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rekabis

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  • YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household

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  • Sure, it takes a bit of effort. But if you replace your routers with ones that have open-source firmware or actual workstations acting as gateway routers and running business-class open-source software, you can create a personal VPN between everyone involved that shows only one exit point to world+dog.

    The trick is with ensuring that all YouTube stuff gets properly and comprehensively funnelled through this exit node - VPNs can easily leak data if not configured properly, and sometimes do so despite good configs - and implementing this even on other devices that require individual VPN connectivity (roaming, like phones).

    Plus, having a mobile device’s VPN auto-recognize when it’s connected to a known good network, and have it automatically disable itself in favour of the VPN on that network, is not something that’s easy to do.

    Finally, doing so without a high-quality, high-speed ISP plan can easily lead to an unusably slow VPN. The “mothership” exit node, in particular, would have to be gigabit or better - and symmetrical as well, so fibre and not cable - because it has both the node and connections to other homes and devices. If everyone started suckling the YouTube teat at the same time, things would likely slow down pretty fast on anything significantly less than a symmetrical gigabit connection.

  • On finding a job.

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  • it seems EU is funnelling cash into the wars

    If it’s to provide opposition to Russian aggression, that is something that should be done. I am fully behind opposing fascism and imperialism.

    and all the capitalist thieves benefiting from it

    This is where the problems ooze out of the woodwork. Too many piggies at the trough, too many politicians linked to those piggies.

    Build a tall wall between capitalism and state, like how we are (ideally) supposed to have total separation between religion and state.

    And most importantly: start by eliminating all forms of corporate welfare beyond the ma-and-pa level of capitalism. If a company is “too big to fail”, it must, by default, also be too big to be privately owned, and must be nationalized or collectivized, with owners/shareholders seeing 100% loss in their “investment”.

  • Pierre Poilievre calls on Liberals to axe temporary foreign worker program

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  • And yet, almost 100% of Orchardists and Farmers have and will continue to vote for him, despite the entire industry absolutely requiring foreign workers in order to exist.

    I wonder how long it would take for those people to hit the FO part of FAFO, if this were to ever pass?

  • only thing that makes this dumpster fire usable

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  • As a security professional… yeah, nope. Nope, nope, nope.

    Win11 has many usability issues, and Windows seems to accumulate more with every design decision, but reaming your arse open for someone else to bugger you via an exploit run under your own account is not one of them.

  • Arkansas on the verge of agricultural disaster

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  • superior equipment.

    Yeah, no. My family owns an orchard up here in Canada, and we have a few pieces of Chinese equipment. A Foton tractor, AGT skid steer and excavator, and so on.

    We also own a Holder (German vineyard tractor) and two Kubota tractors.

    The Chinese stuff is absolute dogshit, front to back, side to side, top to bottom.

    The key difference is that it is stupidly cheap. And so, on a per-dollar-spent basis, it ends up being worthwhile to get Chinese equipment to do infrequent work. Which is OK, because on a running-hour basis the Chinese crap also needs twice the maintenance and repairs just to stay up and running. It really does break down so damn easily. So to get the crappy stuff for infrequent work tends to work out.

    Meanwhile, the Holder put in sixty solid years of reliable and minimally-maintained work until the oil pump drive shaft snapped. Its running-hour meter had only four digits, which it rolled over at least twice, for a minimum average of 300 hours of running time a year. Honestly, we would be lucky to get 10% as much work out of the Chinese equipment before we haul it off to the wrecker.

  • The Handmaid's Tale among more than 200 books to be pulled at Edmonton public schools

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  • How can we expect kids to mature and learn responsibly and citical thinking if we remove challenging material?

    Conservatism requires an un-educated/under-educated electorate that can be trivially manipulated using alternative facts. It just cannot survive otherwise.

    That’s not to say conservatism doesn’t have its fair share of intelligent people. But they’re the ones at the top or using money to manipulate the party from the shadows, trying to get the working class to vote against their own best interests.

  • Mounting layoffs at B.C. schools creating 'biggest crisis in post-secondary ever,' faculty association says

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  • For every C-Suite salary that you bring down to a professor’s wages, you free up enough money to hire about 3-4 more professors, and up to 6 more at places like UBC.

    There is more than enough money at these institutions to keep all the staff gainfully employed, you just have to start economizing from the top.

  • Have you gotten a response after asking why you weren't hired?

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  • They needed someone with a CCNA certificate for hardware discount reasons, and mine was going to expire the day before the interview

    Did they demand the proof of the cert, including the expiry date?

    Because if you did clearly also mention - and also showed proof - of the renewal exam, that’s grade-A bullshit. They were searching for an excuse.

  • That's how they are acquired

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  • I’ve never been blessed by the CDS. It’s pretty frustrating and disheartening that I have to chase them down manually and explicitly

  • Cracker Barrel will go back to old logo after conservative backlash

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  • Awww… the new one was so much cleaner and nicer.

  • LPT: Go get a shot, now.

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  • But getting vaccinated doesn't really prevent you from spreading it, it just prevents you from not dying from it.

    LOLWUT is this antivaxxer shit? Go back to your anti-reality, anti-evidence, anti-facts hellhole, bud.

