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Of course not all homeschooling is bad. But these days it does seem that homeschooling tends to skew towards the ultra-conservative MAGA Jesus crowd.

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Does she understand the concept of multiplication though? That's ultimately the important part.

Learning rote things like multiplication tables seems kinda silly in a world where Google can just do the math for you. But the important thing is to be able to recognize when multiplication is useful.

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Not what you wish to hear, but for web browsing, use Firefox. The Android version still supports plugin like uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger. Ad blockers are effectively dead in Chrome with the advent of manifest v3.

Firefox accounts work very much like your Google account in chrome, so it was relatively straightforward to migrate. Just install firefox on your desktop, get your Mozilla account set up, and use the desktop tools to migrate from chrome to firefox. Then once it's good on your desktop, install firefox on your android devices and sign in to your Mozilla account, everything should sync.

Passwords I'd recommend not using any browser solution and instead use something like bitwarden.

Breaking the Google chains are tedious but doable!

My buddy works there now, as the audiobook company he worked for got acquired by them.

You would be shocked how stupid and manual the content acquisition process is. Book publishers might as well still be operating back in the 90s, it's all phone calls and spreadsheets attached to the emails and manual FTP uploads.

If the music business is anything like the audiobook business they likely need so many non IT just to keep the machine fed with content.

Yes, emulation is a thing but doesn't quite beat the experience on the original hardware IMO

This is why I think the best solution is original hardware with flash carts. The correct experience but no clutter.

From what I read, the codebase is using Nintendo proprietary sdk libraries in its codebase. So that is technically Nintendo IP. The fix is to switch to open source implementations of those libraries. But the dev is hesitant to put in that work without Valve's approval, because if he does that work Valve can still fuck him over for using their Portal IP, and an n64 game isn't distributable on Steam, so there's literally nothing in it for Valve to bless/support it. So he's worried that all that effort would be for naught. And Nintendo already threatened Valve in the past when Dolphin was attempting to distribute on Steam, and Valve backed down. So the theory is that Valve doesn't want to piss off the big N in any way legally.

Now, we can ask ourselves why almost 30 year old sdks are still valuable to Nintendo, but unfortunately copyright law being what it is, it's technically illegal to do what the dev did. He should have seen this coming and used the open source libraries instead of the Nintendo proprietary ones. But I say this not knowing how good those open source libraries are, they could have problems, be incomplete, etc., or maybe not exist when he started the project. But either way a dev should have known using Nintendo IP in any form is fraught with peril.

I am skeptical of the quality of audio on YouTube. And of full album tracks running together properly.

Am I wrong?

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Yes there is evidence. Just a few days ago a third trans candidate in Ohio ran into the same problem and their board of elections overturned the rejection during their appeal.

So this year you've had 3 trans candidates with the same problem. 2 upheld and 1 overturned during the appeals process.

If your employer doesn't offer a 401k or similar plan, the IRA limits are actually higher.

Hi, Android dev here. This is a different issue albeit a tangential one. But ultimately it has no bearing on the matter.

The Oracle v Google case revolves around Google's reimplementation of the Java APIs on the Android platform. This is key. Back when Android started, they used Apache Harmony to provide the Java API set on Android. Harmony was an open source implementation of the Java API set. Sun (the creator of Java) didn't care, they held the copyright to the Java implementation, but made their money in different ways, so they let the Harmony project live.

Fast forward a decade. The Apache Harmony project is dead. Android is stuck at Java 6 level APIs because of it, Android devs are annoyed they can't even get Java 8 features. And Oracle bought Sun, and is monetizing the shit out of Java. They started charging money for the official Java SDK. Google didn't want to pay Oracle, so they started reimplementing the newer Java APIs into Android, to pick up where Harmony had left off. Oracle saw this, found some code in Google's reimplementation that was similar to the official implementation from Oracle (which is out in the open in the openjdk project) and sued the shit out of them looking for the payday they didn't get when Google refused to pay Oracle a license.

Ultimately, the SCOTUS ruling says that APIs themselves are not copyrightable (ie you can't copyright the .toString() function name). But you can copyright the implementation of that function. Ultimately Oracle still won a bit, because they found something like 6 function reimplementations that Google could not successfully defend as clean room implementations.

Why this is irrelevant to the Portal64 issue, is because the dev is not using the open source reimplementation of the Nintendo APIs. He's literally using the Nintendo owned implementation of the APIs. That's why he says he needs to switch to open source libraries. Those open source libraries have the same functions within them, but the implementation of said functions aren't the same as the Nintendo ones (or they are and Nintendo just hasn't sued the project into oblivion yet, I have no idea about the details).

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They already do stream ads from the same urls. It's why a pihole can't block youtube ads.

But you can tell what's coming, since apps like SmartTubeNext and Revanced can skip them.

It'll probably just be a cat and mouse game, as it always has been.

https://lemmy.world/post/920294

Talked about in the solutions section

There was a post about it. They're running a number of instances of the frontend and backend containers, behind nginx which they're using as a load balancer.

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This is me. I live in LA, near Hollywood. I pay 3k/month in rent for a 1200sq ft 2br apartment that's close to everything.

A condo similar to my apartment (it was a condo conversion of a building similar to mine) in my neighborhood sold for almost a million this past year. That's about 6k/month all in w/ taxes and whatnot, not including maintenance costs.

Why the fuck would I pay double to own the same thing, and lose all my flexibility, when I take that 3k difference every month and invest it. Which builds wealth too. Sure, my investments may not be as inflation protected as a home, but they're a lot more fucking liquid. And I can move in 30 days no unsold house hanging over my head.

