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  1. Comment on US Supreme Court strikes down Donald Trump's tariffs in ~society

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    These are the same people who won't vaccinate their kids against measles and polio. If they don't see it for themselves, surely it can't be that bad. Same thing happens with things like women's...

    These are the same people who won't vaccinate their kids against measles and polio. If they don't see it for themselves, surely it can't be that bad.

    Same thing happens with things like women's safety and racism. "He's always been nice to me .."

    6 votes

  2. Comment on US Supreme Court strikes down Donald Trump's tariffs in ~society

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    I don't think it was ever a good thing to have so much concentrated in one place - any one place. Congress wanted to make an Internet "kill switch" a while back. My understanding is that the only...

    I don't think it was ever a good thing to have so much concentrated in one place - any one place.

    Congress wanted to make an Internet "kill switch" a while back. My understanding is that the only reason it didn't happen was incompetence. NOBODY should have the ability to shut off the Internet for the world, let alone the US. When it happens in a single state by accident, 911 goes down and people die. It would be so much worse on a bigger scale.

    Add to that the ability to cut off food and medicine to places that don't have enough, none of that is okay. I live in the US and don't like it, it isn't right.

    Maybe the US will become deserving of trust again someday, maybe it won't. It doesn't matter, it only takes a day to destroy trust built up over a long time.

    4 votes

  3. Comment on What are important historical books lost to time? in ~books

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    This book is mentioned a LOT in Little Women.

    This book is mentioned a LOT in Little Women.

    3 votes

  4. Comment on Humble Bundle Books: (Almost) the entirety of Discworld for $16 in ~books

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    How dare you read a book you paid for in an unauthorized way???

    How dare you read a book you paid for in an unauthorized way???

  5. Comment on Leaked email suggests Ring plans to expand ‘search party’ surveillance beyond dogs in ~tech

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    Fair question. In the case of the things that happened, I doubt the people in question looked at my house at all. If they did, they wouldn't know at a glance that the camera has infrared and an...

    Fair question.

    In the case of the things that happened, I doubt the people in question looked at my house at all. If they did, they wouldn't know at a glance that the camera has infrared and an extremely wide angle.

    I don't think a camera by itself is a deterrent. I think the spotlight helps because it's sudden and because people who are making trouble don't like attention being drawn to them, but the spotlight only turns on if someone is in my driveway, it didn't ever turn on for the past incidents. I'm not interested in spying on my neighbors, I specifically blocked the motion sensors from alerting on their property.

    In addition to the camera I have an automatic light cycle that runs on my house every day. Indoor and outdoor lights turn on automatically when it starts to get dark, it doesn't happen at exactly the same time every day and they don't all turn on at once. I don't usually futz with them because that's when I want light, so it looks the same whether I'm home or not.

    My neighbors on the other side also have dogs that lose their minds if anyone enters or leaves my house.

    In all this time, my house hasn't had anything sketchy happen. It's possible that nothing I'm doing makes a difference. Maybe the trouble has come from folks who my neighbors knew. Maybe I don't have anything that looks like it's worth the trouble. Maybe I'm just lucky.

    However, I have a friend who is a physical security specialist, businesses hire them to break into buildings and tell them how to improve their security. I've worked on the tech side of security.

    What I've learned is that you can't usually stop someone from breaking in / stealing something if they're really determined to do so. What you can do is make yourself less of a target by making it not worth their time and by making them less comfortable if they do decide to try. That means layers of solutions, not a single answer. If you do it well, you'll never know that you were successful because nothing will have happened. This is why security departments are almost always under budgeted, it's hard to convince a CEO that business as usual is a success rather than a waste of money.

    5 votes

  6. Comment on Leaked email suggests Ring plans to expand ‘search party’ surveillance beyond dogs in ~tech

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    I put up a very obvious combination spotlight camera above my garage door that only stores locally. When I first put it up but before I wired it, I failed to get footage of the hospice next door...

    I put up a very obvious combination spotlight camera above my garage door that only stores locally. When I first put it up but before I wired it, I failed to get footage of the hospice next door being broken into. I'm not sure it would have mattered, it's not really targeting anything but my driveway and front yard and her front door doesn't show up in the footage.

    A couple of months later I got footage of my neighbor's car being stolen from across the street. They put a lot of planning into stealing an older Civic, a group drove up in two other cars.

    About a year later I got some footage I refuse to look up of a cat being killed by a garage door.

    It's really only useful to find out what's happened, the police will take the footage but I've never seen anything come of it. I think of it more as an expensive deterrent than anything else, the only people walking up my driveway are solicitors, delivery people, and folks I know.

    3 votes

  7. Comment on Sandwich bill of materials in ~tech

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    I love this! SBOMs are such a great idea, but always felt hopeless to me because of dependency chains. Add that to vulnerability scanners that complain about everything right down to the language...

    I love this!

    SBOMs are such a great idea, but always felt hopeless to me because of dependency chains.

    Add that to vulnerability scanners that complain about everything right down to the language you're using and defenestration seems like the best option.

    2 votes

  8. Comment on I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took twenty minutes in ~tech

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    The most annoying example of this I've found happened before I set up a lens in kagi for gardening. What's the germination temperature of a tomato? At least they usually make an outline. What is a...

    The most annoying example of this I've found happened before I set up a lens in kagi for gardening.

