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by nerdbert 3y ago
I get the sense that if it's connected, your brain will figure out how to make it work.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> how would killing species of gut biota would helpful? helpful for whom to accomplish what?? Helpful for building an understanding of the relative contributions of each type.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Precisely. I don't think it was the case that people were blindingly trusting anything that came from a blue-check account. That doesn't even make sense, since many of them were contradicting each other. What it did allow, was qui
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by nerdbert 3y ago
How about when NBC, one of the main cheerleaders for the homicidal war in Iraq, was owned by a defense contractor that made billions selling weapons (GE)?
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Because the important distinction here is between (1) media that is state-funded in the sense that the state owns it and guides its editorial priorities, and (2) media that is state-funded in the sense that like almost every other enterpris
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by nerdbert 3y ago
For the majority of readers, for whom I presume getting the latest updates fresh from the lips of renowned neo-Nazis was not a high priority, I don't think this represented a significant drop in the blue check's value. Either you
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by nerdbert 3y ago
We can play that all day. Pharmaceutical, oil, car, agribusiness, and other companies that receive massive amounts of government subsidies, contribute a huge share of every major media outlet's ad revenue.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Twitter owed much of its success to drawing a large number of people who had become famous for doing well in their fields, and as a reader I could trust that they were actually those people because of the blue checkmark. Once that went away
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by nerdbert 3y ago
The only divisiveness I see (after many years in many different union shops) is planted by corporate flaks in an attempt to divide and conquer the other side of the negotiating table.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I live in Europe and haven't received a bag from a store in years. Recently visited the USA and they were being foisted on me left and right. I submit that people will adjust to this, I sure have, and that the real solution is for more
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by nerdbert 3y ago
We've had these at some intersections in the Netherlands for at least 15 years.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> old German alphabets with tz, ch, ss (I only know how to type the last one, ß, because the others have died out over the last hundred years) They still ꜩ on some German street signs. I can't find ch in Unicode though (could just b
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> for this reason, String iteration should be based on codepoints This leads you to the problem where you'll get different results iterating over n a ï v e vs n a ̈ i v e And I can't see how that's ever going to be a usef
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> I still see so many people accelerating into stoplights/brake scenarios. Every time I have to use the brake - rather than downshifting - for anything other than holding the car in place, makes me feel like I've committed a fa
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> The horrific crash occurred at 9:35 p.m. at Market and Fifth streets after the traffic light turned green, giving the Cruise car and other car — which had been waiting side-by-side for the light — the right to enter the intersection wh
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Also, shift should make a sound, and both space and backspace obviously have their own sounds, which are different from typing a character.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
They're not going to make sure of anything, in my experience, except that an org's IT management had a disappointing conversation with their team and then aspirationally checked boxes claiming to have things in place.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I don't think some petty criminal is going to say "Hey, that Nerdbert, he sure has expensive-looking elbows, I want to break into his house and see what else I can find there, so I'm going to spend the next two years learning
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Painfully slow. I would not call it usable for any modern workflow.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
KLM and United for sure have free in-flight messaging (at least as of a few days ago, the last time I used them). It's interesting what does and doesn't go through. e.g. Facebook notifications update, but not the content. I guess
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I used to play with IP-over-DNS, which more or less worked on an awful lot of these plane wifi systems. Haven't tried it in the past couple years though; it's always slow the point of barely being usable. You can probably get your
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Right, but the question is whether SolarWinds was owned due to an MS vuln. A quick scan of a summary of the SolarWinds story suggests that's not the case, but it's possible that the article I read glossed over too much.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Evidently it was not the correct medicine.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
One big problem is that there's no way of knowing what other holes/backdoors were introduced during the period when the attacker had all those credentials. Maybe they are immediately able to get the new key.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> My front door lock used to be a pain in the ass when I had my hands full of groceries. Or my coffee and the mail. Now my door unlocks automatically when I walk up to it. It's a small joy, but it reliably makes me smile each time.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I don't generally find those interactions to be a struggle, but it's still 10x easier and faster to get up and turn on the light using the old-fashioned switch.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
They should be thrilled, they can spend more of their time treating people who need it and less time guessing about who those people are.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> Pay for the Plus version. > Then it makes stuff up far less frequently. Now there's a business model for a ChatGPT-like service. $1/month: Almost always wrong $10/month: 50/50 chance of being right or wrong $100&
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Only if you pay $$$$ for OV/EV. If you get the normal DV cert they don't provide any more verification than Letsencrypt. And since browsers have moved away from indicating OV/EV certs to end users, not many organizations are
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Roaming used to be very expensive and so people almost never used it. Instead they would buy cheap local prepaid SIM cards when they traveled across intra-EU borders. The carriers would charge high prices to each other for roaming, and pass

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