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by kotaKat 10mo ago
And a toast to its source, the drop-in PirateWeather API: https://pirateweather.net/
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by kotaKat 10mo ago
We were doomed when they stopped shipping a dialer or SMS app in AOSP. “Phone by Google” is disgusting.
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by kotaKat 10mo ago
Long ago we used to have ‘mini’ credit cards. You could get a two-thirds size magstripe card from some major banks that’d go right on your keychain. Discover had a cute little bean keychain with a flip-out magstripe card (the Discover2Go) a
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Going for Gold: The Story of the Golden Lego RCX and NXT(bricknerd.com)
48 points by kotaKat 10mo ago|9 comments
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by kotaKat 10mo ago
RCX series? This is from 2020, but here’s a fairly comprehensive bit of resources on the old Mindstorms kit: https://www.johnholbrook.us/RCX_guide.html
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by kotaKat 10mo ago
That’s where we have to circle back to the parent comment - a smart TV operator could 100% go buddy-buddy up with Xfinity/Spectrum/Cox/et al. and get Hotspot2.0 certs at the factory level to go hop onto whatever cable operato
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by kotaKat 10mo ago
American cable operators set up a separately managed and isolated SSID and DOCSIS service flow to provide Hotspot2.0 access for their cellular subscribers (among other things). XfinityMobile/SpectrumMobile SSIDs are everywhere now out
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by kotaKat 10mo ago
Bad news: we're actually closer than you'd think to that, considering how many cellular modems on their own are full blown SOC stacks and how far we've gotten into the eSIM camp.
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by kotaKat 10mo ago
Even simple "changes" (like cutting a single truck) cause massive mayhem in their wake. The simple "elimination" of nightly mail pickup from rural post offices has resulted in multi-day backlogs just getting anything out
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by kotaKat 10mo ago
Roku’s average revenue per user is $40+ a year per their financials, so there’s definitely a lot more subsidization of the hardware than most consumers think.
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by kotaKat 10mo ago
It shipped to an APO (Army Post Office) location where it gets processed by military mail personnel. They have to weed out things that are illegal in host countries before final delivery, so that’s where this got snagged. Sort of a pseudo-C
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by kotaKat 10mo ago
Once you get walked into the room and the folks on the other side of the table start into the Wicklander-Zulawski[1] playbook… it’s game over. “Take a seat, the door is unlocked and you can leave at any time.” [1] https://www.w-z
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by kotaKat 10mo ago
A lot has changed on the inside at Target since then. They’ve rolled the whole stack in house (even switching to Linux), locked down, and hardened a lot both inside and out. I was amused finding out that cashiers basically no longer sign
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by kotaKat 10mo ago
They give access to these features to their partners before general release, but this A/B feature has existed for quite some time now. I’ve seen various Patreon tech creators run those A/B tests and see them discuss them in their
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by kotaKat 10mo ago
Some say Maduro's long-lost Danish cousin lives there.
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by kotaKat 10mo ago
Difficulty is when you don't know what ad network it is, the app hides the ad network they use, and refuse to disclose who it is. You got served an ad from "one of our partners". That's all you'll get to know, and t
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by kotaKat 10mo ago
Youtube lets you A/B test thumbnails as a creator and see response rates, for instance. https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/393332200/you-can-...
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by kotaKat 10mo ago
That's why it's been normalized to buy five of those mesh WiFi routers and shove them all over your house, everybody's signal be damned.
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by kotaKat 10mo ago
Sounds more like “vehicle recovery” for the repossession market first and foremost. A repo investigator for the bank locates the target vehicle via owner’s social media, takes photo of the car, shoots it into GeoSpy, then ganks the car base
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by kotaKat 10mo ago
It already has and I’ve seen the worst of it in less than 24 hours. I signed up for a Windows Cloud PC trial, got settled into the Windows instance, then the next morning Microsoft terminated the trial for zero reason and wiped out everythi
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by kotaKat 10mo ago
“Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.” — https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Believe it or not, it’s prime daylight hours across most of
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by kotaKat 10mo ago
BGR used to be a decent blog when they were covering Blackberries... but once your main jam dies off all you can do is turn to longform slop a decade later.
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by kotaKat 10mo ago
Maddening to know that most of these vehicles will never hit American shores.
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by kotaKat 10mo ago
I was poking at the AT&T U-Verse outage reporting endpoint and caught "X-Employment". Sadly no additional challenge other than "If you are reading this, please consider a technology job at AT&T www.att.jobs".
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by kotaKat 10mo ago
>> A Google spokesperson said that many of the health examples shared with them were “incomplete screenshots”, but from what they could assess they linked “to well-known, reputable sources and recommend seeking out expert advice”. Do
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by kotaKat 10mo ago
But I thought our “friends in Venezuela” let us have all that precious Citgo oil. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNE0os3f3VY
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by kotaKat 10mo ago
> ...It also unlocks access to the Nintendo eShop, which I cannot disable. I can set his eShop spending limit to zero, sure. But I can't block free downloads. So to let my son play online Minecraft with his friends, I have to open h
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by kotaKat 10mo ago
The footage is also a great scam they sent Russia. https://t.me/DIUkraine/7648 ( https://old.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1q1x... ) They give clip 1 of Kapustin running into
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by kotaKat 10mo ago
Fun memory and a bit of an internal photo (and a rare shot of PalmOS software from the inside): https://ibb.co/nsVrW0h1 Sears' jewelry was... definitely marked up. This is from a SNC (SEARS Network Communicator, just a
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by kotaKat 10mo ago
Figure though: how many kids would then run around the house screaming 'another scorcher!' and 'call now!' on a hot summer's day? The weird market of things-on-kids-channels-for-adults was always to try to turn the

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