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COASTER1921

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  • The AI company Perplexity is complaining their bots can't bypass Cloudflare's firewall

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  • I suspect a lot of it comes down to your ISP. Like the original commentor I also frequently can't pass CloudFlare turnstile when on Wifi, although refreshing the page a few times usually gets me through. Worst case on my phone's hotspot I can much more consistently pass. It's super annoying and combined with their recent DNS outage has totally ruined any respect I had for CloudFlare.

    Interesting video on the subject: https://youtu.be/SasXJwyKkMI

  • Hotel breakfast is fire fr

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  • All Holiday Inn Express locations have these now. They do not make acceptable quality pancakes imo since the batter must be squeezed from above to get the top cooked. It's a fun concept but I suspect many business travelers preferred the waffles.

  • Hotel breakfast is fire fr

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  • These things are absolutely not a replacement for waffle machines. They barely cook the pancake all the way and the batter often has a rubbery texture worse than any store-bought mix. Also you can easily make better pancakes at home.

    Meanwhile, hotel waffles are crunchy on the outside with a soft interior and malty flavor thanks to the big heavy specialized waffle makers. They taste much more fresh, and most importantly you can't make them at home without the expensive specialized equipment. Home waffle makers just don't have the same mass of heated metal to get the same results.

    I actively avoid Holiday Inn Express for business travel because of these things. I prefer the breakfast at many Quality Inns which are often 1/3 the price. Hampton Inn does it right with waffles and two flavors of batter nationwide.

  • Trump demands homeless move out of Washington, DC 'immediately'

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  • As the Republicans love to say, it's largely a problem of mental health. Now if only they supported public healthcare...

  • Republicans and Democrats differ drastically in which news sources they trust and distrust

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  • This was my main takeaway too. I would have figured it would be right up there with Fox. If not democrats and not republicans, who even is their audience?

  • Coincidentally, FFM peg is also something you can find on the hub

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  • I'm on mobile and more importantly, too lazy to open it just for a meme.

  • Coincidentally, FFM peg is also something you can find on the hub

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  • Coincidentally, FFM peg is also something you can find on the hub

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  • FFmpeg doesn't deserve to be such a tiny block. Nothing else comes close to matching its stability and simplicity. There's a reason it's practically part of the foundation for all media software out there.

  • YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to determine election outcomes by changing electoral maps. In most western countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States

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  • Indeed that's the intention, but in practice gerrymandering often leads to the opposite outcome where urban cores are divided up with large rural areas to suppress one side's votes.

    See Utah's districts for the most obvious example of this. It would be logical to group Salt Lake City in one district, Provo + some suburbs in another, then the rural areas in the remaining districts. But instead the city is divided evenly such that each part of the city is in a different district, with every district dominated by large rural areas.

  • Trump plan to end free elections in 2026 and 2028 revealed

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  • What is in this article that we didn't already know? Is there any new legislation in process of being passed? This just sounds like the same playbook we used for the 2024 election to me.

  • Underground railroad energy

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  • They definitely need to be clearer that it's to stop FURTHER gerrymandering. Texas is already insanely gerrymandered compared to most states. My favorite district.

  • A 19-year old Albuquerque woman became the third employee of the city’s bicycle safety center to be killed by drivers in the last two years

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  • I don't understand how they're not pressing charges when the driver's lack of attention killed somebody. Even if there's no requirement to slow down at flashing yellow lights it's still illegal to kill someone, we have manslaughter charges specifically for this type of accidental death. I don't get how the driver is exempt from this, the driver is responsible controlling their car after all.

  • This is a real machine in Romania. Do 20 squats in front of it, and it prints you a free bus ticket.

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  • Unfortunately I suspect that the people who it would reduce costs for most wouldn't consider taking the bus in the first place.

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  • Even if possible, a $50 old office PC will be more reliable with no risk of the Android OS killing whatever software you end up running on it. And you can use SATA HDDs directly with such a setup. The power consumption is likely a bit higher than running on a phone, but for the ability to run any docker container out there it's likely a worthwhile tradeoff. Alternatively if you can hunt down an Atomic Pi or similar old atom based SBC you can trade some performance for power savings while still running an OS truly intended for networking.

  • YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party.

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  • What options are there for pirating music? I felt Lidarr was not particularly useful due to the lack of indexers. Unless you like mainstream music it's quite difficult to find many tracks online (and I'm too picky to be okay with YouTube rips).

    Considering music streaming isn't fragmented in the same way video streaming is, it's still well worth paying for a music streaming service as part of a family plan imo. There's no other hassle free solution to instantly listen to anything I want and be recommended new tracks based on my listening preferences.

    I don't think there's any particularly "ethical" option, until now I've just used Spotify knowing that they're losing money anyway. But it turns out they posted their first profitable year last year so who knows what the move is now. Qobuz claims to be ethical and high quality, but I don't know how good the library is and like with any company they can become evil later.

  • How active is too active while being on lemmy?

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  • The total amount of active content on Lemmy is nowhere near the amount on Reddit, for limiting the time you spend in app this is actually quite good. And unlike Reddit there are third party apps available for mobile.

    The quality of content on average is significantly higher, but many local niches don't exist here that do on Reddit. Depending on how you use Reddit this may make it hard to switch - unless your niche is Linux or open source software.

  • Linux has over 6% of the desktop market? Yes, you read that right - here's how

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  • It's definitely a minority, but easy to fix if you encounter such a site even a single time. There are also some sites which refuse to load on Firefox but work fine if you change the user-agent to Chrome.

  • 'That's a cult': Alex Jones disavows Trump after he tells fans to drop Epstein

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  • Nobody on Lemmy cares but a portion of Trump's base absolutely does. That's why this is somewhat reassuring to see, as although the Republicans are great at ignoring Democrat's demands, they can't completely ignore their own party's.

  • Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop!

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  • The USB type C connector itself is amazing. I've never broken the physical connector, the problem is electrical only. The connector is capable of delivering a very high 240W of power, but the device/charger negotiate the power and voltage requirements to find the highest both can support.

    But there are actually four parts of the system limiting the negotiated power:

    • The maximum power the charger can deliver
    • The maximum power the charging device can receive
    • The maximum current the cable can deliver
    • The signaling protocol used to negotiate the highest supported power across the link

    The problem ultimately comes from the negotiation as many devices don't use USB-PD (the theoretical "standard" for this) to save cost or allow different electrical configurations. This can lead to chargers incorrectly identifying devices as capable of accepting higher voltages than they can. Or devices can incorrectly identify themselves as capable of accepting higher voltage than they actually can.

    If you're using reputable decides from reputable companies using the included charger/cables, this will never be an issue. It's only problematic when you want one charger for all your USB type C devices, as it now needs to support multiple communication protocols and voltage standards, hoping that no device identifies itself incorrectly.