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[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I also don't mind if they are "selling" nothing, or just a supporter icon. As long as they are transparent that that is all you are getting.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm struggling to see how this actually made money. Because presumably the customer is paying for the delivery (as well as the food that was never ordered). So the fraudsters would just be paying themselves in a complicated way. My best guess is one of the following:

  1. DoorDash is subsidizing orders so much that this is profitable overall (the amount they pay the driver is more than the customer pays) seems unlikely.
  2. DoorDash is paying the driver multiple times but only charging the customer once. But if this was the case how was this obvious accounting issue never noticed? Shouldn't the books come out even in the end?
[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 41 points 2 weeks ago

This article really keeps getting better and better.

  • 'Unparalleled' snake antivenom made from man bitten 200 times
  • In total, Mr Friede has endured more than 200 bites and more than 700 injections of venom he prepared from some of the world's deadliest snakes
  • He initially wanted to build up his immunity to protect himself when handling snakes, documenting his exploits on YouTube.
  • he had "completely screwed up" early on when two cobra bites in quick succession left him in a coma
  • I didn't want to die. I didn't want to lose a finger. I didn't want to miss work
  • It just became a lifestyle
[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

It's been fine. But I'm a decently well off young white dude who has never had trouble with borders anywhere. But I will still avoid it as much as I can.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

poweroff or shutdown will work on almost every distro. Even systemd ones (they are usually symlinks but doesn't really matter because they work).

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 month ago

They want to make money off of services, every service they offer requires a Microsoft account to purchase and use. Everyone that they force to make an account during setup is one step closer to paying for a Microsoft service.

There are obviously tradeoffs (less sales of these versions of windows and some users pushed away from Windows altogether among others), but the motivation is clear.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 months ago

Just looking at the numbers, they are spending $5G and losing $1G. Their subscriptions are growing. So if they grow another 25% they are making money. (Ignoring infrastructure costs which are most likely a tiny fraction of per-user revenue.) They also just launched an Android app. So I think their story is looking pretty good. Not even considering that it raises the value of Apple TV hardware, their other devices and gives them more lock-in for customers in general that seems like a great investment they made.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

This is what I moved to after Gandi started becoming shit and I have nothing bad to say about them yet.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

But your case is wrong anyways because i <= INT_MAX will always be true, by definition. By your argument < is actually better because it is consistent from < 0 to iterate 0 times to < INT_MAX to iterate the maximum number of times. INT_MAX + 1 is the problem, not < which is the standard to write for loops and the standard for a reason.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

Technically if it doesn't have a bathtub or shower it is called a powder room. But that phrase is rarely used. (Mostly because 90% of the time when we say bathroom we mean toilet.)

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 months ago

Actually I would pick GIMP.

  1. Says what it is, an image editor.
  2. No popups and random interruptions.
  3. Not only AI editing examples which makes me thing the tool is AI only.
  4. An overview of the variety of major features it has rather than just AI editing.
  5. Links to helpful documentation rather than endless marketing pages that say nothing.

Really think only thing I would like to see is some screenshots and examples of using the tool, rather than just info on what it does. But the Photoshop page barely has this, just a few examples of the AI tools.

 

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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