residentmarchant

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Exactly, the tech part of this is cool and novel.

The highly targeted fishing is less good, but that's not to say they couldn't use the same app to direct people at lower fished zones while the heavily trafficked areas recover.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Also a good use case for a government-developed app. They have the most up to date access to satellite photos (likely already paid for other departments to use, too) and a desire to make their fisherman more efficient.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

It's free (prime farmland) real estate!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Fair point! I figured the money thing but didn't think about the standardization thing

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I wish this happened more often! Why not infuse art into routine notification lights/bells?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've had my bike(s) stolen a few times.

It really sucks since usually I'm expecting to be able to bike somewhere (much faster than driving or public transport in my city) and can't so I end up being late to whatever I was going to. Not to mention the whole process of buying a new bike, a new lock, new lights, etc.

I'm pretty fortunate in that it doesn't ruin me financially to buy a new $400 Craigslist bike plus $100 in accessories but I would rather not do it every ~2 yrs or so

I've heard some people say that they feel violated because someone took their personal stuff, but I guess I just see it as the cost of locking your bike up in public in the city.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

*insert Simpsons meme"

Say it again!

sigh 2024 is the year of the Linux desktop

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out what a "Pugina" was, should have just clicked the link

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

As compared to a recall and re-fitting a fab, a class action is probably the cheaper way out.

I wish companies cared about what they sold instead of picking the cheapest way out, but welcome to the world we live in.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (4 children)

She's generally average from what I've heard amongst my friends. Not a slam dunk but not stumbling over herself. I think she'll really have to prove herself and release a strong platform to sway any voters. The good news is that a decent number of people are going to vote for her just because she's not Trump.

I suspect the real problem for some Americans will be a woman as president...which is just about how screwed America is right now.

Pretty notably she doesn't have any big skeletons in her closet (that I know of at least) that Republicans can latch on to and create drama over.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Forums and websites have always used content to market things (think DAU or visitors to sell more expensive banner ads at the top of a post).

I agree that forum hosts were (mostly) random people that wanted to do something for their community, but monetization didn't kill the friendly Internet, consolidation did.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I find the exact same thing. I always use an alias when signing up for some stupid parking app or new healthcare system that I can't avoid and I've surprisingly never seen the aliases being re-used by anybody but them.

I was expecting at least a data breach, but it's been clean for the past 10 yrs or so.

It's possible data brokers are just good at stripping whatever is behind the "+" though.

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