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@Jedigirl I think the appropriate term is "entry level" as in this job is for people who haven't had a job before. It is of low value and low risk, so if they flake out and don't show up it doesn't hurt us too much. Because it's low value to the company, the pay is equivalently low. If they demonstrate that they can show up every day and excel at it, then they can move up into a job that requires more skill, dedication, and is more valuable, and thus higher pay. They can also put on the resume "Worked at this job for a year and didn't get fired, so you know I can show up" and get a job of more value. People aren't meant to stay in that kind of job for more than a couple of years, or if they're older than about 21. The job is to recruit graduating high school students into the company and then filter them upwards, or out. It's kind of like an internship, except for people who aren't in college.

@arstechnica My favorite platform, though I owned a much later version.

@britt To Ubisoft, I'm quite comfortable with not owning your games, paying for them, or playing them.

@textfiles Nice, first thing I did when I heard the news was check Archive.org, and found a 2008 snapshot of the server. Probably not a ton of stuff has changed since then.

@pro On phones, it's useful for power saving, less so on desktop chips. Having Zen4 and Zen4C cores on the other hand, they're the same architecture, the only difference is that the 4C have less cache and don't boost as high in clock speeds. Since usually only a couple of your cores are running full boost, that's usually a good tradeoff for getting more cores. It only saves them maybe 35% or so of space, rather than fitting 4 of them in the same space though.

@beej I need a second reversing camera. Then it can be a backup backup camera.

"Kono Sekai no Kouryakuhon wo Hirotte Shimaimashita" Just got its first update in 8 months, glad to see it back.

@mttaggart At which point I go and switch to librewolf, and hope that they've sufficiently stripped out the nonsense. I've been tempted to try doing that anyway.

@requiem There are some bases out there to work from that aren't ridiculously out of date, like Ladybird or Webkit. The latter was what chrome started from anyway. Or could just fork Servo.

@kiwa IIRC, that "totally cool stuff" was IBM Pogs.

@lrhodes (Even posting on Fediverse is probably creating an RSS feed...)

@lrhodes That last one is probably undercounted. Anyone who has a blog probably is creating an RSS feed to go along with all of those posts, most blogging software still does it automatically.

@TechConnectify @justNickoli (They're trying to add a weight tax as well, justifying it as a "SUV" tax.)

@TechConnectify @justNickoli This is on top of the sales tax, our sales tax on cars was a bit higher than other nearby states, so people used to go to nearby states to buy cars, then they raised the registration costs to compensate for that.

@TechConnectify @justNickoli The taxes vary based on car age here in Colorado. My car being 10 years old is only $56 to register, but brand new ones could be $600-2000 per year. (They decline for the first 5 years, freeze in price for 5 more years, then drop to almost nothing at 10 years.) It kind of acts as a Use-tax as well as a registration fee.

@TechConnectify @nowster Might be worth putting some unusual screws on your plate. Something that requires a spanner or a torx bit to remove. Wouldn't stop a determined thief, but would prevent casual ones.

@TechConnectify @nowster (When you move your plates to a new car, you have to update the fact that you did it with the DMV so they can update the database.)

@TechConnectify @nowster The plate itself has nothing to do with the car, but the very first thing that pops up when a police car scans a plate is the make and model from the DMV database. I was pulled over once because the plate reader mis-read the plate, said it was a different model, then after pulling my car over they double-checked the plate by hand and found the error.

Mark Rober just did a video where he found out how much people steal plates from similar models and colors of cars in order to misdirect people who write the plate number down when people break into things.