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- Comment on Google loses massive antitrust case over its search dominance 2 days ago:
Full fat article version
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
If you’re behind a CG NAT (carrier grade NAT), you’ll be doubly in trouble as it will be essentially impossible to get a forwarded port since your “IP” is essentially a LAN address within your ISP’s CG NAT, if that makes sense.
- Comment on Apple barred from Google antitrust trial, putting $20 billion search deal on the line 4 weeks ago:
Apple seeks search partner, must have $20 billion
If this penalty sticks, Apple could be looking for a new suitor. Something has to be the default search provider in Safari and other Apple products.
Does something really have to replace it? Why not a menu of options? Make the user choose something. If they choose Google, great! If they choose DDG, fantastic! Whatever it is, make it a choice.
- Comment on Be alert. Don't let Santa trick you 4 weeks ago:
Oh no I got the comic, I just don’t know how to feel about stupid sexy Santa
- Comment on Be alert. Don't let Santa trick you 4 weeks ago:
I’m so confused
- Comment on DuckDuckGo is amping up its AI search tool but will still let you leave it behind 1 month ago:
Honestly I find it quite useful, and I’m glad they found a way to do it with increased privacy. I will only use duck.ai if I want to use an AI tool.
But I can understand some people wanting it off entirely so hats off to DDG for keeping that as a core feature.
- Comment on Mullvad's privacy-focused search engine Leta is now free for all users | Leta acts as a proxy for Google and Brave search results 1 month ago:
Is it really though? To the common person, it is most important thinking about the intent rather than what the word literally means. Like what people think of as AI may really just be a LLM, or VR may really be AR, or the like.
- Comment on Laws only matter if you're not rich. 2 months ago:
This should be a legal defense moving forward.
But your honor, I only downloaded 0.03 Metas, I’m clearly not guilty. As the court knows, it’s only once you pass 0.5 Metas that you start to stay into the guilty territory.
- Comment on Cloudflare outage caused by botched blocking of phishing URL 2 months ago:
- Comment on Non-US alternatives to digital services 2 months ago:
Yeah it could be argued that Fastmail is less private than alternatives, but they make a damn good service. Plus email shouldn’t be used for secure communication anyways.
- Comment on Defend your cheese 3 months ago:
Ngl it’s in the weird uncanny valley for me too, I’m not sure what is going on.
- Comment on Go into debt if you have to 3 months ago:
This is true! There is no accounting for sentimentality.
- Comment on Go into debt if you have to 3 months ago:
There are certainly better investment options. You don’t see Jeff Bezos sinking his fortune into Rolexi
- Comment on LineageOS now officially supports the Pixel 9 series 3 months ago:
I mean that’s just kinda the way it is in the US / Canada. Though I hear Canada has even higher prices for less service.
- Comment on Bill Nye should host a New Year's Eve event and call it Bill's NYE 3 months ago:
Thank you for sharing this traumatic experience from your past. ಥ_ಥ
- Comment on My favorite 3 months ago:
I genuinely appreciate you taking the time to write this out. I definitely had stereotypes about NJ being less than pleasant based on all the memes, but I realize I should probably reconsider that. A wine -> casino -> boardwalk tour sounds like it could be fun (I have no idea of the geography so no clue if this is possible).
- Comment on My favorite 3 months ago:
I thought that’s genuinely how they did it at high end restaurants to make sure you have a perfectly portioned bit of pasta cooked to the right doneness. I swear I’ve seen this method on Hell’s Kitchen.
Granted, I may be thinking about something else vs what you’re talking about but still.
- Comment on LineageOS now officially supports the Pixel 9 series 3 months ago:
Yeah I’m in the US and those “free” phone contracts over 3 years are objectively terrible deals when you look at the total cost of $100–120/mo or more with the “free” phone on one of the big three vs buying it outright and paying $25/mo (ish) with an MVNO.
Even if you assume a total cost of $100 at Verizon with the “free” phone—which I believe is a super low estimate—and you assume $45 at Visible (shameless referral plug)—which is their most expensive tier—you’re coming out at $1980 less in contracts over 3 years which could buy you (virtually) any phone you want and then some.
- Comment on Teef stonks 📈 5 months ago:
This is a screenshot from the Morning Brew newsletter. They’re honestly pretty great, love these stock hot takes.
- Comment on Bombs Awat 5 months ago:
Also, gotta think about whether 5% mortality rate is acceptable.
For an airdrop number of pond fish? Sure!
For your hobbyist number of expensive fish? Absolutely not
- Comment on But yes. 5 months ago:
I know that… I was taking liberties to take hydroelectric power to its furthest logical extension by saying that the sun is evaporating (boiling) the water, it goes through the water cycle, it is deposited atop mountains or further upriver, and it then flows back down through the hydroelectric stations.
- Comment on But yes. 5 months ago:
One could even argue that hydro power is just boiling water, letting it condense, and then letting it spin a turbine
- Comment on WILD 5 months ago:
I don’t believe any single part of this, it just can’t be true
- Comment on Anyone self-hosting ActualBudget? (with connection to bank) 5 months ago:
It doesn’t help our friends in the EU, but I’m hopeful that the CFPB’s “Open Banking” rules might actually make it possible to do this with an open source product with OAuth and common APIs rather than these aggregators that are just web scraping your bank.
- Comment on What would tools/services would you recommend for hosting without self hosting? 5 months ago:
I’ve heard others recommend Low End Box before but I have no experience, so do some due diligence before selecting any of these!
- Comment on Where to start as a beginner 5 months ago:
I started with the 2020 tutorial from these guys. They’ve updated it a few times through the years so I can’t speak to how good the new version is, but I’m sure it’s probably plenty to get started.
smarthomebeginner.com/traefik-v3-docker-compose-g…
After I followed this guide, I’ve deviated significantly as I learned and started to do my own thing. It’s a great place to start and learn the basics of containerized applications and once you have that then you can host most things that are dockerized. All I need to do now to start up a new service is pull up the README on Docker Hub (or better yet, if LinuxServer.io has a container that does what I want to do, on their website), figure out what I want to do with the variables and any setup that needs to happen, and then I add it to my .yml and start it up!
I’ve got it all tracked now on GitHub so I can see what I’ve changed and when and if something were to go wrong I could revert back to a known-good configuration.
- Comment on What kind of special knowledge or equipment does piracy groups have? 5 months ago:
I think the reason why regular store bought gizmos won’t let you decrypt it is because content can require HDCP to make sure you don’t gain access to the data. If there were a device at Best Buy that just bypassed this, I think the DMCA and rights holders would come down hard on the seller.
I’ve heard of gizmos from shadier places may be able to decrypt the data but it’s likely because they’re acting outside of the law.
- Comment on that's a huge sprout 5 months ago:
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 5 months ago:
In general, use numerals to express numbers 10 and above, and use words to express numbers zero through nine.
Example given:
students were in the third, sixth, eighth, 10th, and 12th grades
Your example does not follow the style guide and is an example of when to use digits
Percentages 50% 75%–80%
If you’re a professional writer, you should be following the style guide and this is explicitly spelled out by the APA.
- Comment on Cloudflare blocks largest recorded DDoS attack peaking at 3.8Tbps 6 months ago:
Direct from the Cloudflare Blog
I find their write ups to be fascinating.