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I've been wanting to buy a house around Seattle for a while, but the asking prices are so ridiculous for what you get... it's just not worth it. Personally, I'm gonna continue renting for a while to see if the remote work situation opens new opportunities or brings prices down.
That being said, I learned recently that for the same prices you would pay here you can get a castle in Europe... so I made that my retirement goal.
Is it contentious? I thought it was pretty accepted. Pretty obvious too, even just looking at the people I know.
Regarding HUDs... it's the one feature I desperately want for my next car. I've been looking into aftermarket options, but all of them are ridiculously cheap and bad or vaporware.
That and hot hatches, pretty please.
It's monkeys all the way down.
Alternatively, you could just delete your social media accounts regularly to minimize your trail.
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According to this, 405, which is 405 too many.
You can do all that with modern multi-effects, and even more.
I'm running a hybrid setup, using a Line 6 Helix in front of a Soldano SLO 30 (and on its effects loop as well). Each effect can be adjusted (with all sorts of knobs, more than 12 for some), moved around and triggered individually or together. You can even use the Helix to toggle channels in the amp, manually or as part of presets.
It drastically eased up my workflow to experiment with and mix effects. No more tinkering with cables. No more wondering which pedal is plugged in wrong or doesn't have enough power. No more velcro strips. Plus, selling my hoard of pedals felt nice.
Just for Facebook though. Bet you they’re doing very little to encumber themselves in that respect.
True, but it’s still crappy of them to waste people’s time.
Such is the war against fraud.
I would love to see a public database of app buyers. I think some interesting insights could come out of it.
Ah, this takes me back! On my first job, our CEO asked me to look at some fraud transaction data from an airline and use a graph database to gather some insights from it. His idea was to show that to some executives from the airline as a prototype to get some buy-in to build a fraud detection tool from them.
The data source basically contained account IDs, billing addresses, credit card hashes and whether an account was identified as fraudulent or not.
Using that data, I built a quick GraphDB prototype that showed clusters of fake/fraud accounts. It was simple stuff, but back then said execs were pretty impressed.
I don’t know what came of that because I left shortly after, but it was an interesting little experiment. I had fun building it!
As an ex-Android user who switched to an iPhone because of privacy concerns, I’d still like sources and hopefully proof for these claims.
The more I think about it, the more I suspect trusting another big tech company with my privacy with no material proof other than their word might have been foolish.
And F-Droid. And there’s plenty of sites to download APKs outside of the Play Store, though I don’t know how reliable they are.
I see that a lot in America as well. Very typical on modded Subarus and Infinitis.
Batman with giant robots. What a great show.
Do you have a source for that? A DDG search only shows he’s mentioned in one article of the site, which seems to have a few other domains as well.
I tried to do a whois on those domains, but it seems they’re managed by an intermediary and anonymized.
Same here, I can think of a million ways to circumvent DNS blocking. The good thing is, most sites are not gonna adopt them very quickly. Besides, DNS blocking would have value even if all sites started doing that: there's plenty of malware/phishing domains to be blocked and I don't think those have better alternatives!
Last year, I added firewall rules to my router to block:
* Any outbound DNS and DNS-over-TLS requests coming from anything other than my Pi-Hole * Any outbound HTTPS requests to DNS-over-HTTPS providers that I know of
It's surprising how many hits I got to those block rules. Makes me very worried about the adoption of DoH: all its privacy and anti-tampering advantages also apply to devices that violate privacy, like smartphones and smart TVs. I want to keep those under control.
I'm curious about your setup: how many devices do you have in your network that you need a load-balanced Pi-Hole setup!? My RPi4 has been rock-solid, but it sounds it doesn't have to handle nearly as much load as yours. Makes me wonder if my next hardware purchase should be a small server to host a hypervisor instead of a single RPi.
Only keyboard I’ve ever bought more than one of.
I'm using a combo of AdGuard and MalwareBytes on Safari, and Pi-Hole via Wireguard and my browsing experience has been pretty smooth.
Seems the choice would be not to execute the DRM-protected blobs at all.
Wait, how is decrypting the WASM blob illegal?
When I first learned about Myers-Briggs, about 15 years ago, I took the test and I got I wanna say INTJ. About a week later, I took it again and got INTF. A week after that, I took it again and got ENTP. That's when I stopped trusting it, and I can't take it seriously whenever anybody brings it up. Let alone the fact that it was designed by two housewives in the 1910s, based on books by Carl Jung he disavowed himself.
As I've grown older, I've developed a theory about why people like the zodiac sign, Myers-Briggs, blood type personalities and all that other crap: * Sense of belonging - wanting to belong to an in-group * Understanding oneself - these categorizations let you explain your personality really quickly, if not really in depth * Avoiding responsibility for themselves - instead of recognizing your flaws, it's easier to say "well I'm a Libra, what did you expect?"
I can understand the need for the first two, but that last point always makes me angry.
Yeah, seems it’s purpose-tailored to the material. The title made me think it did not interact with the barrier, which raised a ton of weird questions.
It’s too bad, I actually like Calibri quite a bit. Again, it’s not an amazing font but perfectly serviceable.
Looking at the samples they provided in the pictures, I’d say I liked Tenorite, Grandview and Bierstadt the most. Skeena and Seaford I hated, I’m not a fan of serif fonts that inspire them. They look so dated to me.
I have a general distrust of device manufacturers nowadays. Seeing how far some other devices go (phones and smart TVs especially), I think it's a healthy attitude to have.
To give you an example, I recently implemented an allowlist on my firewall so only approved devices can access my WAN. I immediately started seeing frequent dropped packets from my wireless access point (Netgear Nighthawk AX200) and switch (Ubiquiti UniFi 8-port PoE) to Netgear and AWS IPs respectively. While some of that is probably them checking for updates, the volume didn't really seem warranted.
Going back to Apple though... sure, that's the exact reason why I switched. They already charge a premium, so they have less of an incentive to pad their quarterly earnings selling data. But they're still a company, still responding to shareholders, and they already collect certain amount of analytics. There's not that much of a jump from there to selling it, so being careful and mistrusting is probably a good thing IMO.
I made that move earlier this year. TBH, it's not like I trust Apple more than Google or Facebook... but at least for now my interests align better with their business model.
That being said, I've been tempted to get a Motorola Razr flip phone just for the sake of nostalgia, though I would have to root it and remove everything related to Google to feel comfortable with it.