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by kotaKat 11mo ago
False detection is a nightmare in the corporate world and this IT worker bashes his head every time he runs across it. Nirsoft tools? Bam, "virus" and "malware". How dare you! Tailscale website? Uh-oh, ZScaler thinks t
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
> silhouette software is proprietary To an exteeeeeeeent. I will point out that Silhouette is owned by Graphtec (who makes normal commercial cutters). You can get a very smooth upgrade path going from a Silhouette machine to a Graphtec m
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
Yep. Massena, NY totally got hundreds of jobs out of the shitty Bitcoin miners that came to town like Coinmint and whoever the hell "North Country Colocation Services" is. We were saved! Everybody is rich and healthy and happy!
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
And isn't this just weeks after a bad software update bricked a bunch of Wrangler 4XEs? ... Oh, and isn't this the same Stellantis that now requires a fuck-ton of hoops to access your own diagnostics now because of their "sec
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Apple TV Pulls 'The Hunt' Show over Plagiarism Claims(macrumors.com)
2 points by kotaKat 11mo ago|0 comments
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
Not gonna lie I dumped their packed-in OS like shipping foam. Turned the watchdog off, installed TrueNAS, not looking back. I haven't paid attention to temps or noise - it's been suitable in my bedroom corner and it's been ru
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
As a Ford Fusion Hybrid owner I blow out my rear brakes a lot more often out of rust and lack of use due to regen too, so the TUV is just calling out people not getting their vehicles inspected and serviced as regularly as they should. In o
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
While not DIY, I would like to also call out an interesting discovery lately. https://www.ugreen.com/blogs/news/ugreen-makes-strategic-ent... UGREEN has apparently inked deals to drop their DXP2800s into (some) Wa
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
The Brookstreet Hotel in Kanata (just outside Ottawa), Ontario has bathrooms with windows in them. There's a shade inside the glass, but still... did I really need to open the blinds to my bathroom? https://www.brookstreet
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
I'd also like to scream at Youtube for the "experiencing interruptions? find out why!" bullshit that enforces a five second wait before videos will load. I only put 2+2 together when I was running yt-dlp and realizing there w
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
The iOS/iPad builds have been getting a bit… rough on their adblocking lately. For some reason, Orion is now getting slammed by Ad-Shield on my iPad on so many blogs and sites it’s not even funny. Endless “an error occured loading this
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
Rugpulling the education market that got suckered into buying all those Chromebooks and grooming the kids into Google products from kindergarten onwards.
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
When the justice system finally catches up and puts Sam behind bars.
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
What I'd give at #2 to have some kind of backdoor ISP contact to these vendors to be able to ask "what exactly the hell is going on here?". Having to troubleshoot things like Playstation Network bans ("or is it a ban?&qu
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
Why do I have a feeling this is just going to be bolting a bill acceptor onto CLEAR kiosks as the "alternative biometric verification"?
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
Likely documentation-related. As a US citizen I "just" needed to present my birth certificate and Social Security card to the DMV along with my "normal" license, and a print-out of a paystub from my employer online (that
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
Easy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1998_North_American_ic... A lot of the Northeast US that was impacted has fairly 'fresh' copper infrastructure in the last 20 years. ... but in reality, yeah. The o
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
Reading investor reports is interesting as well, to see what companies think you're worth to them. Check out Roku's ARPU - it's something like $40 a year now per user in marketing.
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
How many low income customers are going to sit there and figure out how to min-max the McDonald's App(tm) to get the best possible deal for their money? They're not. They're priced out from the efforts and hoops required to g
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
nah, rest of the company gets the shady label too, always has, always will. remember when y'all both started blocking people on twitter for calling out data breaches? hrm, lmao.
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
Yeah, there's something about allocating all of your water to those pesky Shahed drone factories for Russia instead of your civilian needs.
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
Precarious hard drive IDE cable-swap-while-running gang here. Sitting there wondering if I was going to kill something with both the family PC splayed open on the dining room table and the Xbox splayed open on the dining room table, with
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
From what I'd heard, it's the actual HP and Dell OEM'ed drivers they provide for the hardware. If you load the official Intel drivers, HEVC works fine. It's also reported that HEVC works fine on Linux on these affected l
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by kotaKat 1y ago
I miss being able to plug my phone (of any kind) in and getting it mounted as a drive letter. Android misses the mark so much with MTP and iPhone… waves frantically at iTunes . (At least, in a weird bizarre twist, the iPhone’s Files app is
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Founder, CEO of Done Convicted in $100M Adderall Distribution, Healthcare Fraud(justice.gov)
5 points by kotaKat 1y ago|0 comments
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by kotaKat 1y ago
Oh, I’m a “cynic” because I’m upset at Microsoft continuing to violate my consent over and over again, huh. Wonder if he calls any of his rejected dates a “cynic” because they said no to him, too.
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by kotaKat 1y ago
Yup! You can point your BIOS at a .efi and it’ll Just Boot It. We’ve even got Wi-Fi support in some of these as well for a full wireless deploy… https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/en-us/bios-connect/htt
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by kotaKat 1y ago
So… Do Not Track 2.0? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track
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by kotaKat 1y ago
Bingo. What roles and positions still even exist at this point at Klarna on the “low” end? It’s certainly not a customer-service facing role at that point.
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by kotaKat 1y ago
It’s almost as if the EU keeps getting it wrong, time and time again with technology.

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