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French75

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  • New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani has collected $9m (£6.6m) in unpaid fines from Amazon, which has been violating clean air regulations by leaving engines running on its parked vehicles

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  • I doubt that Amazon is slow rolling it. Demand for EV trucks is insane. I was working on procuring some in a different industry a couple years ago, and we just could not get them in any meaningful quantity. Lead times were years out. I think we actually got one during the time I was on the project.

  • Router recs please :)

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  • I bought a minipc and put OPNsense on it. Its been just over a year now. Very flexible, very easy, and rock solid.

  • Dubbed ‘next Mamdani’, Democratic Socialist Nithya Raman projected to win Los Angeles mayoral race

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  • She's not a him, just FYI.

    Even so, she won't.

  • Cloudflare or Tailscale?

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  • I used wireguard, then switched to Pangolin. Wireguard was simpler and worked better with mobile apps though. I'll prob switch back for most apps.

  • Police in US state of Nevada can now track cellphones without a warrant

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  • To clarify, i reread, and the article does say they are buying the data from Fog Data. I've read elsewhere that Fog Data logs location data from installed apps using location services. I don't know if that's the only method Fog Data uses. If it is, turning off location services should significantly impair this approach. Airplane mode would not, though it would probably prevent radio triangulation like you describe.

    My comment was that there are a lot of ways that phones record location data, and no single countermeasure stops all of them. In addition to apps using location services, the phones themselves track you in a lot of different ways. For example iPhones continuously monitor and log location data even when the phone is off. They use BTLE mesh when other methods are unavailable.

  • Police in US state of Nevada can now track cellphones without a warrant

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  • The article doesn't say what methods the police in NV are using, so it might be effective against that particular approach, but in general, airplane mode doesn't prevent phone tracking.

  • Carrots

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  • Quite a journey.

  • Afroman cleared in ‘Lemon Pound Cake’ defamation case

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  • It was live streamed on YouTube. Many YouTube channels have the trial in it's entirety. It's not very long as trials go. Maybe 10 hours over a few days (or something like that). I've only watched part of it so far.

  • Is *arr stack a real Netflix replacement?

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  • Got it.

  • Is *arr stack a real Netflix replacement?

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  • Ah, I see the unclear part. I read this line...

    I imagine sitting on coach, searching for show. Then you want to watch some, and then you have to wait half an hour for full episode (or even season?) to download.

    As if OP already had a media library, and was outside of their home, sitting on a coach (bus?) and wanting to watch something from their existing library on their phone/laptop/tablet, thinking they'd have to wait for the entire thing to download. This would not be the case. If OP had no content library, and wanted to browse for something new, then yes, you'd need to download the entire thing and add it to your media library first.

    1. Getting stuff into your media library require downloading the thing.
    2. Watching stuff (even remotely) that already exists in your library does not require downloading the whole thing.

  • Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing

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  • attempts to query 8.8.8.8, regardless of your DNS settings.

    Streaming box / stream app makers have been working around local DNS for a long time. Sometimes of course they're assholes that want to do shitty things and do this to make interdiction harder. But sometimes there are legitimate reasons. Ones I remember... users who don't really understand what they're doing can be overly aggressive with blocking and block things that are necessary for a particular service (causing support problems). Sometimes the ISPs DNS servers have shit performance, and using a well known commercial provider like cloudflare or google can improve performance at scale. It's not always evil.

  • Is *arr stack a real Netflix replacement?

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  • You can’t watch media before it’s completely downloaded.

    This is not true for just about any use case.

    If you use *arr, you'll likely use Plex or Jellyfin for a media server. That server will do progressive streaming. Netflix by contrast does dynamic adaptive progressive streaming.

    Progressive streaming means that playback will start once your client has downloaded and buffered enough of the selected content from the server. The amount is typically a fairly small portion of the stream, like 10 seconds or so, though the specifics are left to the server and client configs.

    Dynamic adaptive progressive streaming has a multiplicty of streams optimized for different devices, formats, and quality levels. This might be a few hundred copies of the same video asset, but in a few different codecs, a few different color encodings (ie HDR, SDR), and a quality ladder of maybe 10 steps ranging from low quality SD to moderate quality UHD (like maybe 300kbps at the low end, and 40Mbps at the high end. And these will be cached around the world for delivery efficiency. On playback, the client (player) will constantly test your network throughput in the background, and "seamlessly" adjust stream quality during playback to give you the best stream your network and client can support without stopping to rebuffer.

    For example, if you're on a 4K/HDR TV with Atmos sound, and great network throughput, you'll get the highest quality HDR streams and Atmos audio. Conversely, if you're on mobile that doesn't support HDR and only stereo audio, you'll get much more efficiently coded HD video (or maybe SD) and stereo audio streams that are more suited to playback on that device. It would be impractical (huge cost and minor benefit) to try to replicate dynamic adaptive streaming just for yourself.

    In any case, even if you're just pulling off a NAS, you shouldn't need to wait for the entire file to download before you can start playback. If your files are properly coded, you should be able to do progressive streaming in just about any use case.

  • Hisense TVs add unskippable startup ads before live TV

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  • Trump Voter Who Regrets His Ballot Sues After ICE Smashed His Window, Dragged Him Through Broken Glass and Left Him Bleeding

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  • They care about their own money, but they couldn't care less about pissing away taxpayer money on settlements.

  • US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, continued use implies consent [pdf]

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  • That seems logical, but I'm sure the courts don't intend for us normies to enjoy reciprocal rights. If the ruling doesn't already say so, they'll fix it soon.

  • Do you stick to the same linux distro across your devices?

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  • No. Debian on the server. CachyOS on the laptop OPNsense / FreeBSD on the router-firewall appliance.

    I don't really feel like I need a single OS across everything. The lack of that has never been an issue.

  • Trump Voter Who Regrets His Ballot Sues After ICE Smashed His Window, Dragged Him Through Broken Glass and Left Him Bleeding

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  • The claim is from a lawyer's description of events in a legal complaint seeking monetary damages. It's hyperbolic, and mostly bullshit.

    They stop went as you described. They told him to get out, he didn't. They threatened to break the window and remove him. He still refused. Then they broke the window, opened the door, and removed him through the open door while he resisted, all the while barking about talking about how they were gonna pay for it. They didn't drag him through glass, and didn't drag him through the window. He had a small cut on his arm. There was a small bit of visible blood on his arm. if he didn't put that spot of arm in front of the camera lens, you wouldn't know it was cut. His physical injuries were visible, but negligible.

    The worst part is that this worthless cunt got the working end of what he voted for, and now he's probably gonna get a judgment or settlement that we all get to pay for. Sadly, the faces getting eaten here are taxpayers'.

  • January 6 commemorative plaque appears in Capitol after years of delay

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  • Honestly... I'm surprised to see it's commemorating the police instead of the dead terrorist. I didn't have high hopes when I clicked the link.

  • Americans Are Now a Target for ICE

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  • Haven't we been all year?

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