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 ParkMobile is yet another service that is nearly unusable because their app assumes that email can be delivered instantly. They don’t even offer a regular password login, just “send a link.”

So how I’ve gotta sit at a parking lot for 10-ish minutes until that email comes in so I can pay to park. What are the chances that the morons behind this decision also time-limit the link for too little time as well? 
 Smoke detectors self-expire after 10 years. Ionizing detectors have radioactive Ameriicum-241 in them. They're exceptionally difficult to recycle. It seems like here in SF I have to ship them to the manufacturer, Kidde, who no longer advertises their recycling program.

I wonder how many of them are just dumped into landfill and are causing untold problems.

Perhaps the answer is to collect enough to make my own backyard reactor. Then the gov’t will come clean it up for free. 
 With all these bogus invoices, I wonder how many copies of Norton do the scammers think people need? 
 Just so you know, I store all collection of "one day I might need this" obsolete cables in a WebVan tote. 
 @1af32b4c @5e66d80f 1. Is the CEO of Target a right-wing nutjob, because crapping on SF is their current fetish.
2. If I'm driving to Target, I'm going to the big one in Colma, not some rinky-dink one at a location that hasn't been a retail success for any prior tenant. 
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 @65078e98 @7e0cd0e2 So much energy around Diablo when I view D1 as a graphics-improved clone of ularn. 
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 This is dependency hell, did a `sudo port install openssh`, and it installs both openssl3 @ 3.1.3... 
 @2cdb4f27 Does anybody actually maintain MacPorts? Most of the world uses Homebrew because certain Apple management abdicated responsibility for the platform. 
 Dear Apple App Review: why does the Nextdoor app request permission to access the local network? It's a social networking app and pretty much the only reason it could be doing that is some kind of privacy-invasive fingerprinting for their advertising masters.

You should have caught this during review and forbid it. 
 I cannot stand how large pickups have grown in the past 20 years. I want and need a SMALL pickup ... 
 @ddfe9482 Import a kei car pickup from Japan. 
 Reminder that nothing is mandatory except poop and death… 
 @743d7dfb I suppose you could have elective surgery to eliminate the need to poop. It's about as sensible as those popular butt implants. 
 A few decades ago I bought a lifetime supply of zip ties. If only the plastic container they were sold in was made of the same plastic, it wouldn’t be falling apart.

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 I got invited to one of the VisionOS events in Cupertino that you can sign up for on developer.ap... 
 @30a83efa Too bad they don't let you use their shuttles to attend. 
 Someone write me a Swiftlint rule that balances all my 

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#if !os(visionOS)
#endif // !os(visi... 
 @30a83efa Really not a fan of how ugly this is making things. That they aren't text-based preprocessor directives means there's now some duplication to accommodate them too. 
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 @6b18835f @933c193a We should expect more, not set a low bar. 
 ASUS buys Intel NUC business.

I'm OK with that. ASUS is a decent hardware OEM. They managed to m... 
 @6b18835f @933c193a They need a much better support organization strategy. 
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 @4b73f213 @d86237d2 The best PDUs these days are the Raritan PX3 series. So many software features. 
 #vscode not using multiple monitors is really annoying 
 @0ec94728 I find those all-in-one-window multi-pane apps to be terrible UX. With many of them, you spend too much time fiddling the panes around instead of getting work done. Overlapping windows were more flexible. 
 I'm beginning to think that every power strip in the size class I'm shopping for is some kind of scam. The one I got might have a counterfeit UL label on it. Another brand's website talks about them being a "widely recognized company in North America” with a corporate address at a UPS Store at a mall and their factory pictures have signage in Chinese.

I think there needs to be some enforcement against Amazon to stop this. These products can be very dangerous. 
 Heard an ad for Metamucil using modern-day language. It’s not just fiber anymore, it’s a “p... 
 @f5d7e19b Why pay for Metamucil powder you have to choke down when you can buy generic psyllium fiber in capsules for less? 
 One particular road always triggers my car’s lane departure warning, for some reason.

I’ve g... 
 @c2907aac I would like bug reporters for every car manufacturer. I keep finding obvious software bugs in cars I've purchased. The only way to report bugs is to bring the car in for service and have the shop log the problem and hope that the manufacturer data mines the shop logs for issues. They probably don't unless there are a lot of unnecessary module swaps or some other cost that bubbles up. 
 nostr:npub1u3fsxqfaydylv6xpny32c0ny7luywdexe5srgq7kpelpl5y5rdns3pnne2 UL needs an API to make it ... 
 @d181dc98 It looks like they do have something like that. So does ETL. 
 This is the affixed UL label from a product I just bought on Amazon. The QR code isn't a QR code. The listing's manufacturer doesn't exist in the UL database nor do any of these numbers.

I've emailed the UL folks to confirm, but I'm pretty sure this makes Amazon a complicit partner to fraud.

