drathvedro

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

But is it SCSI or 1/4" TRS?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

with no modern appurtenances like internet service and smoke detectors. One electrical outlet per room, small windows, no irrigation in the yard, just a hose. Plain telephone service to one jack. Rabbit ears for TV only. No microwave or dishwasher and only clotheslines for drying laundry

Bruh. All that is like pennies, comparatively speaking.

Also, pretty sure you've described is like every other property on sale right now, so no need for calculations - just check the local zillow or something.

[–] [email protected] 122 points 2 days ago (3 children)

What? This is a normal headphone dongle for macs.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

That's the face I've made just yesterday when my friend told me she's now eligible for a subsidized IT mortgage. That thing was one of Russia's last ditch attempts at stopping skilled workers from fucking off to different countries. The problem is, she's a web designer. I guess that counts as IT nowadays, so good for her. But it's bitter to hear as sr. backend tech who never hit the criteria...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Nope. I've had a script with almost 100 regex's that automatically blacklisted around 200 people every time I opened Twitter. Two years in and upwards of 300.000 accounts in the blacklist, I realized that it didn't even make a dent in dealing with all of the spam I was seeing, and just deleted my account. Best decision ever. I advice you too, to try it out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Any half-decent GUI should cover everything shown in this cheatsheet. You'd have to do quite some voodoo witchcraft to need CLI these days. It's actually the reverse sometimes, when my terminal bretheren complain that I do too much witchcraft when I'm just tidying stuff up with a GUI.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It's all worhless bullshit used exclusively for money laundering and feeding lies to aspiring artists. Burn the entire place down for all I care.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

From what I gather, he didn't. He joined ~~a bunch of dipshits~~ the so-called DNR's militia. It's still a quesion how he got there in the first place, as it would require him to transit through Russia, which in turn would require a Russian visa, which isn't that easy to get and immigration is one of few things that Russia actually cares and is very strict about. And after all that, hesomehow had to illegally cross the Ukrainian border... Some hefty bribes took place, no doubt about it.

By the way, a thing to note is that Russian police is infamous for making up cases, and also for beating and torturing out testimonies for something that people didn't do. The convicts and their families now deny allegations and claim the case was fabricated. But, at the same time, it is extremely rare for an entire group of closely connected people to be arrested under such false premises. Just wanted to point that out so there is no double standard of accusing Russia of lying about everything, but then just taking some random statement at face value.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago

Scientists experiencing slight inconveniences while doing, let's face it, not that important of a research < people being stranded off civilization by predatory ISP's, if not lack of any.

For the article, the way I read it, there isn't a problem currently, and it's not clear whether it will pose a problem in the future, but the alarm bells have already been rung and even if it proves to be true, it doesn't sound like something that more tech couldn't solve - just use different materials and coating or whatever. And I don't see how it's specific to starlink - nobody seems to bat an eye about ozone layer when NASA does ISS resupply missions or when China is blowing up satellites on orbit.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 weeks ago

Starlink only exists to solve this problem because the ISPs were paid to do it the old fashioned way

This only applies to the US. My point is that by it's nature it is global, and it competes with all the shitty local monopolistic ISP's around the world. Like, I intend to do a cross-country tour around mediterranean next year, and from experience, local cell providers there can be quite a lot of hit and miss. If starlink is activated there by the time I'm all set, I'm dropping the cash, no question about it. And yeah, like @spidermanchild said, I'm just a tech bro nomad cosplaying an explorer, but there are also people actually living in those regions that have to deal with this bullshit. I know it's unpopular opinion but I'd say a push against those local ISP's and getting those rural people a decent internet connection is ultimately doing more good than whatever inconvenience scientists have to deal with scrubbing trails off telescope imagery and filtering out the radio interferences.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I really don’t understand people that prefer Google over Mozilla. Firefox works like a charm and Google already knows enough about us IMHO.

Firefox objectively has poor responsiveness in some apps, hence why some "works only in chrome" banners are justified. Can't quite put my finger of it, but it got a lot worse somewhere between quantum and heartbleed(but not because of it, I checked), and it never recovered. In my own projects that were time-sensitive, like 3d games and music apps, I couldn't find the source of it, but found that while some approaches led to major performance hit on firefox, others majorly hit chromium, and vice versa, and it was all about juggling to finding an approach that doesn't hit either as hard. But in some cases there were none and so I had to choose. Obviously the browser engine with a higher market share wins. And because of that, to be on par with Chrome, Firefox not only has to be better, it has to be not worse in all cases, which is a rather tough challenge.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

All my appliances are rated 120/240v. Does that mean I'm bi?

 

Alright, the title is a bit clickbaity, but hear me out!

Little background: Since the start of the Ukraine invasion, Russia and Belarus have been hit with massive sanctions, and a lot of stuff suddenly became unavailable. That includes quite a few video games that became unavailable on steam. Helldivers being one of them. And, since it started, a lot of people, myself included, have left the country in disagreement with the regime, mostly to ex-USSR countries, like Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan. Others, who, for some reason, are unable or are unwilling to move, either resorted to piracy, or got their steam accounts switched to one of said countries, mostly with help from friends in one of them. This is a good thing in a way that that that it moves place where the taxes are paid, and gives more power to those countries, especially as they grow wary of their warmongering neighbor and increasingly drift away from their shared USSR past, effectively weakening war machine.

Now with geographic restrictions put on all of those countries on Steam, I've been pondering if there's a way to still somehow buy this game for my friends to play with, some of whom are still residing in Russia, and stumbled upon this:

https://shop.buka.ru/item/HELLDIVERS_2_versiya_RF

This is a totally legit, official store of one of the oldest major publishers in Russia, and official SONY's partner. What caught my attention is that they have two separate versions available - one for Russia and Belarus, and another for ex-USSR countries. The first one is a little problematic as it means that SONY is continuing doing business in Russia and doesn't give a fuck about it waging a war. But whatever. The second one, on the other hand, is completely nuts. As far as I can tell, it is the only place where you could obtain the game officially in said countries. With the price of roughly $40 with 20% VAT included, that'd be $8 straight into Putin's pockets for every copy sold. Sweet liberty! Plus whatever the publisher's cut is, that gets further taxed down the road. For a person who fled from dictatorship and is conscious about where their money go, or for a citizen of a country that was invaded and is still partly occupied, or a person displaced from their home because the peacekeepers just told them to fuck off and left, that sounds like a bad joke.

I do realize that VAT from video game sales is a drop in the ocean, compared to oil and gas exports. But still, I'd say that a good enough reason to keep pushing SONY to lift geographic restrictions on Steam.

 

I'm currently in a country with lots of companies straight up spamming every single number. But, I guess it's by law, all those messages have a word signifying that it's an ad.

My question is whether there's an app that could auto-remove them, preferrably removing the notification as well and ideally keeping the stock messenger intact.

I've tried a few from the play market's top but none seemed to work, some didnt even have such a feature. Also tried some automation tools, but couldnt find one that could delete SMS messages.

Any suggestions?

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