    Yes, vaccines can prevent you from spreading disease to others, though the degree of prevention varies by vaccine and pathogen. By reducing the likelihood of infection or the severity of illness, vaccines lower the amount of virus or bacteria shed, thus decreasing transmission to others. High vaccination rates within a community further limit the spread of diseases.

    #Here's why:

    ##Reduced Infection Risk:

    When you are vaccinated, your body is better prepared to fight off the pathogen, making you less likely to get infected in the first place.

    ##Lower Viral Load:

    If you do get infected after vaccination (a breakthrough infection), the illness is often milder, and you may shed less virus, which makes it harder for you to transmit it to others.

    ##Community Protection:

    When enough people in a community are vaccinated, the chain of transmission is broken, protecting those who cannot be vaccinated or for whom the vaccine is less effective.

    Therefore, getting vaccinated not only protects your own health but also contributes to the health of the entire community by helping to stop the spread of infectious diseases

  • LPT: Go get a shot, now.

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  • They key point is density. The denser the population, the more people need to be immunized for herd immunity to be effective, because the more people the average person comes in close contact with even only in passing.

    It’s like the difference in walking six blocks in a sleepy town vs six blocks in downtown Manhattan. Even in “rush hour”, with the sidewalks at maximum typical capacity, the former might net you a dozen close encounters while the latter could easily net you 1,200 close encounters. If you are immunocompromised, the same level of herd immunity in the general population makes the former a much safer environment than the latter.

    And in general, Europe tends to be much more densely populated than almost any other part of America short of the major metro regions, and they make their cities far more walkable and pedestrian-friendly, increasing the amount of potential interactions someone has; even just passing interactions.

    Statistics can be wild.

  • 80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed

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  • Abandon your monetarist goldbug worldview, the gold decoupling and subsequent floating of the international exchange rates are downstream of the actual policy decision that have emiserated the population.

    I never said they were directly related, I just wanted to point out that they both occurred in the same year, in 1971.

    This needs to be exactly reversed, the poorer you are, the easier it should be to acquire but the more you have the harder it gets. Up until a point where it becomes nearly impossible to go beyond the "capital horizon" some kind of equilibrium state where wealth can lo longer be acquired faster than you lose it.

    👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

    Absolutely.

  • Can't have nice things

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  • if you think a "regular bed" on a 70s/80s/90s full-size pickup is 8', just how long do you think a "long bed" is?

    It’s the 9ft bed you could get as an option on full-sized trucks above the base model. So for Ford, the F-150 was stuck with either the regular 8ft bed - which was the default - or could go down to a 6.5ft short bed, but for the F-250, F-350 and higher, you could go for a 9ft long bed.

    In some model years, the F-250 & 350 even had its rear axle shifted further towards the rear by a few inches when choosing the long bed in order to get better balance for loads.

    This 9ft long bed was even marketed as a “large camper bed” for those oversized slide-in campers that were too long to allow a standard 8ft bed to raise its tailgate. This was a problem with 8ft beds, because a permanently-lowered tailgate could obstruct the license plate, necessitating its removal so the plate was more visible. The long bed didn’t have this problem, and the tailgate could stay on.

  • 80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed

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  • The 80s were already the second decade of the decline after the gold standard was revoked in 1971 and wages became decoupled from productivity. Everything was on a slowly accelerating slide downhill from there, although it took until the 90s for the first people to truly notice things were going sideways.

    You want a real economic golden era? Try the 50s and the 60s, where a single wage earner could work a low-end service-level job (selling shoes, for example), and make enough to own a detached SFH, a car in the garage, support a SAH spouse and several children, go on modest vacations every year with at least one more ambitious one every few years, and still have enough left over to save generously for retirement.

  • [Video] Indiginous protest outside CBC in Vancouver against pro-Israel bias

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  • Seconded. I watch CBC precisely because of their unbiased, unvarnished reporting of the horrors that the Palestinian people are suffering from.

    And the title of this video - which I can only assume was fake and has been taken down, because it is currently inaccessible - is somewhat unbelievable. Why would oppressed natives, themselves victims of genocidal colonizers, support the genocidal colonizers of another place?

  • Can't have nice things

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  • A “regular bed” has always been an 8ft bed for the last 60-odd years. Look at any full-sized Ford, GMC, AMC, or Chevrolet pickup from the 70s, 80s, or 90s -- it’s nearly impossible to find one with anything but an 8ft bed. If you wanted anything shorter you went with a “toy truck” like the Mazda B2000 to B2600i, or a Toyota Tacoma.

    It’s just the utter lack of 8ft beds in full-sized modern (last 10-15 years) trucks that has had the industry reclassifying uselessly lobotomized truck beds as “regular” and normal-length beds as “extended”

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  • Thank you for that link.

    Honestly, I don’t know why Lemmy doesn’t pester people to use Archive links when posting, or use an internal API call to auto-convert any link to an Archive link. It could make linkrot a thing of the past for this site.

  • What's the weirdest thing you're upset about?

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  • One of the hallmarks of a destabilizing and imminently pre-collapse ecosystem is when certain fast lived species like insects have sudden surges or collapses in population.

    And I’m talking about short-lived species that typically have yearly cycles. Something that can respond very quickly to sudden surges or absences in food or environmental niches, but which does not normally see sudden population fluctuations in a healthy ecosystem.