mcovey

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by mcovey 3y ago
I figured Aleppo, Syria
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by mcovey 4y ago
Any advice on how to get rid of feral honeybees? I had hundreds of them last year, attracted to my hummingbird feeders. I took those away and the bees stuck around waiting for them to reappear. They're completely docile, but also non-n
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by mcovey 4y ago
My neighbor cut down and chipped a large area of mostly dead trees. Maybe his original intent was to clear the area and expand his back yard but it's been 2 years and it's still just a bunch of ugly stumps and brush. I have a lot
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by mcovey 4y ago
It's not a very big thing nor related to technology, but ravens are making a comeback here in New England. Very interesting birds. I have a couple with 2 young that still beg for food and at this point they are reluctant to feed them a
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by mcovey 4y ago
It's still going to be accelerating and decelerating frequently so there's a lot you couldn't do, or would just be unpleasant to do while it's moving. I'm imagining taking a shower and it comes to a sudden stop for
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by mcovey 5y ago
One suggestion, set the overflow to "scroll" so the scrollbar is always visible. When I open a section it appears, adding like 10px on the right and all the content moves left.
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by mcovey 5y ago
Mainly for the negative ones, to see if there are many similar complaints indicating something is wrong with the product. I've left bad reviews on manufacturer websites and often times they just never publish them so I don't reall
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by mcovey 5y ago
> today: the Amazon shopping experience is so filled with bullshit that it’s actually easier to buy from the producer’s website and pay shipping This is where I'm at. I only order products from Amazon that are sold by Amazon. Pretty
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by mcovey 5y ago
I almost always filter for items shipped from and sold by Amazon. The only times I buy from third-party sellers are when the seller is clearly the manufacturer or a large distributor.
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by mcovey 5y ago
I had one go off this morning. Second battery for my vacuum cleaner. Hooray.
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by mcovey 5y ago
Opera (with the Presto engine) used to do this really well.
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by mcovey 5y ago
I think it's already too late. Removal of unpopular / non-mainstream opinions from large social media sites is now the norm and is celebrated (by those who didn't get silenced).
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by mcovey 5y ago
About 10 years here and hundreds of different addresses given out. I get surprisingly little spam. Most spam I get comes to addresses that were leaked in data breaches, or email to my old gmail address which is forwarded. I'd say maybe
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by mcovey 5y ago
Huh, I haven't had any problems using tractorsupply@mydomain.com I've had a few people ask " That's your email?" and just briefly explained that I own the domain and get all email sent to it.
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by mcovey 5y ago
I have been using hxselect from the html-xml-utils package to do this for many, many years. It doesn't handle malformed HTML that well but can be coaxed into working about 90% of the time, with the help of the other included package hx
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by mcovey 5y ago
There is "checkinstall" that creates an apt package by watching changes during a "make install" step. So you can install many programs that don't provide .deb packages or only provide source code that way. https:&#
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by mcovey 5y ago
Check out Neat URL - it's more basic, uses a comma-separated list of rules, and comes with some hard-coded presets you can override. I maintain my list in a text file and just update that and copy/paste in when I want to create on
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by mcovey 6y ago
There are some userspace scripts that will dry-run updates and email you the results. Generally it's just new config files that differ from your current versions, usually it's just whitespace differences or settings that have chan
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by mcovey 6y ago
I de-googled several years ago, when they dropped Google Reader. It wasn't about privacy, or the threat of my account being locked. It was just because they killed off a product I loved and depended on. I thought Gmail could be killed
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by mcovey 6y ago
I think they could, and it would be a good idea too. Browsers could also possibly ignore server-sent cache directives for scripts with SRI hashes, or at least consider them immutable by default, since there is virtually no possibility of an
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by mcovey 6y ago
Linux packaging certainly is a mess. I have 50+ "update-foo" scripts for programs that want me to use yet another package manager. Everything that doesn't use apt is in there, so many of them just run "pip install foo&qu
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by mcovey 6y ago
This is not a new problem. You should see my home folder. I hardly ever look at it, I moved into ~/Downloads since at least I can keep that tidy myself.
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by mcovey 6y ago
The more employers willing to hire remote workers, the less this argument works. Still, I already make 1/2 as much as I could make living in Boston, living 90 miles north of it. That is "local market" salary though for a job
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by mcovey 6y ago
Comment sections always have some garbage in them. At least there's a report button that does something. I visit a number of conservative and libertarian discussion forums and the "blame the jews" conspiracy has completely lo
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by mcovey 6y ago
I love(d) the idea of Keybase but I always had in the back of my mind that it was too good to be true. I'm guessing this will be the end as they announce in a few months that Keybase is being retired as it's "best security fe
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by mcovey 6y ago
For anyone running OpenWRT, you can install the adblock package to accomplish roughly the same thing as Pi-hole does. I don't believe it supports some advanced features like DoH/DoT or DNS resolution (e.g. a1b2c3.example.com ->
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by mcovey 7y ago
As a regular linux user, no, don't worry about whether you're using wayland or xorg, just use whatever comes with your distro. Let the maintainers worry about those things and just be a user.
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by mcovey 7y ago
I suspect you're right, that's a shame, I've used Credit Karma tax 2 years now, it's been very easy because they haven't over-complicated the UI, it's mostly just a simpler, gently guided interface to enter the
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by mcovey 7y ago
There are only a few niche phones on the market in the US right now that can be used with one hand. I know because I insist upon it and haven't been able to buy a new phone (I also insist upon being able to run a fully de-googled Linea
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by mcovey 7y ago
I noticed lately google is starting to understand symbols in certain contexts. Searching "php =>" actually does provide relevant results.

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