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 @61fef4cd Our rescue came before the pandemic, but he’s developed several behaviors we haven’t been able to help him with. He’s growing agoraphobic; he’ll run outside to take care of business but is afraid of go on walks of get in the car. 
 @61fef4cd A local dog behavior specialist recommendation would be appreciated. Our rescue has quite a few issues… 
 Remember the Jasik Debugger? If you had the kinds of bugs it was good at debugging, it was the on... 
 @ea04c4bb @e1f777a0 MacNosy was easier to use than IDA Pro or Ghidra. Is there something about the RE community that hates good UX? 
 @743d7dfb Remind me to invite you when February rolls around. :-) 
 It's really annoying to me that I have Terminal, VS Code, Nova, etc. and macOS no longer has something like the Macintosh Communications Toolbox that would have made all those terminal emulators be shared code. 
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Did you check McMaster-Ca... 
 @e2c6b350 Great suggestion, but their 16 outlet strips have the wrong orientation for the outlets, so some outlets will end up blocked. 
 Looking for a 16 outlet metal power strip with widely-spaced outlets suitable for transformers.

Only one such product on Amazon is UL-listed (Tripp-Lite PS4816/PS4816B) and the outlets on it are oriented badly for transformers.

It's unreasonable to be selling high voltage products that aren't UL-listed, but Amazon is happy to sell all manner of unsafe Chinese products with no checks and balances. Somebody's house is gonna burn down and the insurance company is going to deny any claims. 
 Ordered a JUNNUJ. The listing claims UL-listing, but I have my doubts since there’s no listing for that name in the UL online database.

Hey Amazon, you do know that you're an accessory in committing fraud if they're lying? Some judges take rampant and persistent fraud seriously these days. 
 Can we keep the "Diane was a respected political titan” stuff to a minimum? I've been her constituent since the ‘80s and she was always awful. Pro-censorship, anti-encryption, and I still think she masterminded Dan White somehow. 
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 @0f5aeee8 @30a83efa The CM4 can be attached to any number of interesting carrier boards, whereas the RPi comes in the one shape with this one set of connectors. For example, the Home Assistant Yellow carrier board. 
 Just got a purported email from Amazon that ... I'm 99.99% is phishing, but it has to be the best... 
 @69a3b7ec That’s what Facebook’s reset emails look like. 
 Ugh. Clipper card can only be on one device. When I setup my new watch, it moved from my phone without asking. Surely not a technical limitation. 
 The newly announced raspberry pi 5 is pretty disappointing. It’s the first pi to really require... 
 @30a83efa And I only want compute modules now for the additional flexibility. 
 nostr:npub1u3fsxqfaydylv6xpny32c0ny7luywdexe5srgq7kpelpl5y5rdns3pnne2 Stop using brick and mortar... 
 @38cb67ff Sadly only BoA’s card grants tier points on Virgin Atlantic. I expect that Delta will cause them to sunset this card at some point and then I can ditch them.

I do my actual banking elsewhere for many of the reasons you suggest. 
 Bank of America proves incapable of basic banking once again. Declined a minor credit card charge from a vendor I've used before. Account locked out until I call the fraud department, who cannot explain why it was declined except to gaslight me that I failed to provide some unspecified additional authentication through a process that doesn't exist. Rep then wanted to shift my account from app-based Push Notifications (secure) to SMS (insecure) and I had to assert that I didn't want that. 
 @2887827f American homes are far less likely to have hydronic or electric radiant heating in the floors. Carpet was a misguided solution. 
 @743d7dfb Your choice of pizza toppings are probably triggering somebody. I love it. 
 Really could do without the ads for GitHub Copilot on every code page on GitHub and in the Welcome window in Visual Studio Code.

I won't ever use it so long as it is trained on stolen code. 
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 @0ec383ba I like cinnamon raisin bagels, but as a Jew I know that the true evil are blueberry, any kind of cheese, and those candy cane twist ones. 
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 @4649d227 Might have been, but I think in this case it was Home Depot or Orchard Supply Hardware. 
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 @0ec383ba Which Apple exec will die of dehydration in their basement? 
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 @4d6d22e8 They fulfilled your order from two different distribution centers. Arguably less packaging than consolidating the order at a single distribution center before final packaging. 
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 @2e510284 All the anti-fraud stuff that banks have done over the last 30 years have been a joke.

They routinely find reasons to decline valid charges from me, even when using CVV codes or Apple Pay, but somehow just always allow in-person purchases of gift cards in distant states or purchases at places like Cabela’s which I have never been to. 
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 Added bonus bizarro fact: it has no rewind button. You have to clip the tape and fast-forward. 
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 @b21f4d65 This has been in a dark garage for the last decade but the plastic still broke down. 
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 @46fd6dcf @0f5aeee8 @30a83efa And compute modules wouldn’t have the incredibly bad power connection that RPi keeps doing.

The 5 has non-standard USB-C. (5V@5A isn’t part of USB-PD). Dumb. 
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 @e06c1f25 I _think_ that both GitHub and GitLab have pull requests in a different refs tree. I'd love a write-up of these other ref trees out there (besides stash, which you covered).

Also, the world needs more interesting and coordinated use of git notes. 
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 @c2907aac What are the actual storage requirements for a ‘forever cache’ server? It’s mostly text. A few terabytes? 
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 @d131a8ba @2e7b5fdc Now if they would just render CR properly in the code viewer.