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You are allowed to deduct the money you spent on union dues from your income, thereby lowering your taxable income. So on that portion of income that you deducted, you don’t pay taxes. That’s how all deductions work.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Whats the worst book anyone has ever recommended you?
1·3 days agoThere’s also really good writing on AO3 too.
Oh for sure, I didn’t mean to imply otherwise. It just happens to be where I read through some pretty bad writing when I was invested enough in the source material, so it came to mind as an example.
There is plenty to criticise about insurance companies, how did they stumble upon the one thing that is fine?
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Technology@lemmy.world•Notepad++ updater installed malwareEnglish
15·4 days agoI don’t get how this was exploited in practise.
Even if the signatures on the downloaded packages weren’t checked properly, how would you modify the content of the XML file returned from https://notepad-plus-plus.org/update/getDownloadUrl.php?version=8.8.0 ? For that you’d have to break or MITM the TLS too, no?
The usual case for TLS MITM is when a company decides DPI is more important than E2E encryption and they terminate all TLS on the firewall, but if the firewall is compromised there would be much easier avenues of entry other than notepad++
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Whats the worst book anyone has ever recommended you?
14·4 days ago50 shades of grey. The writing was so cringe that I just couldn’t get further than one chapter or so. And I’ve read some bad writing on AO3 before, so it’s not like I’m especially sensitive.
Even Deerannosaurus Rex would need to munch a while on that pile
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Open Source@lemmy.ml•HDMI Forum is unwilling to disclose the 2.1 specification for open-source (Linux): according to AMD, they had submitted a functional, HDMI 2.1-compatible driver [for linux?], which the Forum rejected.
2·4 days agoNot that many it seems… Ignoring extremely pricey ones, I could find the Lenovo ThinkVision E65 LFD for what converts to 1200 USD in a local shop. And even that is not really price competitive.
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Open Source@lemmy.ml•HDMI Forum is unwilling to disclose the 2.1 specification for open-source (Linux): according to AMD, they had submitted a functional, HDMI 2.1-compatible driver [for linux?], which the Forum rejected.
18·4 days agoHDMI has never been an open standard (to the best of my understanding anyway). You’ve always needed to be an adopter or a member of HDMI forum to get the latest (or future) specs. So it’s not like they’ve just rejected a new idea.
Okay not publishing the spec is still the same, but something else is new nonetheless.
AMD is an adopter*, they have the spec and they implemented a driver for 2.1 intended to be open sourced in Linux. But they were still blocked from publishing it. For HDMI 1.4 that wasn’t an issue yet from what I’ve found (though it’s always hard to search for non-existence). Open source implementations of HDMI 1.4, even in hardware description languages, seem to exist.
*you can search for “ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES” here to confirm for yourself
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•You wish you WERE never born, actually. Subjunctive mood.
0·5 days agoIf you’re familiar with the pragmatic application of the subjunctive in your own language or others, that may help
When I tried using my dative and accusative case knowledge from German with the objective case “whom” it made me sound weird to the native English speakers I know (American, Australian, Northern English), who mostly stopped using “whom”. So in general I’d advise caution with this approach.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Porsche Cars in Russia Shut Down After Satellite System FailureEnglish
2·9 days agoI wish people (especially journalists) would get it through their skulls already:
- Vehicles don’t communicate with satellites.
- GNSS (like GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, or BeiDou) do not use two way communication.
- The satellite can therefore not know the position of a GNSS receiver.
- Instead the satellites send timestamps and their positions, the receiver uses that information to calculate its own position. If the system with the receiver needs to report its position to someone they typically use some form of terrestrial communication, like mobile phone networks.
With that knowledge the comment by /u/[email protected] makes a lot more sense than whatever the article is trying to imply about satellite failures.
I had random issues with a laptop bluetooth adaptor around 6-7 years ago. I was able to hack together a script that wrote “0” to the /power endpoint of the PCI device in the sysfs, and then triggered a rescan of the PCI bus as a workaround.
Maybe something similar could work for your case, depending on how the bluetooth device is connected. Just an idea, not sure if it will work for you, but may be worth looking at.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•My daughter has an OnlyFans account
0·10 days agoIf she’s livestreaming too she might need a broadcasting license, like Gronkh (predates grok, no relation, big German streamer). Better get on that paperwork too.
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A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•At this SF grocery store, you can't leave unless you buy something
1·10 days agoCan confirm for the Migros

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Technology@lemmy.world•Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies insteadEnglish
2·10 days agoLast weekend my PC didn’t start up, it was beeping an error code. I was so scared of it being a memory issue while diagnosing.
But luckily it was a video error code. And after swapping out the GPU and still getting the beep, even more luckily, it turned out to be the display being stuck in a bad state and just needing a reboot.
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TechTakes@awful.systems•AI data centres — in SPACE! Why DCs in space can’t workEnglish
2·12 days agoHe touches on that in the blog post, and gives us this link: https://www.itpro.com/infrastructure/data-centres/microsoft-scrapped-its-project-natick-underwater-data-center-trial-heres-why-it-was-never-going-to-work
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•A compulsory mandated app installed on every Indian citizen's new phone
0·12 days agoOnly permanent solution is to stop using smartphones altogether.
Just make sure your pagers are not backdoored with Semtex either.
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World News@lemmy.world•Trump’s $2 Trillion Plan to Cash in on Ukraine ‘Peace’ LeaksEnglish
9·14 days agovu, the past participle of voir.
with the driver stood on his phone.
What terrible luck, first he breaks his car, then steps on his phone and probably breaks that too!


That happened to me yesterday. Fucking embarrassing to accidentally spam a work colleague like that.
I certainly didn’t enable that option. Are you sure it was off by default?
Edit: I was enrolled in “Studies”, that one has a study active, for testing the spam. Guess I won’t help with their studies anymore.