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by cnst 3mo ago
Honestly, I'd rather my 0.1% in rent would go to these lawyers than to the scent machine companies. I'm very surprised it even took that long for this to happen. These laws have been on the books for decades, and the scent-free p
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by cnst 3mo ago
They may be stretching a bit, but the statistics is still on their side, and their filings are very explicit that they actually demand compliance (sure, they probably had to add that for some legitimacy, but they did add that nonetheless).
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by cnst 3mo ago
This filing is worth a read for the entire situation: * https://colevannote.com/wp-content/uploads/CMP_Greystar.pdf For those unaware, Greystar is a major property management company in the US for residential apar
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by cnst 3mo ago
Found the non-paywall original: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48734824
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Synthetic Fragrance Is Dangerous. The New Second Hand Smoke(colevannote.com)
2 points by cnst 3mo ago|4 comments
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by cnst 3mo ago
I recently learned that the CDC has adopted an "Indoor Environmental Quality Policy" in 2009 that has the following text: > In addition, CDC encourages employees to be as fragrance-free as possible when they arrive in the workp
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Plaintiffs allege the use of scents discriminates against them under the Ada(law.com)
5 points by cnst 3mo ago|2 comments
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by cnst 5mo ago
Resume Driven Development is why fundamentally people like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk are crucial to ensuring the enshitification is kept in check. Elon Musk may be a bad example in this situation, because he's actually a fan of removing
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by cnst 5mo ago
IIRC, MasterCard SecureCode and Visa's verified-by-visa were more of a thing in the US maybe like decade or two ago? I think NewEgg and B&H did support it at one point? Afterwards, everyone has simply disabled the thing, and you
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by cnst 5mo ago
I think during the OVH fire, it was the smoke damage that was deemed to have damaged a lot of the servers. Fans and cooling might be affected by all the debris. Spinning rust drives often have breathing holes, too.
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by cnst 5mo ago
This doesn't even touch the entire resume-driven development issue. The vast majority of all websites today, are designed in such a way as to tout the resumes of all the people responsible for the site with all the latest buzzwords.
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by cnst 5mo ago
An underrated comment. But sunlight is the best disinfectant. I think it's the fundamental issue with these cameras, that it takes pictures of us, but we ourselves cannot access it. Even though it was us who has paid for it!
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by cnst 5mo ago
These things just prove that the entire "security" industry is a sham. At one point, every bank would ensure that your password COULD NOT be saved by your browser, because sEcUrItY. Which is precisely the scenario where typing you
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by cnst 5mo ago
I think the problem here is that all of these services are optimising for the biggest "change-at-all-cost" that there could be. If you have a service that does one thing, and does it good, and provides backwards compatibility, it
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by cnst 5mo ago
They're so infamous that their infamy even has its own Wikipedia page! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_surrounding_GoDa... And them blocking entire countries from their website and DNS isn't even
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by cnst 5mo ago
Apparently, GoDaddy is so infamous that their infamy has its own Wikipedia page! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_surrounding_GoDa...
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by cnst 5mo ago
There's been a story a few years ago that GoDaddy was blacklisting entire countries not only from their own website, but also from the DNS provided to their customers. So, at a minimum, your website and email may not work worldwide if
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by cnst 5mo ago
GoDaddy has also been blocking entire countries from being able to access all services. And to make it far worse, IIRC, at a certain point, those blocks applied not only to GoDaddy's own website, but even to the DNS services that are p
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The lack of reliable financial infrastructure(tumblr.com)
3 points by cnst 7mo ago|0 comments
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by cnst 7mo ago
They've changed usernames they use to post under. That's the only "altered" allegation they've been accused of. BTW, they also alter paywalls and other elements, because otherwise, many websites won't show the
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by cnst 7mo ago
> Change the original source to something that doesn't need an archive (e.g., a source that was printed on paper), or for which a link to an archive is only a matter of convenience. They're basically recommending changing verif
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by cnst 7mo ago
It's because it's actively maintained, and bypassing the paywalls is its whole selling point, thus, they do have to be good at it. They bypass the rendering issues by "altering" the webpages. It's not uncommon to a
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by cnst 8mo ago
Immutability and reproducibility is great. Depending on unreliable and antiquated hardware, like the USB key sticks, is not. Who exactly has the environment where you can add, let alone promptly repair/replace, USB key sticks, on your
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by cnst 8mo ago
The biggest downside of running off of a USB key, is that it's super unreliable. How exactly does it make any sense to use ECC memory and ZFS RAID for error correction and redundancy, but then rely on the modern floppy disk for the OS
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by cnst 1y ago
I'm not disputing that assertion, yet it does go against the marketing materials we're all presented by all of these services, as for reasons to not run our own mailservers. In other words, if all you want to do is run a personal
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by cnst 1y ago
But how would anyone know it's Gmail or Apple if the IP address is new? That's exactly my point, that the reputation need is overstated by all those services that claim to solve a known problem that everyone has heard of, but noon
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by cnst 1y ago
I'm pretty sure the reputation thing is overstated, else, how would all those providers be able to scale up their SMTP services themselves?
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by cnst 1y ago
Via http://www.mail-archive.com/nginx@nginx.org/msg25495.html . Sadly, it's been announced yesterday that the nginx.org mailing lists are being shutdown by end of month (Sept 2025). P.S. Probably one more reason to
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Why use mailing lists?(mailarchive.ietf.org)
248 points by cnst 1y ago|197 comments
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Techies vs. the People That Matter(cybersect.substack.com)
5 points by cnst 1y ago|0 comments

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