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Won't that be impossible as long as VPN is viable?

Public transit like buses and lightrail are significantly more efficient per person than personal vehicles.

I would be interested to see a study on that. I see many buses driving around with zero or one passengers on them. If a bus is full, the efficiency would be off the charts. But for a city like Portland, that only happens during commute times. The rest of the time, the buses are driving around empty.

But FLOSS software is mainly made by developers. Who [...] are awful at UX

Doesn't UX depend on the target user and product? To take vi or emacs as examples, they have incredibly steep learning curves, but I think many of their users would consider their UXes to be very good.

The hard UX challenge is making a product that can satisfy novice users and power users at the same time. Here I agree that developers most likely have a tendency to develop for their own tastes.

IMO, products like Outlook used to good at satisfying most people out-of-the-box, but have become less good with recent releases.

The Fed's interest rate goal (which is half of their dual mandate) is 2%.

There are still several 2% cards that don’t require Apple Pay, although I don’t know of any with no foreign exchange fee other than maybe the Fidelity one.

The Bread American Express is a 2% card and no FTF. Fidelity is still the best overall card, but sometimes the AmEx can be nice.

I have a very similar setup, but using gnus, mbsync, notmuch, and afew. All mail stays on the servers (including a self-hosted dovecot server on my home network). I manage about 10 email accounts with very little effort. It's easy to get extremely customized behavior by overriding defaults with elisp. Previously I was using Thunderbird, but I feel my emacs setup is much more productive.

+1 for emacs-bedrock! It helped me get started with reasonable defaults out-of-box. From there, I started adjusting it to my own needs.

Discovered Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC edition recently. It's great! It is supposed to get security updates through 2032. It doesn't have Cortana, OneDrive, CoPilot, Edge, etc. (Which is a good thing IMO.) Nor does it require a cloud account to use.

Overly-anthropomorphised dialog boxes (such as pop-up offers on web sites, not so much on operating system controls) bug me in the same way. Instead of "Yes, please" and "No, thank you" buttons, I would prefer simply "Yes" and "No". I'm giving orders to a machine not talking to a person!

With NIIT, it's an additional 3.8% on top of that (for the highest income filers). So 23.8%.

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/questions-and-answers-on-the-ne...

gnus (on emacs) is pretty good. But it may require an entire lifestyle change :)

The beauty of gnus is that it's elisp all the way down. So if you don't like something, it's most likely configurable.

My point is less about where the money goes and more about not subsidizing cheap Chinese shipping.

FWIW, most of the packages I've bought from AliExpress over the last 6 months have been delivered by private couriers (like OnTrac for packages from China or UPS for packages from the US).

I have a hunch that AliExpress hasn't been using USPS shipping for a while now.

Just to get the numbers right: [0] there is a $25 minimum, that becomes $50 June 1st, on all packages below or at $800.

Things are changing very quickly, so it's hard to keep up. But I believe this was revised on April 9th to $100 dollars a package from HK or PRC on May 2, and $200 a package starting June 1.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/modi...

(b) increase the per postal item containing goods duty in section 2(c)(ii) of Executive Order 14256, as modified by the Executive Order dated April 8, 2025, that is in effect on or after 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on May 2, 2025, and before 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on June 1, 2025, from 75 dollars to 100 dollars; and

(c) increase the per postal item containing goods duty in section 2(c)(ii) of Executive Order 14256, as modified by the Executive Order dated April 8, 2025, that is in effect on or after 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on June 1, 2025, from 150 dollars to 200 dollars.

On the one hand the guy in OP article didn’t have documentation and he illegally crossed the border, so what do you do as ICE? The guy claims he is a US citizen, but I bet you a lot of illegal immigrants without documentation claim they are a US citizen as well.

For what it's worth, OP article says that the court documents claim he admitted to entering the country illegal. Guy himself denies this.

Court documents say a Border Patrol agent arrested Hermosillo “at or near Nogales, Arizona, without proper immigration documents” and that Hermosillo admitted to illegally entering the U.S.

Hermosillo and his girlfriend, who have a 9-month-old child together, live in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and are visiting family in Tucson. He says he has never been to Nogales.

Did my taxes with taxes.cashapp.com this year. I recommend it. It's free to file both federal and state. It handled my complex tax return, including rental income with depreciation, RSUs, ESPP, section 1256 contracts, etc. And it can import last year's info from a TurboTax or other PDF.

Oh and it comes with 1-year of free audit defense as well.

I'm not sure what their long-term business stategy is, but I would rather pay them than TurboTax. I find Intuit's political lobbying distasteful.

I like darktable as a Lightroom alternative.

Many B2B transactions are tax-exempt but it's complicated. And gets really complicated once international transactions are considered. And also whether the company has a physical nexus in the place the product is being purchased. All in all, I think it would be simpler if the US adopted VAT. But that seems very unlikely.

