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Denmark parliament adopts bill prohibiting Quran burnings
  • Prohibit ALL public burnings of books? Ok I think it’s stupid, but whatever.

    I'm OK with prohibited public burnings for the purpose of fire safety, I guess. Beyond that, I don't think I'd want to limit free speech in this manner.

  • Boycott In-N-Out.
  • They never really acknowledged it was here. I live near one of the Colorado locations and it has been (in)famous for COVID outbreaks the entire pandemic. And, for whatever obvious reasons, In-N-Out hasn't had the same closures enforced on them that every other restaurant did. During an outbreak they're supposed to close for a few days in our state, but they're basically the only restaurant that has refused to close and has never faced repercussions out here. It's maddening.

  • Samsung’s new 98-inch 8K TV is the projector-beating home theater upgrade I’ve been waiting for
  • I just put an 85" in my basement. That thing is annoying enough that it can stay with the house if/when I move. A 98" TV seems like it would be impossible to get down the same flight of stairs. If I upgrade again in this house it will 100% be a projector.

  • Remote Work to Wipe Out $800 Billion From Office Values, McKinsey Says
  • This is so frustratingly common. I worked for a company I loved and it got bought out by a company I hated. When people (including me) started quitting, the CTO said "but why? We have video games in the break room."

    Large companies are often run by crazy people, I guess.

  • What's the best financial decision you've ever made?
  • He's generally non-optimal on other things, but I certainly wouldn't call his advice straight up bad on anything. Overall most people are signficantly better off following his advice than doing average-person personal finance things - the average person is pretty terrible with money and Dave's plan is a huge step up from that.

    It's kinda like calling one diet bad because it's not as optimized as some other diet, but really both diets are amazing when you compare them to eating McDonalds 3 meals a day.

  • What's the best financial decision you've ever made?
  • Yup! I'm a fan and a current customer (have been with them over a decade)... except that it's kinda expensive now. For people new to it I'd recommend actualbudget instead and just do manual/semi-manual imports.

  • What do y'all do with your old hard drives?
  • Haven't really used spinning disks for anything but my home NAS since 2010 or so. Which means all my old drives come out of the NAS... And either get cycled into my backup NAS or put into a multi-disk jbod enclosure that I use as "scratch" space for random data projects I'm doing on the side.

    Ones that cycle out of scratch space are wiped and, if I'm being honest, sitting in a stack in my storage room. I really should stop procrastinating a trip to the recyclers...

  • What's the best financial decision you've ever made?
  • Very simply: consistent budgeting. We (my wife and I) go envelope-style and budget/plan or money every paycheck. I swear it's magic that turns money into more money.

    It's also let us systematically pay off all our non-mortgage debt and save/invest a large amount over the last decade. Now we have enough that we don't worry about money anymore.

    The single most important thing I've ever done for my finances was learning to budget so I could have a plan and manage my money on purpose.

  • What's the best financial decision you've ever made?
  • The gamification of credit card points can be a problem, too (overspending on stuff you don't really need or want to get those rewards). I use a credit card for this, too, but it can be murky waters if you don't have really good planning and impulse control (which I will admit I don't always have myself).

  • How many people here have actually used XMPP?
  • I did. I got hired as a Unix admin around 2008 and inheriteted the care and feeding of an old Jabber server the ~3000 employee company was using for internal instant messaging. I near-immediately migrated it over to an OpenFire server. A few months later I learned the pitfalls of using the built-in database (it blows up on you when it gets big enough cuz back then it was all in-memory, not sure about how it works out of the box now). I remember figuring out how to manually migrate that over to mysql... and I skipped the ITSM change control process and just had it execute overnight via some at commands and scripts. Went smoothly and I didn't get fired :P

    I learned a bunch from that and set up an OpenFire server at home so I could chat from my dynamic dns hostname to some people on gchat.

    And that's about the extent of it. My internal company chat eventually got replaced with skype for business and then teams. My personal stuff eventually switched over to text messages and Signal (and discord and slack and mattermost and whatever else for all the odds and ends communities I keep in touch with).

  • Reddit slowly became filled with hate
  • Real people do post hate, though, at least in some capacity. I left Facebook over a decade ago and never went back because of all the insanely hateful shit some of my family posts. My wife's still on Facebook (marketing manager, she kinda has to be) and every once in a while she'll show me the stuff my family is still posting.

    I mean, maybe my family is just particularly shitty?

  • Reddit slowly became filled with hate
  • Real people do post hate, though, at least in some capacity. I left Facebook over a decade ago and never went back because of all the insanely hateful shit some of my family posts. My wife's still on Facebook (marketing manager, she kinda has to be) and every once in a while she'll show me the stuff my family is still posting.

    I mean, maybe my family is just particularly shitty?

  • The Supreme Court rejects Biden's plan to wipe away $400 billion in student loan debt
  • Why are people getting into 10s or 100s of thousands of dollars in debt for school in the first place?

    Because we've told every kid that they need to go to college and created a government-backed system that ensures they can borrow virtually unlimited amounts of money to make it happen. Increased demand + increased money supply in a self-feeding cycle has led to massive inflation for higher education that will continue to burden younger generations with crushing amounts of unsecured, un-bankruptable, debt.

    The solution involves substantial changes to the federal student lending program that the US is, politically, not willing to accept.