bonton89

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by bonton89 2y ago
Way back in the early 2000s before DVD burners were cheap my buddy downloaded what appeared to be a handicam rip of the Fellowship Of The Ring off limewire (or kazaa or whatever was popular at the time) and burned it on 7-8 or 8 CD-Rs whic
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by bonton89 2y ago
Do they make any dummy boards that can stop the light? I've noticed my smart TV has a separate wifi module on a card that I've been meaning to yank.
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by bonton89 2y ago
With how expensive California electric is I'm not sure why they would be there in the first place honestly.
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by bonton89 2y ago
Sure, but I don't have access to the other numbers. Basically everything becomes a market for lemons because identifying quality takes to much time or is outright impossible. Reputations are fleeting resources that are mined of value,
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by bonton89 2y ago
Seeing this title was like a blast from the past for me. I'm remember being into overclocking in the 90s and early 2000s and electromigration being frequently discussed as a concern to be aware of. Then I can't recall anyone talki
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by bonton89 2y ago
Probably because governments can just buy the corporate surveillance results, bypassing any shoddy protections that even exist completely. So corporate surveillance is government surveillance.
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by bonton89 2y ago
> Assuming, of course, that the platforms don't somehow intercept the passkey requests and refuse to allow KeepassXC to do its job. My understanding is the ability to do that is built directly into the spec with the attestation feat
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by bonton89 2y ago
The trouble is if it is on the service to do the support, they can revoke support at any time. They could use start tightening the screws on device attestation tomorrow for business reasons and drop support for your browser or phone.
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by bonton89 2y ago
> At least raise the barrier for this kind of action to being able to run your own llm or something. I think that would result in the average person being less aware of the capabilities existing and therefore being less prepared to defen
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by bonton89 2y ago
Windows 11 is only marginally worse than the baseline terrible set by 10. They screwed up the UI again and continued gradually ratcheting up Microsoft account requirements and new ads. If 11 hadn't have been released the later items wo
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by bonton89 2y ago
Especially now that companies that previously weren't big on this business (Microsoft for instance) have moved into it in a big way. Even my state's DMV sells my data as a side business. I guess if I want out of that I can ride my
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by bonton89 2y ago
People who are looking for relationships in a serious way probably aren't on the apps very long before they're in some other kind of relationship. The majority are going to be those screwing around (figuratively but I guess also l
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by bonton89 2y ago
> So there’s no kind of existential danger to Quest here, but it remains to be seen if the hardware licensees can bring anything relevant to the table either. Why would I, as a potential hardware maker, wish to compete in a market where
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by bonton89 2y ago
Propaganda, political manipulation, narrative nudging, regular scams and advertising. Even though most of those things are illegal you could just have foreign cat's paw firms do it. Maybe you fire them for "going to far" afte
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by bonton89 2y ago
I expect this type of system to be implemented in my lifetime. It will allow whistleblowers and investigative sources to be discredited or tracked down and persecuted.
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by bonton89 2y ago
I can understand not spending resources trying to focus on collection if it is to complicated, but coming right out and saying you aren't going to enforce it seems ill conceived. Wouldn't this promote the creation of more and more
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by bonton89 2y ago
I remember laughing about anecdotes of farmers in rural areas all riding their horse and wagon into town to get drunk at the local bar. When it was time to leave they'd just lie down in the back of the wagon and the horse would simply
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by bonton89 2y ago
This explains why the only currently functioning answer to many questions I have often has 0 votes and is half way down the page.
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by bonton89 2y ago
I adopted XP64 kind of late IIRC (after Vista introduction) so the driver situation seemed fine to me. I had a cheap USB 56K modem I had to replace but otherwise all my hardware worked.
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by bonton89 2y ago
IIRC one of 2000s main design advantages is that when a installer tried to crap various dlls into the windows directory it redirected them back to their own install and only used them for that program. This basically solved the dll hell pro
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by bonton89 2y ago
This process was super cumbersome since floppy disks were well on the way out even when XP was introduced and by the end of its life they were gone. Floppy is the only universal driver the installer can count of having for storage media, be
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by bonton89 3y ago
There's still hope! Star Trek has a societal collapse and a world war 3 before we get to the communist utopia so it seems like we might be on track.
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by bonton89 3y ago
My connection was poor at the time and perhaps I never really got the big double swing timing down so I often used explosives against saberists. Can't deflect a thermal detonator, and if you pull it I'll just grab another out of t
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by bonton89 3y ago
IIRC the check was something even weaker than that. It just counted the number of verbs in the cog script and if it matched you were in. Cheating in online games was a pretty new concept though since online games in general were still a pre
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by bonton89 3y ago
I was never a really big Star Wars fan (enjoyed them just wasn't super into them) but spent a lot of time on DFII: JK modding. The cog language could really do a lot if you leaned on it hard enough. The game engine's ability to do
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by bonton89 3y ago
> It's immediately and self-evidently obvious that no end-user in 2007 consented to photos of their 2007 era teenage self being used to train an AI how to identify an emo kid. I can think of worse things than that which might be hid
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by bonton89 3y ago
> Once Microsoft realized that the intruders had used a theoretically expired 2016 consumer signing key to forge tokens for an enterprise customer, it launched an "all-hands-on-deck" investigation that went through the night, J
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by bonton89 3y ago
Yes, real estate tips always seemed full of self serving nonsense to me and usually talked big about the tax savings. But with my modest house and mortgage I calculated that even at the start of my mortgage I saved a whopping $800/yr o
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by bonton89 3y ago
The the 1980s the deduction for mortgage interest would have been significant, I suspect most people itemized then. And the huge standard deductions we have now are a fairly recent tax change.
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by bonton89 3y ago
Less creepy being watched by actual people I think. They'll usually just forget about you after a few days instead of cataloging every time you lingered at a shelf selling hemorrhoid cream and storing it in a database forever.

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