First, that’s a great way to lose all trust your customers have in you and make them go to a different store.

You really need to visit some rural parts of my country to see how they are food deserts only served by predatory companies like Walmart. During the early 00’s it was a common story for Walmart to run local business out of the area due to being able to use economy of scale to drive down prices. Just imagine living in a town where the only place to buy food was Walmart, fast food chains, or dollar stores.

Second, I’m pretty sure that’s illegal.

I just looked it up and the Netherlands has Uber unless I have old information. You do know they use surge pricing as their business model right? Companies like Walmart look at these business models and want to transition to them because they work. Its the boil the frog slowly approach to capitalism.

On the plus side for you Americans and Canadians, maybe you can finally get rid of that habit of showing product prices excluding tax.

I am not making excuses only giving an explanation. Please consider I am not defending this in the slightest just giving information. A human worker costs less than a digital tag if they are also paid to organize the shelving and stock. Also consider the United States has taxes that changed on the county and state level. National chains don’t show taxes because you can literally drive 15 minutes and be in a different area with a different sales tax laws. These taxes can range from standard sales tax to a PIF tax that gets added based on a time window. Most of our country does not use electronic tagging and the systems used to update them are not as dynamic as you think when they do have them. This post is an excellent example of this because just think of how big Walmart is in my country. They are just now swapping over to them and only with the idea of changing their pricing model.

The process of poisoning sand until it thinks is complex.

Hahahahaha, I love that one! Its funny how one extention to flash is remembered as utter dog water people had to deal with while you had something like when Macromedia Shockwave popped off. It literally kicked off a generation of hobbiest programmers making games. Now for my personal hot take. Sure there were bad things about flash but to me when it was killed we lost a lot of accessibility for normal people to break into programming.

EDIT: Sorry if this comment seems out there I just started some new meds that sort of fuck with my brain case a little. When my fog has lifted I might rewrite it.

and death to america

The profit mode of capitalism aways shows its true colors when you are not the only shop in town. Notice how rumors about them removing account sharing started when major IP holders got done making their own platforms.

I am glad a few people like you remember how shit it was. I just think its funny all the kids think that Netflix only turned cur on us now. Its like sweet summer child. They only did the stuff they did because it kept them relevant. Now that they have to actually compete we see how they really are. The account sharing era fooled people but I have a long memory for tech.

I remember when netflix was only on windows because it needed Silverlight.

So to take this in another direction have you tried Kagi yet?

Good point! I did forget about that one.

Its easy to spiral out of control thinking about how the practice that got us this backdoor is something that is used all over the open source community to build code. In the end we can only evaluate what is in front of us and pray the things lurking in the shadows are something we can deal with when they expose themselves.

For me I feel like we have not had any big security stuff since the whole log4j thing. While this seems bigger they have caught it relatively early. I feel like more people had to panic patch Minecraft servers with log4j.

So the backdoor was not in the source code but in the system used to build the code. Devs for a long time now have swapped over to an automated build system and what happened with this one is in the last step for the xz build process it adds the backdoor to it. You simply have to remove the references to the data in the build config.

EDIT: Rewrote a sentence that sounded stupid

One thing to remember about NVIDIA is they do have Quadro line of cards so I kind of forgive them for using GeForce.

EDIT:Like I get your complaint but there is a world of difference between these two cards that its worth making some separation.

Generally if a gray beard does it I will as well. While I dont follow their advice blindly there is a reason why boomer programmers stick around in some spaces.

Thank you for writing this post. I am in networking and you will still find MIPS processors doing the heavy lifting. The main firewalls I program have Cavium branded MIPS CPUs and they could not do their main jobs without em. Some of the older Cisco gear that ran the internet was also MIPS driven.

Why does every system I want cost a $1000+? Like even on jauce its around that much and you still have to add shipping fees and taxes. Which would probably double it.

People that make systems like these are not scared of those that stop using em. What they fear is getting information wrong or spam. Using these facts you can then adjust to the changes.

A whole com dedicated to cassette tape futurism? Talk about making my day!

Look at this thing. It makes me feel like this is the iPhone of some civilization. Ubiquitous and ever present. I can imagine the workshop where you see busted ones laying around waiting to donate their parts to ones that are fixable. Some flop sweating nerd looking through a magnifier at one disassembled specimen with the gaze of a Spartan ready to fling a baby off into a pit for being too sickly at birth.

Sorry for ranting there. I normally lurk but you caught me right as I took a fat rip.

What a sexy looking project. I really wish I could get rid of my Synology and just build a whitebox NAS. I got mine sadly from work for free so I could not justify the cost of building one. I could sell it off on ebay though 🤔

I cant wait to see some pics when you are done with the build!

Prepare for your fee description fee to appear when this finally all works out.