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by kotaKat 2mo ago
I went to screenshot my upcoming Verizon Fios fiber install out of excitement and got an immediate warning dialog. WARNING: You are in violation of the My Fios app end user licensing agreement that prohibits duplication of this screen. Ple
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
Ironically just picked up a Zebra EM45 RFID recently. https://www.zebra.com/us/en/products/mobile-computers/handhe... I turned on the RFID scanner and did a leisurely stroll through a local Walmart Super
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
Apparently PBS doesn't have some kind of massive conglomerate backup or archives of things that its member stations produce. It's up to every station to archive or back up their own stuff. No standardization as to storage formats,
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
It seems like there's 14 different mesh networks that all are out there claiming to be decentralized and this and that. This is ridiculous. We need to develop one universal standard that covers everyone's use cases.
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
Is it really “keeping Reddit safe” or is Popular in United States still all the Indian teenagers subreddits because they’re still riding residential proxies into the site?
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
PS: HN, I'm really fucking getting tired of being punted to the absolute bottom of every fucking post, even when I post actually decent fucking content for once. Parent comment at +5 points and it's parked all the way at the dead
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
Wasn't the Touch Bar just a sneaky way for Apple to mess around with ARM coprocessing and other ARM-based macguffins in production? We went from Touch Bar + T2 to Apple Silicon pretty quick. The Touch Bar was the user-facing toy to dri
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
The only subset I've seen with keys are old single-prop Cessnas (makes sense) but every old codger just leaves their keys in the plane anyways. Sooooooome private jets actually bother to slap a Medeco on the external doors, at least, b
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
> The question is more - how hard is it to get airside without a pass? Depends. Did you fly in with a random unlocked Cessna from a remote field? Really funny when you see a random rural airport with an unattended gate with a sign on it
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
“researchers aren't revealing which port they targeted on the 737, nor are they releasing some details of how their hacking device is able to spoof commands to the plane's computers” Bro. You put “429 interceptor” on the PCB. You’
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
What was it, Epic charges 63% in Fortnite starting Jan 1 2027? https://www.fortnite.com/news/fortnite-developers-will-soon-... I'm done putting up with this stupid pointless fight at this point so some slimy gre
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
... I wonder if this was inspiration for Flight Simulator X's mission, Limited Options. [1] That one was flown on a 737-800, but... "When the plane suffers a fuel leak causing the engines to fail at 35,000 feet, you must decide w
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
Anyone else noticed that every single other company that had a bone to pick against Apple or Google (companies like Match and Spotify) haven't been saying shit lately about any of this? It's always still just Epic Games being whin
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
The really bad thing about that is the "try that in a small town" factor when they just call their friend, the police chief, and next thing you know you're trying to remember the ACLU's phone number for your one phone ca
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
Oh god, is Amazon trying to build a version of... Grok powered by the IRL category? When will Alexa For Shopping allow me to request to visualize this Instant Pot in a swimsuit?
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
I can't. They spent hours listening to the citizens tell them not to enter a 187(g) with ICE and then they spun around and immediately voted to approve the 187(g). Citizens are powerless, period here, and they keep voting in the worst
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
funny question I have to pose now because I haven't thought about it yet in all the ALPR discussions and the like. There are civilian enterprise uses of ALPR. Where do they fall in this? I don't even mean for mass data collectio
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
the ONLY way my county communicates emergency alerts is facebook. it's absolutely wild. how do I know if I'm in a state of emergency? facebook. :)
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
It's A/B tested across IP ranges, geolocated regions, etc. I got it super early and it sucks being locked out for the past 2-3 weeks now.
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
My last job was vaguely classifieds-related: the company posted a local press release into the newspaper bragging about how they'd come to the area to serve a couple local clients and I ended up snooping their careers page to find out
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
Why yes, yes I'd like to see someone's shit get pushed in for interfering with the wireless networks on the aircraft. It should have parked at the end of a taxiway and waited for LE to meet it on the pavement instead of even parki
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
Does this stop Google's constant crusade of "making sure it's you" every two days with another fifteen password challenges? I bought the security keys, I have all the whizbang security features on, and Google still makes
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
The funny thing is if you have the Karen HOA edition of the Flock cameras (eg the “private” ones for gated communities etc): https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/how-the-safe-list-solves-pr... The HOA ones come with “safe
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
Is it to ID protestors, or to ID overstayers/other immigrant offenses? Home Office just parked up outside the station waiting for every overstayer to flag instead of just questioning people on walkups?
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
The problem is then you have the card number sitting in some online card wallet, set for Autopay or something, and suddenly it's just... allowed to charge you next month even though the card's got nothing . Hell no, that shit sho
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
Depends. Why can't banks offer more debit cards to more people and, I don't know, stop honoring overdrafts? Transactions should decline, not overdraft, even with overdraft off . We've built lots of traps for people that have
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
I'd say the deregulation of the telephone industry in America, breaking up the baby Bells, etc would have probably been the biggest hand. We broke everything up and let any old player enter the telco world over here which broke the ent
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
Related: A pharmacy chain in Vermont implemented AI for efficiency (11 days ago, 40 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49105190
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Kinney Drugs pulls back AI phone assistant after hundreds of customer complaints(wcax.com)
153 points by kotaKat 2mo ago|174 comments
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
> Conversely, the notice also details the billions that domestic drone makers like Skydio, which has committed $3.5 billion to US manufacturing, have raised since the original ban I'm so fucking tired of Adam Bry's fucking bull

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