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by jimt1234 5y ago
It's primarily TikTok and Instagram.
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All this reminds me of MTV in the late-90s/early-2000s. We all watched it, even though we all pretty much hated it. Then, something magical happened: the internet became a content platform (MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, etc.), and MTV be
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> I don't assume that non-parents can or should pick up the slack. Maybe you don't assume that, but the system built around parenting does assume that. A clear example of this is "new parent" time off. At my compa
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A few weeks after all this beef started, Google emailed me with an offer for a free "Chromecast with Google TV" device. I thought it was weird, as the email (and the offer) was completely unsolicited. The email mentioned something
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There's a lot of comments along the lines of "How could the governor be this dumb?" or "Does he seriously expect this to succeed in court?" I recall an interview with Kevin Mitnick where he talked about a prosecutor
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Politically speaking, this can only be a victory for the governor. In conservative political theater, any association with "standing up to the liberal media" is valuable. Furthermore, if/when this whole thing fails in the c
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"Your father's been 'studying' a lot lately, too."
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Growing up in the 80s, probably around a third of the adults in my neighborhood were truck drivers, and I can confidently say that truck driving is not the same profession as it was back then. The unions were strong back then, and when they
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"unencrypted the source code" means they ran an unminify tool. Very advanced; criminal masterminds. /s
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AJ Soprano said it best: "Life is absurd." LOL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt-IOGfs9PY
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Working in IT/tech for school district is the worst. My experience from many years ago - around 2002, I think: 1. First day on the job, email to boss: "Hey, the computer lab at Springfield High has a ton of known security flaws th
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100% agree. I remember going camping just before pandemic hit. It wasn't peaceful at all, more like a rave party.
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When I lived in Shanghai back in 2002, old ladies used to do this same thing, but to slower, traditional Chinese music, not this Chinese-dance-pop-fusion music. I'll take the traditional Chinese music any day.
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The one thing I've learned in software/computers: The more I learn, the less I know. To survive in this field, one has to accept the fact that everything he/she's worked so hard to learn and master is gonna be replaced b
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Not just your creds getting 'hacked', but also to secure your data against a court order. AWS can be compelled by a 3-letter government agency to turn over your data without even telling you. Encrypt it. Own your own keys.
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This is good info. Another thing to be mindful of is property easements - they're different everywhere and they can change over time.
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Sounds like social media platforms might end up like cigarette companies, where they finally acknowledge the harm of their product and add a disclaimer to avoid liability: "This product is designed to manipulate you. It will probably
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This gives me the sads. I grew up around truck drivers. Back in the 80s, it was considered a good, middle-class job. I knew plenty of families that were supported by truckers.
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Does anyone have anything besides doom-and-gloom predictions wrt to housing? I'm sincerely curious because I don't - that is, I don't see how all this plays out well for anyone other than big investment firms. Well, I guess t
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> ...they’re more likely to be renters by choice. So, being unable to afford a house, even with a 6-figure salary, and thus renting is a "choice" now? Hmmm. I'm sure many people choose to rent, but I feel like most renters
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I once got rear-ended by a young-ish driver. She was respectful, admitted fault, apologized. Then, the police showed up. At first they were decent, just doing their jobs. Then, almost instantly, their tone changed. Same thing - told me they
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I recall reading a while back that judges were signing off on surveillance warrants based on messages using any sort of encryption (like https), because obviously anyone encrypting a message is up to no-good. /s ;)
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> "I'm at the point where if you can't beat them, join them," Josephs told NPR I simultaneously love and hate that statement.
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Do you remember the initial response to AIDS? There's your answer. (AIDS was originally attributed to only gays and sexually promiscuous people. Best case, leadership simply ignored it. Worst case, innocent victims were attacked [rea
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Parents hated the Walkman. They said pretty much the same thing we say about the youngs these days with their devices: they're "tuned out". And, to be honest, they were right. We put on our Walkmans and listened to our mixt
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I still have an iPod Shuffle 2nd gen - amazing little device. I've been using it when I run for over 10 years now. I love it as much now as the day I bought it.
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The Walkman came out when I was in 6th grade, and even though it seems lame now, I can tell you it was every bit as mind-blowing as the iPhone when it was first released. Now I could choose my music and take it with me, wherever I went. Pri
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half-percent drop = "eviscerated"
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As I recall, when Facebook was first becoming a thing, a major narrative was that the quality of discourse and level of civility would be so much better than anonymous platforms - after all, they're your friends, of course they're
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The contract offers my mother received involved good money, but that was actually part of the problem. She got the impression that most of the managers at "Big Corp" had little/no regard for these "critical" systems

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