And this is why you can't have a system where people can opt out of paying for healthcare.
You can if not every actor in your system is trying to gouge the others ...
Readit NewsTimshel commented on Four Million U.S. Children Had No Health Insurance in 2024 scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
> It requires to have a full copy locally.
yeah that's the thing. When my iPhotos library exceeded 1TB I lost the ability to store the full local copies. Since then, iCloud itself has been the sole source.
Looks like there's some decent, reasonably priced apps to handle this like https://apps.apple.com/us/app/parachute-backup/id6748614170?... (no affiliation)
10TB external harddrives are relatively affordable.
Timshel commented on Verifying your Matrix devices is becoming mandatory element.io/blog/verifying... · Posted by u/LorenDB
I decommissioned my server 3 months ago and migrated my community back to IRC. I still had the IRC Podman containers kicking around, so that was easy.
I dealt with ~monthly issues around my devices not being correctly verified, messages not correctly decrypting, and various other rough UX edges. There seemed to be a lot of velocity in the beginning but the last couple of years have addressed approximately nothing in terms of the UX and it's a crying shame as Matrix/Element (I no longer fully understand the difference/relationship between these entities) had a lot of potential.
Anecdotal but running a server with multiple bridges for multiple years.
Had such issues initially but none recently.
Probably tripping some client fingerprinting/fraud detection system because it thinks of it as an anomaly mistaking it for a bot or something. Unlikely to be intentional malice against Asahi users.
Yes but shit like this still means that if your hardware is in a minority category you will lose access to services.
For a time I couldn't access a number of website because Linux+Firefox was apparently too rare, with Linux+Chrome at least I could pass a captcha (was Akamai I believe).
> Be specific. Which article and which citation? Otherwise this is insinuation or even slander
I’m literally calling out a liar. Not sure how you missed that.
But sure. This is the article [1]. Excerpt from my e-mail to the author:
“I came across your post through Dealbook today. In your article you mention that it is ‘argued that [Sarbanes-Oxley] would hurt initial public offerings, which it didn’t.’ You link through to a working paper on the SSRN at ‘didn't’. From the paper linked to:
‘Although the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the 2003 Global Settlement have reduced the attractiveness of being public for small companies, we argue that the more fundamental problem is the increased inability of small companies to become and remain profitable.’
The paper, in whole, posits that structural changes in the attractiveness of exit by acquisition versus IPO are the salient factor behind a secular decrease in IPO activity…Furthermore, the paper directly concedes (see quote above) that SOX negatively impacted IPO activity. This is not how you represented it in your article.”
Eisinger’s response: “Thanks, [JumpCrisscross], for your thoughts.”
> what you've done here is defame every member of the ProPublica staff, past and present (because you don't name a particular writer or article)
I’m calling Jesse Eisinger unreliable. Since he’s a founder in good standing at Pro Publica, I’m calling out the publication. Honest journalists don’t get free passes for negligent or crooked bosses.
Pro Publica is worth reading. It is not authoritative—it does not hold itself up to journalistic standards, a rot which starts at the top.
(I’ve used the above exchange to block Pro Publica from influencing lawmaking on Cheyenne, Albany, Sacramento and D.C. I would want anything they say independently corroborated before being acted on.)
[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/the-sox-win-how-financial...
Not sure where you extract is supposed to come from, the paper argue that
> Many have blamed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the 2003 Global Settlement’s effects on analyst coverage for the decline in IPO activity. We find very little support for the conventional wisdom, and offer an alternative explanation
No wonder you got ignored ..
Edit: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1954788
Timshel commented on Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower supercarblondie.com/elect... · Posted by u/chris_overseas
I get your skepticism and I know nothing about the field, but if the round thing in the press release picture isn’t designed to fit in a wheel, I’m confused. https://yasa.com/news/yasa-smashes-own-unofficial-power-dens...
Not necessarily, cf: https://lammotor.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/YASA-400R.jp...
From https://lammotor.com/yasa-axial-flux-motor/
the shape is due to the change to the motor layout: https://www.thedrive.com/news/why-axial-flux-motors-are-a-bi...
Timshel commented on NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded more than 86k times arstechnica.com/security/... · Posted by u/jnord
>When you run npm install, npm doesn't just download packages. It executes code. Specifically, it runs lifecycle scripts defined in package.json - preinstall, install, and postinstall hooks.
What's the legitimate use case for a package install being allowed to run arbitrary commands on your computer?
Quote is from the researchers report https://www.koi.ai/blog/phantomraven-npm-malware-hidden-in-i...
edit: I was thinking of this other case that spawned terminals, but the question stands: https://socket.dev/blog/10-npm-typosquatted-packages-deploy-...
There is the "--ignore-scripts" option and had no issue using it for now.
Timshel commented on Cheap DIY solar fence design joeyh.name/blog/entry/che... · Posted by u/kamaraju
Can someone explain to me what is the point of this? The whole point of mounting solar panels should be to maximize area that is facing the sun. Look at the 3rd picture, some are facing the camera, some are slightly tilted to the right. This way you effectively loosing some of the money you spend for the panels because they are not placed optimally.
If you would live on the equator optimal placing is laying panels on the ground. The closer you are to the pole you should lift panel up more on the north side.
Standing panels would make sense from theoretical point of view on the pole, but then you have freezing temperatures and snow covering the panels which makes them useless.
Which again brings me to the question: why? Why would anybody do that?
> but then you have freezing temperatures and snow covering the panels which makes them useless.
When vertical not much of an issue and the reflection from the snow appears to work well with bifacial.
Timshel commented on MinIO stops distributing free Docker images github.com/minio/minio/is... · Posted by u/LexSiga
It's an Open Source project - I don't understand what people are complaining about. Noone is entitled to receive free Docker images. I'm sure if there is enough demand, someone else who is trustworthy will step up and automate building them.
What I'd like to complain about instead is the pricing page on the Min.io webpage - it doesn't list any pricing. Looking at https://cloudian.com/blog/minios-ui-removal-leaves-organizat... it seems the prices are not cheap at all (minimum of $96,000 per year). Note that Cloudian is a competitor offering a closed-source product.
Well removing any distribution after a CVE is a nice touch ...
Timshel commented on Republicans use deepfake video of Chuck Schumer in new attack ad theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/asib
Does this count as slander or libel at some point? Surely it must if they produce fake material to give off a false impression of the subject. Maybe not this case, but we must be getting there.
I wonder if a better angle would be just the unauthorized used of likeness.
Here it's for actors https://apnews.com/article/california-hollywood-actors-ai-pr... but probably shoukd apply to everyone.