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Em Adespoton

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  • How much money's out there?

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  • And, of course, there’s inflation. The value of something is a perceived thing, but the actual dollar value attached to that perceived value always tends to increase, except when an economy collapses. Inflation is caused by a government pretending things have more value than they actually do and pocketing the difference.

  • Am I able to selfhost apps in my own phone?

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  • Hardware isn’t designed for it, from CPU ramping to flash read/write leveling, to pretty much everything else.

    You can do it, but if you can afford to spend $150 on a minipc, you’ll get something significantly better for server purposes than a $200 phone.

  • Oklahoma university instructor on leave after failing Bible-based essay on gender

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  • Not only that, if she’d been at a school of theology, she still would have got a failing grade. Her essay doesn’t even “prove” what she states based on her source material.

  • Alex Schapiro Reverse Engineered a Billion-Dollar Legal AI Tool and Found 100k+ Confidential Files

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  • Superfluous “a”

  • Why does no one in the bible have a last name?

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  • Abrahamic people generally did name tracking based on heritage; Hebrew used “bar” and Arabic uses “ibn” or “bin”. So the apostle Peter was called Peter by his friends, but was Shimon bar Jonah legally… unless there was another Shimon whose father’s name was Jonah, at which point they’d tag on another “bar” up the patriarchal lineage until their names differed.

    So if you wanted to know which Jesus/Jeshu/Joshua was Jesus the Christ, you go to the gospel of Matthew, where the first 16 verses are actually Jesus’ complete “last name”.

    And Abrahamic cultures aren’t the only ones who do this. Celtic cultures do it too; MacDonald means “son of Donald” and Scottish clans can “mac” their way back quite a ways.

    And in Ireland, you have Mc and O — Mc means “son of” and “O” essentially means you are a landholder on that person’s land, with O’ being short for “of”.

    Then you’ve got Norse names which are a bit looser; we have Eric the Red (he had red hair), but then we have Lief, Eric’s son who was identified by the fame of his father.

    Then you’ve have English last names that describe the person’s occupation, like baker, chandler (makes candles), smith, etc. This was taken from German, which used a similar descriptor.

    In the bible, only key people have their “last name” listed; in most situations it didn’t matter, and you’ll see people referred to by either their given name or their nickname interchangeably.

    And Greek and Roman people tended to be named after the town they were born in — and since Paul was a Roman citizen, his official name was “Saul of Tarsus”. Of course, there were likely many Sauls in Tarsus, so he would have also gone by his occupation (tentmaker) and only reverted to “son of” to differentiate him from other Sauls of Tarsus who were tentmakers.

    Where does this leave women?

    In all those cultures, they were property of their father or husband, so didn’t have their own last name — for the exceptions (widows etc), they’d use the existing naming strategy the men used.

  • Porsche Cars in Russia Shut Down After Satellite System Failure

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  • That’s the question, isn’t it?

    Can you actually buy a (new) car in 2025?

  • Illinois officials warn rental car companies that it is illegal for immigration agents to swap license plates

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  • “We always comply with the law, because the executive has decreed that we ARE the law.”

  • Porsche Cars in Russia Shut Down After Satellite System Failure

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  • One way to tell: disable the cellular modem in your car and see if it still operates.

  • Hypothetically, if Quebec were to separate from Canada, do you think that Canada should remain bilingual?

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  • Depends; are they bilingual?

  • Why are so many after-shave lotion perfumed ?

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  • This is the answer.

    The more insidious bit?

    Most manufacturers don’t actually know what’s in the masking fragrance, because they buy it from a third party who has no legal requirement to list the ingredients.

    So even “unscented” products have this stuff in them that’s a mixture of perfume and preservative, the contents of which are a trade secret. There’s very few soap, deodorant and aftershave suppliers who actually know all the chemical contents of their products, and even fewer who are willing to share that information with the customer.

  • Would it be weird of me to send friend requests to old friends I knew in school 15 years ago?

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  • Depends… do you consider friend requests weird?

  • Which private (no cloud requirement) wireless home security cameras save footage locally without monthly subscription?

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  • I use TP Link C100 cameras in local network mode and a Reolink doorbell in a similar manner. Standard RTSP feeds and an internal mini web server, plus plenty of privacy controls.

    Both of these products are pretty cheap considering their configurability — they do both provide the option to do the whole cloud subscription thing, but work fine for me without it. I have Home Assistant on the back end to manage live streams, but find I usually just read data off the internal SD card instead.

  • Lawmakers Want To Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They’re Doing

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  • When you get right down to it, VoIP is a VPN. Imagine what would happen if THAT was outlawed…. I don’t think there’s much telephony that still uses POTS.

  • TSA announces $45 fee for travelers with no REAL ID

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  • Makes me wonder why they don’t want people flying. All these different things being done to make it harder for the average person to fly. I suppose it could just be incompetence, but it really feels like there’s intent behind it.

  • Wayback Machine saves 150000 GB of webpages every day

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  • They used existing archives; the pages were actually archived earlier. But they could only incorporate the pages that had actually been archived, which was mostly major services (Geocities, ProHosting, Lycos, etc) and public institutions.

  • Oxford names 'rage bait' as Word of the Year 2025

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  • I think Oxford needs to look up the definition of “word”.

  • Wayback Machine saves 150000 GB of webpages every day

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  • The Wayback Machine started saving web pages in 1996. I’ve got Geocities pages I created at the time where that’s the only way I can access them now.

    The frustrating thing for me is that Wayback only saved web pages; all the Gopher pages and FTP pages just vanished.

  • SaskTel - Wikipedia

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  • The reason politicians are afraid of crown corps is that the final responsibility for them lies with politicians, and they aren’t designed to be profitable.

    Which means every crown corp is leverage against the in-power politicians.

    If that could be fixed, they probably wouldn’t hate them so much.

  • Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z

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  • Now I’m imagining someone making 💩: their default boot drive.