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by xp84 8d ago
Well, you could definitely do policies like that in a plain democracy or republic without any guaranteed rights of the citizens. In our particular constitutional systems, and many others, the founding documents say that the government can&#
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by xp84 8d ago
Fair, but that's not their business model. They don't create any content. Their model is to trick naive (but obsessive) people into filling their wikis with information, then when they realize how enshittified the site is, using t
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by xp84 8d ago
Self-dealing is a bad look no matter how you try to spin it. Being fussy about what is and isn't "encyclopedic" (arguably a self-defining idea anyway though) is fine, until it benefits you to rule a certain way, then people a
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by xp84 8d ago
I'm really enjoying a plugin (Indie Wiki Buddy) for replacing fandom links in search results with those of the corresponding independent wikis, and if you don't have an alternative, it converts any other fandom links to BreezeWiki
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by xp84 8d ago
Worked in San Francisco. Lived a 20-minute walk away from work, in a 1-bedroom apartment. My mortgage + HOA cost about 16% of my gross pay. This is in the mid-2010s. I have done coworking, most recently for about 2 years of full-time at WeW
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by xp84 8d ago
Trying to be as least cynical as possible, imagine if you were a party with 3 or more people, and you really wanted a nice pic like that to commemorate the night, but never got to take one all together because someone left early, and you
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by xp84 8d ago
K, but they're paying for that energy though. And the land and the building costs, etc. I really don't want to live in a country where the government just arbitrarily says "Oh, sorry we have 'enough' datacenters &
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by xp84 8d ago
> imagine being someone being blackmailed by photos created by ChatGPT Images If anything, the fact that I know for a fact that I can, in 45 seconds, generate an image of any arbitrary person holding Solo cups at a party arm in arm with
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by xp84 8d ago
I'm going to be humble that I don't have a perfect "fix" that I'm confident would be a net positive. If anything, the most suspicious business practice being done anywhere in the US currently is the AWS cash cow sub
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by xp84 8d ago
>It's a strange edgecase that the owner of John.Doe.com does not need to own Doe.com I think you meant to say "the owner of John.Doe.name does not need to own Doe.name" since .com just works under the 'normal' ru
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by xp84 8d ago
May as well have just been a text post then - the headline basically contained as much problem definition as the article anyway.
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by xp84 8d ago
> Unless you live close to the office, you're probably looking at least an hour on either side of your day commutting That's a choice though. I just lived where I worked. I can see the argument when you're talking about lo
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by xp84 8d ago
Agree. I'm also remembering the previous grocery store merger in the western US, where the regulators meddled and, while they did approve the merger, they forced a large number of stores to be sold off, but they were sold to a tiny, in
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by xp84 8d ago
It's your position that remote work is an unvarnished success though? No notes? Personally, I feel that remote-only in 2026 is mainly a cost-savings scheme, and probably functions to make the ground much more fertile for replacing know
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by xp84 13d ago
I think this is fair. If you ask a staff engineer to delete the duplicate files from a directory, he will likely do it faster and more efficiently than a level 2 engineer. But perhaps this is the kind of thing that the best 'ai guys&#x
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by xp84 13d ago
Really a trash article in general, revealing none of the solution, and not even exploring the problem in any way.
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by xp84 13d ago
Computer.rip never fails to hold my attention. This was no exception. One of the best modern-day blogs. For someone my age, who grew up as the last of the old guard of vertically-integrated conglomerates, and also the odd "diversified&
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by xp84 13d ago
I really want this to mean dams constructed by robot beavers. Move over, A.I.! Time for A.B.
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by xp84 13d ago
Well, I'm guessing that Verisign will throw people a bone in terms of refunds just to avoid getting repeatedly hit with justifiably spiteful lawsuits that (I hope) would be trivially easy for customers to win. That will cost them ver
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by xp84 13d ago
I agree with you and other selfhosting fans in spirit , I really do. On the other hand, it's email. I was at a hospital to do a blood draw, and needed them to receive an email (insurance info). I sent them an email from my Gmail. We w
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by xp84 13d ago
Love the practical explanation of how straightforward it should be. Especially with the finite set. Hell, they could send an email to all 22,000 saying "We're sorry, we have to raise your renewal fees by $12 a year. We hate to do
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by xp84 13d ago
That's actually really cute.
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by xp84 13d ago
The auction plan is gross. It is unfair to say "This thing you thought you were buying the right to exclusively control (subject to continued renewal payments)? We're gonna transfer it next week to whichever Fraser pays us the mos
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by xp84 13d ago
Bingo. They just do whatever they want, and cash our checks.
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by xp84 13d ago
What a perfect example of the sort of fuckery Verisign would do. You have the simplest use case and they can't even help you transition onto the scheme THEY WANT everyone to use now.
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by xp84 13d ago
The implication, that one should make a plan for that, is a valid reminder not enough of us probably do. But it hardly needs to be difficult. If you're running dovecot and postfix on a server somewhere then yes, family is screwed. But
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by xp84 13d ago
By Big Email are you just referring to the biggest providers (e.g. Google and Microsoft)? or is there another meaning?
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by xp84 13d ago
What does Verisign care though? It's been that way for way over a decade since they started allowing 2LD registrations. I very highly doubt they are suddenly so worried about random individuals' personal internet security. It has
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by xp84 13d ago
tbh I'm with the zoomers on this one. Work email is 99% junk. Newsletters from every SaaS product we use, "A meeting started", invitations for calendar events that I can just accept ON the calendar, notifications for every tr
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by xp84 13d ago
It seems like it would be easily resolvable with TXT records these days. Anyone could try, say, on www.google.com to set a cookie for all of google.com, and the browser can fetch TXT records on google.com to see what, if any subdomains, it

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