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Very sad. I'm about 50% in taking the old Red Alert 2 and get to something that would've resembled the original source code.

Given the rumors that the source code has been lost (and the fact that they open sourced the games before Tiberian Sun & Red Alert 2, and the ones after those), I felt like I was using the tokens for 'good'.

We'll see when it actually stops.

Well, usually the answer is no, and then when something breaks the app will tell me.

Which reminds me. Why does the CVS app need access to Bluetooth?

Which is why the long-term reviews make much more sense.

The car reviewer needs to get over the honeymoon phase of this new shiny gadget.

Many places I toured offered $5 starbucks gift-cards for a review.

I think small accidents == large bills is caused by the amount of sensors and crumple zones in cars.

Layered on top of that is the massively increased cost of parts and labor to install the parts and paint them. And cars aren't really made to be taken apart easily.

Then there is the issue of availability of parts, especially in newer cars.

All of that makes it so that there are a 100+ cars outside the body-shop I frequently pass by. Because of the speed (or slowness) of the pipeline, body-shops need to be a certain size. Then insurance tries to squeeze them, and people don't get paid enough for the work they actually do.

So that's why your repaired bumper is 2 tints darker than your body. No-one has the time to properly blend the paints.

On the road I find WireGuard to be quirky when connecting to DNS names. When I'm on an IPv6 only network (like T-Mobile), connecting to a DNS name that offers A and AAAA, WireGuard on iOS prefers the A record, making me connect over one of T-Mobile's 464XLAT proxies which time out after x minutes. This then makes the connection look dead until I do something on my phone that re-enables it.

Tailscale doesn't have this issue.

Welp, that explains why they ghosted me after the interviews. And they went very well.

It is also expensive because the debt is very hard to get erased through bankruptcy, so private companies are now offering more money to people than is actually needed. So universities see this $ and raise prices.

Kinda like how tax breaks on housing initially help people, and then the market adjusts based on the new inflow of $.

This wouldn't be needed if banks supported something like PSD2.

I would love to connect systems to my bank in a safe way, but I can either do this, release the AI (I don't by the way) or shell out money to a service like Monarch, which relies in Plaid for all of its connections.

The banks brought this upon themselves.

There was an post about something like this a while back on lobste.rs, where some people were upset about the image that Anubis shows while it is validating your machine.

This is more general issue in the USA. How do you prove who you are? Your driver license / identity card doesn't have a chip, so given enough information about someone else you can sign up as them.

Compare that to say a large part of the EU where people have an identity card with a chip, which has a PIN. It allows institutions to read the chip, and that chip cannot be easily faked (PKI). The photo is on the card and on the chip, so they have to match.

Also, more importantly, all of these financial apps popping up is because the normal banking system is too slow moving for the modern requirements, something the EU has also solved with the SWIFT system.

Unsure about eggs, but they definitely have their own rotisserie chicken farm and plant.

Story goes that Tyson's chickens were becoming larger and larger and thus Tyson wanted more money.

Costco wants to keep the chicken at $5, so they starter their own plant.