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I gave 4chan a shot again after reading your comment. Seriously the first post that I found was: https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/464559056

How do you filter out the stuff that's clearly coming from insecure teenage brains?

I don't mean literally filtering it as in censoring it, I mean how do you read/navigate this forum in a way where you don't constantly have to read over childish shite?

Can you elaborate on societal coherence in Russia? This in particular piques my interest; what I hear from Russia is that it's a place where any interpersonal conflict is resolved with (verbal) violence.

Scary. Sounds like a "scuba diving for newbies" session I took, where they would literally force you 16 meters underwater with only a quick spoken instruction about how to clear your goggles etc. Hair-raising.

I'm inclined to feel that it's an anti-citizen policy, intended to limit people's mobility, but taking off the tinfoil hat, my conclusion would be: it's wishful thinking policy; lawmakers are hoping that all the practical concerns (power grid limitations, impractical charge times, limited range, rare earth metal depletion, etc.) will be caught by technology.

Try running 'getmail' with a daily cron job. It's an old piece of software, and (at least for me) required an initial `for` loop to catch up with old mail, but it's the best low-maintenance way to backup Gmail AFAIK. Deleting old mail is another story though.

Widevine video encryption really kicked my ass the other day. It's supposed to be bypassable but I've yet to find a practical option that doesn't require hours of fiddling.

If not site:reddit.com, what am I going to type into Google to get any kind of reasonable search result?

Beautiful build, especially the electronics bits

Fascinating hacking work. I adore this article especially because at each step, it explains the reasoning behind it. Comes just at the right time, as I'm studying electrical engineering.

Dutch speakers have enjoyed such a wiki for a long time already: WegenWiki https://www.wegenwiki.nl/Hoofdpagina

The UK's got SABRE: https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Pag...

How do you keep them in check?

So what _does_ represent what's on the web right now? Genuinely curious to learn.

Well, Not Yet But Maybe When They Roll It Out For Everyone Rather Than Just A Subset Of The Population

Always nice when an article answers its own question in the 2nd paragraph.

> there is no viable alternative for people who are (...) very demanding of their tools

How about the simple demand to have a task bar with readable titles instead of icons?

Looks like something out of Alien

Did you get ProSupport? (I think they call it different nowadays) They came by and replaced mine, no questions asked. Same for the Wi-Fi chip, GPU, motherboard and heat dissipator. They even do it worldwide, which is nice when travelling like I often am.

The ultimate 'fuck you' would be for sites like PornHub to split into multiple entities to go under the threshold of 45 million average users per month. That would be nice.

> And we’re extremely excited to share the news that Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, together with colleagues, will be joining Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team.

This seems like the real bit of news here

Wordpress actually provides a database wrapper (I wouldn't call it an ORM) called WPDB, which can use prepared statements.

In practice though, I have found myself on more than one occasion just using PDO in my plugins. WPDB is slower, and its API is weird, like a lot of APIs in Wordpress land are.

Could you be more specific as to what it is that breaks your mental model?

Adding to that:

Stephen Fry. His documentary about bipolar disorder, for instance.

Some food manufacturer that cocked up perhaps?

I agree. It's the only easy-to-understand way to do it _in GnuCash_, _that I could find_, anyway

Some people are talking about OFX, and yes, there are tools for a lot of banks (for example) that convert their various export formats to OFX. However, I prefer it a different way: CSV.

When loading a CSV, GnuCash lets you map each column to the GnuCash-equivalent field. Column mapping configurations can be saved for later reuse.

One nice addition is that you can select columns that contain the _accounts_ related to a transaction. It's pretty easy to have ChatGPT write a script that takes a CSV and categorizes transactions into accounts using some matchint logic.

Splits are a bit trickier as you have to use multiple rows, but doable if you enter a sample transaction first and export it to GnuCash CSV format to see how it should look.

I quickly researched this a couple of months ago and came to the conclusion that using separate accounts was the only easy-to-understand way to do it. So now I have accounts like:

    Hosting Expenses
    [SomeTag] Hosting Expenses

It's nice because its compatible with all the built-in reports, including graphs, though it takes a little while to configure presets for them all filtered by the right accounts.

Also curious to hear if anyone knows a better way.

I wish Netflix had a way to filter out Netflix Originals, because 90% of the time, they are just 'filler', stretched-out garbage.

> The rational choice is to sell.

If you as the owner are already wealthy 'enough', then that is not necessarily the rational choice. It depends how much you care about the future of the business.

In my dreams, if I ran such a noble business, I would hope that I'd have managed to extract enough value from the business to arrange for my own pension by the time others want to acquire it, so I can reject their offers and keep control to safeguard the business's integrity.

On the other hand, we are human. If the acquiring party makes an absolutely life-changing offer, it may be hard to resist. The story of Nullsoft and AOL comes to mind.

Is there a place you share your playlists? Would be curious to have a listen.