Marsymars

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by Marsymars 17d ago
This mostly makes sense in non-American places that have a Conservative Party - so e.g. "small-c conservative" refers to the ideology and "big-C Conservative" refers to the party. (Same with liberal/Liberal.)
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by Marsymars 17d ago
> In Google Maps app (non-American version) it is already visible as “Lake Ontario (Lake America)”. Also Mapy.com has dual names. In Canada I'm seeing simply "Lake Ontario" still.
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by Marsymars 18d ago
Google Messages also does that, though it seems to be some opt-in setting for the sender, probably related to RCS?
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by Marsymars 18d ago
I've been using SMS Backup & Restore (from SyncTech) for years - it reads full history out of Google Messages any time I've used it.
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by Marsymars 19d ago
The problem with sticky notes isn't that you have a physical note with your password - it's that the main benefits of a password manager are a) giving you long, complex passwords that can't be guessed, b) giving you different
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by Marsymars 19d ago
I suspect that's uncommon because basically every password manager works offline so isn't querying the server on each request, and implementing something where you trust a compromised client to rate-limit itself and report back ap
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by Marsymars 19d ago
Yeah, I mean, I'm just not going to do that, I tried a yubikey for a few weeks and found the convenience factor to be terrible. Like if someone wants a password manager that either prompts them or requires a yubikey for every passwor
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by Marsymars 19d ago
Sure, what does "the Secure Enclave or TPM could theoretically do this" do for me, if I've got a a trio of desktop PCs running macOS/Linux/Windows with no Touch ID between any of them and I want to keep my passwords
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by Marsymars 19d ago
Depends what you think the purpose of MFA is. By and large, I see it as protection for the service provider, not for the me - they prevent the service provider from having to deal with people using weak passwords or re-using passwords that
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by Marsymars 19d ago
> That tiny shell script is the -minimum- security any password manager must have. So any device without touchid or a yubikey can't use a password manager without typing out your full master password every time you want to access an
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by Marsymars 19d ago
> 2. Mirror the actions of that CEO and make sure I remember every single person and what they did; it leaves a lasting impression on people. I had a physics prof ~20 years ago who made a point of memorizing the names of every one of his
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by Marsymars 20d ago
And there are several calculators online where you can punch in your itinerary and it will tell you the best pass to buy, if any. On my last trip it only made sense to buy a pass for a single ~4 day segment that included two long Shinkansen
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by Marsymars 20d ago
This doesn't especially bother me, but it is a kinda funny workflow to go to an ATM to withdraw cash (with your bank card) only to immediately put it back into the machine (to charge your IC card).
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by Marsymars 20d ago
> I've had difficulties finding the right place to get a SUICA card It's not that hard unless you fly into somewhere other than Narita/Haneda where Welcome Suica cards are readily available. They're not available to
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by Marsymars 20d ago
Well the description for Kittygram is: "Kittygram is an anonymous, privacy-friendly, lightweight, and open-source Instagram frontend inspired by Nitter."
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by Marsymars 21d ago
Depends if you want an alternate front-end and you can self-host, or you're looking for a third party. For the former, I generally look at what LibRedirect has as options: https://libredirect.manerakai.com/ Proxigram s
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by Marsymars 21d ago
> Why does it matter? The data sources are cited and are publicly available. Because I don't want to click through to every data source to verify every figure and need some baseline level of trust about whether they've been cor
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by Marsymars 21d ago
Yeah, I figured that it was LLM-build - which I'm generally okay with if there's someone willing to put their name to it so I can make my own determination about trust level.
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by Marsymars 21d ago
By some weird overlap of times/policies, as far as I can tell, Air France never flew a Concorde flight where smoking wasn't allowed. (British Airways banned smoking on their Concorde flights in 1997.)
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by Marsymars 21d ago
This site looks good, and it's nice that it has data sources, but it would also be nice if it was clear about who built the site.
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by Marsymars 21d ago
> I'm also curious, is there any reporting on increases in Canadian prices as a result of their tariffs on American products or does that only go one way? The current counter-tariffs haven't taken effect yet, but yes, various p
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by Marsymars 21d ago
> Trump is taking a completely different tact. His goal is not free trade or sustainable relationships. He recognizes the US is the stronger party in most of these negotiations, and wants to use that to extract concessions that explicitl
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by Marsymars 22d ago
Not just places like Silicon Valley - my sister lives in rural Canada in an area where costs have exploded since covid, and just paid nearly as much as their original house price (from <10 years ago) to have a nice garage built.
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by Marsymars 22d ago
That's like a 5-10 second walk, I can't imagine your legs are going to get all that wet in that timespan. Like if I'm bringing my bins to the road for pickup, I never bother putting on a jacket or w/e regardless of weath
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by Marsymars 22d ago
I'm not saying they can't, but rather that with the time seniors then spend cleaning up their tricky bugs, architectural problems, etc. the seniors could have just done the work themselves.
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by Marsymars 22d ago
I ventured onto Twitter for the first time in maybe a year to check on some breaking news around America/Canada tariffs and trade war. The comment section was pretty awful; 90% people yelling about Canada's government being a tyra
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by Marsymars 22d ago
> I’ve just started transitioning my career closer to management, so I develop/manage roughly 50/50. At this point, if I had to manage a tight budget, I’d rather have an entry level salary as tokens for a senior engineer. A hig
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by Marsymars 22d ago
It's not quite that ARM support isn't good on Linux, it's that there aren't high-performance ARM chips with strong general-purpose software stacks. Like the Raspberry Pi is very well supported, but otherwise the only upm
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by Marsymars 22d ago
Well the upside is that you can run a laptop-sized model and still have enough memory left over to run a couple of Electron apps.
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by Marsymars 22d ago
Well a substantial proportion of home buyers in Canada put down only the minimum 5% down payment.

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