pbnjeh

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by pbnjeh 29d ago
As I’ve said before, if a person did to me what Flock does, I could have them arrested for stalking. It doesn’t matter their intentions, such pernicious tracking itself is stalking. So, why don’t we treat this corporation like the “pers
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by pbnjeh 1mo ago
Jail, jail, jail. Nothing less will stop these Gestapo-esque thugs. And if you’re waiting for the mid-terms, you’re already acquiescing to their plans. Also, it says something — to me, at least — that I have to think seriously before posti
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by pbnjeh 1mo ago
In explanations I believe, over the decades government programs have been difficult to deal with in good part because Republicans and their like (sorry if this seems political, but they’re the ones doing it) while they can’t stop all the le
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by pbnjeh 6mo ago
25 years ago, a recently hired junior accountant would just run a cost accounting report and hand it off as if it were golden. Those of us who knew the system(s) would check the results and often provide some interpretation or even hold a
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by pbnjeh 7mo ago
1) As I saw Rossman recommend the other day, once Android phones are locked down, just get an iPhone. I’ve had a Pixel 8 Pro and was considering the upcoming 11. If this lockdown goes through, I guess not. 2) I hope the lockdowns don’t st
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by pbnjeh 7mo ago
If a person did to me what these virtual people (corporations) are doing, I could have them prosecuted for stalking.
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by pbnjeh 7mo ago
One bit of very simple feedback. Keep the prior/older versions online. 1) There’s value in older (e.g. pre-AI) perspectives and tools; 2) Different presentations/wording may click better with different people; 3) Links to them w
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by pbnjeh 10mo ago
Mechanics are a "cost center". Modern "Management" does not like paying for "cost centers". The rest is atmospherics. (The US has, in general, taken a similar attitude towards public education, while simultane
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by pbnjeh 11mo ago
His prior dishwasher videos rescued my parents' 30-ish year old dishwasher -- one they had previously been advised to avoid replacing as long as possible, as modern units don't have the same construction quality. Following his cle
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by pbnjeh 1y ago
This is what I expressed considering, in another recent thread. Phone does phone things and "necessary" apps. Otherwise, it's a hotspot for the "unhindered" device. I'd enjoy suggestions as to suitable unhind
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by pbnjeh 1y ago
I recently bought an iPhone (Pro Max, on a secondary number) to have one on-hand to better tutor and troubleshoot for my parents. I just had to provide an instance of that this weekend on a phone call. My daily driver is a recent Pixel Pro
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by pbnjeh 1y ago
IIRC, I saw some reporting that Hungary was spending (far) more on ads targeting other European countries and those elections, than on ads targeting their own. In other words, an instigator, agent, and/or vehicle for right wing propaga
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by pbnjeh 1y ago
Close to 20 years later, people still complain about the ribbon. (1) I think that says something about it. -- 1. And not just "grumble, grumble... get off my lawn..." Many of its controls are at best obscure. It hides many of the
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by pbnjeh 2y ago
I took advantage of that to generate Mandelbrot and Julia set graphics on one. It was fun as a coding exercise, but pretty slow processing.
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by pbnjeh 2y ago
Years ago, someone well-known quipped that the biggest gang in Chicago was the police. I've read reporting on civil asset forfeiture abuse for many years -- the inclusion of "abuse" composing a tautology, it increasingly appe
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by pbnjeh 2y ago
> I've found them indistinguishable from the OEM ear pads. Thank you. I was doubtful about the third-party replacements; I'll give them a try. I still think it's scandalous that Bose ships them with such a crap failure ra
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by pbnjeh 2y ago
Their ear pads are terrible. I was extremely careful with mine, keeping them in my home office and carefully setting them down with the ear pads uncompressed when not in use. Nonetheless, the ear pad leather came apart in about a year.
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by pbnjeh 2y ago
One year was insightful, when in a meeting we watched our management rewrite their own performance plans on the fly to pass them. They even threw in the minor only partial success or two, so that the results didn't look too perfect. A
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by pbnjeh 2y ago
What the parent says. I'm hoping this HN thread will help clarify this. Currently, I view the entire paradigm as asking me to trust resources (software, hosting, etc.) that I am not ready to trust. Both from a knowledge standpoint, or
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by pbnjeh 2y ago
After being a heavy Excel user for a few years, I was away from using Excel while this change took place. It's been a long time, but as I recall it, when I then sat down to do something more intensive in Excel, I found a bunch of &quot
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by pbnjeh 2y ago
I don't have Pi 5 to check this, but from what I've read, it does not support PPS. And such support is required; otherwise, even with a source that supports PPS, the connection will behave in a non-PPS fashion. Apparently, cable
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by pbnjeh 2y ago
Replying to sibling comments: The links are there, but are hidden by Javascript. Since I'm on my phone, I didn't look into how.
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by pbnjeh 2y ago
Does anyone remember the Firefox extension Scrapbook, from "back in the day"? I used to use it a lot. Look "back" 5 - 10 years, or more, and it's striking how many web resources are no longer available. A local co
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by pbnjeh 2y ago
Thank you for the clarification. Great extension!
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by pbnjeh 2y ago
I was about to post a similar question: What does this mean for those using the Firefox versions of the extensions (SingleFile as well as the version that zips the result)?
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by pbnjeh 3y ago
Images still very slow, but: https://web.archive.org/web/20240316173921/https://blinry.or... (there are also two snapshots from today (2024-03-17), but yesterday's is the one I didn't give up o
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by pbnjeh 3y ago
I guess all I can do is upvote this, and hope the sunshine helps lead to the demise of those who turn the public goodwill they've solicited -- here, transparency into employment practices -- against the very folks they've gotten t
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by pbnjeh 3y ago
It has to start somewhere, and for many of us, that somewhere is in individual decisions. Interacting with Amazon is increasingly feeling like being worked over by a seedy breed of con artist. I just missed a good price (circa 25% off the
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by pbnjeh 3y ago
A lot of mentions of Airdrop, here. Didn't some versions of it expose unique identifiers, that became a problem in e.g. Hong Kong? I'm not on Apple, so I didn't sufficiently retain the details, but I remember reading about t
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by pbnjeh 3y ago
If you're not familiar with him, look up Central Washington University' Nick Zentner's channel on YouTube -- under his name, not the University's channel. In addition to earlier work, he just finished up an "A to Z

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