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bl4kers··on Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
That'd be illegal in a lot of jurisdictions. Even residential collection of rainwater is often capped
bl4kers··on All I wanted was a custom domain email
Tuta has unlimited addresses for sending
bl4kers··on We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
It should be illegal to not have them
bl4kers··on Discourse – the tech forum for the modern era
Disk Horse
bl4kers··on Trump Set to Roll Back Biden-Era Auto Fuel Economy Standards
So this is in response to the Canadian tariffs because they're going to jack up auto manufacturing costs?
bl4kers··on Mercury Is Shrinking, and Faster Than We Thought
It's taught in Pop Science Clickbait 101
bl4kers··on Smart Ring Maker Oura, Backers Seek $2.2B in US IPO
Isn't this similar to Apple and iMessage? As in, will inevitably stop working with impending patches
bl4kers··on Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors
If it's an unreliable and untrustworthy site (which it is) then it's not of value to much of anyone. Archiving requires both of those things
bl4kers··on Show HN: Neobrutalism.dev – Just added Base UI support and added new color theme
First thing I thought. Tying it to React is a shame.
bl4kers··on GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released
I believe Fairphone relies on popular off-the-shelf parts. If that stays consistent, the Fairphone will never be small. Save for a change in business model (e.g. pay more for smaller phone)
bl4kers··on AirPods 5
It's really not that hard. The Galaxy Buds Plus from 2020 get 11 hours of battery on a single charge. Same for the Sony WF-C510 that are $70
bl4kers··on Jellyfin 12.0
Are your files named to the Jellyfin spec? Haven't had any of those issues
bl4kers··on Is This the Future of America?
Is this just a drone video?
bl4kers··on Nebula Sans
> The homepage and app isn't creepily algorithmically designed to optimize my engagement with the platform

A simple fix for YouTube is bookmarking the subscriptions page and making that your entrypoint: https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions

bl4kers··on 'Not acceptable': Judge orders Google to make rival app store installs easier
That's not a trusted source anymore: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-a...
bl4kers··on Zohran Mamdani's NYC Tech Team Is What DOGE Should Have Been
That's not a trusted source anymore: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-a...
bl4kers··on Spotify just hit 300M Premium subscribers
Podcasts are shoved in your face everywhere, and their official playlists have been flooded with AI music.
bl4kers··on Trump says Greenland will be under US control by the time he leaves office
Highly doubt. Denmark has been quietly moving in troops and supplies
bl4kers··on Show HN: Descript wanted $24/mo, I built an open-source alternative in a weekend
Yes, you can. Just pass in an image
bl4kers··on Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site
I don't see a way to change from F to C...?
bl4kers··on Stripe closed my account with a 0.18% dispute rate
Sounds like an unreliable company. Best to not work with them anymore
bl4kers··on Pebble Mega Update – July 2026
Some people just break screens
bl4kers··on Meta data center water discharges suspended for contaminating water supply
Oh, great. A group of men in black shirts and jeans are here to fix the issue
bl4kers··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
Tweet from Proton's CEO last year: "10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have completely turned."

He repeatedly said his statement was politically neutral.

bl4kers··on Reddit now blocks all free API access besides RedReader
My experience with Lemmy has been nothing but positive. Very glad to have switched three years ago
bl4kers··on Ask HN: New clean macOS install. Must-have apps? Best browser?
Whatever you decide it's useful to find things on Homebrew and record in a file. Then you can mass install next time around
bl4kers··on Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs
IINA is much better on Mac

https://iina.io

bl4kers··on FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs
Yep, just in different flavors based on ideology. For example, forced labor requires logging & tracking of pregnancies. Anti-trans folks want gender identity on the books to gatekeep who can teach in schools or enter bathrooms. Same for preventing same-sex marriage. Folks railing against voting rights want more and more checks to prove who you are and where you live
bl4kers··on Waymo expands pause to four cities as robotaxis keep driving into floods
When I was in LA they were consistently cheaper than Lyft
bl4kers··on The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers
You sure that data is stored locally and not on a vendor's cloud offering?
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