nucleative

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Their policies, verification systems, KYC/AML processes, risk aversion, and customer support leave many PayPal users with unmet expectations, especially when there is an issue with the transaction and PayPal is asked to assist.

  The company has found ways to avoid some of the regulations that banks are held to which is partly the reason for the issues.

  If you search the web for PayPal experiences, you’ll find concerns such as their 1.3 star rating with almost 35,000 reviews on Trustpilot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it worth selling on eBay in 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  eBay is a major pain these days for small sellers that just want to unload some stuff.

  A lot of people go there first to run scams, and eBay just blocks sellers left and right.

  Try apps like Mercari, Whatnot, Posh/Vinted (for clothing), and Facebook marketplace. I think you’ll find all of these are friendly to one-off sellers and easy to conduct business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Maybe' financial tracker shuts down, releasing a final v0.6.0⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does quicken still sync well with most American banks, investment accounts, and credit card companies?

  I used to be a power user as well but then moved overseas where is syncs with nothing.

  Now I use gnucash with a ton of custom python scraping and importing scripts. It isn’t perfect but as close as I have been able to find.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airlines urge senators to reject bill limiting facial recognition⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was traveling internationally recently and returning to the USA I didn’t even need my passport to clear through immigration. They had a camera which recognized me and gave me the green light to pass as I approached.

  The agent had a few questions and I was on my way.

  It was convenient as hell, but the fact that their system can link me to whatever data is stored with my passport records based on a second or two of recognition out of all the faces that must be in there…

  actually kinda blows.

  It means they can definitely put a street camera system in place and see oh, there’s /u/nucleative. Wonder why he’s at the protest, bank, with that person, driving that car, near a crime scene, or anything else.

  Somehow we have zero privacy yet the enforcement hides behind numbers and masks.

  I expect that this will just continue to go further and further.

  Kids, this is why we needed to push back hard on privacy, random cameras, and facial recognition 20 years ago.

  The metaphorical horse is already out of the barn and removing or disabling these systems will probably never happen now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lately, a great many people who used to say they didn't care about privacy because they had nothing to hide must be realizing what a flawed conclusion that was.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are there any resources that compile a good counter-argument to this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dentist accused of fatally poisoning wife asked daughter to create deepfake AI video of mom asking for chemicals, daughter says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 366 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  💪 2 years here we go

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 365 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing (One Year Anniversary!)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Congrats!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On the one hand we seem to currently have some of the cheapest air tickets the world has ever seen. If you’re willing to travel like cattle.

  On the other hand it feels like air travel is now like getting on the city bus and there’s some guy vomiting in front of you and a screaming kid pissing on the seat behind you, all the while you’re getting herded around like a cow, your stuff is at high risk of getting stolen with no recourse, and the airline is playing mind games about the best time to buy a ticket after sneaking in a bunch of clauses designed to get you to pay more later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Couldn’t have a thought further from his mind

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you mean Buying = believing Or Buying = buying

  Because I think the real problem here is that people actually are buying=buying and that’s why they keep doing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Xbox Considered Laying One Person Off Instead Of Thousands⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You might be right, probably worth looking into. I just have so little time to invest in new titles or any learning curve or really any game that takes a ton of grinding before it’s fun

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Xbox Considered Laying One Person Off Instead Of Thousands⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Let me share my Xbox experience? I’m mid-40s. Owned Xboxes since literally the OG Xbox 1.

  I originally bought this thing to play with my brother split screen. Nowadays I want to play split screen with my son.

  Yet somehow there’s no fucking split screen games anymore. The last two or three AAA games I purchased I played for a few hours and then never loaded again.

  And the other day when I loaded up call of duty Black ops 3 to play zombies (this is like a 10 year old game now) I found that because I let my Xbox Gold live whatever the fuck subscription expire, I can’t play “online” and use my unlocked items even though I’m doing local play.

  So from this guy what in the fucking fuck xbox. This is some kind of device designed to clean out my wallet for eternity and not deliver what I actually want.

  I pretty much exclusively use my Xbox as a YouTube player now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nginx Proxy Manager 2.12.4 Released with Certbot Enhancements⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Makes sense, it seems like Caddy is like a Swiss army knife and nginx is now the whole Home Depot.

