kotaKat

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by kotaKat 8mo ago
No, as a furry, I believe it’s fursecution .
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by kotaKat 8mo ago
This is just the tip of the slippery slope of starting to ban ‘nonconforming’ adult content and a later pivot to starting to attempt to ban LGBTQ+ pornography under similar bullshit morality clauses.
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by kotaKat 8mo ago
Also in the similarly camp: NFL "RF War Games". Everyone running radio gear at the Superbowl all fires up their radios at once to determine who's interfering with who to resolve interference issues before the show. https:&#x
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by kotaKat 8mo ago
I'd noticed something was going on lately. I sent an email over two months ago to Environment Canada about a station near Brockville (VFK721) repeating its intro statement over and over again without a forecast and never got a reply fr
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by kotaKat 8mo ago
“Featuring a partnership with Kohler Health and the Dekoda toilet camera and Withings and their UScan piss sensor…”
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by kotaKat 8mo ago
Update policies... hah! Pepperidge Farm remembers owning a first-gen Moto X on Verizon and waiting over a year+ for the Android 5.0 update, getting abandoned on the first-generation Moto 360 smartwatch (not even getting Android Wear 1.6), a
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by kotaKat 8mo ago
And I'm sure that Mediatek chipset has already been pre-backdoored for access by the folks at Cellebrite/Greykey/etc :|
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by kotaKat 8mo ago
Nah, they get 'test money' to load into the dispensers, and it's something banks will also buy for things like ATM demonstrators. https://shop.dieboldnixdorf.com/atm-demonstration-currency/p... (We haven
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by kotaKat 8mo ago
And an abuser, but they keep covering that one up.
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by kotaKat 8mo ago
Hey now, the system of “checks” and “balances” is still holding up - the checks clear, and the balances go up.
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by kotaKat 8mo ago
Free SIM card, free NUC running the ALPR DSP software, free Victron solar battery charger/power supply equipment…
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by kotaKat 8mo ago
The screenshots of the backend “Assistant” in [1] pretty much seem like this is what Burger King is expanding upon. It seemed already able to determine out-of-stocks and was gathering cleanliness data for the bathrooms. It also sounds lik
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by kotaKat 8mo ago
I always thought we were a step away from Manna when we had voice-based picking in warehouses. Guess we’ve finally taken it all the way to the actual full-on Manna. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice-directed_warehousi
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by kotaKat 8mo ago
“AI” is not beating the allegations today.
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by kotaKat 8mo ago
Some of these TLD also get thrown under weird arbitrary blacklists by security vendors. Sorry, can’t buy a frame.work laptop because that’s a “Malicious TLD”, according to the folks at ZScaler.
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by kotaKat 8mo ago
CT baggage inspection is (fairly) new and only used in some places like carry-on screening. This was probably a behind-the-scenes belt x-ray planar image where the giant chunk of metal blocked everything underneath, so they kicked the bag o
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by kotaKat 8mo ago
“A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore a compu-“ Manager: “Pretty cool, huh?”
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by kotaKat 8mo ago
Also even if the IMSI rotates… the authentication Ki to the network doesn’t! Whoops.
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by kotaKat 8mo ago
> Stripe doesn't want to reject anyone, "Sorry, your Stripe account got closed because of 'crowdfunding' because you dared link it to a Ko-Fi account." And that's how I lost my Stripe account...
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by kotaKat 8mo ago
You can’t even win with adding more scare screens because as soon as Epic isn’t allowed to bypass the scare screens, they’ll sue you. Just like they went after Samsung for adding friction to the sideload workflow to warn people against scam
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by kotaKat 8mo ago
We did Flat Stanley in second grade[1, circa ~2000], including mailing him to someone to send him on an adventure. I sent my Stanley off to Volkswagen and he came back bearing little toy pull-back VW Beetles and smelled like a new car… [1
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by kotaKat 8mo ago
The "check" is what's given for a political favor and the "balance" is what goes up once the check clears. Simple enough lesson to me!
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by kotaKat 8mo ago
Good thing is even if you did use AI, the AI can't do the SMD rework on the laptop ;)
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by kotaKat 8mo ago
The best part is seeing someone tear a Flock camera apart, see the camera, and immediately go slap it on their 3D printer and hook it into their Pi and just have it work out of the box ;)
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by kotaKat 8mo ago
Car's 11 cents a mile, that's less than twenty bucks in gas, me spending ~5 to 6 hours total back and forth retrieving it is still worth so much more than waiting days on end for freight shipment (and the hundreds that can cost, c
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by kotaKat 8mo ago
The rural Best Buys kind of are terrible. “Middle America” and “Empty Nester” targeted locations really don’t give you anything other than medicore middle-of-the-line product selections. What I’d kill for one of the “Urban Trendsetter” form
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by kotaKat 8mo ago
Last I recall they’re just a crappy 5 megapixel Arducam camera module based on teardowns. https://www.cehrp.org/dissection-of-flock-safety-camera/ https://www.arducam.com/product/arducam-ov5647-noi
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by kotaKat 8mo ago
Weirdly for me: IKEA. I’m within ~240 miles of an IKEA in Canada and an IKEA in the US. While they’ve started to inflate some items to meet currency conversion rates, some items are still cheaper for me to purchase in Canada directly and br
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by kotaKat 8mo ago
“We are much indebted to the General Electric Company Ltd. who lent the magnetron.” Oh, I wish I were a fly on the wall for that phone call.
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by kotaKat 8mo ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20201011142631/https://www.songs... Not the first time. Spotify threatened SongShift back in 2020 for dare trying to export playlists… talk about “app fairness”!

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