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Tea drinkers of Lemmy how do you brew your cuppa?
  • Electric kettle and french press.

    1. Add sweetener and vanilla extract to mug.
    2. Fill and start kettle.
    3. Add loose leaf Earl Grey and lavender to french press.
    4. Pour boiling water into french press.
    5. Steep for 3 minutes.
    6. Press and pour the tea into the mug.
    7. Add a splash of oat milk.
    8. Stir and enjoy.

    It’s called a London Fog and it’s delicious.

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    North Korea ramps up preparations for war with US
  • There are ways of creating oxygen onboard submarines. The only real limits to time submerged is the amount of food the boat can carry.

    Here is a video by Destin from the Smarter Every Day youtube channel explaining oxygen generation onboard submarines. https://youtu.be/g3Ud6mHdhlQ

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    Thomas 🔭✨ (@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io) 23andMe just sent out an email trying to trick customers into accepting a TOS change that will prevent you from suing them after they literally lost your genome
  • You’re right. I only wanted to include the search term for anyone wanting to pursue this on their own. I think it is better to search the proper term and build knowledge from there than to summarize it and hope laymen understand the underlying principles.

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    Thomas 🔭✨ (@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io) 23andMe just sent out an email trying to trick customers into accepting a TOS change that will prevent you from suing them after they literally lost your genome
  • You’re right. I just want to add the proper terms for people to search for in case this information helps them. The main matters considered in contract law are “consideration and performance”. Happy hunting y’all. Take down these corporations that do not care for you.

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    Thomas 🔭✨ (@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io) 23andMe just sent out an email trying to trick customers into accepting a TOS change that will prevent you from suing them after they literally lost your genome
  • I once successfully defended myself from a lawsuit by invoking a previous TOS. The court allowed me to choose any version of the TOS that benefited me the most. It was akin the doctrine in contract law that ambiguity is always found to be detrimental to the drafter of the contract.

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    US opens probe into 73,000 Chevrolet Volt cars over loss of power
  • I got corporate involved and they said the dealerships should fix it for free but they could not force them to. Corporate said that if I paid to have my car towed to a dealership 600 miles away they would repair it under warranty.

    The estimates I received from the dealerships wanted $12000 to replace the becm. The car was valued at $15000 so that made no financial sense to repair.

    The car only had 62,000 miles on it and was in perfect condition other than the becm.

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    US opens probe into 73,000 Chevrolet Volt cars over loss of power
  • Same thing happened to mine. Except 3 Chevy dealerships refused to fix it under warranty. Despite there being a service bulletin on exactly that failure. They even charged me for the diagnostics.

    Every car I ever owned was a Chevy but after this I will never buy another GM product.

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    What VPN do you use and why?
  • They also regularly have independent security audits
    and their servers run everything on RAM meaning the second it loses power all data is lost.

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    Elon Musk knew he made a bad bet on Twitter. He was right.
  • It was never a bet. It was him attempting to inflate the price by saying he would buy it above the share price at the time. It was an attempt at market manipulation and the SEC made him go through with it.

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    Google Decides To Pull Up The Ladder On The Open Internet, Pushes For Unconstitutional Regulatory Proposals
  • You’re right.

    I like to peruse code and have read a lot of it from the sources that make it available. It’s not always the languages I know but even then I can get the idea of what most of it is doing. There are some code bases that are too big for any one person to fully comprehend. That said, I think the only way for one to be confident in open source is to read it yourself which is a problem for most as coding knowledge is not common combine with the size of some.

    So it’s always going to be trusting trust for most people. The fact that it is open source and makes available the code for review limits malice to a much greater degree than proprietary ever will.

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