dan

@dan@upvote.au

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam - YT Video⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Reposting the same comment I made on another post:

  It’s not just Honey swapping the affiliate codes. Practically all the major coupon sites do it too. That’s why they require you to click on a coupon code to reveal it. When you click, they usually reveal the coupon code in a new tab, and helpfully redirect the current tab to the store, using their affiliate link.

  It’s more obvious when websites do it though, since they can’t auto-close the tab like Honey does. They also don’t automatically pop up at checkout like Honey does.

  I imagine some of the other coupon extensions do the exact same thing as Honey though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To do⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Look for Bobs. Maybe they need furniture

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm pretty sure all of us have given up on any boomer giving us anything anyway⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  medical bills from failing health

  Not everyone is in the USA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Broccoli, cheese, and MILFs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re not that common in residential environments. More common at businesses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Improve your Wi-Fi with this one trick⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  which refuses to work with modern 5GHz networks.

  Companies that make IoT devices do this so they can save a bit of money. It lets them use lower end, cheaper wifi chips (or left over older-generation chips).

  Also, the 5Ghz band suffers per country. For example, some channels are authorized in the USA but not in Europe. Some companies stick to 2.4Ghz to avoid having to make anything region-specific.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Broccoli, cheese, and MILFs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This shows some really nice attention to detail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Broccoli, cheese, and MILFs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Air fryers are closer to impingement ovens than convection (fan-forced) ovens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The torque better not be too strong with this one⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right - Torx is definitely a better option. I just mentioned Pozidriv because people seem to love Phillips head so much for whatever reason, so Pozidriv seems like a logical increment from there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roskomnadzor sent an abuse report to Hetzner regarding @Bellingcat account on mstdn.social fedi instance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure which companies are best for this use case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roskomnadzor sent an abuse report to Hetzner regarding @Bellingcat account on mstdn.social fedi instance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re hosting anything even remotely controversial, Hetzner isn’t a good choice. They’ve been known to disable servers without warning after receiving reports like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The torque better not be too strong with this one⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d think that they would have switched to Pozidriv.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ll only go down if customers stop buying, which they won’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  See if it’s on the Internet Archive (web.archive.org)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cups⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s genuinely impressive

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Depressing awful town⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You fat

  Rude

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Or Polio. Guess we should invest in iron lungs.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  a paranoid shut-in.

  This is the way. All the bad things are outside.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coming soon – offline speech recognition on your phone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the Home Assistant community has been working on offline speech recognition too, as a fully open replacement to things like Google Assistant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How was trying to get a job different THEN vs NOW⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  the reality is that they arevon their knews

  They what their what?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even the traffic signs are weighing in⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Germany is pretty strict about all forms of free speech, especially Hetzner (a large hosting provider based in Germany) who have been known to cancel people’s servers if they get complaints.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ohh ...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people don’t want universal health care because they don’t want their taxes going towards other people’s health care. What they seem to fail to understand is that the exact same thing happens with private health insurance, and some of the money goes towards the insurance company’s profits. Universal health care would make things cheaper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$1K a month is a good deal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The US really needs universal health care.

  The best approach at the moment at the moment is to work at a large company that’s self-insured. Obviously this isn’t an option for everyone, but at least in my experience at large tech companies, insurance plans with self-insured employers usually have reasonable fees and tend to be less likely to reject claims.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$1K a month is a good deal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Medicare levy is 2% of income, so you’d pay $1600/year on $80k taxable income.

  Insurance in the USA is great if you have a good employer. I pay around $100/month to cover my wife and I, and that includes a $200 deductible (amount you need to pay before the insurance starts covering stuff), $15 doctor visits, $100 for ER, max $15 for generic medication, and a $4k out of pocket maximum per year (after which everything is fully covered). I use a CPAP machine for sleep apnea, and both the machine and supplies are fully covered.

  On the other hand, if your employer doesn’t have a good health plan, or you’re unemployed or self-employed, health insurance is way more expensive and the coverage isn’t as great.

  The divide between well-off (not necessarily rich, just middle to upper middle class) and poor is significantly larger in the USA than it is in Australia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stat of the day⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Vista brought a lot of good features and improvements, but it required very high specced systems and ran like garbage on the lower-end systems that were common at the time. It tried to make too many changes too quickly.

  It also had a bunch of driver issues, because it introduced new driver models that were more reliable/stable, some of which are still used today, like WDDM (Windows Display Driver Model) for display drivers. This required manufacturers to make some big changes to their drivers, and not all manufacturers are great at writing drivers.

  So yeah it was kinda terrible at the time, but it laid a mostly solid foundation to build on top of. By the time Windows 7 came out, PCs had better specs, and manufacturers had fixed all the issues with their new drivers. Windows 7 was good because of Vista, not in spite of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Charities of Employees from "non-profit" I was going to donate too⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not saying that McDonald’s isn’t hard work - I definitely agree with you there. I was just referring to the fact that McDonald’s food is fairly straightforward to cook compared to a restaurant where they have many different menu items and things are made to order.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Charities of Employees from "non-profit" I was going to donate too⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They pay cooks less than $20/hour

  So their cooks get paid less than ‘cooks’ at McDonald’s? Fast food minimum wage is $20/hour throughout California.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good to see AAFES looking out for my health⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  vaping won’t give you cancer

  Has that been proven though? I don’t think there’s yet any sufficient long-term research to know the full risks of vaping.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good to see AAFES looking out for my health⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d believe it… I remember they were something like $15 or $20 per pack back when my parents smoked, over 20 years ago. My mum saved so much money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Binary search⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why are so many mislabeled though? It’s not like the loads are being changed every day. I had two breakers labeled “dishwasher” and neither of them were the dishwasher!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Binary search⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the country. Aussie cops are a lot nicer and more useful than many American cops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Binary search⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Once you figure out which one it is, label it! I labeled all the breakers in my panel when I moved in to my house, as half of the existing labels were wrong (no idea why).