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by kotaKat 2mo ago
Fortunately, it's the former. It's a 200+ year old nonprofit founded by a group of physicians in 1820 that developed the modern drug standards that most of the world actually relies on. https://www.usp.org/about&#x
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
The Oracle corporation would like to speak to you about the name of their property management system. (Also some Norwegians and a Web browser?)
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
pre-AI I recall a little gag website based on that in ~2013! https://web.archive.org/web/20210612143916/http://backlabel.... Backlabel threw together a fake product name from a list and added in some war
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
Slightly mixing up programs there - the initial statement ("your loan will be closed") applies to customers of the current "iPhone Upgrade Program" which is now being replaced by the new lease program via Klarna. The new
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
At the same time T-Mobile just announced they're finally going out to 36 month installment agreements on phones. https://www.t-mobile.com/news/un-carrier/eip-flex-36 ... though curiously, out of all the carri
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
Hospital IT got a call asking where the little binder with the DVDs for the CT scanner were from someone in Radiology 'cause the Siemens tech showed up. No, we didn't have them, and they told us they last saw them in the back of a
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
Hey now, maybe they can finally figure out how many people get pissed off when they click on the left side of a page when they pull it up to get window focus to scroll and have the entire page navigate off back to the main USA Today homepag
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
I was in a shittier financial situation the past several years, finally get things situated to finally be able to buy a miniPC or one of those cool mini-laptops... then the Trump tariffs decimated the entire market. That finally starts to e
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
Ford once again getting the messaging wrong and shipping what is essentially a glorified sedan with a useless external 4 foot bed. Why do we have to keep making family-haulers for whipped dads that aren't allowed to have a two-seater?
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
To quote Alito, on Pornhub: "Is it like the old Playboy magazine? You have essays there by the modern-day equivalent of Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr.?"
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
Don't forget Grey Media grabbing the rural circuit. We've been absorbed by Grey and lost so much local news programming while it gets replaced with "must run" soft story segments from a national "investigateTV"
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
Oh. Oh no, it's the Bloomberg reporter that keeps getting Apple rumors wrong.
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
Activation Lock now extends to the serials of the parts inside every iPhone since Apple knows the S/N of everything. If you pull the battery off an Activation Locked phone and put it in another phone it's going to freak out and co
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
there's still a fairly lucrative parts stripping market and there are extreme efforts that are used to "unlock" locked devices - it has been known in the Chinese marketplace that you could get paired chips to do SMD rework wi
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
> Because you can't just load your app on iOS - this is just not possible (well perhaps there are a few percent of some jailbroken iPhones, but that is neglibile). No, smart normies are sideloading with the 7-day limit and leveragin
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
Looking at the comment in the actual code change: "If we are being asked to delete a system app for just one user set flag so it disables rather than reverting to system version of the app." ... Joy. This makes the 'nondisabl
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
I'd like to see forced legislation requiring marketers to disclose the exact source and campaign they acquired your data in. I've been getting a barage of non-stop harassment via unwanted magazine subscriptions. People Inc claims
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
Every single reboot on my lower end Motorola phone, they have decided it fit to re-enable com.glance.lockscreenM every single boot and on every single update. It's horrible . I don't think I can trust them to produce a Graphene p
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
Apple is equally pointless. They don't remove apps like Facebook or Twitter for displaying CSAM, but apparently ganked Telegram at the first single report of an extortionist trying to remove a public Telegram group because they posted
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
> That cost falls directly on the Winona Police Department’s budget. Nope, Flock bills out the ass for replacement cost right to the taxpayer. The grift continues! Alternatively, "defunding the police" by way of smashing Flocks
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by kotaKat 3mo ago
> Is Palantir obsessed with medical records? If so why? Daddy Thiel needs a bloodbank. The last one mysteriously died under the guise of a 'suicide'. https://www.inc.com/jeff-bercovici/peter-thiel-young-blo
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by kotaKat 3mo ago
Some day Ann will get her justice and Sam will get thrown in prison. There's only so much smokescreen the golden child can throw out there.
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by kotaKat 3mo ago
Google can't decide what the hell they wanted a Chromebook to do and IT departments everywhere are fed up with it. Plus I don't think schools are ready to have to deal with managing glorified Android laptops now that Google signal
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by kotaKat 3mo ago
Bingo. Local cop goes in, buddy-buddys with the loss prevention manager, gets access to run plates for the immigration folks outside. "Professional courtesy" strikes again!
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by kotaKat 3mo ago
> passed down almost like guild knowledge, only within large organizations. That's the part that always killed me about trying to set foot into IBM mainframes. "Ask your system programmer". "Ask your X/Y/Z&q
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by kotaKat 3mo ago
They were looking for another place they could cram Nano's Banana down people's throats.
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by kotaKat 3mo ago
I'm also team DXP2800. I was very surprised to see a super rural Walmart have DXP2800s and NAS-grade drives in stock and found out they did some weird partnership to sell UGreen hardware in some stores. (Oddly, my store still has exact
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by kotaKat 3mo ago
Further linked within was an old BBC article; http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6981356.stm "... there aren't very many examples of sudden decreases in demand triggered by TV programm
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by kotaKat 3mo ago
Yep. Gone are the days of running out for a "119 IKS" or hunting for Bev and Charlie, now everyone just grabs some pooched RTSP feeds and calls it a day. Feels fitting recently to discover the Dish Network "Pirate TV" re
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by kotaKat 3mo ago
Why does Nano have to keep forcing her "banana" into my face in every single Google product? Why did I need image generation in Google Earth in the first place? I don't want the banana but she keeps shoving it in my face even

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