JoeHill

@JoeHill@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Susan Sarandon dropped from talent agency after pro-Palestine remarks⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  She suffered a minor professional consequence for republishing fake news and amplifying inflammatory content. Don’t like it? Move your business from CAA…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Susan Sarandon dropped from talent agency after pro-Palestine remarks⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The other person, not people, mentioned was Maha Dakhil. She still works at CAA. She resigned from its Board. It’s not like she’s homeless. She had to resign from a leadership position. That’s all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ditching MyQ for OpenGarage - Open Source Garage Door Control⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless you absolutely need MyQ because of a 3rd party integration, I’d really suggest ditching it. The only problem I’ve ever had with the Meross was when my local DNS (AdGuard Home) got flaky — and I can’t really blame that on Meross. Other than that, it’s been rock solid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ditching MyQ for OpenGarage - Open Source Garage Door Control⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use a Meross. Works very well with HomeKit.

  MyQ was always a piece of garbage for me. Damn thing would error out and become non responsive after 5-10 openings, and would require a reboot. Could never figure out the root issue. Tech support was worthless. My hunch is that it doesn’t play nicely with Unifi equipment, or I’m getting interference from industrial sites nearby.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palestinian Americans sue state department on behalf of relatives stuck in Gaza⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  First sentence heavily implies American law. Secondly, international law is part of American law. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paquete_Habana

  The lawsuit is actually making an equal protection argument, though, which seems like an enormous loser. The government isn’t refusing to evacuate somebody because of their race or religion — which would be the essence of a disparate intent equal protection claim. They are unable to evacuate someone because the local government refuses to allow it.

  Maybe the plaintiff can try to make a disparate impact claim but I suspect the courts won’t want to hear it given the facts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Edge could use a win⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I switched from Chrome to Edge and initially was really impressed. But then Microsoft had to go and Bing it all up. So now it’s back to Firefox after a 15 year hiatus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon To Start Running Ads In Prime Video Series & Movies, Will Launch Ad-Free Tier For Extra Fee⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Should I shop at the Target, Wal-Mart or the CVS instead?

  There are no “local” stores near me. Just massive corporations who treat their employees like shit. Costco is the exception to the treating-their-employees-like-shit rule, but sometimes I don’t need a lifetime supply of an item.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple TV's tvOS 17 brings VPN support, which Tailscale now supports.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait. I can use my Apple TV as a VPN server? Did I understand you right? That would be a nifty redundancy tool for me if my main wireguard server goes down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex will be blocking access from at least VPS provider⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t want your cookies. I want privacy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's talk about the curious and ingenious DriveSpace, an MS-DOS program promising to double the available disk space.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember, this was way before Windows.

  it’s 1994

  Windows 3.1 came out in 1992. Yes you still were in DOS a lot back then, but it was hardly “way before windows”.

  Speaking of just hunting for random stuff in DOS, my personal favorite “what’s this?” in DOS was Gorillas.bas en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game)?wprov…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a email-provider where i can host my oen domain⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Just switched to iCloud last week. Yes, it does catch-all (although it needs to be enabled through a checkbox in one of the settings menu). It also does sub-addressing / plus-addressing natively (no menu setting needed), which doesn’t seem to actually be documented but it works flawlessly for me.

  I’ve been extremely happy with it so far. Pairing plus addressing with some of the filtering rules allows me to direct bulk mail to the right place automatically. For whatever reason, filtering rules can’t be done on iOS but need to be set through icloud.com (not sure if they can be set on macOS).