There are. The problem is getting them off their asses and out to vote.

Well, this American sure does and will be voting in November. Suggest everyone does the same.

One thing to remember is they didn’t have notes, earpieces or teleprompters.

Trump just straight up rambled out a stream of bullshit, lies, and projection every time he had the mic. Biden was not only answering factually, but also had to counter bullshit. They were on the same stage but playing two completely different games.

And when the debate is analyzed down to “who was more truthful?”, Biden slightly flubbing a fact/figure will be treated near equally to Trump straight up spewing out bullshit.

Usually those are only 0% for a certain period of time. After that, the interest rates are typically higher than average.

So if you utilize it and pay it off completely during the 0% phase, they really don’t make any money. They make money when you carry a balance past that, or if/when you continue using that line of credit after the 0% period has ended.

That’s my understanding, anyway, as I have seen 0% APR offers, but they always are for a limited amount of time.

That, or there’s some kind of massive penalty if you miss a payment or something. Definitely read the fine print lol.

Now that you mention it, that does sound right.

Glad to hear she’s doing well and having fun again.

I read a few years ago she had some health issues. Hope she’s doing well. Her videos/projects are always fun. From the random, food throwing robots to Truckla (which was legit impressive).

That is horrifying but also very impressive soldering.

Can’t speak for OP, but the Vault software itself is fine. It’s their recent change in licensing that has a lot of people upset and looking for alternatives:

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-adopts-business-source-license

That is why today we are announcing that HashiCorp is changing its source code license from Mozilla Public License v2.0 (MPL 2.0) to the Business Source License (BSL, also known as BUSL) v1.1 on all future releases of HashiCorp products. HashiCorp APIs, SDKs, and almost all other libraries will remain MPL 2.0.

BSL 1.1 is a source-available license that allows copying, modification, redistribution, non-commercial use, and commercial use under specific conditions. With this change we are following a path similar to other companies in recent years.

I think cartographers also used to put fake things on their maps to detect unauthorized copies.

My takeaway from that is that I should start putting canary bugs in my code 😆

Off work today, so I have a to-do list I hope to knock out:

• Finish last round of testing and release 1.4.0 of Tesseract
• Update my Nginx + ModSecurity WAF and test/deploy the new build.
• If not finish, then at least continue moving stuff off of an old server I’m decommissioning

There’s more I need/want to get done, but just those 3 things are ambitious for one day where I’m supposed to be relaxing lol.

Have they actually proven this is a good idea, or is this a “so preoccupied with whether or not they could” scenario?

It’s businesses “throwing AI into stuff”, so I’m going to say it’s a safe bet it’s the latter.

Yep, 100%.

In college, I worked at a call center for one of the worst Banks of America (oops, meant banks in America 😉). Can confirm that, and I dealt with a LOT of angry customers.

This is giving me Black Mirror vibes. Like when that lady’s consciousness got put into a teddy bear, and she only had two ways to express herself:

• Monkey wants a hug
• Monkey loves you

I get that you shouldn’t go off on customer service reps (the reason you’re angry is never their fault), but filtering out the emotion/intonation in your voice is a bridge too far.

If you don’t get any other answers:

I run OpenWRT on my router (x86 hardware), and have Adguard Home and Wireguard installed on it.

AdGuard has its own webUI, and Wireguard peers can be managed through LuCI in OpenWRT. It also supports OpenVPN as well as other VPN types.

So you could run a VM with OpenWRT and get all that.

(Disregard if NEW is an acronym, I guess lol).

Not trendy enough. How about NuWater?

I was thinking of “astronaut water” if we had to rebrand it.

Lol, I hate that you’re right :sigh:

Anyone who’s passed 5th grade science would know that water is fine, but that’s asking too much of more people than I’d care to imagine.

Funny you mention that.

Our city’s treatment plant was a frequent field trip destination. I think I went 3 times (two different class trips, and once again with my engineering club). All 3 times, the plant manager gave the tour and concluded it by drinking a glass of water out of the output pipe to show how clean the water was that they were putting back into the river. (Supposedly, anyway).

As proud as he was for what they did there and of the standards they had, I’m going to give him the benefit of doubt that it was the actual effluent from the plant he was drinking. He always seemed fine and never hesitated to down a glass of it.

So yeah, like you said, people probably haven’t been exposed to that to know how clean the water that comes out of treatment plants usually is.

In some parts of Phoenix AZ , they use the treated grey water to water grass golf courses

Using grey water for agriculture / irrigation purposes is pretty common. It’s why they tell you not to drink (or make sun tea) from the sprinkler water.

The issue is really when there are heavy rains and the treatment facilities are overwhelmed and RAW sewage gets dumped into the river

Yeah, that’s why combined sewer and stormwater systems have fallen out of use (and are illegal in most places now). That used to be a much bigger problem, but thankfully, most places have separated those systems and made it illegal to discharge stormwater into the sanitary sewers. My house still has the old connections where the gutter downspouts tied into the sewer line (house is from the 50s), but they’re capped with concrete.

Poor branding aside, it doesn’t really change anything, though. But yeah.

I at least appreciate the honesty in the naming rather than some marketing doublespeak. That said, I’d be okay with it if they called it “astronaut water” or something lol.