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by pwg 4mo ago
The same way you prevent yourself from engaging with trolls. Be alert, pay attention, when you get the sense you are engaging in fake content (or with a troll) then disengage.
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by pwg 4mo ago
You have rediscovered steganography ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography ). Nothing new here on that end. > How will we know in the future that what we are replying to is not some bot with alter motive? How
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by pwg 4mo ago
$5M is not nearly large enough (assuming Disney lost) of a dollar figure to make a company like Disney even notice that cost. That's "pocket change" for a "Disney", they could just pay out $5M as a cost of doing bu
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by pwg 4mo ago
The solution there is to not bother with "streaming services" and just download the readily available alternative captures, which include the original music.
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by pwg 5mo ago
Actually, the "key" to soldering is finally buying oneself a very good iron. I learned soldering years ago (going on 50 or so now) but always used basic "wood burners". But I did enough that I got good at it with the r
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by pwg 5mo ago
The entire article reads as an excellent example why piracy continues to exist. I.e.: https://xkcd.com/488/ Once you have the .mkv on your local computer system, then only actual hardware failures will prevent you from
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by pwg 5mo ago
> Why were these sharp edges not discovered in UAT? These kinds of sharp edges should *never* have made it as far as UAT. All of these should have been caught in the first prototype and never made it beyond that point. The fact that the
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by pwg 5mo ago
> > My recollection is that most CP/M programs were configured via patching. > Huh. That is interesting, it was before my time, and I never heard of this :D Yep, it was a thing, and for /some/ programs that were orig
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by pwg 5mo ago
Removing "huge" from the title to make it fit destroyed the meaning of the title.
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by pwg 5mo ago
And entire article to say: "gold is fungible".
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by pwg 5mo ago
> Yeah saving statements is important but banks make it so hard to automate. 2FA for login, and statements have to be navigated to, sometimes time range set. Which is why all of my accounts mail a physical statement each month. Yes, jus
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by pwg 5mo ago
Terrible choice in name, since LILO has been in use as a Linux bootloader for a very long time (since June 29, 1992 per Wikipedia below): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LILO_(bootloader)
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by pwg 5mo ago
Yes. And if you turn on "I am an advanced user" mode, you can selectively enable JS just for sites that need it that you want to allow to run arbitrary code on your machine, while still initially blocking everything from every ne
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by pwg 5mo ago
> Microsoft’s core product, the BASIC interpreter, ran on almost all popular personal computers at the time1, including ... Atari machines The blog author is incorrect here. Atari BASIC was not from Microsoft. I think the history was t
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by pwg 5mo ago
Same experience here. The one "monitor" employee is busy nearly full time helping out with some issue some customer is having, such that they simply can't be monitoring that everyone's items are ringing up as the actual
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by pwg 5mo ago
Using UblockOrigin, in default deny all javascript mode, the article is fully readable with zero adverts and zero popups. I had no idea the article even contained any of those until I read your comment.
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by pwg 5mo ago
> Having lived through this era, living in the UK, Byte always seemed more commercially orientated than hobbyist, but I would buy and read it all the same. The hobbyist arena tended to fall more towards magazines like Popular Electronics
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by pwg 5mo ago
> and found that most of them block the use of curl Try again, but have curl provide a user agent string from one of the real browsers. You'll likely find that the request goes through.
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by pwg 5mo ago
That fact does not change the point of the individual to which you replied. Regardless of whether the clauses in the EULA are 100% legal, some mixture or 100% illegal, the entire EULA is a "one sided rule-book dictated completely by o
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by pwg 5mo ago
> is this one of these things where Meta doesn't want the responsibility for this Very likely, given the legal liability they are already facing from the "addictive" court cases that are turning against them. Moving th
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by pwg 5mo ago
> Whats the normal stockpile? For jet fuel? The article does not say, but if they are correct in predicting shortages in six weeks, then the stockpile (if any) is not terribly large. > Isn't the entire US national strategic oil
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by pwg 5mo ago
I use ConnectBot ( https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.connectbot/ ). It will require you setup ssh access, and as I have no Mac I can't offer any suggestions on how to do that with a Mac.
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by pwg 5mo ago
"Don't be evil" was dropped after the DoubleClick acquisition completed their internal takeover of the old "Don't be evil" Google (Google purportedly purchased DoubleClick, in reality they 'did' purch
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by pwg 5mo ago
That "component" was the shadow mask: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_mask .
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by pwg 5mo ago
The problem is that when the lobbyists are pitching these builds to the local town councils, the "create X jobs" part of the marketing is very carefully worded to heavily imply "X long term jobs will be created" while al
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by pwg 5mo ago
> plus they get to point the finger at someone else for age issues. This is the real benefit to Meta/FB/etc. that many seem to overlook. Meta/FB/etc. are already staring down a lot of court cases related to "add
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by pwg 5mo ago
> Zuckerberg is just the fall guy This is likely because of Zuck's testimony in the very recent court case where he testified exactly that the "best place" to do "age verification" was in the operating system. Th
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by pwg 5mo ago
I think the OP meant "if the cloned item becomes popular 'in the west'".
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by pwg 6mo ago
With uBlockOrigin set to default deny all the javascript on the page there are: zero cookie banners zero surveys popping up zero ads to be closed Just the text of the page with no other distractions in the way.
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by pwg 6mo ago
A small number of jobs for tradesmen (electricians, plumbers, etc.). A small number of jobs for security guards. Maybe a tiny number (one to three?) for individuals tasked with actual hardware swapping within the data center itself. And all

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