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by pdx6 2y ago
The first amendment only applies to the oligarchs and their friends in the 3 branches of the United States. TikTok is only the first to be blocked, there will be more, and they will be DC political fodder too. We need a distributed social p
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by pdx6 2y ago
Here's the lesson: We need our social media platforms to be distributed and out of the hands of any government to promote sharing knowledge and creating peace. When the mass Tiktok exodus tsent Red Book [1] to the top of the App store,
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by pdx6 2y ago
I've visited the areas outside of the major metro areas (Athens, Thessaloniki) and found the vast majority of Greeks to be very friendly and family oriented. It really is a break from the American way -- you don't check a website,
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by pdx6 2y ago
You could add just about any University to the list. At least in California, many UC IT people left due to poor pay and long hours, however the UTPE CWA 9119 union has grown in numbers and strength and the trend in pay and hours is quickly
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by pdx6 3y ago
It's not the bike lane. The price of going out has gone up and the amount paychecks that have gone up doesn't match it. Each wave of tech layoffs wipes out more customers that can absorb price increases. The city needs to continue
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by pdx6 3y ago
Excellent news. I’ve been worried that Sam moving to Microsoft would stall out possible future engineering efforts like GPT-5 in IP court. As an example of how much faster GPT-4 has made my workflow was the outage this evening — I tried Ant
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by pdx6 3y ago
A built-in cell modem in Macbooks also means additional partnerships with telcos like with the iPhone, iPad, and Watch. Right now there's a clear line between a telco and an Apple laptop. With cell enabled devices, telcos can sell a lu
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by pdx6 3y ago
I think $5-$10 is a good price point for just the privacy aspect. As far as search, it's about 90% kagi and 10% Google if I don't like the kagi results. Maps could use some work and I'm always jumping back into Google maps. I
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by pdx6 3y ago
Location: San Francisco, CA Remote: Yes, PST but flexible. On-site/hybrid in SF Bay only. Willing to relocate: Relocation outside of the US negotiable. Prefer Portugal. Technologies: AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, ContanerD, Kafka, e
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by pdx6 3y ago
I use a Dell R220 with dual ssds and a sata boot key. If you need 10gig, there an expansion slot.
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by pdx6 4y ago
Burying is a good idea and I'm a fan of it for sure. The issues I've seen on my block is the transformer out on the pole fails about every 7 years. As an aside, it's an interesting failure scenario because there's a loud
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by pdx6 4y ago
It's pretty easy to get to $700/mo. There's a lot of old housing stock without good insulation, leaky windows, etc. Leaving a typical server on is like $70. I can see a 3bd 2ba apartment easily hitting $700/mo with an ac
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by pdx6 4y ago
SFBay doesn't have big freezes like Texas, but I have to wonder the wisdom of eliminating gas heaters entirely. The blower fan on a typical gas heater uses 120v and doesn't consume nearly as much power as a ~20a 240v heat pump. Du
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by pdx6 4y ago
I'm still around from wearing a helmet biking in San Francisco. I got my wheel stuck in the old street car tracks on Castro and Market while going 15 mph and went over the handles. My helmet cracked when my head hit the pavement, I was
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by pdx6 4y ago
This whole thing is SGI syndrome. The tight knit teams that were either let go or quit Twitter will go and found the next equivalent Nvidia or Adobe. Elon is making the classic Valley blunder of trying to make a company something it's
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by pdx6 4y ago
I bought a PinePhone hoping to have some sort of freedom from iOS and at the time the threat of scanning all iCloud uploads. I played with the PinePhone for a few days, but it really is still a development phone. It has promise but it'
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by pdx6 4y ago
The phrase over the years is more like “buy now or be priced out forever.” Recessions are good times to take risks since people are afraid and while capital isn’t cheap this time around, assets are.
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by pdx6 4y ago
With how slowly these proposals roll out, 100/20 won't be enough. As others said, there is a lack of both competition and pricing to worry about too. In a major tech hub like San Francisco, where I live, it's possible to get
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by pdx6 4y ago
BART goes plenty of nice places! If you get out at 16th or 24th, Valencia St one block over has lots of nice shops and bars. Head over to Folsom and 24th for lots of cheap shopping in what is like a little Mexico. Go see a show at New Missi
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by pdx6 4y ago
I agree, the western side is hardly a hellscape. I guess don't let the tourists know! San Francisco is really 2 different cities rather than 11 counties. West side (where I live) has some minor problems but otherwise offers the best mi
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by pdx6 4y ago
This is great! I have a garage full of old gear that I don’t want to put in the landfill but it is still worth a few dollars. Wish I had heard of this earlier this week to make it.
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by pdx6 4y ago
When I worked at Okta, they used EC2 without containers for their primary monolith workload. Scaling would be manual via ElB. The latest hack shows they are using NLB now, but I suspect it is still EC2 only otherwise. To distribute database
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by pdx6 5y ago
Okta uses nearly all the us regions, with older (and larger) customers in us-east-1. I used to work there and know the internals well. These aws outages must be causing massive chaos there.
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by pdx6 5y ago
I think as other people said, you'll want to decide what "IT" is. If you want to fix end user PCs and run ethernet cables, that stuff doesn't pay well and you should stick to ME. If you want to do SRE or SWE, the easiest
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by pdx6 5y ago
My M1 Mini crashes about once a week. I look through the crash log before sending it off to Apple, but is always seems to be something different that takes down the system. In comparison, my 2018 Macbook Pro rarely crashes and is running th
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by pdx6 5y ago
8GB kits run about $120 at Bestbuy for Canakit and Walmart resellers are about $115 for a no name kit. If you are lucky, you can buy 1 at a time from Chicagodist as a single board for $75.
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by pdx6 5y ago
Has someone built a guide to self host on iOS/MacOS so the CSAM issue is moot? Or what are the other platform options, like on Android? I’m concerned that Apple’s stance on security has been compromised and it is time to dump the platf
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by pdx6 5y ago
I have to imagine this will increase global food costs, but there’s opportunity here to make farming high water crops more efficient: - reclaim runoff - more efficient growing methods The capex and research are there. I wonder how the Boise
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by pdx6 5y ago
$2663/mo untaxed is a decent chunk of change. But let’s assume that is the cost to temporary house someone that has no other option. My question is, why is there no standardized process in California to address someone who is unhoused?
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by pdx6 5y ago
Another option is to use AI, like what Standard Cognition does. A customer registers a profile in the mantrap (via app, etc) and then is buzzed into the shop. The cameras just log whatever the customer walks out with — it doesn’t matter if

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