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by jrmg 3y ago
eSIM has been working great for me when traveling to the UK and Canada from the USA. I have an iPhone 13, which allows up to two eSIMs or one physical SIM and one eSIM to be active simultaneously. The first time I did this, my primary accou
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Tired of proving you’re not a robot? Say goodbye to Captcha boxes(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by jrmg 3y ago|0 comments
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by jrmg 3y ago
That’s reassuring, thanks (not sure why you’re getting downvoted!)
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by jrmg 3y ago
Great, thanks. Sort of weirds me out that my OS can just silently update my CPU - I didn’t realize I was giving it that level of control… I guess it’s good vs the alternative of no-one actually updating for exploits like his though.
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by jrmg 3y ago
AMD have released an microcode update for affected processors. Your BIOS or Operating System vendor may already have an update available that includes it. I don’t really understand how CPU microcode updates work. If I’m keeping Ubuntu up
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by jrmg 3y ago
Ah, yes, the famously non-corrupt FBI! No skeletons in its closet! There are things going wrong now, but to suggest there’s some golden incorruptible past we’ve strayed from is ahistorical. Serving the people? The good old boys network was
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by jrmg 3y ago
"This is a mandatory wellness check that is required for all insurance in the US" sounds like you're saying paying for this is required to _get_ insurance - but I think you intend to mean that it's required that any insu
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by jrmg 3y ago
Thanks. Bit.ly remained - but that article does indeed show at least one .ly domain (vb.ly) being cancelled. From the article: That follows the abrupt enforced shutdown of vb.ly, a "link shortening" site run by Ben Metcalfe and V
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by jrmg 3y ago
It was never actually more than a theoretical problem then though, right? The .ly domain remained (and remains) stable and functioning IIRC.
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by jrmg 3y ago
Yes. Or the entity doing the payment initiates it a few days earlier to ensure timely arrival.
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Xbox’s Top Bestselling Games Are Mostly Old Xbox 360 Call of Dutys(kotaku.com)
1 points by jrmg 3y ago|0 comments
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by jrmg 3y ago
I find it weird that no-one is focusing on the last paragraph of the letter: The technological measures on Nintendo's consoles and games are essential for Nintendo to protect its intellectual property from piracy. When those measures
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by jrmg 3y ago
It wasn't written to answer someone's question or satisfy their search intent. It was just written to rank. Anyone who’s searched for reviews or tech questions recently has experienced this. And it’s slowly eating everything. Th
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by jrmg 3y ago
I wish I did! Unfortunately it was above head height, and I had it half dismantled (‘What are all these pine needles doing up here?! And - wait - capacitors?!’) before I realized what it was.
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When Open Becomes Opaque: The Changing Face of Open-Source Hardware Companies(blog.adafruit.com)
3 points by jrmg 3y ago|0 comments
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by jrmg 3y ago
I have a shed in my backyard that contains a hobby electronics workbench. A couple of years ago, I could swear that I was going through through hole 104 capacitors faster than I could reconcile. Around this time I noticed that a vent hole i
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by jrmg 3y ago
Thanks for that link. Points 8, 9 and 10 seem so appropriate. I often feel that we’re similarly in danger of forgetting the adage that “it is better to let the crime of a guilty person go unpunished than to condemn the innocent.” I’m not su
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by jrmg 3y ago
Very reasonable ‘license’ at the bottom of this page: …you're allowed to do with this page anything you wouldn't mind me doing with your cat. So yes, you can photoshop it for comedy effect, you can copy bits of it for illustrativ
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by jrmg 3y ago
I’m not sure if you intended this, but your post immediately read to me like the poetic diaryland entry being discussed elsewhere in this thread. I hope you will not be annoyed at me taking the liberty of reformatting it: Is there somet
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by jrmg 3y ago
In other words you succumbed to peer pressure from a crowd that is obsessed with identity labels. That’s not what I consider myself to have done. My non-white friends and colleagues are not, in my experience, ‘obsessed with identity labe
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by jrmg 3y ago
I am white. I kept mine yellow for a long time. Then I noticed that most of the non-white people I knew were changing them - and actively celebrating when new skin-color variants were added. I realized that by keeping mine white I was not b
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by jrmg 3y ago
If you don’t trust Brave then, yeah, they could be doing anything in the browser or on their servers - but that snippet you quoted is a slightly out of context statement from a big document about how they collect data like this, but _don’t_
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by jrmg 3y ago
The acts I listed [edit: or the one in the grandparent post - it’s literally talking about putting a cone on a car…] don’t necessarily involve violence. Even if they do, self-defense has to be proportional. Laws obviously differ in differen
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by jrmg 3y ago
Man, and further up this post there was someone talking about running over groups of cyclists if they maliciously surrounded their car. Try to remain calm. You’re generally not allowed to just _murder_ people who attempt to inconvenience, d
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US military revives an idea for stealthy sea power(bbc.com)
7 points by jrmg 3y ago|0 comments
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by jrmg 3y ago
Actually, maybe I should amend that. “You’re now expected just to mask up and travel” is really “You’re now expected just to travel”. The considerate may mask up of their own volition - no one is enforcing it, and there are barely any recom
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by jrmg 3y ago
You’re now expected just to mask up and travel. Recently just had this experience with a family member. Airline would not do anything at all. Travel agent (website) would only book a new flight, but not refund the old one - they said (proba
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by jrmg 3y ago
This sounds like an urban legend.
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by jrmg 3y ago
I honestly can’t tell whether you think Twitter now, under Elon, is now less or more moderated than before, whether you are on the left or right of current political thought (or somewhere else entirely), or whether you consider unmoderated
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by jrmg 3y ago
Wasn’t making tweets available to see without a login again one of Musk’s first actions upon buying Twitter?

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