leetnewb

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US justice department plans to push Google to sell off Chrome browser⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Who would realistically buy Chrome that wouldn’t degrade the consumer experience?

  Also, would Google lose incentive to target the web entirely with its properties? In other words, what happens to the web if Google’s focus shifts entirely to Android?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Donald Trump Team Plans to Cancel Biden's $7,500 Tax Incentive On EVs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Perfect is the enemy of good. There is no scenario where cars are getting banned in most of the world where EVs are being sold.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If safer is a realistic outcome, perhaps things would further evolve. Ride share cars today are dual-use vehicles that typically carry driver + no passenger or driver + one passenger with the capacity for 3-5. If future autonomous ride share cars turn out to be dedicated to ride share, maybe most would end up being 3-wheel with just one or two seats. Shrinking the size of a substantial potion of cars on urban roads could be beneficial to road safety, power/carbon intensity, road capacity/density (which could also lead to more equitable road use for bikes and pedestrians).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WordPress.org’s latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure he is a meaningful sponsor of PHP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help wanted: best Home server, Nextcloud, Atomic setup with DynDNS?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Re reverse proxies, not exactly. Tried reading vanilla nginx configs and trying to understand nginx proxy manager, couldn’t grasp either. Also gave haproxy a shot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help wanted: best Home server, Nextcloud, Atomic setup with DynDNS?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Atomic automatic updates with snapshot creation? Maybe consider opensuse microOS if you are going headless…didn’t quite understand from your description. I have a VPS running microOS that has been doing its automatic updates/reboot thing for a year+ now without a single issue. Opensuse’s rolling stuff works very well, and you get native btrfs and snapper integration out of the box.

  Easy to use reverse proxy - I really like Caddy. Reading/writing the config for that clicks better for me than others.

  I like the novelty of using filesystem tools for backups, but can’t shake the feeling that tools like restic and borg are more widely deployed and battle tested.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 188 has been released⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like that ipfire is still going strong when many Linux router projects seem to be dying out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israel Police deploying Chinese traffic cameras blacklisted in the U.S. and Europe⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is not about quality and costs

  It is about quality and cost for the majority of purchasers that worry about meeting a budget. Virtually anybody making purchase decisions on some sort of surveillance system will grapple with that issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israel Police deploying Chinese traffic cameras blacklisted in the U.S. and Europe⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dahua and Hikvision are deployed everywhere because they are high quality and low cost. It poses an interesting dilemma (extending beyond cameras) for the U.S. and allies trying to break dependence on vendors under partial ownership and alleged control of the government in China. Should we subsidize domestic vendors to tilt the scale? Simply banning the high quality low cost option doesn’t seem to accomplish much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO - 9to5Mac⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair, I presume you are correct in how it will be applied. That said, given that Reddit has only ever burned cash, there has to be some connection to gravity…I think?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO - 9to5Mac⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably a good thing, imo. Better than selling data for AI farming and blitzing the site with ads. Hopefully it isn’t the start of the entirety of Reddit going behind a subscription wall. Curating private digital communities is a good option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside the 'Nightmare' Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Great article. One thing that stood out to me was Texas having the highest state limit for noise level at 85 decibels. That seems insane to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨History says tariffs rarely work, but U.S. President Biden’s 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs could defy the trend, researcher says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Random thoughts…

  Odd to talk about timing without referencing the election year.

  Protecting the solar industry with tariffs in 2012 was probably too late. The US and Europe panel industries were decimated and effectively ceded the market to China.

  China bankrupted the only US supplier of rare earth metals in the early 2010s (Molycorp).

  There is reporting from April that Chinese EV are piling up in European ports and not being moved to dealers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are We Watching The Internet Die?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always find responses like this funny. You know how old you are, but (mostly) nobody reading the comment does. You could be anywhere from 11 to 50!