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evulhotdog··on Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood?
OP commented, confirming that they were Mormon.
evulhotdog··on Apple's iMessage avoids EU's Digital Markets Act regulation
The same goes for in the US, but it certainly is portrayed different there.
evulhotdog··on Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible "forever"
There was a related post a few weeks ago, and someone mentioned that it shouldn’t be called buying, but _renting_ the content. Since it can be removed from you any point and time for any reason.
evulhotdog··on How we had our Nectar Points stolen, and this is how yours will be too
The other part of this about “saving” points for anything that I’ve learned is that they will generally never increase in value. Most companies are not going to give millions of dollars away by doing that, so it’s usually worth it to spend the points as soon as you can, to recognize their current value (and not less.)
evulhotdog··on Flent: The FLExible Network Tester
Dslreport’s speed test also does bufferbloat testing.
evulhotdog··on Technitium DNS Server: Self host a DNS server for privacy and security
Defense in depth.
evulhotdog··on Wine 9.0 RC5 – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS
That feels very risky, but I’m glad it worked!

What was the backup plan if something went wrong?

evulhotdog··on Restic – Simple Backups
Kopia is a wonderful alternative written in Go that has a great cli and gui to boot.
evulhotdog··on The right to use adblockers
If only it gracefully supported profiles in a similar way to Chrome. Having two binaries running gets real funky when you want to open a page in whatever browser window you recently used, which also happens to be the most recent profile, too.
evulhotdog··on Nobody Knows What's Happening Online Anymore
Paywall, here ya go: https://archive.ph/wyoId
evulhotdog··on Beginner's guide to arguing constructively (2020)
Right. If it’s something that you, yourself are interested in investigating further then you take it upon yourself to do so, but the burden of proof can’t be placed upon you by someone else.
evulhotdog··on Smart TV Knows What You're Watching
For this reason, I keep the TV “dumb” and keep it air-gapped. I then use other devices which probably have their own privacy issues like Nvidia Shield. Which is the lesser evil?
evulhotdog··on Kiss announces digital avatars to perform in their place after retirement
I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or serious.
evulhotdog··on Show HN: AI Garage Sale – Haggle with AI to buy real products
I got the same, except it started at $42.

I think putting an item jn that it has a direct monetary value probably isn’t the best idea, and haggling is a bit redundant when the value is clearly known.

evulhotdog··on Shein Files for U.S. IPO
I don’t feel that Uniqlo is in the same category as H&M, as is higher quality.
evulhotdog··on The $55M saga of a Netflix series nobody will ever see
I personally use Trakt.tv to see popular and trending content. Then you don’t have to pilfer through each individual app or service.

The other plus side is that this is content that people are actually watching (via marking as watched for tracking or scrobbling) so you also get the positive benefit of seeing what people are watching, not just things that Netflix or other providers want you to watch or who has paid the top dollar for your eyeballs.

evulhotdog··on The $55M saga of a Netflix series nobody will ever see
Streamio in conjunction with real debrid and there’s little risk, with the library of the world at your fingertips.

It’s the one stop shop that you would hope that all the streaming services could be, if they teamed up and split profits based upon views.

evulhotdog··on The $55M saga of a Netflix series nobody will ever see
A google search of a show or movie often provides some results about where you can watch content, although I’m sure it is not as comprehensive.

I think the root of the problem still exists though, that everything is so incredibly fragmented that you’re nickel and dimed to death.

evulhotdog··on What has changed in CPU cores in M3 chips?
You can double click the cpu graph at the bottom of the process list, which is probably quicker than going through the menu bar.
evulhotdog··on NY Federal Court: There's a Right to Record Police, Also Inside Station Lobbies
Long Island Audit is the fella this trial was about.
evulhotdog··on Irving on Helen, Ilya, and Sam
Unrelated to the actual topic at hand, it’s mind blowing how much better nitter is in usability, speed, and user experience.
evulhotdog··on Show HN: Etcha – Infinite scale, serverless config management
Check out ansible-pull, which is installed by default with Ansible.
evulhotdog··on Nolan Says Buy Oppenheimer on Blu-ray So No Evil Streaming Service Can Steal It
With the *arr suite, you probably spend more time legally buying it on eBay than if you were to pirate it.
evulhotdog··on Americans are confused, frustrated by new tipping culture, study finds
See this comment, which explains why it happens and resolutions, which are all workarounds: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38235283
evulhotdog··on Americans are confused, frustrated by new tipping culture, study finds
I continue to get the recaptcha loop on most of these archive links. Does anybody have any workarounds when using CloudFlare’s DNS?
evulhotdog··on Why doctors in America earn so much
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but specific to ECG, it does not actually require a trained physician or even a nurse to read, legally within the US. It can be basically anybody that the overseeing physician deems appropriate. Could be basically anybody.
evulhotdog··on Bitwarden adds support for passkeys
You don’t, and they’re not really hiding anything from anybody who has any knowledge in the security space.
evulhotdog··on Show HN: Cheap Flights finder bot with Python
Or test before you share with the world.
evulhotdog··on Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf
For those of you who use Android TV devices, SmartTube is a wonderful (side loaded) option which supports both hardcoded ad skipping as well as the standard YouTube ads.

Completely unaffiliated, just a happy user.

evulhotdog··on Ask HN: What's the coolest physical thing you've made?
The eBay listing is dead, so I have to ask… what did it sell for?!
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