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  • Mike Johnson Spars With Pope Leo XIV Over Christian Treatment of Immigrants

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  • It’s weird when anyone quotes Leviticus (or any Old Testament verse) in the context of it directly applying to Christianity.

    That’s not the text (or philosophy) Christians are asked to use by Christ. Think of it as a wild and lascivious prologue that’s supposed to prove Jesus was Christ. The prequel so to speak.

    Note: am an atheist but considered a life in the church a long, long time ago.

  • What subscription based services are actually worth the money?

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  • First and foremost it was the slop filtering that sold me on it.

    I had a friend suggesting I try it for a while and I resisted. Longtime duck duck go user for primary search.

    I tried it using their free trial/free tier for a little while. I liked what I saw so I went month to month on what I think is their pro plan.

    I do not use their ai assistant at all, I went in a disabled that some can’t be of help there.

    I use their privacy pass now in all my desktop environments: https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-privacy-pass

    I’ve found the results more than good enough - excellent even with all the slop removed.

    I use search so much, everyday, I feel like the clean results pay for themselves in time saved in just one day but I was frustrated and annoyed with both slop and the increasing insidious practices of the big search ad-engines.

    Hope that helps.

  • What subscription based services are actually worth the money?

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  • I didn’t want this to be true, but I’m a happy paying customer as of a few weeks ago.

  • What subscription based services are actually worth the money?

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  • Mullvad is stellar. I’ve been a user for years and it’s never let me down.

    I strongly disagree on proton mail. If you use a custom domain with a catchall it’s absolute trash. Also possibly the worst email search ever. Don’t even get me started on the proton bridge.

    I lasted a few months (about 8) and then switched to fastmail. Worlds apart.

  • Washington Post Raid Is a Frightening Reminder: Turn Off Your Phone’s Biometrics Now

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  • I don’t know what it is on android, but five quick presses of the primary button on iOS will put the phone into a mode where you must enter your password to unlock it.

  • Oklahoma man doing target practice in his backyard accused of fatally shooting woman blocks away

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  • Kind of feel like we’re talking past each other.

    Suicide is your right. No qualms with that. I support thoughtful assisted dying and no one can stop you from taking your own life if you are determined to do so.

    But the comment mentioning a dramatically increased probability of death by firearm isn’t disingenuous. They were answering someone talking about acquiring a firearm to protect themselves from others. I think it’s reasonable to remind anyone considering a firearm for self protection to understand they’re more likely to die by firearm as a result of that choice no matter how the death occurs. Even if suicide is the bulk of gun deaths it’s not the only cause - and so while being even more fully informed is helpful, I don’t agree that the warning is misleading in any way, I’d argue it remains just as factual.

    It also doesn’t have to be either or: it can be both a mental health crisis and a gun crisis.

    I’m also not unilaterally anti-firearm; I enjoy long distance marksmanship and hand loading precision cartridges quite a bit. That said, I understand the choices I’m making and the risks that come with them; taking every precaution I can to protect those around me from harm.

  • Oklahoma man doing target practice in his backyard accused of fatally shooting woman blocks away

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  • US demands access to tourists' social media histories

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  • Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days

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  • The current automation guidelines and defaults renew certs 30 days from expiry. So even today certs aren’t around for more than 60 days, it’s just that they’re valid for 90.

    Additionally you can fairly easily monitor certs to get an alert if you drop below the 30 day threshold and automatic cert renewal hasn’t taken place.

    I use Grafana self hosted for this with their synthetic monitoring free tier but it would be relatively trivial to roll your own Prometheus-exporter to do the same.

  • Does anyone else miss traditional forums?

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  • Like others I also appreciate threaded comments here.

    But for many niches - forums still abound. I regularly participate in four for specific interests.

    On the flip side I loathe the attempt to replace forums not with Lemmy/reddit-like tools but with Discord.

    Ugh.

  • Bank of America: Nearly one-third of low-income US households are living paycheck to paycheck

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  • “And we know because we’re making a killing on fees on these low-no-negative balance accounts, not to mention their credit card debt.”

  • Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • One thing I recently learned: Canadian Tire stores are franchises. 🤯

    This doesn’t relate to AI directly but you can imagine a bunch of franchisees who know nothing about AI “wanting it”.

  • MSNBC host: Trump is in ‘dramatic mental decline’ that needs intervention

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  • Right-Wingers Melt Down Over Bad Bunny Headlining the Super Bowl Halftime Show

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  • His latest album is an impressive work of art; a love letter to Puerto Rico.

    It might not be everyone’s jam.

  • Ladybird Browser Gains Cloudflare Support to Challenge the Status Quo

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  • Andreas (lead engineer) has told the story of how he got that money - they just happen to know each other and $100k is peanuts for the Shopify founders.

    But you’re right to suspect anything of the sort!

  • Ethical alternatives to Spotify

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  • It’s worse. My music is on Spotify - while I would no longer meet their minimum for payments, even before that change they refused to pay me or provide stats until I provided a twitter or Facebook page/IG page, none of which I have - despite publishing through an established publishing company who could absolutely handle payments and play stats.

    Spotify is cancer.

  • You Really Need to See Epstein’s Birthday Book for Yourself

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  • Didn’t work for me. Got blocked with a subscribe pop up.

    I have a shortcut that automatically gets or creates the links so no biggie - and I prefer the archive links anyway because there’s so much other noise on articles these days.

  • You Really Need to See Epstein’s Birthday Book for Yourself

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  • They thought they were making technological breakthroughs. It was an AI-sparked delusion.

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  • That’s a a great idea. Would you like me to come up with a business plan?