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dwedge··on Deodands put a price on objects that caused death
> I think that it has much more to do with the decline of superstition from roughly the second half of the 18th century on -- courts began to view the old law as an irrational relic, and it gradually fell out of legal fashion.

From the comment they replied to. You should question this one level higher

dwedge··on Minimal Phone 2
I did that and now constantly check hacker news
dwedge··on Minimal Phone 2
I kind of like the idea of this being a reflash to install apps, if that's how it works it makes it more intentional.

Though you can probably just install Aurora Store or F-Droid and install from there. Some apps don't work (you'll notice they didn't show Uber in the examples) and recently I've been having issues with Aurora and suspect its days are numbered so I'd be concerned about the future of that before buying something like this.

dwedge··on Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep
Are you sure it was the proxy and not JavaScript in your browser? I've seen similar behaviour from one particular website where using it in a certain way causes it to process a lot of data slowly and block the main thread. This somehow persisted across tabs, even if I closed all the tabs and tried again that site was still hanging until that process finished. But if I used incognito or another browser it would he responsive.

It might be something similar if all of your sites are subdomains. Try incognito at the same time next time

dwedge··on Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep
Never even noticed that was missing and it's probably why nobody else uses it. I took it from https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/xyepiu/cherry_a... and https://cherry.haishan.me/ and just worked from the Dockerfile
dwedge··on Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep
It feels like I'm the only person using this but I'd like to throw another potential bookmark manager integration into the ring, cherry https://github.com/haishanh/cherry
dwedge··on Rate limits on GitLab.com are changing
It only proves your point because it wasn't successful in the end, but I really enjoyed the experience on app.net (a paid version of Twitter) while it still existed. Personally I think they lost it where a lot of these alternative platforms lose it - they try to build an ecosystem that is always coming soon and ends up scattered instead of focusing on one product
dwedge··on CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3
I'd never heard of GNU Taler but the FAQ left me even more confused.

> Can I send money to my friends with Taler? Taler supports push and pull payments between wallets (also known as peer-to-peer payments). While the payment appears to be directly between wallets, technically the operation is intermediated by the payment service provider which will typically be legally required to identify the recipient of the funds before allowing the transaction to complete.

Also the funds have an expiration date (forced spending). Who is this for? My naive read seems like it has all the downsides of bitcoin and more with none of its upsides

dwedge··on A coffee shop owner used AI to make a menu poster. Then came the angry DMs
> She was up during the night pumping for her three-month-old baby and was scrolling through the comments and DMs, horrified. "At 4 a.m., I was holding my pump on my lap and replying to this person, 'I'm so sorry. I didn't mean it that way,'" she told me. "I was so into typing this message that I produced so much milk, it was dripping

Articles like this always rub me the wrong way. I don't know the term for it, but I feel you should be able to make the point without making us picture a new mother getting stressed breast pumping in the middle of the night.

dwedge··on Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing
This comment thread is one example and not out of recent character
dwedge··on Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing
They have twice (that I'm aware of) tried rebranding as an advertising company. They are funded by Google (though not _necessarily_ influenced by them). There was an article in LWN by them about (in part) how they can't get enough information about users of Thunderbird so they were suggesting telemetry should be enabled by default and opt out instead of opt in because most people won't opt out.

I think they get a lot of credit because they aren't Google and not enough push back

dwedge··on Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing
These are two companies that seem to be slipping in ethics recently. I'd prefer this over a chrome and openai offering, but I no longer trust these two to necessarily do the right thing regarding privacy
dwedge··on We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub
If there is anything that was a crime (and it totally depends on jurisdiction), it was verifying the key. They used it to see what it could access, and by using it they had unauthorised access to a system
dwedge··on Steam Frame starts at $1059
Not just blind in one eye, people with squints can often only see out of one eye (either, just not both)
dwedge··on Steam Frame starts at $1059
This might be a stupid question, but presumably this (and similar devices) won't cater to people without 3D vision?
dwedge··on Base84 deserves a place in file names
One of my apps uses base64 filenames just to avoid any issue with shell (the filename comes from POST and could be anything). Not the usecase of base84 but one that I couldn't use base84 for.
dwedge··on Base84 deserves a place in file names
Mostly consistency in knowing that Foo will become foo. This is a problem when it comes to (for example) supporting devs on Windows working on a codebase with prod on Linux. The database dbCustomer would be renamed dbcustomer on Windows.

There are workarounds, and containerization is a better idea, but you asked why you might want this.

dwedge··on Data collected by cars and sold to third parties
> Privacy NoticeWe and our 179 partners store and access personal data.

Fair to say the verge don't really care about data being collected and sold they just want the clicks

dwedge··on I Added a Non-Wi-Fi Mitsubishi AC to Home Assistant
It seems pretty easy to throw in an earliest time to trigger it
dwedge··on I added a non-wi-fi Mitsubishi AC to Home Assistant
> Now, she opens her bedroom door, I get “kid is awake” alert on my phone, and the machine brews the coffee.

Out of all of the smart home threads and articles I've read over the years this is the only sentence that made me wish I had it. It's genius

dwedge··on LG Says We're Fake News [video]
Projectors if they work for your home
dwedge··on google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
They injected crypto donate buttons below, for example, tweets to make them look like twitter had a donate option. The sites were sent over https, it was mitm
dwedge··on Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun"
> Person with obvious head injury and slurring speech wants to go home instead of the hospital? Sure.

When I was a teenager working in a taxi office some guy came in slurring and covered in blood. I phoned him an ambulance and after 15 minutes of waiting he got up and walked out despite my protests. How should I have reacted?

dwedge··on I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots
Considering the question was "has that every happened?" regarding the police getting a report and you having to explain the proxy to them, I guess you mean the answer is yes and your attitude is misplaced?
dwedge··on LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'
I tried doing this and the video stutter on a raspberry pi made it too annoying. Probably better off using an N100
dwedge··on I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots
It's a possibility. I don't know about CSAM but I know someone who was arrested for death threats sent to a politician after running a tor exit node. Eventually not charged, but he lost all his computing equipment for a couple of months
dwedge··on I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots
Probably not. But do you really want the hassle of explaining the proxy to the police when they get a report of CSAM content uploaded from your IP?
dwedge··on google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
Also if the domain responds on the bare IP or there's nothing else they've seen on that IP it's a fair assumption. This is without even wondering if their router sends telemetry
dwedge··on google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
Ironic that I'd need something like that to stop getting blocked from a residential IP
dwedge··on google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
Do they still mitm sites to put their brave crypto donation buttons on, so you think a content creator is getting the money?
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