ArmadilloGang

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by ArmadilloGang 2mo ago
They certainly scale the fence my wife put around the garden. Then again, we haven’t done a good job of patching holes in the perimeter. Our DevOps team is too busy playing in the sprinkler to learn to read, let alone automate patching, but
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by ArmadilloGang 3mo ago
My family is looking at Missouri to Spain. Why Spain: Expat communities, cost of living, friendly visa options, beautiful climate. Why leave: Sick of U.S. politics and the way it directly and indirectly affects us and how difficult it is to
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by ArmadilloGang 3mo ago
People cannot steal your card info via proximity to your wallet over NFC if the wallet’s physical barrier blocks the RF signal.
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by ArmadilloGang 3mo ago
Might want to think twice about that: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/21/opinion/credit-card-rewar...
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by ArmadilloGang 4mo ago
Oh he made his point. He hates the fact that another human being would acknowledge the existence of trans people. The group mandating specific word choices is comprised of people absolutely livid that anyone has the right to choose any de
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by ArmadilloGang 4mo ago
You are engaged in a hacker news debate after 11 PM. You are not exactly a spitting image of the average American adult.
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by ArmadilloGang 4mo ago
Short term, nations with a high rate of white collar employment and fewer social services will suffer greatly. Eventually, and likely in the lifetimes of most people living today, we would have to see something akin to universal basic incom
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by ArmadilloGang 4mo ago
On mobile, Meta absolutely doesn’t want you to use web. I created my Facebook account in 2004, deleted it in 2018 (Cambridge Analytica scandal), and later created a fake one just to use FB marketplace to sell things. I will never install th
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by ArmadilloGang 4mo ago
I thought about this playing Just Cause 2. So I go to this island, blow up all of their oil, gas, and power infrastructure, killing hordes of security guards who are just locals working the few jobs available to them.
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by ArmadilloGang 4mo ago
As mundane and common as the information I’m about to share may be, it’s the reality of MacBook ownership for many - dare I say most? I don’t buy new MacBooks. I get them refurbished from MicroCenter, Apple, or elsewhere. In 2024, I picked
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by ArmadilloGang 5mo ago
I can’t access that LinkedIn link without going through their Persona ID process, which requires all kinds of PII. > LinkedIn users attempting identity verification may be unknowingly handing sensitive personal data to Persona Identities
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by ArmadilloGang 5mo ago
Vote with your dollar. Ask others to do the same and explain why. If we all did this, it might matter. There’s not a lot else an individual can do.
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by ArmadilloGang 6mo ago
I’ve been using this for years. It’s simple and works perfectly: https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden
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by ArmadilloGang 6mo ago
They were not framing it that way. They were proposing a retort to someone else that suggested Israel is a civilized western country. The person you are responding to was saying that for that to be true (Israel = civilized western nation) t
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by ArmadilloGang 8mo ago
Truth. Third party software for trackpad. Third party software for mouse. Third party software for window management. Third party software for Spotlight replacement. Third party software to support a second external display. The third party
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by ArmadilloGang 8mo ago
Tim Cook runs a well oiled machine. At some point, leadership will change. And I don’t think it is as simple as, “Just keep going what Tim was doing.” There are so many moving parts that it is nigh certain Apple will go through a period of