So I guess it's only an arc and not a full circle, but I had no problem making this curved sanding block in FreeCAD.

It appears to be resolved now. I'm getting newpipe.net, the Github repo, and the FDroid store entry as the top three hits. I am glad Louis posted this video for attention to the DMCA problem, but it appears that things are not as dire as he makes it out to be.

CEOs are the dictators of centralized online communities, and act as such. And it kind of works, just like in real life.

Usenet. If only because I don't have access to any good private trackers and the public ones I used to use are dead. And I have access to good enough indexers to get the job done.

With my new setup though I run everything through a VPN tunnel so if I ever found some good trackers again I'd not be against it.

I grew up with cats and have spent the last two weeks back at my parent's house with their current 2 cats.

Cats were fine growing up but now that I have had dogs, I've become the total opposite. I hate these damn cats scratching at my door when I try to sleep. I miss my beagle dearly and can't wait to get back home.

First version of my server, I wrote a bunch of custom shell scripts to execute docker run statements to launch all my containers b/c I didn't know docker at all and didn't want to learn compose.

Current version of my server, I use docker compose. But all the containers I use come from linuxserver.io, and they always give examples for both. I use ansible to deploy everything.

I have had them for well over a decade now after yeeting US Bank to the curb. Their customer service is top notch, there's never been any fuckery whatsoever with my multiple checking accts, and the $10/month reimbursement of out-of-network ATM fees is solid.

I was even able to get someone on the phone when I was in the middle of a casino at 1AM at a bachelor party, to get them to temporarily raise my ATM daily limit so I could continue the party. They would have to do something terribly egregious to get me to leave.

Part of me is intrigued to dig out my N7 and install LoS 20 on it. But I have to imagine that it is slooooooooooooow.

I think the public perception would sway considerably when weapon grade material is no longer a possibly byproduct

This is unfortunately something that a layperson who's unfamiliar with the tech will always have a hard time understanding. I don't think any reactor built in the US for power generation could ever be used to make weapons grade plutonium. From what I've read we only build light water reactors here, which aren't good for such things. But how many regular folks take the time to learn about all the different types of reactors and how they work and what they're good for? I only did it because the history of nuclear tech intrigues me.

and the worst case scenario drops from a quarantine zone several square miles to power plant just going into lockdown for a few weeks

Similar to above. These new reactors coming online are Gen III reactors, and have passive cooling features, so Fukushima-like events shouldn't be able to happen anymore. But again, few people I think take the time to learn about this stuff at all.

It doesn't help either that regulatory capture has caused old Gen II designs without the passive cooling backups continue to get their licenses extended. Accidents will continue to be bad until we retire the ancient reactors, and start replacing the with new ones that have the benefit of half a century of operational experience and manufacturing advancements to inform their designs to be safer.

True, but didn't Starshield happen after this stuff? I guess I need to relook at the timeline. But as I remember things, he started tossing starlink access at Ukraine, tried to get DoD to pay, they chose not to. Then he started to these games, and after that DoD started paying up. Starshield was announced a little bit after that.

PWAs still lock you into the Chrome ecosystem since Firefox doesn't support them (without plugins and pain).

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I wonder how much of the 15% who were dissatisfied with the academic instruction were dissatisfied due to it not having religious instruction, but didn't want to indicate it outright by choosing the specific choice for that.

Is that because Gaza is proving harder to annex and pacify than the WB?

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Not in every state. California has a "confidential" marriage license that isn't public. We chose that one to stay off mailing lists.

And this is why we have a housing shortage. Because it's in the financial interests of owners to restrict the building of housing.

The day my modded Relay client dies will be a sad day. Lemmy is great but sadly a bunch of communities didn't make the leap here.

Because rebase is fraught with peril, if you also push rebased branches upstream and someone else works off that branch.

If you stick to the rule of only using rebase on local branches that have never been pushed upstream, it's an awesome tool. If you don't, you're eventually going to cause someone to have a bad day.

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Looked into the deets on this since it affects me - https://housing2.lacity.org/highlights/renter-protections

It's a 4% max increase, with 1% addons for electricity and gas if they're included in the rent.

Which, after 3 years of everything being frozen, doesn't sound too terrible. We'll still be a good amount cheaper than market rate.

I'm pretty sure there's revanced patches for that?

When I built my latest Plex server, I chose to put ECC RAM into it. But it was a pain getting all the hardware, due to the silly rules AMD has for ECC support and iGPU support in its chips.

App I work on, we're replacing XMPP with messages over push/rest/websocket. XMPP is not fun to use compared to newer stuff.

Wild that this is still a thing! I used to use IRC 20 years ago for all my file finding needs. The quality was so much better than the alternatives at the time.

This is a great writeup, but if someone could elaborate on how a piece of content in the Lemmyverse gets into the Mastadon-verse, and how interaction on that piece of content in both -verses is handled across the verses, I would appreciate it.

From what I've seen, it sounds like since everything in the fediverse shares the ActivityPub APIs under the hood, it's possible to share the same piece of content across verses. But I can't wrap my head around how interactions with the content across -verses is possible.

I agree that mental math is useful, but in scenarios like that, times tables aren't really useful since the tables are rotely memorized and rarely does a bill fall nicely into a times table.

Better to learn a technique like "move the decimal place left one position and double that number to get 20%".

But realistically, with a phone in your pocket, it's not much more effort to pull it out and use the calculator.

Curious why you keep the arrs internal only, when there are things like Authelia that could secure access to them?

What are the magic search terms for these things? I went searching for such to adapt my porter cable batteries to craftsman (since they're all Stanley black and decker) but I didn't find anything. Looked on thingiverse too. I'm ready to print up the adapters! This lock in sucks!

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