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[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (11 children)

They are legal if you follow the regulations. The problem with the "rideshare" companies is that they don't. We should just call them "unregulated taxis" rather than pretending that they are a different service. I think just about every taxi company these days is on some app or another (often the same that call unregulated cabs in countries that actually got their shit together and banned the unregulated ones).

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Nah it's worse. Bitcoin actually has legitimate uses. (Yes, they are a minority of actual usage, but they exist.) NFTs are only useful for speculation, gambling and money laundering.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 39 points 2 weeks ago (14 children)

"Rideshare" is also the least accurate term used to dodge regulations. It is just a taxi/cab. You are paying someone to get you from one place to another. They aren't sharing their ride, they were never going where you are going before you told them to.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, downtown there are tons of gas-station brands that are just convenience stores. Surely many gas stations will offer electric charging but since most people will be charging at home the total number of gas stations will surely drop. Some will turn into convenience stores and some will just shut down.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

You forgot step 2. Throw sacrificial drive into trash.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 47 points 4 weeks ago

This is also likely interesting because console SDKs are usually highly restricted. So not only is the Minecraft code leaked (which is probably moderately interesting) it is likely that the console APIs are quite interesting to emulator developers and reverse engineering for other PS3 games.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago

Please be polite. If you don't like a post you can downvote it. If you would like to comment please be more civil.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Nah, 90% chance that they do something stupider.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I get it. It is definitely dry and it is shampoo 😆

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You are thinking of something else. Bar shampoo is intended to be used with water much like bar soap. Dry shampoo is just sprayed or rubbed into hair without any water.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

While Amazon is awful it isn't just them. It is a systematic issue with our economic system. Our society constantly makes efforts to keep the poor poor so that they are forced to work for low pay resulting in a cycle of abuse. Basically every public company will end up in the same situation and we see that with every large company. If a large public company isn't shit the CEO will be fired by the shareholders and replaced with one who makes the company shit.

So yes, avoid Amazon, but also talk to your government representatives. The cycle will always continue until the incentives are changed. To properly exit this shit system we need to change our society and government.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago

The "dumb" solution is to just import both into one feed reader then export a new OPML. I assume most readers will deduplicate (at least to a basic degree) on import.

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by kevincox@lemmy.ml to c/rss@lemmy.ml
 

It seems some lights are on in the YouTube RSS department. Shorts in the feed now link to https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ID rather than the regular video player.

So it is nice that you can filter them, but unfortunately that you get the shitter video player now. But I think overall I'm happy.

 

Is there any service that will speak LDAP but just respond with the local UNIX users?

Right now I have good management for local UNIX users but every service wants to do its own auth. This means that it is a pain of remembering different passwords, configuring passwords on setting up a new service and whatnot.

I noticed that a lot of services support LDAP auth, but I don't want to make my UNIX user accounts depend on LDAP for simplicity. So I was wondering if there was some sort of shim that will talk the LDAP protocol but just do authentication against the regular user database (PAM).

The closest I have seen is the services.openldap.declarativeContents NixOS option which I can probably use by transforming my regular UNIX settings into an LDAP config at build time, but I was wondering if there was anything simpler.

(Related note: I really wish that services would let you specify the user via HTTP header, then I could just manage auth at the reverse-proxy without worrying about bugs in the service)

 
 
 

This is frustrating. I live in a small apartment and my nearest beer store is over 20min walk. I can get to at least 6 LCBOs in that time and dozens of grocery stores that sell alcohol. I'm not even the worst off..

Note that in the map posted the middle location is Yonge and Dundas which doesn't accept bottles. So if you live in the downtown core you can be walking 30min easy (each way).

You can see a map here, but which ones accept bottles or not aren't indicated until you click "show details". https://www.thebeerstore.ca/locations

How is this acceptable? I am forced to pay a deposit on every bottle but have nowhere to return them. Either I save up and haul a giant bag 20min or drive. Either way a waste of space in my apartment and I don't even drink that much.

It seems that we need a solution.

  1. Make LCBOs take bottles back. (or anywhere that sells alcohol, including Beer Store delivery)
  2. Remove the deposit and recommend recycling (sucks for bottles which are better washed and reused rather than crushed and reformed).
  3. At least make the Yonge and Dundas store accept empties. This would at least give options in downtown core that are less than 15min away. Still not great but closes a gaping hole.
 

I'm reconsidering my terminal emulator and was curious what everyone was using.

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