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xanaxagoras··on Beeper vs. Apple battle intensifies: Lawmakers demand DOJ investigation
But public utilities are a human right!
xanaxagoras··on Tell HN: HP printers force you into agreement
I do this to give a HL-2270DW air print capabilities. Tiny VM on my home server, works great.
xanaxagoras··on 3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror
The first torrent has a 2gb SQL database called index
xanaxagoras··on Twilio to lay off 11% of workforce
> The first is that some white people who were affected will believe it was because of their race.

It literally was because of their race.

> But the most harmful is for minorities who were laid off

srs?

xanaxagoras··on After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel
I do this too with a different provider whose whole business is relaying for self hosters. I have had exactly 0 problems since I started a couple of years ago. Its kind of perfect.
xanaxagoras··on Saudi Arabia sentenced a woman to 34 years in prison for tweeting
Setting aside the fact that 100% of the air has been let out of that accusation and nobody takes it seriously anymore and that's probably dangerous, whether or not he's a Nazi, which I doubt very much that he is, is immaterial. Disinformation is basically the stock-in-trade for politicians, it is not illegal. This will likely be and certainly should be an acquittal on first amendment grounds. It is political persecution, just like Saudi Arabia imprisoning someone advocating for women's rights.

How people don't see where this kind of thing is leading is beyond me.

xanaxagoras··on Saudi Arabia sentenced a woman to 34 years in prison for tweeting
Coming to America as well - look up Ricky Vaughn. Trial run on a deplorable, your ticket will get called eventually.
xanaxagoras··on SSH tips and tricks
I did try that but it just runs 'set -o vi' and exits. He shows using it to launch a multiplexer... I suppose it's an alternative to 'ssh -c command'. I tried to figure out a way to invoke 'set' followed by the remote user's $SHELL but couldn't figure it out. I'll keep fiddling; thanks for your reply
xanaxagoras··on SSH tips and tricks
Is there a way I can rig it so every machine I ssh into has already had 'set -o vi' run for my session, without having to change anything on machine I'm logging into?
xanaxagoras··on Debian Turns 29
When I first started using Linux a gazillion years ago I gave a fair shake to Red Hat, Slackware, OpenSUSE, that one where you had to compile everything, and Debian. I landed on Debian, and it's still my go to for servers and VMs.
xanaxagoras··on Apple becomes first tech giant to explicitly ban caste discrimination
Existing laws don't make Apple execs look good
xanaxagoras··on Yes, the U.S. economy is likely in recession
Yes, this usage is basically "wahrscheinlich". Here it is a rhetorical device to soften the author's conclusion:

> The bottom line is that, with the announcement on July 28 of a two-quarter GDP decline, we can be highly confident that the U.S. economy entered a recession early in 2022.

This will usually be the case. When something is likely X it is probably X, not possibly X.

xanaxagoras··on Nonprofit markups.org is exposing the most egregious new car prices
Yeah, I get it, and it's a cool site.

I just thought the headline was a bit much. Although maybe I was thinking of the article's headline, not your headline here on HN. I want to say they were the same when I posted my comment, but I'm not sure.

xanaxagoras··on Nonprofit markups.org is exposing the most egregious new car prices
Not for nothing, and this is a cool use of technology and the internet, but was I supposed to be under the impression that car dealers aren't greedy? Greed is the central axis around which capitalist economic activity is oriented. It works very, very well. I'll take greed over feigned compassion and breadlines any day of the week.

Recently I bought a Toyota SUV for a $7000 markup. But I was able to sell my lease (which I had no idea was even possible) for $5000.

xanaxagoras··on PRR – a terminal tool for managing Pull Requests on GitHub
Any other TUI software to recommend? I've been trying to switch to nnn lately for my file manager.
xanaxagoras··on In Supreme Court brief, Yale and peers defend use of race in admissions
> she's probably working a double shift at a grocery store

Then she's not a surgeon

xanaxagoras··on In Supreme Court brief, Yale and peers defend use of race in admissions
That is literally the slogan of one of the saints of their ridiculous new religion, Ibram Kendi:

"The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination."

xanaxagoras··on Who is collecting data from your car?
There isn't one.
xanaxagoras··on Who is collecting data from your car?
I didn't see a blog post with instructions on how to remove the antennas. Got one? I'd love to do this. I'd love even more to pay a mechanic to do this but I'm not even sure what I'm asking for. I think there are 3 two way radios in my car, Sirius and 2 cellular modems from what I can glean from the user's manual. It's a 6 month old $50k car; asked about it on a subreddit and someone said it would probably void my warranty - fucking awesome.

Legal protections would be nice, but I'd like to stop being stalked _immediately_.

xanaxagoras··on Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW
I have no such desire.
xanaxagoras··on Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW
I stopped shopping at Amazon when they kicked Parler off of AWS. I don't understand how any self respecting liberal could celebrate a mega corp censoring the internet along idealogical lines, even those who drank the insurrection kool-aid.
xanaxagoras··on Asahi Linux: July 2022 Release and Progress Report
> This is a great project. Can Apple be incentivized somehow to help the Asahi Linux folks?

> It is not possible to simply reverse engineer everything nowadays -- it could take years to build a polished system and in the meanwhile there will always be new hardware from Apple. It's a never ending game of "catch up".

I would think it's very much in their favor to help. If it takes years to build a polished release, a lot of people will value years old apple hardware over whatever more recently released. Cut that down to months and they just added a new (albeit smaller) segment chomping at the bit for their latest hardware.

xanaxagoras··on $9.99/month
They don't know _who_ I am
xanaxagoras··on $9.99/month
> people's irrational privacy fears.

My ISP sees me connect to one server and one port only. I think it's great. It's irrational not to want my ISP to record my activity on the internet all day every day, and associate it with my real life identity?

xanaxagoras··on $9.99/month
I pay for my VPN, one health app and one productivity app. I've left a ton of software behind. I moved to self hosting, piracy, and free software alternatives that are good enough.
xanaxagoras··on U.S. News pulls Columbia University from its 2022 rankings
If you think of clickbait as a crowdsourced ranking of emotionally manipulative hyperbole, that could be said of any corporate press rag.
xanaxagoras··on Only 6.8% of adults have optimal cardiometabolic health
What about as cast iron seasoning?
xanaxagoras··on It's quite hard to lose a Duolingo streak
You would not celebrate your 10 year anniversary, which would connote 10 years of "continuous sobriety" or 3650 days in a row without a drink.
xanaxagoras··on YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips
Presumably until it comes to incremental updates to a phone, laptop, video game system, etc
xanaxagoras··on YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips
> then a couple of hours of my time wasted on removing every last piece of burnt greasy cheese from inside the toaster

Should have been a couple of hours of his time

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