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dexterdog··on Organic Maps
My problem is that more often than not the road or business name I'm trying to find us just not in the database. If I'm at home I'll try to add it but if I'm driving that is not going to happen and I'll just use something else.
dexterdog··on Leaking YouTube creators' private videos
How is this remotely related? This is not a safety issue.
dexterdog··on Costco is the anti-Amazon
Order whole foods from them. They will pack 6 things in 4 reusable insulated bags. The problem is there is no way to send those bags back to be reused.
dexterdog··on Costco is the anti-Amazon
It might, but I go to Costco every 3-4 weeks. If I depended on Amazon for everything I'd be getting multiple deliveries per day because there is no disincentive to doing that.
dexterdog··on SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine
I've been self hosting this as my default engine across all of my searches for a few years now. I can't recommend it more highly.
dexterdog··on Half-Baked Product
Sounds great until a hard decision has to be made.
dexterdog··on Virginia bans sale of geolocation data
Which is crazy because when I do 80 in Mostly PA and NJ I am getting passed constantly.
dexterdog··on Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep
There are ad reads as part of at least half of the videos I watch. Fortunately sponsorblock takes care of most of them.
dexterdog··on Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep
Paying for YouTube does not get rid of ads. Only using sponsor block does.
dexterdog··on Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads
Plus you can de-google those things in a few minutes and make them as barebones as you want. I have a bunch of them connected to all of the TVs that I manage for my family and friends.
dexterdog··on Want your images back? Sure... That'll be $5!
Not only that, but there is a cost for retrieval and transmission especially if you are in cold storage. It's much cheaper to just mark it for deletion than it is to get it back.
dexterdog··on Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them
Not if they commit the kinds of market fraud that Musk's companies have.
dexterdog··on The perils of UUID primary keys in SQLite
The integer is a UTC time so it can be sorted. If you need the time zone you store than in a smaller field.
dexterdog··on The perils of UUID primary keys in SQLite
It's just s dumb as storing dates as strings, but people still do it.
dexterdog··on What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications
SMS should not be considered sensitive data since it can be read by entities between you and the source.
dexterdog··on What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications
I would, but I don't need to know immediately. Plus you have the other vector of my phone sitting on a table and showing the notification to a person who can see it when they are trying to login as me.
dexterdog··on Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence
The main relationship is to all gambling. Sports likely gets assumed to make it worse because people still believe the myth that the Super Bowl is the worst DV day of the year.
dexterdog··on Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users
Not OP, but I've been on GrapheneOS for a few years and I have no problem with Chase, CiT or Wealthfront. I mostly use them to check balances and unlock debit cards, but they all login and function fine.
dexterdog··on Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI
And I aim to be the one that eats you
dexterdog··on Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI
99% of people who follow that are still completely dependent on the world order and will be just as screwed as everybody else if everything goes tits-up.
dexterdog··on CNN founder Ted Turner, a pioneer of cable TV news, dies at 87
And then you couldn't get to their home page because they got hammered by traffic. They eventually slimmed the page down to just the main story and you could get it to load eventually.
dexterdog··on US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants
And in some countries people are only given a choice of two, neither of which benefit the population.
dexterdog··on How does GPS work?
Yeah, they're doing some kind of nonsense to avoid scraping which also blocks any browser setup for any kind of privacy. I even tried reloading the page with ublock turned off and it still did it so I moved on to something else.
dexterdog··on Filing the corners off my MacBooks
Yes, the black will wind up 2-tone when you get through the top layer. Mine get silvery to the sides of my trackpad from hand friction over time. I like the laptop in black, but silver ages far better.
dexterdog··on Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
DTF STL is a fantastic show as are all of the series done by Steven Conrad.
dexterdog··on Chrome DevTools MCP
I wouldn't call it an arms race. I don't update my client that often and I rarely have problems downloading any video with it.
dexterdog··on Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV
There are also solutions for blocking ads without subscribing to premium.
dexterdog··on I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services
But it gives you access to almost none of your actual files
dexterdog··on Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store
How would most people know what works best? Most people are only using one.
dexterdog··on Obsidian Sync now has a headless client
Why not? I've used it between my desktops and my phone with no problem for years.
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