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I'm mad the Bitcoin price is going back up because the bank has been making it hell for me to buy lots of Bitcoin this last week.

They cancelled a wire transfer I scheduled because I didn't answer their phone calls. Said it was the first time I've done a wire transfer and needed to speak to me first.

But that's not true. I did a huge wire transfer in 2021. They should know this.

And then they're throttling my ACH transfers, even to another bank where they verified I own that account.

I hate banks. They are not your friend. They never will be. Long live crypto.

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If you're reasonably wealthy or poor enough, healthcare costs are not a concern. Be poor. Have a baby. Never see a bill. Thanks Medicaid!

Be middle class. Have a baby. Your finances are now fucked hard.

This guy is right that they're taxing it out of existence... FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS.

Poor people will still have babies and not think twice about it. The hospital is not going to turn away a mother, deny her prenatal care, make her have her baby in the streets -- yet. Once that starts happening people will really start caring I think. But for now, poor people often get some of the best healthcare in the country. But only if they're a specific kind of poor and in rather narrow circumstances.

The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence.

aaronstannard.com/40k-baby/


Why Am I Paying $40,000 for the Birth of My Child?

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Network inclined folks: I’m having a weird issue: only connections to Microsoft domains are degraded for me, other domains work fast and fine.

But I can’t even ping Microsoft on ipv4 and ipv6 works but it is slow.

Where could the issue be? Traceroute gets to msn.net before timing out?

As you can imagine this is particularly causing me hardship because of where I work

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> As a result, Claude will ignore the contents of your CLAUDE.md if it decides that it is not relevant to its current task. The more information you have in the file that's not universally applicable to the tasks you have it working on, the more likely it is that Claude will ignore your instructions in the file.

Great, LLMs have the attention span of Gen Z.

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Claude Code overview - Claude Code Docs

Learn about Claude Code, Anthropic's agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal and helps you turn ideas into code faster than ever before.
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Jiří Eischmann

ThinkPads have always been well supported. In the past it was mainly due to the community, but in the recent years the Linux engineering team in Lenovo has really stepped up its game.
Too bad Dell is going the opposite direction. Introducing more and more hardware components that rely on out-of-tree kernel drivers. My last three work laptops have been been XPS 13, but my next one will most likely be a ThinkPad again.

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Přechod mezi telefony je na Androidu pořád hodně práce

Konečně je GrapheneOS dostupný také pro Pixel 10 a já na něj mohl konečně přejít. Jak jednoduchá byla migrace na nový telefon? GrapheneOS má nejpokročilejší zálohovací/migrační nástroj, jaký jsem na Androidu zkoušel, jak ale píšu v článku, i tak je to pořád z nemalé části manuální proces.

#android #grapheneos #pixel10pro #seedvault

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Přechod mezi telefony je na Androidu pořád hodně práce

Konečně je GrapheneOS dostupný také pro Pixel 10 a já na něj mohl konečně přejít. Jak jednoduchá byla migrace na nový telefon? GrapheneOS má nejpokročilejší zálohovací/migrační nástroj, jaký jsem na Androidu zkoušel, jak ale píšu v článku, i tak je t…
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#android #grapheneos #seedvault #pixel10pro

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Every year I think Apple can’t best their previous campaign for accessibility, and yet here we are. (An audio description is available from the video settings.)

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Accessibility | I’m Not Remarkable | Apple

Apple products are designed for every student. Accessibility features like Magnifier on Mac, Accessibility Reader, Braille Access, VoiceOver, Sound & Name Re...
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Okay. So I can't decide for my portable lap 61 key keyboard if I should get a straight Midi controller or if I should get something with at least some onboard sounds. I have my Komplete but it's only a 49 meant to be played along with my hybrid acousticdigital piano. But I need a couch friend. Trying to decide between a 61 key midi keyboard or one of the cheap Rolands or Cassios that do have some sounds but connect to Midi. I just need something that sounds good that I can practice with. I can only sit at my real piano for an hour a day, if I'm lucky. Please help me pick my 61 key couch companion. My couch reclines so I can use thefootrest as well. I know I'm weird, going to put the pedal on the ootrest. I'm tired of my pain destroying my creativity. Still plan to learn Mac and integrate. But the Mac is in the piano room.

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You might think this is just another picture of a cat on a human.

But no!

This is a picture of our cat, Misti, who, for the first time since being adopted six months ago, stepped onto my lap completely of her own free will (as opposed to being bribed with treats) and sat there comfortably for about seven minutes.

