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JustEnoughDucks

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  • Gordon Ramsay one of the first celebrity chefs to bring US-style 20 % service charge

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  • I agree, but restaraunts all over the world use "hidden" ways to subsidize lower prices.

    For example here in Belgium, they don't give tap water and force you to buy bad bottled water at a 300-1000% markup (so much so that beer is often cheaper) in order to be able to post lower meal prices. But people here are stingy as fuck and will in the same breath complain (and write bad reviews) about restaurant prices being more than supermarket prices as well as that "the staff is all students/not enough staff".

  • Age checks could turn internet into an ID checkpoint and would kill anonymity, Proton CEO says

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  • My mother in law got me essentially the bible of DIY gardens for the Flemish region. I learned that there are differences just in tool styles an hour drive away from eachother already.

    I could read that for a years and still learn things!

  • Flo period tracker sells user data to Meta and Google

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  • Drip is open source and fully local!

  • What is the coolest website you’ve visited that no one knows about?

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  • That is only the very first level. Afterwards it switches to gates.

  • I dug a hole.

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  • First make it a bean hole and cook some chili in it

  • Home Assistant's ePaper ecosystem finally has an open standard worth building around

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  • I am a bit confused what this project actually is.

    Is it replacing ESPHome as a framework to build code into?

    Is it a UI builder?

    Is it for all displays eventually? (hence the name, otherwise it would be a very weird name for something that doesn't handle normal displays)

    Is it yet another standard library as a "no code solution"?

  • Chinese attackers are pwning your infrastructure to use in attacks, 10 countries warn

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  • I would guess a ton of this is exploiting vulnerable cloud-connected IoT devices that manufacturers don't actually support with updates and if they did, users wouldn't install them.

    The embedded MCU firmware scene is only recently started taking security seriously at a larger scale. It was always an afterthought before I hear.

  • Small Program for VBA?

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  • One project I am doing at work (engineering and administrative departments run on spreadsheets) not being a programmer at all is automating technical sales generation. We make custom things but we have a few products that have a bunch of standard things to configure.

    Using VBA to do a few small calculations (it sucks at large data which is why python in excel is amazing) and taking in a bunch of configuration fields to output a price, then generating a word document from a template with the quote including the relevant configuration details.

  • Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple's chief executive officer, and hardware engineering chief John Ternus is set to take over September1st, Apple announced today.

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  • Sadly the apple watch sensor + algorithm is the singular best PPG optical heart rate tracker on the market.

    Not enough to put myself in danger of the Israeli Pegasus sending me one text to inject spyware but still...

  • The media blackout of Jared Kushner’s historic, ongoing corruption scandal

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  • That is not true, the winner (in many if not most, certainly the red states) states give all of the EC votes to the winner that won by 1 vote. Completely throwing off any claim of any representation in those states. People's votes literally don't count there

  • tech never works for long

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  • And an electronics guy's smart home if there is no wireless at all and all KNX and Ethernet wired lol.

  • Biggest Competitor for Amazon Kindle - Kobo - has formed an official Cooperation with iFixit for repair kits & guides

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  • Thank kindle unlimited exclusivity bullshit for that...

  • Fairphone 3 EOL

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  • USB has very tight tolerance standards for USB-C. It means that there is just the right amount of clamp that it stays in while maximizing the lifespans before the clamping mechanism wears out.

    If you use cheap cables, they are often made out of spec which can wear out the clamping and make the port either not charge or even fall out. HMD (Nokia) phones had terrible connectors for at least their first 3 generations that wore out, even with certified cables, after 6 months and my cables would literally not charge and just practically fall out.

    The safest bet is to choose a USB-IF member as they are certified with the standard.

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    Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad?

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  • Humble bundle got stripped by its parent company IGN. That's why they haven't had a good bundle for a long time.

    In July 2024, all Humble Games employees were reportedly laid off. The company said that it's "restructuring", and that Humble Bundle will not be affected.

    Humble is being enshittified.

  • European shoes you swear by?

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  • Mukishoes. Very comfortable, leather ones are waterproof. Zero drop. They will resole them when the sole wears out.

    Wildlings are very very comfortable, but the ones with the split sole fall apart after a couple years.

  • France limits Chinese-made solar energy components, supports the use of European-made parts in wind and solar energy auctions

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  • Well, outside of mining. But much of that is in Africa.

    Rare earth mineral mining is still crazy full of very manual child labor. Just like the chocolate industry (not that China has anything to do with the chocolate industry, that is US companies using slave labor lol)

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  • I mean, they did invade Tibet with ground forces and eventually bomb the shit out of them, kidnapped tons of children and killed their parents. Between 10k in the first three days (the tiny tiny tibet army was very overwhelmed) and their government estimates 1.2million tibetens were killed then and during the 220k Chinese soldier occupation, but the actual number is likely more around 87k to 150k, with the remaining number being imprisoned in slave labor camps and the children kidnapped to grow up as "real Chinese" children. Like the indeginous schools in the US and Canada. Things got so bad that according to the PRC's own reports, over 70% of rural PRC members defected and fought for the rebels. Skeletons clogged the Yellow River one year apparently. But as typical with all imperialism whether western or eastern, the winners try to explain the deaths away as famine when the soldiers steal all of the crops and shoot out the legs of the people, but they "technically" die of starvation or disease.

    Then they came and cut all of their old growth lumber (maybe the real end goal?) with massive deforestation and resource harvesting.

    But it is no question that China's current imperialism is economic for 90% of it. It is also by far the lesser of the evils and much much less violent and physically harmful nowadays after 1970 or so.

  • Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit

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  • This is a bit vindicating lol. Every single social media post on the internet even here on Lemmy when something comes out about scalping people for more of their data there is a top comment saying: "do this and this to opt out" as a solution and it gets high visibility.

    I usually say "yeah, there is a high chance that does nothing" and there are always people who say that is not true, without exception... Well, here is more proof.

  • I just tried vibe coding with Claude

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  • I wonder if it was even able to compile. I am a shitty hobby coder who just does it to make my embedded hardware projects function.

    I have yet to get compilable code out of any of the AI bots I have tried. Gemini, mistral, and chatGPT. I am not making an account lol.

    I have gotten some compilable python and VBA code for data analysis stuff at work, so I wonder if it is because embedded stuff uses specific SDKs that it can't handle.

    Either way I have given up on it for anything besides bouncing ideas off of or debugging where electromagnetics issues could lie (though it has been completely wrong about that also even though it is using the wrong concepts, it just reminds me of concepts that I might have overlooked)

  • Ditch SUV's

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  • VW ID7 was advertised as the new Passat stationwagen.

    It ended up just being a standard sedan with more tacky LEDs on the outside starting at like € 70k