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  • CDC Stopped Monitoring Parasite Now Causing Explosive Diarrhea Across The Country

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  • The Peter principle states that a person who is competent at their job will earn a promotion to a position that requires different skills. If the promoted person lacks the skills required for the new role, they will be incompetent at the new level, and will not be promoted again.

    Does not check out. People keep failing upwards, often to the very top. 🥹

  • Where my iT’s A fEaTuRe homeys at?

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  • Using well made screwdriver bits, replacing them when worn. Never had a ph head stripped since I started doing that. I've more Robertsons stripped in that time. In fact I've grown to dislike Robertson.

  • Chat Control 1.0 passed the European Parliament — through the back door

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  • Why is it the worst part? If the EU admin does not represent its constituents, it should be threatened. Otherwise it ends up being undemocratic rep of various business interests.

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  • Windows 7 ran well on machines that ran Vista barely usable. Vista deserved the hate it got.

  • Linkwarden 2.15 - open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters (tons of new features!) 🚀 [AIP]

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  • Folks who've used Linkwarden and archivebox, which do you prefer? Is one a superset of the other?

  • Major Performance Drop

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  • This sounds like the AMD driver bug I'm hitting.

  • Help choosing a good HDD for my home server?

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  • This, make a partition thats a few gigs smaller than the drive, add the partitions to the storage pool instead of the raw drives.

  • 'Knockoff' Browser Extension Hides Sketchy Brands on Amazon

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  • No idea. AliExpress has some direct manufacturer stores and also resellers. Haven't used Temu. I tend to find a manufacturer or a brand that people buy and like, then buy from their official store or reseller if no official store. For example Toopre bike tools are fairly well liked - https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-toopre.html.

  • Help choosing a good HDD for my home server?

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  • Don't think about drives in terms of reliability. Consider them a consumable in your storage system. The storage system should insulate you from the exact drives. Run a ZFS mirror or RAIDz2. Swap drives when they fail. The exact brand and model shouldn't matter.

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  • aren’t people entitled to revenue of the brand they build?

    Perhaps no. Take the capitalist system at its best - the brief periods in an industry when a competitive environment delivers good products at low prices. That kind of environment means competitors can very easily start producing an alternative of what the other guy is producing and undercut their prices. This is the desired status quo that actually delivers wealth for most people. In such status quo, the firms that make things can only make as much money as to pay their costs and salaries with little leftover for shareholders. Conversely - the vast majority of society gets more things and has more money to buy more other things, instead of padding the pockets of shareholders. This is what competition is and obviously firm owners, large or small, don't like it.

    The fact that we can't make a whole lotta things in (Canada) without costing 3x what China makes it for is a separate but related issue. Personally I think it's got a lot more to do with how much money Canadian firms make at various sides of the supply chains. People like talking abt cheap labour but Chinese labour isn't nearly as cheap as it used to be and labour isn't the main cost in a whole lotta things. E.g. in automotive, labour is 10-15% of the cost and if we assume free labour the Chinese cars are a lot cheaper than 15%. The rest is tools, machines, and parts like nuts and bolts. A Canadian-blessed machine screw set from my local hardware store costs $20. A significantly larger set from AliExpress (not the cheapest place in China) costs $2. This speaks to the profit margins involved in the two screw sets. Most of our industries have gone past their competitive stages and are now largely consolidated into 1 to several firms so they can extract significant profit margins. I think the avg for North American corpos is 10-15%. In China that's about 5% and the state-owned sector which provides a lot of inputs operates as non-profit. Margins across suppliers for a product stack like compound interest and the price grows exponentially. If you have a product that starts at $1 at the beginning and you have 5 suppliers till the final product, you get $1.28 with 5% avg and $2.01 with 15% avg. If you have 10 suppliers you get $1.63 vs $4. The difference between the two is also exponential. The exorbitant profits of our industries make it not only too expensive to make things here, it makes it very difficuly to even attempt anything by people who don't have significant capital.

    So yeah, the answer is def in-house manufacturing for more than one reason but for it to be viable, shareholders have to make less, a lot less. If we get to such a point, down to just the difference in price of labour, I'm pretty sure we'd be able to easily handle that. The state we're in at the moment is def not healthy but I don't think we'll solve it by protecting shareholder value while keeping domestic worker salaries low - a reflection of the high margins. When margins go down, either prices would go down, or wages would go up, or both. Both make it possible for more people to buy the domestically manufactured product. In other words the in-house manufactured product won't be 3x market price in real terms anymore.

  • 'Knockoff' Browser Extension Hides Sketchy Brands on Amazon

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  • The next level is getting it straight from AliExpress, skipping the 25% Bezos Yacht tax.

  • 'Knockoff' Browser Extension Hides Sketchy Brands on Amazon

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  • Lots of factories design things. This isn't the 80s. The factories are often a complete firm with design, R&D teams, etc. It's what ODMs are and they exist for all things, simple and cheap to complex and expensive.

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    Most slopcode projects are abandoned and deleted within months of release

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  • As always the social infrastructure (community, user base) is much more important for the success and use value of a piece of software than the exact technology used to make it (lang, framework, helper tools).

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  • Meat really don't wanna be eaten too.

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  • It's pretty horrible. The more I understand abt plants, the more I'm like - shit, this really don't wanna be eaten.

  • Google has shut down tenor's public API for third-party use.

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  • Mitochondria was imprisoned by cells and forced to labour to feed them. ACAB

  • Immich v3.0.0 is out, with Workflows preview

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  • The upgrade was pretty trivial from 2.7.5. Minimal changes in the docker compose file if your was up-to-date on 2.7.5. Mostly version changes. No changes needed to .env other than going to v3.

  • CEO of $248 billion cybersecurity company says workers are about to face a ‘Darwinian moment’ thanks to AI: Evolve or get cut

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  • Or a sickle.

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    Importing Google Photos Takeout to Immich

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    Second hand disks?

    www.ebay.ca /b/Internal-Hard-Disk-Drives-16-TB-Storage-Capacity/56083/bn_71165338
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    Ethical cloud (VPS) provider recommendation

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    Barack Obama: Thoughts on Israel and Gaza

    barackobama.medium.com /my-statement-on-israel-and-gaza-a6c397f09a30