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by netsharc 10mo ago
Wasn't it shovels? NVidia is a shovel-maker worth a few trillion dollars...
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by netsharc 10mo ago
Reminds me of this https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/451352/mac-wont-bo... TL; DR: User changed the year on his Mac to 2122, it threw a lot of errors because certificates have expired, he rebooted and ende
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by netsharc 10mo ago
This makes me want to suggest to Microsoft to have AI-enhanced safe mode. "Computer can't boot? Reboot to the Recovery Copilot and have this advanced spell-checker try to troubleshoot it!"
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by netsharc 10mo ago
What does happen? I'm using Windows 10 Enterprise (is that GitHub repo to activate any license still around?) , with policy to disable Internet search from the start menu... so your story makes me wonder what the astonishment is.
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by netsharc 10mo ago
I wonder if it's ancient enough that the exploits floating online are too modern for it... Hah, I guess the Internet really is like a sewer, you have to have good protective equipment to wade in it...
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by netsharc 10mo ago
That's interesting, on Linux there's the $EDITOR variable (a quick search of the 3 distros Arch, Ubuntu, Fedora show me they respect it) for the terminal text editor. Maybe you can trailblaze and tell users your application will s
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by netsharc 10mo ago
It's a sad world (or sad Internet) that when people do anything there's always a question of how to monetize it. Upload videos of you being goofy? "You should start a series! Make them longer than 8 minutes and you can qualif
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by netsharc 10mo ago
The execution of the law is left to the... executive branch. The constitution specifies that power of the executive is vested onto one person (yeah, really). When the person tasked with executing the law is a convicted criminal and is ignor
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by netsharc 10mo ago
If this pretending works 100%, then a malware can use that technique to pretend that the phone is secure, to trick you into using your bank app and steal your money anyway. I also prefer to own my device and be root on it, while installing
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by netsharc 10mo ago
I watch a YouTube series of 2 guys who restored a classic Mini car (putting the running gear of another car into it, adding bells and whistles and more bells and whistles). They've been going at it 12 years, when they could've jus
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by netsharc 10mo ago
Yeah, it's fucking goddamned excessive. Changing the CSS rule .jb { font-weight: 700; } to .jb { font-weight: 500; } got rid of all the bolded parts for me...
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by netsharc 10mo ago
They show a bike at a location, if it's rented it will disappear off the map, if it's "returned" (available to hire again) it will show back up on the map, but at a different location. So "represents one real bike r
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by netsharc 10mo ago
That's if they ever face a "truth and reconciliation" commision like after Apartheid South Africa. If not, and if you have 3 hours, there's a documentary you can watch. The director said "It was like I went to Germa
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by netsharc 10mo ago
I have 10 windows open and 8 of them have about 20-30 tabs (two of them have less than 10 each), I don't think my hoarding is thriving. It's more of a scatterbrain saying "Oh I'll get back to that idea", and taking
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by netsharc 10mo ago
I have an alarm clock with Google Assistant, I can ask it where my Pixel 7 is, and it will make that phone ring using whatever Google's equivalent of Find My Phone is.
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by netsharc 10mo ago
Seems like it needs higher level stuff, although that's a bit too sci-fi. Captain Picard can just ask "Computer, where is Commander Riker?" and the computer answers him, he doesn't need to say "Computer, launch peop
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by netsharc 10mo ago
It's also on YouTube, the first result when I search for "39c3 whitedate", but only in German there.
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by netsharc 10mo ago
A Windows 3.1 game called Rodent's Revenge: https://classicreload.com/win3x-rodents-revenge.html Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r6CnPzTXKE Damn, the good old days when games didn't have l
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by netsharc 10mo ago
Ewan McGregor and his friend Charley Boorman was also in the area, 20 odd years ago, when they did a montorbike trip from London to New York, "The Long Way Round" (Crossing Europe, Mongolia, Russia, Canada and USA): https:/&
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by netsharc 10mo ago
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-the-heartbreak-machine-nazis-in-... The 40 minutes of the presentation before the hack gives a lot more context: there are 2 journalists in addition to this anonymous pink Power Ranger, and
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by netsharc 10mo ago
Sorry about the oppression you have to go through!
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by netsharc 10mo ago
The difference is... one of these colors is the only one that has centuries of privilege and power, a lot of times used violently, and the only one claiming victimisation when someone mentions "how about equality/equity, or even j
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by netsharc 10mo ago
Germany: the whole kitchen. Quite how a tenant would take a custom-made kitchen from an old to a new apartment, I don't know. (Not sure if it's still a common thing, last decade it was, but I lived in places where the kitchen stay
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by netsharc 10mo ago
Ah, what's good is law when the branch^W [after rereading about it, executive power is given to one] person tasked with executing laws is... lawless? The notion that future administrations won't be offshots of the current regime (
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by netsharc 10mo ago
There's a part in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance where the narrator's friend's bike needs some fixing, and the narrator said (I paraphrase) "you could use this piece of aluminum from a soda can to fix it"
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by netsharc 10mo ago
It's not really written there, but how about a loading experience that gives you the important information, and then loads the bells and whistles as the JavaScript gets loaded and run. First make sure the plain text information gets lo
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by netsharc 10mo ago
In German, New Year's Eve is "Silvester". A colleague of mine in Switzerland got a letter from Microsoft addressed "Dear New Year's Eve"...
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by netsharc 10mo ago
Do scammers still try to get "local-seeming" numbers? Any mechanisms to prevent them registering, using stolen credit card numbers?
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by netsharc 10mo ago
I wonder what the April 2020 spike is about... maybe lockdowns meant people started learning new stuff?
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by netsharc 10mo ago
The term cloud feudalism is not new, but now I'm thinking it feels like humanity is being dragged to the feudal ages because more and more everything happens online now. You want to work? Be a peasant for Uber Eats, they have all the p

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