WelcomeShorty

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by WelcomeShorty 3y ago
Fellow VFR1200 driver here. You inspired me to exchange my Akrapovič (came with the bike when I bought it) to the stock pipe (which also came with the bike).
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by WelcomeShorty 3y ago
I never got the whole dating app buzz but have found speed dating to be the absolute best way to meet people who want to meet people. You meet physically, get to hear, see and smell each other, interact face to face and have an easy exit. N
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by WelcomeShorty 3y ago
> people tend to basically reject the years of hard work and cultivated skills you put in, ascribing it to a natural and magical talent One of my pet peeves! "Look at that person doing something amazing. That is talent at its finest
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by WelcomeShorty 3y ago
Battlefield 2. Got sucked into organised play with an (very large, > 200 people) international group and spend a solid 4 years doing little else but organising and playing the most epic (6 to 12 hours) sessions. There I've learned t
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by WelcomeShorty 3y ago
You are right about the fact EVs still use break pads but in normal circumstances it is absolutely minimal. Source: I drive an Audi e-tron and see (in the dash) and feel / hear when the normal breaks are used. Only below 10KM/h an
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by WelcomeShorty 3y ago
> PCI-DSS is an industrywide joke; it's a checklist audit performed by race-to-the-bottom consultancies We ended up with a consultants from a former Eastern Europe country that charge less per hour then local cashiers make (which is
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by WelcomeShorty 3y ago
Jein (German word joke that combines Ja & Nein / Yes & No). The short answer is: they are allowed BUT. There are many privacy rules that prohibit the actual use of these recordings (not limited to publishing but in court as wel
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by WelcomeShorty 3y ago
And ever better: lets you send one postcard (inside Switzerland) for free per day.
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by WelcomeShorty 3y ago
Oh yes, the power of success. I am sorry for you this is happening, at the same time: it is to be expected as soon as people start seeing|dreaming a lot of money and a legal loop hole. I hope there is something in writing about the ownershi
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First-ever photo of the GRU hacker unit commander wanted by the FBI(informnapalm.org)
4 points by WelcomeShorty 3y ago|1 comments
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by WelcomeShorty 3y ago
So the guy's a YouTuber, the biggest thing ever in his live happens and there is no actual footage of the incident?
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by WelcomeShorty 3y ago
Oh yes, Sony at it, again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Computer_Entertainment_Am... I have since never bought a Sony, although I really loved their products. Here's geohot's brilliant reply: https:&#x
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by WelcomeShorty 3y ago
> Imagine a government that is very strong on religion A, decides to raise taxes on religion B. Happens all day long, just a little different and that is by allowing "story A" to be declared a religion, but "story B"
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by WelcomeShorty 3y ago
Treat your partner well, you got some daunting times ahead of you as a team. Your children will (need to) leave the house. Prepare and assist them. Your family home will be oversized, if you can, pass it to one of the kids who needs it most
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by WelcomeShorty 3y ago
TL;DR "In a study published in April, Elimelech’s team proved that the once-frustrating assumption about how water moves through a membrane is, indeed, wrong. They replace it with a “solution-friction” theory that water molecules trave
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by WelcomeShorty 3y ago
YouTube hit me worst: I rented my all time favourite movie "Where eagles dare" and got it voiced over in French... Never again will I rent / buy anything from YouTube, ever. Either Netflix has it, or down to pirate bay it is.
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by WelcomeShorty 3y ago
Why the complexity of NTP (network & internet) when you could use a GPS syncing wall clock for much less?
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by WelcomeShorty 3y ago
Not even close. The use case for "Stingray" like devices is to determine the proximity and or ID of a device|user based on the IMSI | IMEI.
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by WelcomeShorty 3y ago
The story my dad used to tell us about the 5 day cricket games, is that they stem from the old colonial days where the soldiers where bored senseless and just need something to do. 5 day matches where a solution to that problem.
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by WelcomeShorty 4y ago
https://github.com/vanhoefm/macstealer The tools used, and a better readable description of the actual attack.
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by WelcomeShorty 4y ago
13 hour later: "broadcast failed. server_error server returned status code: 500"
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by WelcomeShorty 4y ago
> my kids’ tuition and/or bail fund. You made me spill my coffee :) Will certainly use that in front of my kids.
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by WelcomeShorty 4y ago
I thought you made a typo there where you mentioned "still running great almost 60 years later." Turns out you are spot on! "The first-generation Ford Mustang was manufactured by Ford from March 1964 until 1973." So now
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by WelcomeShorty 4y ago
Except proton I guess?
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by WelcomeShorty 4y ago
> There's this internet phenomenon (common on Reddit and other such forums) where you find high-quality discussions on a variety of topics and everyone seems so clever and informative, until you come across a thread on a topic that
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by WelcomeShorty 4y ago
Even better: today (March 9th) gq nor any other freenoms domains are on the list.
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by WelcomeShorty 4y ago
It is more a WHY do these things work and the reason is, that the whole "security" part of these networks are build to do one thing: Make sure the operator of the network knows who to bill for what. Nothing else. Not to protect yo
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by WelcomeShorty 4y ago
They are completely unencrypted, just on the initial and the last "mile" the TRANSPORT layer is (sort of) encrypted.
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by WelcomeShorty 4y ago
I wrote a story 20 years ago about two beautiful people who made a child that looked like shit. They then found out both of them had multiple plastic surgeries but still ugly genes. Guess we're there online now too.
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by WelcomeShorty 4y ago
Same here! And a SMEG water kettle(0) with temperature settings. I use 90C for almost all coffee. 0: https://www.smeg.com/kettles/variable-temp.-kettles

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