Misti, my sweet potato, I freaking adore you! 🥰

#CatsOfMastodon #cat #OurMisti

A black-and-white cat sitting on my lap and chest. The picture is taken from my viewpoint, so you can only see her front. She has one paw tucked under her and the other stretched out in front of her, on my belly. She is looking to the right. We are sitting in a grey sofa with a colorful pillow next to us. I am wearing orange pants and a black shirt. In the background you can see a lamp, a plant, a tv on a bench, and a cat tunnel. All details to set the scene, but honestly the most important part is that our cat is on my lap!
#cat #catsofmastodon #ourmisti

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The more I think and hear about it, the less I like Eloquence as a manditory subscription. I think CodeFactory should charge for major upgrades, or add a lifetime option, even if it's ten times the cost of the original Eloquence. I've already been burned more than once by Vocalizer randomly deciding I don't have a valid license anymore, forcing me to connect to the internet—which was pretty difficult when my phone refused to say anything except "Please register this copy of Vocalizer TTS." So I think I can be forgiven for not wanting that again. If there's no way to actually own a copy of this new Eloquence, I really hope someone cracks it. But I also know that if someone does crack it, many people will use the crack even if they can afford to pay for it. To be clear, I'll still pay for the subscription, because I want to support continued development of this stuff and no-one else is doing it. I don't even care if the subscription is $10/month. But if this gets abandoned the way everything else has, it will effectively die, and we won't have a leg to stand on because we paid for a month of usage, not perpetual usage. I have phones that still run the version of Eloquence I bought 10 years ago. If CodeFactory ever shuts this down, it'll be instantly gone. So mostly, I hope CodeFactory offers a one-time purchase option—even if it's expensive—so there's less of a need to do any of that. If that doesn't happen, and no one has worked out a way to bypass the activation entirely, I'll need to really think about whether I want my primary synthesizer to be in such a precarious position. @accessibleandroid mastodon.social/@accessibleand…

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2025-12-02 14:13:54

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Public announcement from Code Factory:
"Starting today, December 2, 2025, we are launching the public beta of Eloquence for Android. To ensure a smooth experience and gather valuable feedback, we’re releasing the beta in stages. This means we’ll be gradually inviting more users over time, starting with a limited group and expanding step by step.
Join the beta from the following link: play.google.com/store/apps/det…

@Accessible Android

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Pitermach

Maybe that would be a good way to go. I don't currently use Android, but totally get your concerns given CF's track record. At the same time, I have read a lot of posts saying how developing for modern Android, and specifically how Google wants developers to keep their apps updated and built against the latest SDK's to avoid getting booted, I think I understand why they chose this monetisation path. I just hope, given there was a lot of hostility to this even before launch, that if everyone does jump on a cracked version if one gets released we won't end up with a case of a self-fulfilling prophecy where cf decides to stop supporting the app because noone was buying it, and no one was buying it because of the sub and CF's track record. So yeah, maybe a lifetime option isn't a horrible idea even if they price it high for a a lot of people.
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Timothy Wynn

@pitermach They essentially said they pulled it from the store because when it was cracked, sales dropped to virtually zero. That logic doesn't make sense to me, because that would mean sales would literally be zero if you pull it from the store, but there would definitely be higher chances of more purchases if it remained available. I'll take a wait and see approach for sure.
@Pitermach

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#Blind friends. It is long since time we took our responsibilities far more seriously and ensured our #sighted friends are more aware of where they are, where they are going and even where it is they hope to get. Next time an over eager person with sight approaches you, stop and ensure they know where it is they are, which direction they are traveling and even if they know what their destination is. when you encounter one who does congratulate them and see them on their way. #blindtravel #a11y
#a11y #blind #sighted #blindtravel
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The TI-34 is a fairly basic scientific #calculator. I’m a big fan because it’s easy to use and not overwhelming.

I was reading the manual and discovered it has two functions:

ipart(x)
fpart(x)

These return the integer and fraction parts of x.

ipart(2.34)=2
fpart(2.34)=.34

Great! So, uh.. What are these typically used for? Why include them on such a *basic* calculator? #calculators #ticalc #ti34 #matheducation #mathchat

#calculators #mathchat #calculator #ticalc #ti34 #matheducation

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Wife playing podcaster clip, something like this:

Woman: "And then 911 (emergency number) was created after 9/11, don't you think that's weird?"

Me: kill them all. Everyone one of these idiots.

Man: "the first use of 911 was in 1968..."

Her: "what? No"

Me: how can these people be so stupid we had a whole TV show called Rescue 911 in the late 80s / early 90s....

If 9/11 happened on 9/12 we'd call it 9/12!!!!!

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Let‘s Encrypt on following new CA standards to reduce certificate lifetimes to 45 days in 2028 - with opt-in steps before that.

Also mentions the DNS-PERSIST-01 challenge that will put aways with DNS record updates every time you renew a cert.

letsencrypt.org/2025/12/02/fro…


Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days

Let’s Encrypt will be reducing the validity period of the certificates we issue. We currently issue certificates valid for 90 days, which will be cut in half to 45 days by 2028.
letsencrypt.org
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feld

DNS-PERSIST will be very welcome, although you can achieve a similar result with a webserver configuration that responds to ACME challenges automatically. It doesn't need to know what the challenge is to respond. Also works with a cluster of webservers then that don't have to know a challenge is coming and have the response ready

Of course it can't work if there will never be a webserver at the domain you're issuing the cert for

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