kotaKat

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1. 241.▲
   by kotaKat 3mo ago

   They keep negotiating payments-in-lieu-of-taxes to dodge fair tax rates and grab special treatment, so we do see a loss in value there over decade(s) in many cases.
2. 242.▲
   by kotaKat 3mo ago

   This. Why the hell are we propping up private "veteran owned" companies that repackage a few things into a Pelican case and call it a revolutionary new product and sell it for tens of thousands over MSRP? (I've seen one too m
3. 243.▲
   by kotaKat 3mo ago

   Fun fact: When they switch to Axon Outposts instead, just know that they have Amazon Sidewalk modules inside them, too for backdoor C2 to Axon. (Go check the FCC docs for X4GS06009 and note that there's a Quectel KG100S sitting on th
4. 244.▲
   by kotaKat 3mo ago

   And the amazing thing is that DJI was the ones lambasted for their shitty security practices. But here we are, with Skydio users openly using public sharing links to their drone feeds 24x7x365 apparently. Sounds like another vendor needs
5. 245.▲
   by kotaKat 3mo ago

   The gag is that they're bringing it over as a basic electric quadcycle to skirt all US regulations for the vehicle, then offering an immediate conversion at point of sale to equip it to be a Neighborhood Electric Vehicle / Low Spe
6. 246.▲
   by kotaKat 4mo ago

   That actually sorta? exists! Vay uses remotely teleoperated vehicles in Vegas to drop off your rental, then take it away once you're done. https://vay.io/
7. 247.▲
   by kotaKat 4mo ago

   fun thing is a bunch of hobbyists are running around with SDRs and old cell hardware and running low power experimental cell networks in their houses, questionable legality be damned. OpenBTS/YateBTS/OsmoBTS and friends are useful
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   by kotaKat 4mo ago

   The easier option I'm afraid would have almost been to just not pay your bill. No, I'm not even kidding here, Verizon has apparently in the last year randomly just been turning on multi-month past due accounts and going "lol
9. 249.▲
   by kotaKat 4mo ago

   I'm actually frustrated we lost web browser access on gaming consoles, especially in the era of people calling for technical support to their internet providers for "it's too slow" and we can't run a proper speedtes
10. 250.▲
    by kotaKat 5mo ago

    I meaaaaan... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF_qGEzm0JA - definitely a lot further than either of those ;)
11. 251.▲
    by kotaKat 5mo ago

    We'll know the price in two more weeks. I'm yolo'ing it and I can't wait for my little orange-wrapped pickup. So far their manufacturing and progress videos are quite impressive. The fact there's 25-50+ basically pr
12. 252.▲
    by kotaKat 5mo ago

    Can't wait for Ford's $40,000 electric pickup. Pepperidge Farm remembers the $19,995 MSRP Ford Maverick with its standard hybrid drivetrain. Missed my chance to buy one, watched the price bloat out and nope.
13. 253.▲
    by kotaKat 5mo ago

    is this solution... legally certified for trade? you may need to look into NTEP approval before this is being used for legal trade... dimensioning is a big deal.
14. 254.▲
    by kotaKat 5mo ago

    Back in the late 2000s-early 2010s you could grab some Verizon bubble pack flip phones and just dial an activation string on the handset itself and it'd set up a new phone number for you and you'd just have to go add airtime with
15. 255.▲
    by kotaKat 5mo ago

    Sidebar: I love how Amazon basically gave up on AWS Chime for Slack. Even dogfooding their own messaging product didn't work.
16. 256.▲
    by kotaKat 5mo ago

    American Airlines captain Warran VanderBurgh once called this phenomenon "the children of the magenta"[1] in his talk on automation dependency in the 90s. I wonder what we'd call the children today in hindsight and what lin
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    by kotaKat 5mo ago

    I noticed quite recently in awe at the Chinese parts recycling market with the N95 (and a few other old Nokias) - https://www.ebay.com/itm/227249518747 Apparently they've been rebuilding full "new" N95s
18. 258.▲
    by kotaKat 5mo ago

    > Someone leaves your organisation https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/retention-and-d... "By default, when a user is deleted, the user's manager is automatically given access to the user&#x2
19. 259.▲
    by kotaKat 5mo ago

    And if they haven't migrated the ownership of the OneDrive to another user's account in 12 months (such as cascading the drive up to the next manager to pull out whatever docs)... what kind of other bad IT and managerial practices
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    by kotaKat 5mo ago

    > Epic Games Store exists and Famously beats Steam (and others) over the head by charging only a 12% fee https://www.fortnite.com/news/fortnite-developers-will-soon-... Unless you're inside Fortnite, where Epic
21. 261.▲
    by kotaKat 5mo ago

    Memories of the Glock family and their horses ;) Turns out they made a little more than just a few piddly guns...
22. 262.▲
    by kotaKat 5mo ago

    There's even easier ways to get a Stripe account closed. https://help.ko-fi.com/hc/en-us/articles/360007522474-Connec... I did this and was immediately closed for "crowdfunding" by Stripe :) Lo
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    by kotaKat 5mo ago

    My "oh shit" moment was when I was abused by an AI support robot that gave me false information and cost me financial harm. It was never disclosed it was AI, I submitted a support query with a company, got a suspiciously fast resp
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    by kotaKat 5mo ago

    Ah yes, just like that time Kodak licensed their name out to make checks ... air purifiers? (Bonus points: their brand licensee on most of that crap is now out of business.) https://www.kodak.com/en/consumer/page&
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    by kotaKat 5mo ago

    https://github.com/M4jx/TikTokBlocklist I think they may have scaled back from this, but they were running a 100% malware-style playbook to hit the Tiktok servers like it was some kinda sketchy C2 package. Lots of atte
26. 266.▲
    by kotaKat 5mo ago

    Look at how far TikTok can go if you try blocking DNS. The hardcoded IPs, self-DNS-resolution and cat-and-mouse game of blocking is quite... interesting.
27. 267.▲
    by kotaKat 5mo ago

    I was working in healthcare IT during the Ebola epidemic and I remember being in the middle of Bumsville, Nowhere and even we were sitting there worrying about the potential things that could happen if it hit our community. I remember the s
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    by kotaKat 5mo ago

    I started with gigabit Fios when they first deployed in my area then ended up dropping to 300. As a single user, even if I'm saturating the link, I think I'm too used to being patient to accept waiting an extra few minutes or queu
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    by kotaKat 5mo ago

    We had a single wireless AP (really, a WRT54G) chilling in the high school library in my last couple years. I may or may not have factory defaulted it a few times to hop on an open linksys SSID... ... they only seemed to put a sign on it to
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    by kotaKat 5mo ago

    I remember trying to argue with the IT folks at school because hackaday.com was blocked for "hacking"... damn, guess all those fun electronics projects people were doing is Super Evil And Only For Criminals.