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by ndespres 2y ago
What, exactly, do you get out of doing something like that? As an intellectual exercise I understand probing to see what exactly is accessible on a “blocked” connection, but intentionally wasting bandwidth seems the virtual equivalent of le
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by ndespres 3y ago
It isn’t being read as a joke because the expectation on this forum is that folks are posting seriously and engaging in good faith. There are enough other comment sections on the net that are full of unfunny jokes that add little value to t
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by ndespres 3y ago
I was pleasantly surprised that my new Dell monitor connects with USB-C cable to to my laptop, and then lets me daisy chain another older Dell monitor off of the first one with a DisplayPort cable. I’ve got power and 2 monitors, plus a full
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by ndespres 3y ago
This sounds more tedious than just learning to code on your own would be. It’s been a long year helping non-programmers figure out why their GPT output doesn’t work, when it would have been simpler for all involved to just ask me to write w
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by ndespres 3y ago
What she truly wants is for you to notice that it’s full and to take it out without being asked.
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by ndespres 3y ago
Not all the time. Many keywords were a shortcut into a curated multimedia portal inside AOL. It could be equivalent to a web site for a brand, but could also be a more general area inside AOL with related articles, chat rooms, etc on that t
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by ndespres 3y ago
When they reach that unusability limit, most people will call their IT department and have the offending buggy software reinstalled as a fix. IT won’t remove your buggy copy of Microsoft Word and Teams and replace it with WordPerfect and Sl
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by ndespres 3y ago
The article says that the mistake was downloading the update repeatedly. The 5-minute check for updates was intentional.
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by ndespres 3y ago
>> The app checks for the update every 5 minutes or when the user activates the app. This is why I use Little Snitch, an application firewall that blocks requests like this and gives me some control over which applications are phoning
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by ndespres 3y ago
To be fair, that clip is Carlson imagining a hypothetical scenario in which he’s the Secretary of Transportation or someone similar, and needs to justify keeping self-driving trucks off the road to avoid putting millions of truck drivers ou
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by ndespres 4y ago
This old gem comes to mind in any conversation about how to alleviate spam problems: https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt
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by ndespres 4y ago
I’m sure there are a few of us, I left the NYC to move to a rural area to raise goats and make cheese and soap. I kept my job and work remotely. It has been a challenge. Keeping my job means i’m not completely connected here, or dependent o
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by ndespres 4y ago
>> And those bank execs just lost their jobs when the banks stopped existing, so you got that. SVB’s CFO was previously the CFO at Lehman, so whether he still has his job today seems to have no impact on whether the revolving door wil
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by ndespres 4y ago
Allen had a net worth of something like $20 billion. That’s enough money to fund the museum for the next 5,000 years. Maintaining a project like this is NOT expensive.
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by ndespres 4y ago
My first MP3 player (the Rio PMP 300) and digital camera (Canon Powershot 600) both used parallel ports for data transfer. Plenty of other weird things used the port, Autocad’s licensing dongles come to mind. It was really used for some ver
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by ndespres 4y ago
The people who are working on this type of tech need to take a hard look at what they’re doing and think about whether they’re comfortable making our society worse.
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by ndespres 4y ago
Very few of the problems described in the story are solved with a virtual machine to run older software on newer computers. Lots of specific add-in cards, precise timing requirements for sampling, and high-altitude, high sunlight, high vibr
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by ndespres 4y ago
It had an external docking station with more standard ports, I/O breakout ports to connect accessories like floppy disk drives, built-in modem, and PCMCIA add-in cards.
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by ndespres 4y ago
This is sociopathic rationalization for poor behavior. It isn’t true. If you are a compulsive liar and cheater, perhaps you will justify your immoral behavior by deluding yourself into believing that everyone else is doing it too- but it is
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by ndespres 4y ago
I do think the hate is overblown and a little immature. Maybe it felt a little silly if you were already a computer expert in 1995, or just hated Microsoft in general as was en vogue at the time, but the character served an important purpos
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by ndespres 4y ago
Mine goes to "sleep" too. I've got the latest client version running on MacOS. If I receive any messages while my computer is idle, even for a minute, they don't refresh on screen or alert in any way. They wont' app
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by ndespres 4y ago
Incompetent. The Slack and Discord apps for Windows and Mac are also fine, where the Teams Electron-based client also sucks.
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by ndespres 4y ago
Some of these jokes which are censored for criticism of China are so tasteless that they ought to be censored in the American version as well, or better still, never written at all. A joke about whether the "chicken" at the local
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by ndespres 4y ago
I agree that it’s the best one they sell now. I just had to retire my iPhone SE first-generation from 2016 which was finally starting to fail on me. Coming from that, the newer 3rd gen SE still feels too large in my hands. My biggest gripe,
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by ndespres 4y ago
A lot of it is still out there! A personal favorite of mine is https://www.fujichia.com/ which is, among other things, a blog inside a castle, with a fish pond outside and an art gallery. It reminds me of a simpler time whe
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by ndespres 4y ago
Ford could make a smaller truck with the same size bed, or longer, with a shorter height and narrower width, and shave 1000 lbs or more off the gross vehicle weight. These new trucks are enormous compared to what was standard 20-30 years ag
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by ndespres 4y ago
My memory of the hosted Outlook/Exchange landscape of that time is much more negative. It was expensive, had inconsistent or costly support for ActiveSync devices, had no integration or federation with existing on-premise Active Direct
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by ndespres 4y ago
It did fill a gap for a while unmet by a lot of services that we take for granted now. A Mac Mini with macOS Server to host email, calendar sharing, file sharing, and Time Machine backups went a long way towards meeting a small office'
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by ndespres 4y ago
Well that might be a concerted effort to keep your attention turned away from all the similarly nasty things happening in your own country. In my country I think about older examples like the Swill Milk Scandal of the 1850s but more recent
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by ndespres 5y ago
I think what you are describing is a feature of the Amanda backup system, which might be worth a look. It supports writing to a library of "virtual tapes" which can then be backed by real tapes, tape libraries, hard disks, etc. an

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