adespoton

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[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

These four North Koreans remain at large, and the ‘Rewards for Justice’ program has announced $5,000,0000 in rewards for credible information about their current location.

Wow… so PRK can make just as much by saying “here they are, at an office in Pyongyang!” as they made via this entire 5-year scheme.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 hours ago

…for situations where people are providing service above and beyond what you’re already paying for through other means.

For me, this requires physical interaction between me and the person. If I can hand them a tip, it will be 10-15%, just like in the 90s.

If I’m in Starbucks and when I order something a prompt comes up on the machine asking how much I’d like to tip, it will always be 0 unless I’m asking staff to come deliver my order to me outside instead of picking it up myself. They should already be being paid a fair wage for the work they do behind the counter, and if I find out they aren’t, I’ll take my business elsewhere.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 hours ago

I wonder how much of that can be traced back to Broadcom acquiring VMWare?

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 17 points 4 hours ago

And those who win in court… have no guarantee that the federal administration won’t round them up again in the future and put them through the entire process again.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 hours ago

It’s a challenge when even the English words twist the thinking on the topic… “repatriating” makes all sorts of assumptions about what people desire to happen.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 hours ago

Isn’t that headline backwards? Isn’t it Moscow saying Russia has occupied the region?

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 hours ago

And the point here is to flood the space. If everyone is talking about the gossip 100% of the time, nobody has spare cycles to pay attention to what’s actually happening.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

That’s partly because unlike Democrats, he’s actually speaking out and taking a contrarian stance on topics.

When he thought he could work with Trump, he went all-in. Now that he realizes that two narcissists will always have conflicting goals, he’s all-in on fighting Trump.

The Democrats, on the other hand, have mostly spent this time saying “let’s discuss working together to come to an agreeable compromise” while doing not much that’s actually useful one way or the other.

Elon may be politically inept and only looking out for his own interests, but he does know how to grab the public’s attention and how to force people to act.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca -1 points 5 hours ago

All religions, or just officially recognized ones?

Because there’s plenty of modern religions out there that claim to be anti-religion. Groupthink hiding behind ideologies that are fine in and of themselves, but twisted to keep people in line.

The problem isn’t religion; it’s people.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

You’re wanting official paperwork from CoV?

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Bridge mode disables the router in the modem; if you have an admin account on the modem you should be able to enable it yourself; otherwise you need to get your ISP to enable it. It will turn off all the firewall and WiFi features on the modem.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 0 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (4 children)

You need to use their modem quite often, but you don’t need to use their router. They’re usually “all in one” modem/router things these days, but they’re legally required to provide you with a modem in bridge mode if you ask — at that point, an Ethernet cable attached to their modem is effectively attached to the Internet, and you can put your own hardware inside (firewall, Wifi router, etc.).

While you need to connect to their IP gateway, you don’t need to use their DNS services or anything but their IP gateway service.

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