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but the nyc website has a one-button "file a complaint". think it will make a difference?

get a gl.inet router

they are not prohibitively expensive and have a version of openwrt installed

if anything, you are sure to be able to install openwrt on them yourself

if you get good at openwrt you can install it on other parts of your home network like the zyxel gs1900 series switches for up to 48 ports

the reason not to install off-the-shelf consumer routers is privacy, security and enshittification

so... I have a sort of rule for scripts I write.

shell - simple scripts of a low size/complexity

readable.

exceed that and I switch to python. Right off the bat, argparse and os.path make so many things reliable/secure/better.

Thing is, some of my coworkers don't know linux, so AI writes their scripts.

When I'm consulted on a review, it is pages and pages of shell scripts.

It is not easily readable stuff. There are lots of obscure/advanced bash features, like "if [[", and arrays and set (wierd option) and more...

I have to slog through it like I'm reviewing 100m of dense line noise. I despair. Even reading the CRC handbook or war and peace would be more pleasurable.

And in the end it is like reading a hostile privacy policy that I am obliged to accept.

I've always wondered if bash/zsh/etc should have a "strict path" setting.

Meaning everything in the path should resolve to sane stuff, like no relative paths, don't allow PATH=.:$PATH and no literal '~' characters (or even space/etc?) maybe check all are directories and exist.

I think they do it with CSS

Who knows, if they've been around for 270 years, they might use troff like research papers.

This is how the exponential growth of technology works. It helps the valuation.

You yell “cloud!” in my direction.

I listen.

then I regret listening. Same for "smart" or "we have an app" or "you have a choice about cookies" or...

We are drowning in this. I remember in the beginning, people pushed back. Now we don't even push back. We do anything (programmed?) to get past it.

A friend of mine told me she was watching TV (whatever that means)

Instead of an advertisement dialog with SKIP and a timer, she was offered "which ad do you like better A or B"

she didn't want to make a choice/give any information, and just sat through it all until it dismissed itself.

"I listen" has been weaponized and now you have to listen.

DELIBERATELY terrible UI

I wonder if you could get claude to serve up amazon in a reasonable way:

- the search terms you asked for

- filter out results you want to remove

- no sponsored results

- no recommendations

for example, say I don't want "smart" <something>. I can't get rid of them from the results. "not smart" uses smart as a search term. Not only that, amazon devices always show up, I drown in sponsored results, and a good part of the page is my shopping cart, recommendations, and sometimes ask alexa popups.

Amazon does not want this. The more stuff you wade through, the more ad revenue they get. The more impulse sales they get. The more amazon devices they sell. (and then amazon devices become a surveillance cash register sitting in your house)

I remember his older stuff.

I liked when he was a normal guy being chased through an out-of-control situation.

But I think this happens with a lot of actors when they get really popular. The studios hire popular actors for super-alpha-male-top-dog roles.

Maybe he wants the roles that chuck norris/schwarzenegger would normally get, but in my mind he doesn't fit those roles.

Amusingly it goes the other way quite easily - schwarzenegger can actually do well in a kindergarten classroom.

IP = intellectual property, not some DHCP lease or ISP change

I can see that. Before linux, there were lots of versions of unix from all kinds of vendors.

I'll bet all kinds of government contracts needed some way to compare vendors bidding on a contract

for example:

- These ran UTX-32, Gould's version of Unix based on a BSD 4.2 kernel developed by Gould's UNIX development centre in Urbana-Champaign (IL) to support multiprocessor systems

- AIX is based on UNIX System V with 4.3BSD-compatible extensions.

- DG/UX 1.00, released by Data General in March 1985, was based on UNIX System V Release 2 with additions from 4.1BSD.

- HP-UX (from "Hewlett Packard Unix") is a discontinued proprietary implementation of the Unix operating system developed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise

- Xenix is based on the operating system UNIX System V, which Microsoft licensed from AT&T Corporation in the late 1970s.

Wow, that might explain a lot of foreign foods.

I remember eating some japanese sweet things full of itols and wondering why they chose those ingredients. Either expensive sugar taxes or expensive sugar?

I remember reading about california's Proposition 13, where both homeowners and commercial developers got a long-term lower property tax. The tax increases for continuous ownership would be modest, and only selling would reassess the tax value.

It was supposed to be for aging old people who were forced to move because they couldn't afford the taxes as their homes increased in valuation.

But commercial was also included, with the thought that lower taxes would let landlords pass the benefits onto the tenants.

But they never did, they just pocketed the savings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13...

In addition, commercial properties would be owned by immortal corporations, which would change hands without reassessing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13...

huh. look at that.

I get frustrated too. I avoid aspartame/sucralose/etc... then it turns out they have stevia/monk fruit extract/etc

oh, and there are some other ones that you might want to avoid.

A low FODMAP diet would cut out not only fructose, but lactose and the -itols like sorbitol, xylitol, and mannitol

F DE - Fantastic Driving Experience

same here.

also, when I was young I worried I might have herpes or something, but doctor told me canker sores are different from cold sores. Later in life, turns out there might be a chance I have crohns?

just amazing - good work!

...and wonder what kinds of settings "restrictive regimes" will use

I could imagine stuff like com.apple.voicemail.imap use SSL => false

The problem I had was figuring if a product had Sodium Lauryl Sulfate.

I found that if I wash my sheets with detergents with it, the first night my sheets make me feel like I'm sleeping with a sunburn.

Apparently toothpaste with SLS might cause canker sores.

It is deliberately hard to determine!

lol, here's a website:

https://namephantom.com/other-names-for-sodium-lauryl-sulfat...

they use different names on purpose.

I've always kind of wondered if it would be possible to invent some kind of fungus or bacteria that eats tnt, and just let it eat away.

> like trying to understand someone else's messy code that still produces the correct output.

I have read many research papers in computer science, and the code there is written in math symbols... and my sentiment aligns exactly with yours

The prize in economics is even more different, "in memory of alfred nobel"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Econom...

right, like self-installation.

"hey exo, download me!"

"upload me into bed!"

older people have money...

beer arm lifter.

grocery bag arm hooks.

dance instructor with couples integration for toe avoidance. [skeptical spouse sales pitch]

seat getter outer. (and toilet sitter downer)

When we talked about no credit cards/cash only etc he did not do phone apps.

I think he recently did venmo and something else? a recent thing like a month or so.

perfect person to sell to advertisers.

Like the people who reply to nigerian emails have already been pre-qualified by 1) ignoring the misspellings and 2) replying.

> "i'll bring down ram prices"

wonder what voting would be like?

gamer vote ++

datacenter hater vote --

datacenter lobby ++

micron lobby --

hmmm... looked up current stuff. I didn't know all the issues.

Looks like 5 year reliability: ICE > non-plugin hybrid > pure EV > plugin hybrid

But EVs seem ok 5+ years

I found this article interesting:

https://autoedgeview.com/ev-reviews/consumer-reports-ev-reli...

We need to have RCAPTCHA where the recruiter is quizzed on job images.

CLICK ON ALL IMAGES OF DEVOPS PIPELINES

CLICK ON ALL THE OKR IMAGES

i thought a balcony solar law just passed in california, might be interesting to see how that goes.

I liked laws like the fcc(?) law years ago that said you could have a satellite dish and an HOA couldn't prevent it. we need more laws like it in favor of common sense/good over HOA nonsense.