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fuzzywombat

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  • I Tried To Make Something In America (The Smarter Scrubber Experiment) - Smarter Every Day 308

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  • No I'm not suggesting that he throw away perfectly good materials. I disagree that he put a lot of effort into really trying. There was little to no follow up after discovering the parts weren't from US. There was no attempt to contact the American chain mail supplier about limited capacity. Why is it that they can only supply so little amount? What would it take to increase capacity? Is it lack of people, machinery or investment? We don't know because it wasn't in the video. Same thing with the knobs that came from Costa Rica. There was no follow up. He didn't even try to source knobs made locally. He just said he will later. He started out the video sounding like he was determined to figure out a way to complete the task of trying to make a product made locally but he kinda just gave up and decided to just ship the product as is. The video was suppose to be an education focused but it slowly turned into a marketing video. I find that disappointing.

  • I Tried To Make Something In America (The Smarter Scrubber Experiment) - Smarter Every Day 308

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  • There are six components to this grill scrubber and at least two are from foreign source. The chain mail is from China and the top knob is from Costa Rica. He also said the handle string is of unknown source. I'm bit disappointed that he just slapped a Made in USA label on it and called it good. For 75 dollars I expect a bit better.

    I wish Destine broke down the cost of every component of the scrubber and how he ended up with the $75 price tag at the end. He did that with the chain mail but didn't discuss the cost associated with any other part of the process. That leads me to believe this video was more leaning towards making money rather actually trying to get to the bottom of problem with manufacturing a product in the US. Sadly I'm left disappointed.

  • Seriously, YouTube?

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  • Justice Department asks judge to order Google the "immediate" sale of Chrome

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  • Which tech company would buy Chrome from Google? I just can't think of a single tech company that could be an improvement over Google owning Chrome.

    • Amazon
    • Apple
    • Meta
    • Microsoft
    • Oracle

    What about media companies? I don't see consumers benefiting from this.

    • Comcast
    • Disney
    • Netflix
    • Viacom

    What about telecom? I still don't see consumers benefiting from this.

    • AT&T
    • T-Mobile
    • Verizon

    What about foreign companies? Will they be even allowed to buy Chrome? I'm not sure.

    • LG
    • Philips
    • Samsung
    • Sony

    The more I think about it, this won't end well.

  • Tesla recalls all Cybertrucks ever made over trim falling off | Electrek

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  • Here is a guy explaining the problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WldSl3HGr8

    It appears multiple panels on the truck are just glued on which is crazy. Will Tesla just slather on bunch more glue and call it good? That seems like a bandaid over a pretty major problem. I'll be sure there is a large distance between my car and one of these shitty trucks on the road in case they decide to shed some large panels.

  • Tos copy updates - "Does Firefox sell your personal data?" removed from FAQ

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  • Trust is extremely fragile and fleeting. Looks like Mozilla dropped it on the ground and it shattered into million pieces. Oh well, it was nice while it lasted. So long and thanks for all the fish.

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  • GrayJay is an app associated with Louis Rossmann and lot of people seems to like him and therefore has gotten lot of traction lately but there is something you should know. This app is not open source even though source may be available. The app is not licensed in any existing open source license such as GPL, BSD, or MIT, etc. The source license is basically does not allow freedom of redistribution of modified code so therefore it fails the minimal definition of open source. Louis Rossmann has gone on the record on video saying he will sue people if someone were to do something with code he does not approve of whatever that means. Number of people have tried to tell him not to call GrayJay an open source app but he simply ignored them. It's pretty clear he is now just calling this app open source for marketing purposes which I think is misleading and deceptive.

    If you want to buy the app because you find it useful and you don't care about open source, that's perfectly fine. However if you believe that supporting an open source ecosystem is part of the reason for supporting GrayJay, then you should know what's really happening here.

    EDIT: I did some digging and it appears Louis Rossmann has stopped referring GrayJay as open source app. I tried searching for his original GrayJay announcement video and it appears it's gone. I guess enough people have pestered him about his misconception of open source so he removed all mention of open source. GrayJay does have a source code available and it comes with LICENSE. Good on him to clarify the situation. Just for clarification, it is clearly not open source because of non-commercial limitation. This license is not compatible with open source so using any portion in your open source project is not allowed. The limitation is so broad that it's probably best to just stay far away from it to be safe.

  • American Airlines regional jet carrying 64 collides midair with military helicopter near D.C. airport

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  • That area is not very windy but 32-34F which is pretty cold. Not good.

