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by kotaKat 1mo ago
Transit buses generally actually don't use keys, amusingly. You pop the drivers' window open and reach in for the manual door release, then climb on board. The headlight switch is also the 'master on' switch for the bus,
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by kotaKat 1mo ago
Turns out depending on the metro they already solved that problem. Just let them piss. They actually do let bus operators randomly stop the bus at rush hour to pee in some cities. In Ottawa (Ontario), for instance, as long as an operator is
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by kotaKat 1mo ago
The difference here is Microsoft didn't have to take the hardware and pivot a new OS onto it at the last minute. Remember... the Duo was supposed to be a cursed Windows 10-esque device. They brought on Movial to do a pivot to Android,
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by kotaKat 1mo ago
Anyone else remember Nintendo's absurdly explained 50 cent fee to create a child Nintendo Account? https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/... "Verifiable Parental Consent (VPC)
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by kotaKat 1mo ago
Ford takes that approach. Every time you hop in one with the location/telemetry services on it gives you a big distracting "Location and connected vehicle/usage data collection active" message.
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by kotaKat 1mo ago
That's why I'll drive my Slate down to AutoZone and grab the 12v heated seat massager pad and strap it to the drivers' seat. Take that, paywalled subscriptions.
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by kotaKat 1mo ago
"you can only use a cyber weapon once at full potential, as it’ll either get patched and/or everyone can reverse engineer it to use" This is why I jokingly always suggested to people the safest public charger to use was the
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by kotaKat 1mo ago
> “Why can’t the person opt out? It’s because if your car gets stolen, if something were to happen, moreover, the government requires you to have a license plate. It’s the law. And it’s plain view information,” [Flock Safety’s Chief Comm
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by kotaKat 1mo ago
And even funnier, we're now seeing the EV battery aftermarket breathing a hell of a lot more life into some older vehicles. https://vivnevs.com/ Wanna see a 2012 Leaf doing over 250+ miles on a charge? Absolutely amazi
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by kotaKat 1mo ago
> I doubt any human would solve them for 3 minutes straight Cognitive overload. There's days I'm just straight up tired and don't realize it until I'm at least one "please try again", page refresh, and endle
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by kotaKat 1mo ago
> But a recent update has caused them to block users with ad blockers. I'm noticing that Ad-Shield is becoming a continual fight these days with pageloads that complete then they fly in with a "ha ha here's a fake error
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by kotaKat 1mo ago
Curious what Tesco was going to go to, considering most of the old Retalix/NCR WinPOS/ISS45 stack was heavily Windows-reliant underneath it. I assume Azure or Hyper-V of some sort?
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by kotaKat 1mo ago
I've thought for a while on this and with 5G RedCap I really see a day where they include a fully ad-supported 720p streaming TV service over the 5G link and some kind of "premium" offering to pay more for higher streaming qu
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by kotaKat 1mo ago
"RCS isn't an open platform in practice. It isn't even as open as SMS/MMS. It heavily depends on proprietary Google and carrier infrastructure in practice. We can start by replicating Google's approach and then we c
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by kotaKat 1mo ago
Also everyone started screaming when Tesla was starting to rumor to start using the cabin cameras to recognize people when Subaru has a totally creepy facial recognition system on their current vehicles to do seating presets and the like. I
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by kotaKat 1mo ago
after having had unions literally put me out of work as a blue collar employee - yes. i've had enough of them. my family has also been in a long line of tradesworkers, and they have been continually screwed by their bargaining be it wi
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by kotaKat 1mo ago
Nice shitty astroturfing campaign, bro. How much does Flock provide in payola? Five figures and I'll start singing the praises, too, bro.
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by kotaKat 1mo ago
So they're using this to finally implement AirPlay 2 support, right? Right? Rules for thee...
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by kotaKat 1mo ago
Lots of GDP entries there. Uh. Like terabytes of it downloaded. I would quite like to think that GDP references... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GirlsDoPorn - where "six people involved with the website were charg
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by kotaKat 1mo ago
as someone once forced to put Windows XP back on a hospital CEO's laptop in 201X... yeah. also all the incident reports i used to file about doctors getting malware went to the circular file. maybe that's why they got nailed wit
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by kotaKat 1mo ago
"This project was born out of accidentally changing the area option to EU in the EZ-Adjust service menu on a US TV. The factorymanager binary enforces a region lock (geolock) that prevents reverting the area code — even through the sam
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by kotaKat 1mo ago
Forgot that time that Raspberry Pi hired a cop and everyone got pissed: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisstokelwalker/raspb...
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by kotaKat 1mo ago
Feels like they're just trying to Any% a bad rhabdo run. I'm reminded of something someone'd said regarding PPE: Who cares what a bunch of other construction dudes think about your hard hat anyway? Some people are just going
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by kotaKat 1mo ago
Dunno, but is anyone else continuing to seem to get what feels like 3-4 minute reCaptcha challenges? I’m getting mentally exhausted having to try to solve the super blurry pick-the-streetlights they keep throwing at me in loops. It feels li
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by kotaKat 1mo ago
To be faiiiir , when your partner is absolutely zonked out in the minutes post-delivery, what else is there to do when you're by their side and still half-asleep? Time to start announcing your pride and joy to the world, starting with
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by kotaKat 1mo ago
Oh god. One of the toys was named Grok. https://heycurio.com/product/grok
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by kotaKat 1mo ago
It's been all over rural America now. Every single roadside sign I've seen now has been either fully AI-generated, or the logos are all following the same damn 'logo in a shield' that one of the services loves making eve
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by kotaKat 1mo ago
> On Monday, Meta's CTO, Andrew Bosworth, said in an Instagram ask-me-anything story post that the glasses are "the most privacy-forward camera" for consumers. "You haven't had a camera that put a light on when i
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by kotaKat 1mo ago
Oh yeah, they emailed me as a Google Workspace administrator and went "FYI we're launching this and we're leaving it turned on and forced-opt-in by default, byeeeee!". Even with Gemini off across our entire tenant. Bon
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by kotaKat 1mo ago
https://www.microptik.eu/product/id-card-verification Basically swaps the LED illum with an UV LED instead. Makes all the security features pop right out.

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