dan @ dan @upvote.au

Aussie living in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Premiumize is good, and supports Usenet too (which is very useful for rare/unpopular content)

Why does this article describe it as a "loophole"? It's not a loophole; it was intentionally written into law.

enormous shipping times

This definitely improved over time. I don't order much from Aliexpress, but the last two items I ordered arrived in just over a week - a similar time frame as ordering from a US store that doesn't do fast shipping. A few days in China, then on a plane, then a few days in the USA.

You never had to pay it because there was a longstanding rule called "De Minimis" which exempted all items under $800 from import taxes.

I can understand why they'd want to get rid of this... It was very generous and often meant that buying goods from an overseas supplier was cheaper than buying the exact same items from a US-based supplier. For example, I've bought MikroTik hardware from a Latvian supplier (Getic) because it ended up noticeably cheaper than buying from a US store, even after shipping.

Most countries have duty-free thresholds that are much lower, around the equivalent of $50-100 before taxes and duties are applied. The US limit used to be $200 until 2016.

Kagi have their own index too.

Can you please link to the paid Google API you're talking about? I wasn't aware they had an API for web search.

Maybe that's why they cache results for 30 days?

Why do that when you could just connect it to the LAN and put it on a separate VLAN?

It's weird that there's some jurisdictions where employers don't have to list the salary range in the job listing, or upon request from an applicant before an interview. It doesn't make sense to have to do interviews only to find out that you'd be massively underpaid.

I like the default one in KDE (Spectacle). It does everything I need, and can take both screenshots and recordings. I don't think it works with other DEs though.

Are they doing their own development or are they still mostly reliant on Mozilla? The thing with all these forks is that I doubt they'd be able to continue development if Mozilla were to disappear, since they still rely heavily on Mozilla.

I'm still sad they got rid of MSN Messenger in favour of Skype. MSN had superior video and audio quality.

I had so many international friends on MSN Messenger that I have no idea how to contact any more.

Google Voice is good. I use it to call from the USA to Australia which is only $0.01/minute and doesn't have any monthly fees. You can see the rates here: https://voice.google.com/rates

I've got an Android phone and you can configure Google Voice so that it's automatically used whenever you make an international call from your phone's regular dialer.

I started using it around 2006, and even back then it listed the pronunciation on the site.

Some people pronounce it like "fack", and the official way to pronounce GameFAQs is "game facks"

Am I missing something? I've always pronounced it "imager". How else would you pronounce it?

Building a browser from scratch is going to cost well over a million dollars in development costs. I don't think they'd be able to achieve it without sponsors.

Most consumer sites are optimized for chrome and even safari, firefox & Edge (Obviously) face issues with scripts and plug-ins.

This is why it's dangerous that Chrome has such a large amount of market share. Instead of using standard features, sites are using Chrome-specific features and even relying on Chrome bugs that don't exist in other browsers. It's exactly the same reason Internet Explorer was bad.

Does anyone even make a 25k truck at this point?

Definitely doable outside the USA. For example, the Toyota HiLux is pretty popular in Australia and other countries, and starts at AU$27k (US$16.7k) drive away (including all fees and taxes).

A lot of other countries have cheap cars that can't be purchased in the USA, usually due to high tariffs. The most popular EV brand (BYD) isn't available in the USA, but in Australia you can get a pretty decent entry-level EV (BYD Dolphin), better quality than a Tesla Model 3, for around US$18k.