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by derwiki 2y ago
In rural Ohio, the Amish use the roads for their buggies, but don’t pay tax. Wonder if they have registration fees for their buggies? I’ve never seen one with plates.
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by derwiki 2y ago
It was a quiet ending; not surprised there aren’t any articles about it. Cars were definitely available, many rides happened. I think they had safety drivers sitting in the driver’s seat but wouldn’t swear to it. You can find Youtube videos
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by derwiki 2y ago
Waymo launched on Lyft in 2019, paused during the pandemic, and then resumed with Uber.
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by derwiki 2y ago
Same! And have been a subscriber for 18 months.
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by derwiki 2y ago
Why do you think that post-covid no one is working Fridays?
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by derwiki 2y ago
ICQ, until recently
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by derwiki 2y ago
On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog
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by derwiki 2y ago
Out of curiosity, do you have a landline? I was alerted to a garage break-in because a push to my phone went to my watch, and then I called the police immediately.
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by derwiki 2y ago
RTO announcement paired with sweeping comp cuts, hot on the third round of layoffs. It was a rough market, but I held out for a company that prioritized remote work and I’m glad I did. Linux has been fully remote for 30+ years; there is no
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In a first, OpenAI removes influence operations tied to Russia, China and Israel(npr.org)
16 points by derwiki 2y ago|0 comments
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by derwiki 2y ago
Thanks ChatGPT?
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by derwiki 2y ago
Heads never seem to roll
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by derwiki 2y ago
Wouldn’t rail also be idle 90% of the time?
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by derwiki 2y ago
I don’t mean this as an insult, but I am surprised whenever I hear of someone using a work laptop for personal use. So much risk for very little upside.
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by derwiki 2y ago
Dang, props for holding onto that. I’ve only got some low res jpegs from that era. Iirc the .dat file was largely readable if you opened in a text editor; have you tried?
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by derwiki 2y ago
Thank you for licq!
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by derwiki 2y ago
I switched to Xoom from Geocities because I could upload files via WS_FTP. For my fantasy wrestling web site haha!
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by derwiki 2y ago
ICQ profiles were the proto Myspace
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by derwiki 2y ago
After going back and forth with icq support about 5 years ago, my password literally came back to me in a dream! Worth it to just see my contacts
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by derwiki 2y ago
You got me! 3660836
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by derwiki 2y ago
With the built-in option to “hijack account”, when sending a password longer than 8 characters would log you in, but official clients capped you at 8 characters.
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by derwiki 2y ago
While I can identify with the plight, and want to keep my kid as phone-addiction free as possible.. I spent a lot of time using my TI-86 in high school. I got really good at Tetris, learned a bunch of TI-BASIC, and some z80. It was only eve
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by derwiki 2y ago
Sure. What happened on 6/4 in Beijing? China has a fact and everyone else has different fact.
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by derwiki 2y ago
You don’t have to tip, you just normally do. I had one abysmal experience waiting 90 minutes without our waitress even checking in on us, so I didn’t tip.
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by derwiki 2y ago
5/28/77 had a banging Sugaree, and is overall a top 5 GD concert recording IMO!
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by derwiki 2y ago
I’ve been using Relisten every day lately. Thank you so much!
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by derwiki 2y ago
I just read the article and it doesn’t directly answer the question. Why would you be allowed to have unrecorded conversations in the office? Doesn’t that show the same intent?
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by derwiki 2y ago
Discussing in person and the phone is spying? Or over some text messaging platform? (And if so, which platform?)
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by derwiki 2y ago
I essentially don’t see ads online. Do I have privacy or just an illusion of privacy?
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by derwiki 2y ago
I was just excited to be the “networking guy” who got all the PCs to talk to each other. NetBEUI was the trick IIRC. And Quake 1 multiplayer was great! Vaguely remember a multiplayer mod named Rune?

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