Because VAT is collected at the border on imports, some people (wrongly) consider VATs a tariff. Considering that VAT is rebated on exports, VATs are trade neutral.

Sales tax as implemented in the US is not as tax efficient as VAT due to the impact of sales taxation on intermediate transactions during manufacturing. VAT only taxes the incrementally the value added at each transaction) whereas sales tax applies to the entire value at each stage.

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Would alttab meet your needs? I've been using it with xmonad and it works well. https://github.com/sagb/alttab

Tesla is still up compared to where it was a year ago.

$TSLA was $222 on 2020-12-29. Since Tesla does not pay a dividend, one could have made a lot more money investing in Treasuries over that time.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA/history/?period1=160678...

Fidelity Cash Management has a 4.5% yield (which is also state-tax free for those in states with income tax, which could be a boost of up to 0.5% for some).

I've been wearing the same N95 duckbill for about 3 years now. It is getting a bit dirty but structurally it's fine. I don't wear it every day though, only in what I deem high-risk situations. Its construction is much more robust than the around-the-ears N95s.

I think one could reasonably stretch out a box of 20 duckbills for a whole year even if worn daily. They are about $1 each. While I could see that there would be places that $20/year would be too much, I don't think money is the barrier here. People just don't like wearing masks (especially respirators, which are bulkier) for many reasons.

Does virt-install automatically download the ISOs? When I try it, I get the following message:

    $ virt-install --name alma9 --memory 1536 --vcpus 1 --disk path=$PWD/alma9.img,size=20 --cdrom alma9.iso --unattended
    ERROR    Validating install media 'alma9.iso' failed: Must specify storage creation parameters for non-existent path '/home/foo/alma9.iso'.

man configuration.nix

Then use the search function of the pager.

Check out marginalia[1]. Whenever you press M-x, it will pop up a buffer showing all the commands (with most recent ones on top) along with their keybindings and a brief description of what they do.

Embark[2] is also cool. It will show all the possible commands relevant to where the cursor is at that moment. I bind it to C-c a.

[1] https://github.com/minad/marginalia [2] https://github.com/oantolin/embark

The video adds a lot of extra stuff beyond what is in the NY Times video: There is an interview with one of the test takers; a description of three possible correct answers (1, 3, or 4, depending on the perspective); a video demonstration of several ways to compute it; and an interesting discussion about sidereal time.

Not that you were implying otherwise, but in this case I feel the video adds quite a bit more material and a more complete story beyond the NY Times piece. In reading the NY Times piece, I would leave with the conclusion that the correct answer was not one of the options. After watching the video, I would leave with the conclusion that the question was ambiguously written leading to multiple possible answers, one of which was there, but two other valid answers were not there.

The guy interviewed in the video said he answered "3", but then later when asked, said he got an 800 (perfect score). So he must have answered every other question correctly!

WPA2 uses AES-CCMP-128 which is not efficient (or even feasible) for high data rates as it cannot be parallelized. WPA3 uses GCMP-128 or GCMP-256, which (in the case of 256-bit) is stronger security and also can achieve gigabit level speeds or higher due to being able to parallelize the encryption.

WPA2 is susceptible to offline-dictionary attack and the cost is quite low (less than $10), especially with cloud computing. WPA3 is resistant to offline dictionary attack.

If an adversary knows the WPA2 passphrase, the adversary can eavesdrop on connections between the AP device and the station device. In comparison, in WPA3, even if an adversary knows the passphrase, the adversary will not be able to decrypt communications between the AP and the station device. The adversary is still able to gain access to the network, but the attack surface area has been reduced.

WPA3 uses HMAC-SHA256 for key derivation, whereas WPA2 uses HMAC-SHA1. NIST and other cryptography agencies have recommended against the use of SHA1 in cryptographic systems due to known weaknesses.

WPA3 has many advantages over WPA2. In addition, most of the implementation for WPA3 is in software and also available as open source.

I do something similar, but I use a bash script with rofi to display a menu of available profiles. I then bind a hotkey (Super-Shift-P for Profiles) that launches the script.

I use Firefox for my daily driver, but for profiles I use librewolf. This makes it easier to keep things separated when using the window manager to switch between windows of the same class (which I bind to Super-`).

#!/usr/bin/env bash

  BROWSER="librewolf"
  
  typeset -A menu
  # empty value means value is the same as the key
  menu["personal"]=""
  menu["banking"]=""
  
  rofi_args=(
      -p "$BROWSER profile"
      -dmenu
      -i         # case-insensitive
      -font "Hack 20"
  )
  
  if selection=$(printf "%s\n" "${!menu[@]}" | sort -u | rofi "${rofi_args[@]}"); then
      profile=${menu[$selection]}
      profile=${profile:-$selection}
      nohup "$BROWSER" -P "$profile" &>/dev/null &
  fi