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oaththrowaway··on FedNow Is Live
I assume that the TTL of the money would reset once it has changed hands
oaththrowaway··on Cool, but obscure X11 tools (2019)
XBill is one I had forgotten about for a long time
oaththrowaway··on Calls to investigate tax sites for sharing financial information with Meta
They'd do anything for a sniff of your 3rd grade report card. Of course they want your tax info
oaththrowaway··on Ask HN: Are you tired of being fully remote?
I've been remote for about 8 years now. I never thought I would get tired of it, but the last few years have been draining.

My previous job had some mandatory travel every few months which was great to get out and be around the team I worked with. My current job is happy to never get everyone together and I miss it.

oaththrowaway··on Shreddit is a Python program to remove all your Reddit comments
If deleting my comments makes reddit painful to use then it hurts reddit in the end... But it seems to be affecting you on a personal level so I'll start doing it more now
oaththrowaway··on Shreddit is a Python program to remove all your Reddit comments
Sure. Why should Reddit profit off of my content?
oaththrowaway··on Shreddit is a Python program to remove all your Reddit comments
I don't care about what someone else considers ethical. If I'm making Reddit worse it's all good with me
oaththrowaway··on Shreddit is a Python program to remove all your Reddit comments
Sometimes I need to ask a question on niche communities that don't have a Discord or forum
oaththrowaway··on Shreddit is a Python program to remove all your Reddit comments
I think once my mobile Reddit client stops working I'll stop using it.
oaththrowaway··on Shreddit is a Python program to remove all your Reddit comments
I try my best to be constructive now
oaththrowaway··on Shreddit is a Python program to remove all your Reddit comments
I've been using Shreddit to edit and delete my reddit comments at 5pm every day.

Couple of reasons:

* Keeps me disinterested from caring about karma and making comments all the time (basically keeps me a lurker)

* Prevents me from adding any value to Reddit who I hate as a company

* Since I don't leave comments it lessens the time I spend on the site

* Once I had my first kid I realized that my discourses online were pretty "unkind" and I realized that if my kids looked me up as teenagers I'd be pretty embarrassed. I went on a spree of removing all traces of myself online and now I just use throwaway accounts everywhere.

oaththrowaway··on Aurora Store Accounts Blocked by Google
No
oaththrowaway··on Ask HN: What is your proudest little invention or discovery?
Maybe not the proudest, but I thought I was pretty clever when I was younger...

Years ago I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to get a Kindle to "Whispersync" sideloaded books. Eventually I figured out it was as simple as having an ASIN included in the books metadata (Calibre does this automatically now, but it was fun figuring it out manually with Python scripts).

Originally I thought the ASIN had to be valid, but eventually realized it didn't even matter, just had to match the pattern.

oaththrowaway··on Spotify-Qt
That is a fun fact. Scumm games were a big part of my childhood.
oaththrowaway··on A bacterial culprit for rheumatoid arthritis?
I know a lady who has 9 children. She loves being a mom, but she also loved being pregnant because it was the only thing that helped her RA
oaththrowaway··on EmuDeck 2.1: Steam Deck emulation installer
AKAIK, SteamOS 3 hasn't been released publicly, and this is SteamOS 2 which is Debian based instead of Arch
oaththrowaway··on The Best Pens for 2023: Gel, Ballpoint, Rollerball, and Fountain Pens
Pilot G2 .38 or .5 for me
oaththrowaway··on Police sue rapper Afroman for using footage of home raid in his music videos
The lack of self awareness by the officers is actually pretty impressive
oaththrowaway··on These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us
What's the threshold where me owning a truck is okay to you? 10% "truck" things? 50%?
oaththrowaway··on These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us
I live in a rural area and own a truck. I guess I'm the devil?
oaththrowaway··on Who owns private home security footage, and who can get access to it?
I'm also running Frigate and I've helped 2 other people set it up. Pretty slick if you have a Coral
oaththrowaway··on Self-Host All the Things?
Part of it is that I'm running a gaming VM on it and passing through a GPU to that. Plus I have another GPU for transcoding my media to HEVC. Lots of RAM for all the containers as well.

I also wrote my own container that I use for all my development so I like to keep it snappy for that.

I have about 20TB of platter storage (WD Reds) + parity, and 2TB of SSD cache (an additional 2TB SSD passed into the gaming vm)

It slowly adds up. I started with a Raspberry Pi and a USB hard drive as storage.

oaththrowaway··on Self-Host All the Things?
I self host most everything through unRAID. I spent a good amount of money getting a good server setup. The only thing I rely on the cloud for is email.

I've gone through several iterations of hardware and hard drive capacity over about 7-8 years now. Hard to imagine I'll ever go back.

It's not even about the monthly subscriptions, I've spent more on hardware I'm sure, plus my monthly VPN and Usenet fees. It's really an exhaustion of SaaS becoming essentially keyloggers of our entire lives. I guess self hosting is the closest we have of opting out, but even then it's not enough.

oaththrowaway··on Banning words won’t make the world more just
Regardless of who created it, I've never seen a non-white person use it. My wife is Hispanic, and it has been offensive to her and her family.
oaththrowaway··on Banning words won’t make the world more just
White people colonizing another language to virtue signal isn't inflammatory to you?
oaththrowaway··on Microsoft somehow brings iMessage to Windows – will it last?
Removed SMS support from the app
oaththrowaway··on Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder letter 2022 [pdf]
I was the one that said the newsletter wasn't lobbying. Someone else made that point
oaththrowaway··on Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder letter 2022 [pdf]
Why does it not make a difference to bribe politicians? That's the whole point of lobbying isn't it?
oaththrowaway··on Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder letter 2022 [pdf]
It's objectively not a problem. It just reeks of virtue signaling to me. But I'm not a billionaire so my opinions don't matter much in this country
oaththrowaway··on Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder letter 2022 [pdf]
Are they lobbying for that or just writing it like it's a dream?
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