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by bonton89 3y ago
Some credit card companies seem to offer a "service" where they send updated information to recurring charging merchants when you get a new card. I haven't encountered this as an issue myself but I was reading about it as som
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The modern version has both the ant and the grasshopper freezing together as the ant was laid off and booted out at the start of winter after the larder stocking was finished. There just wasn't much work to be done in the winter and si
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by bonton89 3y ago
> Is spending a couple of minute clicking "unsubscribe" too much work? I can't speak to your business obviously but the couple minutes to unsubscribe is often actually finding a hidden support number (because they don&#x27
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by bonton89 3y ago
I once saw a project where a guy had taken an old 1980s chevy cavalier, chopped off and capped everything past the engine firewall and turned it into a trailer that he attached to his EV and used as a generator for long trips. This was jank
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by bonton89 3y ago
Everything I've seen on Tesla's controls make me want to run away. Unfortunately, most other auto manufacturers are copying many of these bad ideas because they're trying to cargo cult tesla's success so I probably in fo
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by bonton89 3y ago
I still don't think we'll see any of these small affordable ones in the US. The only one close I'm aware of is Nissan's Leaf and it is being discontinued last I heard. I'd like to try one out for my next car but I c
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by bonton89 3y ago
Yeah, I don't understand how this works. My understanding was that mobile phone signals naturally did not travel very far because of the spectrum they used, but maybe that is greatly extended for low bandwidth will LoS instead of groun
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I also remember hearing American companies were doing the same thing with washing machines just to get the chips for higher value products in the chip shortage.
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by bonton89 3y ago
I've had the forward panic braking go off from a medium sized bird flying by on the highway and once as I came down from a bump the nose must of dipped enough that it identified the unobstructed ground and freaked out. I actually leave
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by bonton89 3y ago
Wow, I turned most of those features off in my car for similar reasons but at least they stay off. I'm sure they'll end up breaking someday preventing an inspection even though I don't use them however.
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by bonton89 3y ago
I was thinking the other day about how much about me could be easily inferred by my credit card purchase history, both good and bad. Hitch it up into ML and sort me into good and bad buckets for insurance or advertising. It already has been
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by bonton89 3y ago
One of my PCs never had an account and the ad blocker no longer works. My other PC appears to be logged into my throwaway account and the most I ever saw one message about blocking.
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by bonton89 3y ago
If I right click on an item I get a block element option in the context menu. But that doesn't seem to make them persist. I usually use it to make irritating popups go away that I'm to lazy to read or that seem intentionally confu
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by bonton89 3y ago
That just means they'll receive a small fine 15 years after it happens and the damage is already done.
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Imagine a gambling addict or an alcoholic asking to see fewer casino and booze ads and being told stop complaining because "the algorithm just shows you what you want"
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by bonton89 3y ago
When reddit first added fake/branded posts as ads for a short while it was possible for people to post on the branded posts. It was hilarious (vicious roasting of the products and brand) but of course that was quickly locked down.
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by bonton89 3y ago
We had a roundabout like that with stop lights in the middle for the crosswalks, although I think the crosswalks were later removed and rerouted foot traffic elsehwere. I felt like everyone was complaining people didn't know how to use
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by bonton89 3y ago
Maybe they thought he was a vampire.
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I used the same trick recently where a long power outage had me staying at my relatives until power was restored. My answering machine doesn't work without power but the phone does so if it doesn't pick up I know the power is out.
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by bonton89 3y ago
My conspiracy theory is Amazon search is intentionally bad to make their ads more valuable.
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by bonton89 3y ago
My wife was telling me a new Prius she was driving freaks out and audio alerts if she looks away from the road. That sounded irritating but that car didn't claim to be self driving.
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by bonton89 3y ago
Isn't that his point? The normal channels (that the company directly controls) don't work, so everyone ended up using the twitter wall of shame out of desperation.
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Wait, why are people paying for it then?
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Yeah, I remember during one of Mojang's migrations I lost access to my Minecraft account. Nothing happened from my communications through support. The only reason I have a twitter account was to whine at a Mojang representative and it
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by bonton89 3y ago
Huh, I wonder what the mechanism is there. I wouldn't expect periodic hormonal changes to weaken a ligament.
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Because they don't make new old cars?
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They're both bullshit though. They make extra e-waste, give customers confusing hassles to deal with and retard the benefit of cheaper goods from abroad for more expensive countries which was really the only positive aspect to your com
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> ...it's trivial to find accounts online of people complaining that they've tried to register passkeys from alternate providers and have found out that websites are checking browser agents or using other measures to restrict w
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by bonton89 3y ago
Basically it is so your smart TV can upload all your watch information without getting you to cough up your wifi password. Soon when you buy a toilet seat it will have a 5G modem in it and upload your bowel movement information to the cloud
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by bonton89 3y ago
Passkeys have attestation as a specified feature and nothing about interoperability, so the motivation is exclusion of certain classes of devices from services.

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