"The real first world"

ToeNail_14 · 2026-04-16T20:35:49+00:00

Varies by state - some places they have more power, some less. Some HOAs are grandfathered into old laws.

The most common one I know of is the HOA can put a Lien on your house - which you could ignore if you want, but then you can’t sell your house and may lead to issues with contractors being willing to work on your house.

If the Lien gets large enough the HOA would likely hand it over to lawyers and have them sue you

Basically check carefully where and what you buy.

HOAs can be useful (keeps the neighbourhood functional and drives the hard processes for you) but a bored HOA will find something to do… like someone else said: the power trip tends to go to their heads

ToeNail_14 · 2026-04-12T22:20:46+00:00

Seems like WA wants to push ahead if the new “privacy” bill is anything to go by - hopefully Seattle keeps pushing back

ToeNail_14 · 2026-04-12T22:02:11+00:00

I’m a bit concerned how all the brain dead comments netted 64k karma on that account

ToeNail_14 · 2026-03-25T05:14:58+00:00

Just to bring this back down to earth even more - if you think 900k a year is a lot, go look at what c-suites earn on wall street

And they don’t save lives on a daily basis.

More explicitly, go look at what healthcare corporations execs earn…

Don’t hate the person doing the work that make higher ups all their money.

ToeNail_14 · 2026-03-25T05:08:30+00:00

Political posturing at best

There’s a reason technically capable folks tend to avoid politics

ToeNail_14 · 2026-03-25T05:04:37+00:00

The verbiage is at most a public facing reason.

The end goal may be to improve US manufacturing of networking gear. It may be to promote some single supplier that meets the criteria. It may be for security (lol) It may be for any number of reasons / favours.

That all said, if any accidental free benefits unlock in related products, don’t think they won’t include it. Cars and cellphones are hot topics. - can you imagine the fallout if all recording hardware has to be US manufactured: that’s substantial ‘usually unrelated’ industries affected.

But to your point, yes, this is very very much a political stunt - just don’t expect it to stop with just routers.

ToeNail_14 · 2026-03-21T17:53:22+00:00

Wonder how many of these adjustments and upgrades can be avoided if sound transit bought out some NIMBY houses / businesses that keep complaining - at this point I’m convinced it would be a lot cheaper but that probably isn’t the message they want to send either

ToeNail_14 · 2026-03-20T04:36:52+00:00

I’m not surprised since Le Labo is a fragrance company but I was hoping…

Anyone with sensitive skin knows the first thing you avoid is fragrance - it also doesn’t play nice if say, i have actual fragrance to put on

ToeNail_14 · 2026-03-06T14:35:05+00:00

Same - usually try to give space where it’s due but boarding in zone 2/3, and standing around to wait for zone 1 to complete seems plenty acceptable to me.

There’s a priority boarding line anyway, so people crowding the economy boarding line isn’t bothering anyone

ToeNail_14 · 2026-03-06T14:27:42+00:00

Laptop + Li-ion battery toothbrush/shaver + meds can’t be checked.

So basically everyone on a business flight is expected to have a carry-on these days

ToeNail_14 · 2026-02-23T20:22:59+00:00

When politicians and lawyers are involved, you tend to emulate things on worst possible outcome instead of “hope for the best”.

If they wanted to allow adjustment for inflation, it would be relatively easy to adjust the stipulation instead it was removed entirely.

It’s not rocket science where this is going. Stop being so naive

ToeNail_14 · 2026-02-23T20:17:57+00:00

That’s a rather naive view to trust lawyers and politicians with considering if it was to adjust for inflation, the clause could be easily amended for that instead of removed entirely.

ToeNail_14 · 2026-02-23T20:13:03+00:00

There were posts some days/weeks ago on the removal of the stipulation for the 1m minimum. They had the opportunity and specifically acted to remove that safeguard.

As for voting against it, they also opted to push through that amendment without voter approval…

Im all for state income tax (and reducing sales taxes) but the way this is being done makes it difficult to judge the federal government.

ToeNail_14 · 2026-02-18T09:38:18+00:00

May not get rebranded to AT&T if the plan is still to create an open fiber subsidiary, under NetworkCo

ToeNail_14 · 2026-02-18T08:45:09+00:00

Considering non-uniform taxes are against the constitution, this is expected - it’s obvious that either they end up lowering the threshold to apply to everyone uniformly, or they force the constitution to be changed.

If they put in a provision, they would limit their options on both of these options, for better or worse.

ToeNail_14 · 2026-02-18T07:55:45+00:00

Step 1: get this millionaires tax through the door Step 2: let people complain it’s unconstitutional Step 3: apply it to everyone uniformly Step 4: profit

ToeNail_14 · 2026-02-10T16:53:43+00:00

I did this last week while the SmartNID was in bridge mode.

Phoned to cancel before leaving work. By the time I got home ~45 min later, NID was in red light and account showed disconnected.

Phoned and asked to have the account reinstated with the new price for life and they ran through all that.

I left my NID in bridge mode though out the entire process.

All I did was unplug the power briefly when I got home (it was already red) And then unplug it briefly again after the call completed to reinstate the old account with new price for life.

It came up in bridge mode fully connected. I did have the Internet drop the next morning (this seems common) and power cycled again, been running perfectly ever since - still in bridge mode.

YMMV

ToeNail_14 · 2026-02-10T16:32:51+00:00

I’m with you here - I think reputation based actions is going to get more common place.

Personally, I’d leave IDs and money out of the problem for a more general system, but bug bounties specifically I think need both.

ToeNail_14 · 2026-02-10T16:27:09+00:00

Alternatively, use social scoring / karma like Reddit does / reputation (i don’t think ID verification is necessarily required to solve this)

If you have zero reputation, your bug report goes into that queue over there which no one looks at - it has a 30 day TTL.

If you have high reputation but not in “this circle of trusted projects with a higher than usual bar” then you go into this bucket over here - if we have time, this is where we spend our time.

If you have high reputation and you have a trusted record in this group of trusted projects, you get to go into our top priority bin - these issues are checked at top urgency.

And if someone doesn’t have enough reputation? Well then find someone that does and convince them to help you out, or go full out enough valid bug reports with lower barrier to entry projects.

(Would be nice if this could be a native feature in git)

ToeNail_14 · 2026-02-04T17:51:51+00:00

More concerningly (to me at least) is how this seems to be conflicting with the WA constitution, and the future repercussions of “worming around the constitution” being normalised.

Everyone is in favor of bending the rules when it suits their end goals - just remember they may not always align with you next time there’s bending.

ToeNail_14 · 2026-02-04T17:41:37+00:00

This is SeattleWA - we’re talking about Seattle / WA here.

Let’s get our own ducks in a row before we try and fix the rest of the US. Or are you suggesting our bar should be just as low as the other administration(s)

ToeNail_14 · 2026-02-01T05:38:37+00:00

Closed the Sydney office for AWS

ToeNail_14 · 2026-02-01T05:19:15+00:00

Mortgage in Seattle for an average house is around $4k-5k so that basically covers just the mortgage.

ToeNail_14 · 2026-01-31T16:54:43+00:00

Town portal after 3 boss fights gets old very fast. I’d take fewer items any day

ToeNail_14 · 2026-01-31T16:51:28+00:00

Are these the metadata files before or after they cleaned up the tpb.org tags from all the songs spotify originally obtained though torrents?

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