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Aussie living in the San Francisco Bay Area.Coding since 1998..NET Foundation member. C# fan https://d.sb/Mastodon: @dan@d.sb

  • San Jose passenger claims a Waymo drove off with his luggage at the airport | A man says the Waymo he rode to San Jose Mineta Airport drove away with his luggage in the trunk

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  • Not defending them; I'm just stating what their app says to do since I've used it before whereas other people might not know.

  • San Jose passenger claims a Waymo drove off with his luggage at the airport | A man says the Waymo he rode to San Jose Mineta Airport drove away with his luggage in the trunk

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  • That's what I thought too. I'm not sure why it's not the case.

  • Meta’s historic loss in court could cost a lot more than $375 million

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  • Right. I don't disagree with you.

  • Gemini’s clean chat interface may not stay ad-free for long

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  • San Jose passenger claims a Waymo drove off with his luggage at the airport | A man says the Waymo he rode to San Jose Mineta Airport drove away with his luggage in the trunk

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  • Probably a design issue where they couldn't hook into one of the car's systems? I'm not sure.

    Their current cars are just temporary anyways. Jaguar doesn't even make them any more - they stopped producing the model that Waymo uses at the end of 2024.

    They're currently partnering with Zeekr to build a brand new one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waymo_Ojai

  • Berkshire Has a Website From the ’90s and Buffett Fans Say Don’t Mess With It

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  • It has all the information people need, and loads quickly without any extraneous content or scripts. All websites should strive to be this good.

  • San Jose passenger claims a Waymo drove off with his luggage at the airport | A man says the Waymo he rode to San Jose Mineta Airport drove away with his luggage in the trunk

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  • Not defending Waymo, but you're supposed to open the trunk either using the button on the touch screen in the car, or the button in the app. They tell you do do this in the app. If you open it this way when getting in, it'll automatically open at your destination too.

    As far as I know, the button on the back of the car itself isn't integrated with their computer system for whatever reason.

    Also keep the passenger door open until you've got everything. I do the same thing with taxis and Ubers too.

  • Ive been there I swear

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  • I walked around the Stanford Dish once.

  • Meta faces New Mexico trial that could force changes to Facebook, other platforms

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  • New Mexico said it plans to ask the judge to order Meta to make changes including verifying users' ages; redesigning its algorithm to promote quality content for minors; and ending autoplay and infinite scrolling for minors.

    Just Meta, or all social media platforms that have these same features? The article is unclear as to whether this would become a law or just enforced against Meta.

  • Apple Was Caught Off Guard by MacBook Neo's "Off the Charts" Demand

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  • Most of the stuff "regular people" do on computers these days is either web-based or cross-platform, too. A lot of them are getting the Neo because it's better than practically every other $600 new laptop in terms of build quality.

  • Meta’s historic loss in court could cost a lot more than $375 million

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  • Meta’s historic loss in court could cost a lot more than $375 million

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  • I get your point, but those are two different values. The first is total value of the company (which you could probably compare to someone's net worth) while the second is yearly income.

    Meta's annual profit is $60.46 billion and revenue is $200 billion.

  • Continuing the story of early DOS development

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  • I love when old, important pieces of software are open sourced.

  • It's midnight, time for shitposting

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  • Modern PHP isn't too bad though, especially with modern frameworks like Laravel. A lot of the bad parts of the language have been deprecated or removed over time.

    A lot of the "PHP bad" crowd haven't used it in 20 years.

  • Gemini’s clean chat interface may not stay ad-free for long

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  • RIP.so - memorial to defunct services & products

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  • To get started, I'd say to get a cheap block account from the Reddit Usenet deals wiki: https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/providerdeals/. A block account gives you a fixed amount of download (1TB, 2TB, whatever) that lasts indefinitely. If you use it just for music or books (for example), one block could last you a very long time. If you find yourself needing more data, you can get a monthly subscription with unlimited data.

    You also need an indexer, which is how you search for content. DrunkenSlug, NZBGeek, and NZBPlanet are popular. These cost money, but sometimes they have a lifetime plan where you just pay once. Sometimes they have open registration, but other times you need to get an invite from an existing user. There's free indexers like NZBKing, but they're often full of junk, and lack encrypted content.

    SABnzbd is the most popular downloader software. It's free and open-source.

    • Add account to SAB.
    • Search for what you want on the indexer.
    • Download the nzb file (points to where the files are located on Usenet) and add it to SAB to download the contents.

    I think that's it for the basics. There's more to it - different backbones have different data so one provider might have data that a different provider is missing , you can fully automate downloads with Lidarr/Radarr/Sonarr/Readarr, you can aggregate results from multiple indexers using NZBHydra/Prowlarr - but you can figure that out as you go :)

  • RIP.so - memorial to defunct services & products

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  • There's still a few P2P systems from that era that are still around. Soulseek is still doing very well for music, and some users on there have a bunch of things you can't easily find anywhere else. DC++ and eMule/eDonkey2000 are still around but with much smaller networks.

    One of the OG P2P file sharing methods (dating back to 1990) is still around too - IRC DCC.

  • Spirit Airlines prepares to cease operations amid financial struggles and high oil prices

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  • How do European budget airlines succeed while US ones fail?

  • GitHub - minio/minio: "This repository was archived by the owner on Apr 25, 2026. It is now read-only."

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  • Interesting - I didn't see that. They say "You can add your own copyright as well", so you don't have to give up your rights to the code. They do still need to comply with the terms of the Apache license.

  • KDE @lemmy.kde.social
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    Spectacle export to SFTP?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Lighter weight replacements for Sentry bug logging

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Help with powertop idle state output

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Looking for simple analytics (similar to Plausible) that supports cookies

    upvote.au /post/42206
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    ATX case with room for 5 hard drives

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    NAS vs larger server

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    My 10Gbps Home Networking Closet