  A decade ago or so nginx was the swiss army knife to Apache

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nginx Proxy Manager 2.12.4 Released with Certbot Enhancements⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m an old school nginx pro. So I keep using nginx for reverse proxies because it’s what I know. What does caddy have to offer (or traefik is anyone wants to jump in)? Are they just optimized for this function and more modern?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facts and minds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it matters a lot how the conversation is set up.

  Is it “you and I versus the facts”?

  Or “you vs me”?

  Competent people can disagree and also identify where the facts are missing and the assumptions begin that lead to this. It doesn’t have to be a fight if they look at the data as something to discover together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using TikTok could be making you more politically polarized, new study finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Echo chambers and all, yeah it’s likely TikTok has this issue too. TikTok gives you content you want to see, because you’ll stay around and watch more ads. No surprise here.

  conservative TikTok users tend to stick together. They rarely follow accounts with opposing views or mainstream media accounts. Liberal users, on the other hand, are more likely to follow a mix of accounts, including those they might disagree with.

  That’s weird and somewhat descriptive of my anecdotal experience with many people I know. I wonder why this is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If every minority group came together under the same banner they would be the majority, and rights would be much easier to attain for everyone.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  All these minorities may share a common problem yet it’s unlikely they have the same vision for the solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even in space it's possible to get hit by a self-driving Tesla.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s actually pretty cool. That thing might be forgot about and then found again 10,000 years from now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even in space it's possible to get hit by a self-driving Tesla.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that car in some kind of orbit, or did we just send it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There are at least 2 of us! I think it was widely reported that the downfall of MySpace was at least partially linked to their use Coldfusion. When they needed to scale and adapt it just wasn’t ready.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember that IBM was famously missing the trend in the late 80s/90s and couldn’t understand why regular consumers would ever want to buy a PC. It’s why they gave the PC clone market away, never seriously approached their OS/2 thing, and never really marketed directly to anybody except businesses.

  Microsoft really pushed the idea that regular people needed a home PC which laid the foundation for so many people already having the hardware in place to jump on the internet as soon as it became accessible.

  For a brief moment it looked like a toss up between Microsoft IIS webservers serving up .asp files (or coldfusion .cf - RIP) vs Apache pushing CGI but in the end the Linux solution was more baked and flexible when it was time to launch and scale an internet startup in that era.

  Somebody else would have done what Microsoft did for sure, had they not been there, and I suppose we could be paying AT&T for Unix licenses these days too. But yeah, ultimately both Gates and Torvalds were right in terms of operating systems and well timed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Both Torvalds and Gates are nerds… Gates decided to monetize it and Torvalds decided to give it away.

  But without Microsoft’s “PC on every desktop” vision for the ‘90s, we may not have seen such an increased demand for server infrastructure which is all running the Linux kernel now.

  Arguably Torvalds’ strategy had a greater impact than Gates because now many of us carry his kernel in our pocket. But I think both needed each other to get where we are today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wtf⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So apex that most of us outsource our hunting and farming, which makes us fat and slow unless we purposefully burn energy for no other purpose than to burn it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Absolute unit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Somebody must have had a rad cable label machine

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese AI outfits smuggling suitcases full of hard drives to evade U.S. chip restrictions — training AI models in Malaysia using rented servers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese AI outfits smuggling suitcases full of hard drives to evade U.S. chip restrictions — training AI models in Malaysia using rented servers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s an interesting observation. Chinese tend to run scrappy operations with something like a “do it no matter what, ethics be damned” strategy.

  But it doesn’t bode too well for OpenAIs current level given how much funding and talent they presumably have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how are my fellow peeps hosting your music collection these days?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  E:\mp3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Right to Repair Gains Traction as John Deere Faces Trial⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok I’m a proponent of right to repair and despise manufacturing techniques that lock repair shops out, make spare parts from 3rd parties impossible to install, or create planned obsolescence, or any shenanigans like this. It’s basically anti-everybody else and suggests weakness and fear instead of quality and strength.

  But help me understand how it’s possible that our “free market” is enabling this, unless it’s just a controlled market charading as free?

  Is John Deere giving the hardware away for free to those who sign long term subscriptions or something?

  If John Deere is the Apple-esque ecosystem of tractors where is the “PC” diy manufacture and why doesn’t the market support them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Game Pass might be getting a price hike⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A bit pissed at this possibility. Games that I bought many years ago require me to be signed in to use my unlocks, even during solo play.