When i would take breaks were usually determined by location along the route.

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I think most of the regulations for truckers here in the US were made in mind with how long the distance is between everything.

As far as driving my EV goes, ideally I would like to get 3-4 driving hours in before recharges, but only when the drive is longer than 6 hours total. I'd rather just get there sooner. I currently drive a Bolt EUV and it's an hour charging for every 2-3 driving. Longer road trips take some planning especially when driving across middle America where the charging network isn't that great yet. Meals are easy, but in between meals planning an hour long stop can be challenging.

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If the documentary ghost in the shell taught us anything, this that most everyone will have some level of cyberization in the future. Staying fully biological will be seen as a liability.

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Acceleration and brake pedals are butterfly

Door close sensors have to be calibrated upon replacement by a proprietary tool not made available to the public

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If the server isn't even in California, would it even apply/be enforceable to them?

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Paywall removed

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