EastOfTruth

347 karma · joined September 28, 2021

EastOfTruthon Starlink nightmare: Moving service location a few feet delays orders until 2023

> One Reddit user wrote, "I moved it from the end of my driveway to my house this morning and just looked back and [the availability date] had changed to 2022-2023."

Why would you do that... you should be all set when they have your address?

EastOfTruthon Facebook plans to shut down its facial recognition system

Its public facial recognition system? For some reason I doubt that they will stop using it for themselves.

EastOfTruthon Zillow seeks to sell 7k homes for $2.8B after flipping halt

> “Listed”, not sold. Homes typically go for well over listing

In a bull market, about 50% of homes sell above list price [1]... It can change quickly.

1. https://magazine.realtor/daily-news/2021/06/01/a-record-shar...

EastOfTruthon “I'd like to emphasize that no contract has been signed yet...”

TSLA dropped about 4% today... keeping it well above pre-announcement of this deal last week.

EastOfTruthon Firefox 94

Why do you need to create a collection? I was happy when all extensions was the only collection. And this has been in Nightly for about a year.. when is it coming to stable? (those questions aren't really questions, it just looks like Mozilla is trying to make extensions go away)

EastOfTruthon Firefox 94

That's what I do, but even this ESR isn't supported anymore.

EastOfTruthon Zillow seeks to sell 7k homes for $2.8B after flipping halt

Zillow has listed a staggering 93% of the hundreds of Phoenix homes it owns at a loss [1]

1. https://www.businessinsider.com/zillow-offers-ibuyer-sell-ph...

EastOfTruthon Firefox 94

Massive regression on Firefox Mobile... they block 99% of extensions nowadays (only about 12 out of thousands are allowed).

EastOfTruthon Elon Musk is now worth $335B

Of course I don't imply taxing unrealized gains, but taking away loopholes would be nice.

EastOfTruthon Tell HN: Tesla rear-ended me on autopilot, no one will investigate

> I drive a Tesla. If my car rear ends another car, that's my fault. Doesn't matter if I had Autopilot on or not.

It is supposed to be super-self-driving... it has to count for something.

EastOfTruthon Elon Musk is now worth $335B

This article doesn't mention the word "tax".

EastOfTruthon The Dalles sues to keep Google’s water use a secret

A trade secret, they claim.

EastOfTruthon As teens left Facebook, it planned to target 6-year-olds, documents show

As 6yo left facebook, it planned to get at-birth-implants to take off.

EastOfTruthon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2021)

  Location:  Atlanta, Georgia, US
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Python, Web, SQL, Linux, CAD
  Email: 311netcom@gmail.com

EastOfTruthon A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular YouTube-dl written in wxPython

I use yt-dlp [1] ... so far so good.

1. https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

EastOfTruthon Watermelons

Do they like the seedless more then the traditional ones?

EastOfTruthon Roblox has been down for days and it’s not because of Chipotle

Apparently, according to roblox.com, some player are able to play: "We are incrementally opening to groups of players and will continue rolling out."

https://i.imgur.com/KgDxNsg.png

EastOfTruthon Seeding oceans with volcanic ash could be new tool to tackle climate change

dumping ashes in the ocean will work much better....

EastOfTruthon Google DNS at 010.010.010.010

So what's the percentage of IP addresses that host more then one domain?

Also, I remember reading something like HTTPS was leaking URLs...

EastOfTruthon Google DNS at 010.010.010.010

How can your ISP route the traffic if according to you it doesn't know where it goes? You need a VPN if you want to hide your traffic destinations from your ISP... not encrypted DNS

EastOfTruthon Google DNS at 010.010.010.010

They still know where you go ... where do you think your traffic go through?

EastOfTruthon Google DNS at 010.010.010.010

It would not increase unless you are switching away from a third party DNS. Whether you use Comcast's DNS or not, they know the sites that you visit... If you use Google as your DNS, then Google also knows.

EastOfTruthon Google DNS at 010.010.010.010

another DNS to avoid... using anything but your ISP's DNS decrease privacy... unless you are using a VPN, then the DNS should be from your VPN's ISP

EastOfTruthon 3½ years on my custom emperor mattress – a retrospective

In my experience, paying more for a mattress doesn't necessarily equal to more comfort and I have no aches sitting all day in a cheap height-adjustable captain chair on wheels if I make sure that the arm rests are at the same height as the keyboard tray.

EastOfTruthon US Robotics 56k Modems

as long as it isn't a Win Modem, I'll take it... because Linux.

EastOfTruthon FAA has 'deep concern' about 5G network plan on aviation safety

as much concern as 3g and 4g? I'm pretty sure that at least 1 person per flight left their phone ON... and I haven't heard of any issues...

EastOfTruthon Honey bees increase social distancing when facing ectoparasite

so the honeycomb was mostly empty ? if there are 6 empty cells around each full cell, that would be the minimum extra distancing they could do

EastOfTruthon Ask HN: Would Google still kill Google+ If they new about Facebook’s problems?

Google killed the + Google Search operator when they decided to make Google+ more important.... can they bring back the + operator please? it was not the same as quotes.

EastOfTruthon 3½ years on my custom emperor mattress – a retrospective

no need for a mattress.. try this: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Sex-Adult-game-Hangin...

EastOfTruthon Ask HN: Will I have to pay both US and Canadian taxes if I work from Canada?

I don't think so, if you arent American and/or living in the states... just a guess. Better to check from a better source though...