  • American Airlines regional jet carrying 64 collides midair with military helicopter near D.C. airport

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  • This is terrible tragedy. It's been few hours since the accident and no words on survivors so it's looking grim. NTSB has lot of work to do to figure out what happened so it won't happen again.

    Edit: Just watching the press conference at 1am and they won't talk about survivors or fatalities. It's a bad sign.

    2nd Edit: blancolirio video Juan Browne does excellent analysis on aircraft incidents.

    3rd Edit: 2nd blancolirio video This update is tough to watch.

  • Google Will Update Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps

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  • RedNote Recruited US Influencers to Promote App Amid TikTok Ban Uncertainty

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  • I think a mini game could be had here. Create an account and post something that's not overly ban worthy offense like mentioning Tiananmen Square or posting a picture of Winnie-the-Pooh but something subtle and see where the boundaries are. I bet there are lots of invisible lines where ban can be tripped. It could be it's own community.

  • Biden issues preemptive pardons for Trump targets Milley, Fauci, Cheney

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  • This is just awful. Pardons for what? What crimes? Pardon implies wrong doing and there were no laws broken here. Suddenly pardon becomes immunity from future prosecutions from an unknown crimes? It's just ridiculous. I was already disappointed with President Joe Biden's pardoning of his son but this one is even worse in a different way. This so called preemptive pardons is basically implying the justice system is so broken and untrustworthy to protect the innocent from a tyrant.

  • TikTok Offline in USA

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  • The whole TikTok thing is a complete shitshow from start to finish. The whole effort to ban TikTok started because bunch of kids organized and trolled Trump by mass signups to his rally creating whole lot of empty seats. Democrats went along with TikTok ban because they thought they can use the guise of protecting American citizens' privacy and national security as means to score cheap political points. Neither political parties actually care about citizen's privacy because if they did they would have passed a comprehensive data privacy law that covers every social media platforms long time ago.

    Apparently some Trump aid has advised him that he can look like a hero by rescuing TikTok and win the hearts and minds of the youth. Do I think Trump cares about free speech or welfare of people who make a living off of the platform? Hell no. It's all political theater.

    From looking at how TikTok is behaving as the deadline loom ever closer, it's very suspect. If they are actually motivated by profit then one would think they'd be scrambling to find a buyer but they seem completely disinterested in that. It does appear their motives aren't about money but elsewhere. And then all of a sudden there is an exodus to a Xiaohongshu (RedNote or Little Red Book) app which is heavily censored Chinese lifestyle propaganda platform. Maybe I'm being cynical but this feels a bit "influenced".

    When all is said and done I think TikTok is just fishy as hell. Also what I can take away from all this is at least some of the users of TikTok are absolute morons that are easily swayed by misinformation and propaganda.

  • Is Red Note the digital version of Mao Zedong's little red book?

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  • I don't think you understand the definition of the word racist.

  • Is Red Note the digital version of Mao Zedong's little red book?

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  • Trump says he'll create 'External Revenue Service' to collect tariffs, foreign revenue

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  • I think he will scam this tariff money through this so called "external revenue service" run by his cronies that will also get a cut. Billions will get funneled to his offshore bank account. Sadly press is all in his pockets so we'll never know. The whole thing sounds like a giant scam.

  • Japan's Honda and Nissan to reportedly begin merger talks

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  • I absolutely agree with you there. For consumer space this merger doesn't make sense for Honda. For Nissan share holder, this is fantastic.. Only thing I can think of is Nissan has some EV tech that Honda could use but that's quite the stretch. Nissan actually jumped into EV relatively early but they didn't iterate on it quickly enough to matter. Honda has been dragging their feet on EV and they both completely missed the boat on bridge tech offering like plug in hybrid. This merger isn't going to do anything to fix that.

    Since Nissan is now a low end brand and Honda is moving more towards premium side perhaps being together would cover the market segments better. The merger absolutely does nothing for the high end market though.

    The one thing that I don't know anything about is the commercial market domestically in Japan. Perhaps Nissan has good market share which Honda could gain from this merger. Maybe someone could chime in on this.

  • ‘Delay, Deny, Defend’: United Has Faced Scrutiny Over Denying Claims

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  • I can imagine a headline "Republicans swiftly call for gun control measures after a senseless shooting of UnitedHealthCare CEO."

  • Tesla CEO Elon Musk loses bid to get $56 billion pay package reinstated

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  • If those robo taxes are working off of similar system to their half baked self driving tech, it would be a disaster. I keep seeing videos of Waymo taxis clogging up the streets of San Francisco and those things have much better suite of sensors than Tesla. It's insane that our public road has become a alpha/beta testing platform for bunch of tech bros.