    What's the germination temperature of a tomato?

    At least they usually make an outline.

    • What is a tomato?
    • Are tomatoes poison?
    • What does tomato taste like?
    • Why grow tomato?
    • Does tomato taste good?
      &etc

    Even if the answer is on that page I don't trust it. It feels like the ultimate breakdown of stumbleupon, except when I used that at least I wasn't looking for a specific answer.

    2 votes

  9. Comment on I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took twenty minutes in ~tech

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    Are you using Cloudflare? I've noticed a big increase in human checks in the last few months and they always seem to be Cloudflare branded.

    Are you using Cloudflare? I've noticed a big increase in human checks in the last few months and they always seem to be Cloudflare branded.

    1 vote

  10. Comment on The mega-rich are turning their mansions into impenetrable fortresses in ~finance

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    At least whoever maintains the pools doesn't have to travel far between them.

    At least whoever maintains the pools doesn't have to travel far between them.

    4 votes

  11. Comment on Drinking two-three cups of coffee a day tied to lower dementia risk in ~health.mental

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    I doubt it. Seems more likely that folks would switch to making it at home or buying it at a more adorable place.

    I doubt it. Seems more likely that folks would switch to making it at home or buying it at a more adorable place.

    10 votes

  12. Comment on Hot take: movies suck because there is no rental market in ~movies

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    There are still a handful around. One by me is doing well enough that they recently bought their building. That's a huge deal in an expensive city.

    There are still a handful around. One by me is doing well enough that they recently bought their building. That's a huge deal in an expensive city.

    2 votes

  13. Comment on Repotting houseplants: is it really necessary? How to know when to do it? in ~hobbies

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    Yes, that's the one I use as well.

    Yes, that's the one I use as well.

    2 votes

  14. Comment on OpenAI retired its most seductive chatbot – leaving users angry and grieving: ‘I can’t live like this’ in ~tech

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    I wonder how many of those users are chat bots themselves.

    I wonder how many of those users are chat bots themselves.

    1 vote

  15. Comment on US Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to spend $38 billion on warehouse conversions in ~society

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    Oop, I missed that part. I’ve always been under the impression you can’t drill/cut through concrete for plumbing, but I have no idea where I got that idea so I might have made it up. Construction...

    Oop, I missed that part. I’ve always been under the impression you can’t drill/cut through concrete for plumbing, but I have no idea where I got that idea so I might have made it up. Construction is not my forte.

    2 votes

  16. Comment on US Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to spend $38 billion on warehouse conversions in ~society

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    How could a warehouse possibly have enough bathrooms for that many people?

    How could a warehouse possibly have enough bathrooms for that many people?

    2 votes

  17. Comment on Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news in ~news

  18. Comment on E-ink tablet recommendations for note taking in ~tech

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    Those lights have to be good for something. I hate using them on books, they crease up the pages and make marks on paperback covers.

    Those lights have to be good for something. I hate using them on books, they crease up the pages and make marks on paperback covers.

  19. Comment on Repotting houseplants: is it really necessary? How to know when to do it? in ~hobbies

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    I don’t have experience with those particular plants. About repotting in general, though, there are a few reason 2. The soil in a pot becomes compacted over time, even if you include things like...

    I don’t have experience with those particular plants.

    About repotting in general, though, there are a few reason
    2. The soil in a pot becomes compacted over time, even if you include things like bark and moss in the mix. This makes it hard for the plant to grow new roots.
    3. It gives you a chance to check the health of the roots. The earlier you find root issues, the easier it is to address them.
    4. If you want a bigger plant and it isn’t the kind that likes to be pot bound, you put it in a (slightly) bigger pot.
    5. If you want to divide a plant, you’re going to remove it from the pot anyway, so might as well freshen up the soil.

    As /u/smithsonian mentioned, though, you don’t have to repot. I used to never do it and had a couple of
    plants that lived many years. This was before I started gardening and looking into how plants interact with soil (or in the case of my holiday cacti, their soilless growth medium). I never had a holiday cactus bloom until I started repotting them every couple of years and feeding them orchid food, now I get 2-3 flushes a year.

    As to when, the app I use for watering reminders tells me when to do it. Some plants get stressed if you repot them at the wrong time of year, it’s worth checking for each variety.

    I was really nervous the first couple of times I repotted a plant. It went fine, even with my lack of experience. My main tips are to set up outside or in a place that’s easy to sweep up, and to be patient and as gentle as you can. Sometimes it’s hard to get the plant out of its pot, it happens. A butter knife may help.

    5 votes

  20. Comment on E-ink tablet recommendations for note taking in ~tech

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    On the Kindles before backlighting, you could get a case that had a light in it. It wasn’t as nice as a backlight, one side or two corners of the screen were brighter than the rest, but it was...

    On the Kindles before backlighting, you could get a case that had a light in it. It wasn’t as nice as a backlight, one side or two corners of the screen were brighter than the rest, but it was fine. I just took a look at my old one, a corner pulls out with a light in it, powered by the device battery.

    I’m surprised Supernote themselves don’t offer something like that, but it looks like some third parties do. As a person ages they tend to need lots of light to read, I could definitely see this as a helpful option. Yes it would run down the battery faster when the light is used, but it gets around the thicker screen issue and people are used to battery management these days.