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by jimt1234 1y ago
They said the same thing about us (GenXers) when we were young: MTV was killing our attention spans with short music videos.
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by jimt1234 1y ago
I watched the presentation on Rayhunter at Defcon. Amazing stuff. Major kudos to the team.
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Unfortunately, no. My niece's mom, my sister, called her school to ask wtf was going on. They gave her a lame, lawyer-approved response about their responsibility to protect children and the drills are mandated by the state, blah blah
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> What’s frustrating about this is that conservatives are always warning about the decreasing child birth rate. But fight against policies that would help support families who have children. Didn't the Big Beautiful Bill include $5K
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New Mexico is too small for Orange Julius to care about. If it was California, the story would be completely different.
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> The majority of the public school system has devolved into day-care, not education. I resisted that narrative for years, thinking it was just a media-hyped scare tactic to get clicks. However, my niece started high school a few weeks a
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Every immigrant I've known that's around my age has told me basically the same story. When they came to the US as a child, and got put into public school, they struggled with reading (they could barely speak English, much less
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by jimt1234 1y ago
> Employment gains were so weak in the July jobs report that President Donald Trump fired the head of the bureau charged with collecting the data, baselessly claiming it was rigged. That first sentence really sets the tone, not just of t
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IMHO, having effective parental controls would be good enough .
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I'd hate to be the lowly, underpaid sysadmin who responded "40,000 servers" when asked the current number of servers, but he meant to respond "4,000 servers". LOL
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https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ae3tpnzdqd5l3lsrs4rhmq7n/po...
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How do we know this was because of a DMCA complaint? Edit: Never mind -- > https://infosec.exchange/@bobdahacker/115158347003096276
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by jimt1234 1y ago
Boomers are the worst. When I was young, the older generation (Boomers' parents, my grandparents) was more inclined to vote Democrat, primarily to protect social security and labor unions, not necessarily for themselves, but for future
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by jimt1234 1y ago
Great, if you're on Mac: https://apple.github.io/container/documentation/
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> They didn't challenge themselves in high school or college from an academic standpoint... A slightly different perspective: they weren't challenged academically, primarily because they excelled at footballs/sports. I had
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by jimt1234 1y ago
I used to say, "If you're gonna commit crimes, leave your cell phone at home." [1] However, now it's, "If you're gonna commit crimes, leave your cell phone at home at cover your license plates." ... Bu
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Uh, hello? Windmills cause cancer! LOLOLOLOL
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> Wealth inequality is high. High enough you can feel it like a vibe in the air. I agree, but I think it's more than just a "vibe in the air". Throughout my youth and young adulthood, we (GenXers) knew vaguely about rich p
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> MediaLab AI also owns Genius and World Star World Star is run by a bunch of AI bots. That's hilarious. World Star!
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> ... it's not available in Illinois or Texas due to those states' privacy laws. This stuck out to me. How are laws like this typically applied? My guess is it's geo-based only, right? That is, take an Illinois resident wh
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I'm pretty impressed when AI/automated customer support systems actually work, too. I'm also scared. I recently had to reset a password for an investment account. I called their customer support, and of course it was some sor
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I recall reading about a situation where a dude sued Evil Corp based largely on phone conversations he recorded. Evil Corp tried to argue the recorded conversations were illegal because their was no explicit consent and therefore couldn&#x2
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IMHO, this is the problem with trying to regulate elections in the US. Elections have always been intended to be controlled by the wealthy. This is nothing new. So, in the unlikely event that Congress does add regulations that neuter Super-
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by jimt1234 1y ago
I'm not super-familiar with Louisiana, but my general impression is there's a lot of climate/weather events that are gonna impact power reliability. Hmmm.
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by jimt1234 1y ago
> If capitalism is so great, then why does it need to be rescued by socialism every ten years? Not sure where I read that (I think it was some dude's Tweet), but it seems relevant here.
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> The Trump administration is hoping that by exerting control over Intel, it can begin dictating conditions to Intel's customers, thus the tech community at large. This was my TDS-reaction as well. But, honestly, I feel like the &qu
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Exactly! I know there's a lot of Trumpers/MAGAs on HN, so I'm sincerely asking them: How is this not the evil thing you guys constantly lecture us about (socialism!)?
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Looks like I need to start dressing like an ICE agent before I do any shopping. Ugh.
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I can one better (worse): A state-run website that my sister frequents for her job requires Internet Explorer. Seriously. I installed a Chrome extension that modifies her user-agent header to IE, and it works fine. Easy work-around, but t
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NPR? I thought Trump shut them down.

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