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rb666 commented on Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you skipthe.tips/... · Posted by u/randycupertino

hunterpayne · a month ago

Fine but a few things. 1) the service at restaurants and bars in Europe is terrible. 2) the employees at US restaurants and bars often make more money than people doing the same job in Europe. 3) it allows the folks with more money pay a larger share and those with less to pay a bit less.

The problem with tipping is tipping in places which aren't restaurants and bars.

rb666 · a month ago

The service in Europe is great in many many places. My experience with US service is that it feels very fake most of the time. Plus, staff having their own table/zone means you cannot ask any other waiter to help out cause "it's not their table". That's one of the many problems with this tip culture.

I agree with the tiered pricing argument, but ehm, you know you are allowed to tip in Europe also right? If you are rich and feel benevolent, feel free to leave cash on the table. You don't need others to be forced into dark-pattern PIN machines or feel guilty for not paying more than the bill for that reason.

rb666 commented on Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75% brave.com/privacy-updates... · Posted by u/skaul

drnick1 · 2 months ago

I am surprised there does not exist a community fork of Brave yet that strips out all of the commercial stuff (rewards, AI, own updates), making it suitable for inclusion in the repos of mainstream free/libre Linux distros.

rb666 · 2 months ago

Isn't this what Helium is doing? I have been using it as daily driver for half a year, works a charm. Only would like better 1Password integration.

rb666 commented on JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet reuters.com/world/america... · Posted by u/divbzero

DaSHacka · 3 months ago

The jet was not flying right outside the United States though.

Did you even read the comment thread before responding to GP? You're just spreading misinformation.

rb666 · 3 months ago

His point is that the United States is the country acting in a hostile fashion.

rb666 commented on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/chirau

roenxi · 3 months ago

Well, yes but the other problem is this is putting authoritarians in charge of more stuff. I had a comment comparing this to allowing people to eat too much food and that is literally where the logical outcome of this sort of thinking goes - it happens in practice, that isn't some sort of theoretical risk. The more the government decides what people can and can't want to do the worse the potential gets when they make mistakes. And this is further normalising the government making decisions about speech where they have every incentive and tendency to shut down people who tell inconvenient and important truths.

The risks are not worth the rewards of half-heatedly trying to stop kids communicating with other kids. They're still going to bully each other and what have you. They're still going to develop unrealistic expectations. They're probably even still going to use social media in practice.

rb666 · 3 months ago

You know we kids did perfectly fine before there was social media? The point is, arguably we did a lot better.

rb666 commented on How I block all online ads troubled.engineer/posts/n... · Posted by u/StrLght

rb666 · 3 months ago

Note that using Helium, you can use a Chromium based browser and still enjoy uBlock Origin properly.

rb666 commented on I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video] youtube.com/watch?v=DAX2_... · Posted by u/hnaccount_rng

badc0ffee · 4 months ago

The default program on my Miele pops the door open like 2 minutes into the cycle. Maybe the slower ones don't?

rb666 · 4 months ago

That sounds like the behavior of the Eco program, which is often the default.

rb666 commented on Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Deck – Native Version larian.com/support/faqs/s... · Posted by u/_JamesA_

rb666 · 6 months ago

If there was ever a game to play with KB+M, this is it. I don't get the need to stuff everything into a handheld. It's not Mario kart!

rb666 commented on Show HN: Pangolin – Open source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels github.com/fosrl/pangolin... · Posted by u/miloschwartz

resiros · 8 months ago

Would love to understand it better too. It looks like the use cases are similar but the tech is different. NetBird is an alternative to Tailscale that uses Wireguard under the hood while these seem to use Traefik under the hood.

I am personally a user of NetBird and love it.

The design of the UI is very similar though :)

rb666 · 8 months ago

Pangolin also uses WireGuard and does not lock features behind a paywall.

rb666 commented on Lyon Drops Microsoft to Boost Digital Sovereignty digitrendz.blog/newswire/... · Posted by u/hermanzegerman

madaxe_again · 9 months ago

Everyone is either pure good or pure evil now, huh? Red team or blue team, compromise is anathema, the centre a desert.

FWIW I’m no fan of Trump, but I’m even less of a fan of this bipolar tribalism.

rb666 · 9 months ago

There's been plenty Republican presidents who did evil things and mixed it up with acceptable or even positive change. Trump is the first one who's actually an evil fascist at heart. That's the difference.

rb666 commented on The Worst Website in the Entire World matduggan.com/the-worst-w... · Posted by u/speckx

rb666 · 2 years ago

Just use Proxmox, it's fantastic for many vMware use-cases.