A more sophisticated query system would be interesting.

For example if I want to see every picture with Joseph in it, that’s really easy. But what if I’d like to share those with Joseph along with the albums he’s in?

Similar to that would be a query by location and person. Or a query that includes two people.

I agree, shitty landlords exist as well and try to scam people into coming. That’s why I’ll never rent out a place again, on either side, if I can avoid it.

This is wild, but I have at least one guess where they might be coming from with this idea.

At one point I had to move out of a house that I owned for a while so I wanted to let it.

People who want to rent can be super flaky and dishonest. Seriously 4 out of 5 or more are like this.

They make appointments then don’t show up and ghost you. Or they call 5 minutes late to say they’ll be there in 3 hours.

Or everything seems good until you do credit checks and find they were evicted from the last place and haven’t made a payment on their credit card for 3 years plus they have a felony conviction from a few years ago for beating up some guy.

Or when checking their income is sufficient, their boss says yeah, they used to work here but not anymore.

Potential renters never tell you this stuff until you already put hours into talking and going out to show the place to them.

I’m just a regular guy with a job (who does pay his bills) so this takes a lot of time, fuck that noise.

Basically charging people $5 will make them not come if they know they won’t qualify, saving everybody the time.

This stuff terrifies me. I’m de-googling as fast as I can and reviewing all my local backups plus add encryption to what stays in the cloud.

I think the fundamental problem with ipv6 is that it’s a bit more complex to learn than ipv4 and not universally deployed at the remote host/server level.

New cloud companies who want to be competitive have to purchase ipv4 blocks at significant cost reducing their ability to compete with the incumbent players.

So if you go 100% ipv6 at home, some percentage of the internet will be inaccessible to you unless you employ some workarounds.

We’ll drop ipv4 quite fast once everything is up on ipv6 because nearly every modern network enabled device supports it.

The only reason I think we’ve not gotten over the hump is because our alternatives are still easy enough to work with and nobody requires it.

Does quicken still sync well with most American banks, investment accounts, and credit card companies?

I used to be a power user as well but then moved overseas where is syncs with nothing.

Now I use gnucash with a ton of custom python scraping and importing scripts. It isn’t perfect but as close as I have been able to find.

Sales taxes vary based on city, county, and state rates. They can also be waived if you, the buyer, have a reseller permit or are purchasing for a non profit.

It’s not underhanded and is annoying for sellers too because they have to know a lot about sales taxes as well. They could show you the price with local taxes included but then most customers would think their prices are too high comparing to other merchants.

So the price shown on the product in a store or online is only what the merchant is selling it for. The price at the register is what the merchant is selling it for plus the taxes they have to collect (unless you’re excluded for the reasons mentioned above).

The tax is a buyer obligation, not a seller obligation but sellers have to be an intermediary. So buyers should be educated about the tax laws that apply to them (in this system).

The receipt should be clearly marked so you know exactly how much went to the product and how much went to tax. You can itemize and deduct your sales taxes from your federal income taxes if you’re so inclined to track it (and it’s a better result than the standard deduction)

It’s more complex than a VAT system but enables local jurisdictions to levy taxes to pay for various things applicable to their area.

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A long time ago.

These days, I keep both audio and vibration turned off. If somebody needs to reach me they will want to message and then wait until I check.

Makes sense, it seems like Caddy is like a Swiss army knife and nginx is now the whole Home Depot.

A decade ago or so nginx was the swiss army knife to Apache

I’m an old school nginx pro. So I keep using nginx for reverse proxies because it’s what I know. What does caddy have to offer (or traefik is anyone wants to jump in)? Are they just optimized for this function and more modern?

UBI is probably a good idea but it’s coming too slowly for anyone to rely on. Even if UBI is fully implemented, I suspect it will be life sustaining but not a life fulfilling. So humanity still needs to find purpose.

It’s hard to imagine a scenario where someone cannot be trained to do something new. Isn’t that a core feature of humans?

Next, how shall we define value? I argue that humans can always create some kind of value that machines cannot, even if only because a human is involved.

We still value actual art over AI generated art. We value uniqueness and rarity. We value the faults that are inherent from things that are natural and organic.

Tons of the jobs people did a hundred years ago in developed countries are now gone or have been streamlined down to require fewer people. Yet there are more people on earth now than there ever have been before and arguably worldwide hunger is at its lowest point. So somehow we have figured out how to survive despite vast amounts of automation already. It seems unlikely that our new “AI” tools are going to somehow dramatically disrupt this balance.

Ebay can be really really bad too, Google around and start with the ebay executive team that sent a bloody pigs head to a journalist who said some bad things about ebay

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_stalking_scandal

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So it’s a plug-in for WordPress that rips wordpress.org links out?

That’s hardcore lol. The world really is pissed at Matt Mullenweg.

It always involves

sudo rm -rf *

Here in Thailand a lot of people have this cert and use it to teach. These jobs are competitive so don’t pay super well. I’d suggest you start on job boards in various places you might want to live to see what they will require.

I’m selfhosting it on box next to me. Wasn’t so hard for me to find the GitHub link on their website.

I was just thinking about ricochet while perusing the thread. Ricochet was new when I was starting in IT and I can still remember connecting a ricochet modem to a company laptop and then pulling up our novell netware file share over our vpn. It was jaw dropping to see it at the time. Amazing how far we’ve come since then.

They have a SaaS option as well, I’m guessing that’s the main revenue plan.

Huly is pretty amazing and has a self host option. It supports chats and video calls, team rooms, and has some cool integration for speech to text note taking. It also functions as a task tracker.

Under super active development right now so host only if you can deal with occasional breaking changes.