schmuckonwheels

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by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
I remember the days when movies shown on aircraft were edited for both content and dialogue. These days, with so much content expected to be available at your fingertips, both in your seat and people bringing iPads on board loaded with R-ra
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by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
Swissair used to let you gamble, until the system started a fire, which caused a crash that killed everyone onboard. https://www.theautopian.com/swissair-used-to-let-you-gamble-...
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by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
>the cabin crew warned passengers to make sure children cannot see the adult content they're watching (can you get more American than that?) Is it considered normal in Europe to watch pornography on public transit in public so child
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by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
One sentence buried in an article that ledes with BIG SCARY ENGINE FAILURE.
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by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
Clickbait. The B777 is probably the safest, most meticulously engineered commercial wide-body aircraft ever built. They're also getting old, and airlines retire old aircraft.
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Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates(community.letsencrypt.org)
321 points by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago|322 comments
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by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
In a remarkable coincidence, the Reiners' son has just been booked on suspicion of murder: https://www.nbclosangeles.com/investigations/director-rob-re... Maybe the cops were reading People in between scarfing dow
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by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
Because it's factually incorrect. Ars Technica, a clickbait aggregator whom should have been banned from this site long ago, is hardly a reliable source.
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by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
Is there a new technological space race between Microsoft and Apple, to see who can engineer more dark patterns into their software, forcing unwanted updates onto its users? These techniques used to be exclusive to spyware distributors.
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by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
I don't think we can really ascertain intent, Apple has a long history of "the feature update IS the security update". This partly relies on the "just update bro" attitude of sufficient fanbois to achieve upgrade mo
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by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
> And the really obnoxious part is that they force you to receive upgrade prompts every single day and you can't disable it Enable iOS 18 Developer Beta and the nag screens go away.
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by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
Pro tip for anyone wanting to avoid liquid [gl]ass and install iOS 18.7.3: Apple is actively hiding 18.7.3 on most iPhones, despite the update showing on iPads. Perhaps a mistake, perhaps an attempt to force 26 onto users. Simply select &qu
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by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
That's nice but Liquid (gl)ass still sucks.
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Ask HN: What is your go-to breakfast?
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by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
You do realize self-signed certs are useless, could have been tampered with, and could have just as easily been created by a malicious actor? There's a reason most default self signed certs are called "snake oil".
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by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
I prefer a nice cappuccino, but sometimes all that's available is plain black coffee from the shared pot in the canteen (which someone could have tampered with). But we drink it anyway (at risk) because it's free.
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by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
If you are too afraid to click a cleartext HTTP link then don't; it's not for you. Just spare the rest of us the melodrama. While you are at it, better not ever update Debian or any number of other OSes because their updates are s
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by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
Objectively better than serving 12MB of JavaScript slop, trackers, and "analytics" over HTTPS so you can share a recipe for flan. Greg K-H has more credibility than 99% of posters here. He's literally the #2 guy in Linuxworld
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POTUS says he will sign 'One Rule' executive order to federalize AI regulation(foxbusiness.com)
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Paramount launches hostile takeover of WB, says offer's superior to Netflix deal(foxbusiness.com)
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Russia blocks Snapchat, RIA reports(reuters.com)
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Russia blocks Roblox and FaceTime amid growing rebuke of foreign tech platforms(cbc.ca)
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POTUS wants Asia's 'cute' kei cars to be made and sold in US(bloomberg.com)
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President DJT Said He Just Legalized Cheaper, Smaller 'Cute' Kei Cars in America(theautopian.com)
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President DJT Appears to Approve Kei Cars for the USA(roadandtrack.com)
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by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
Unironically giving the people what they want. EVs are still well within the realm of enthusiasts and rich people. The infrastructure isn't there yet, and most blue collar families cannot afford an EV, nor the home electrical modificat
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by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
Imagine the collective brainpower that could be used to help solve the world's ills, and instead decided, no, what we need is a camera pointed at your asshole which we feed into an AI-powered SaaS we can then sell to you for a subscrip
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by schmuckonwheels 11mo ago
If this was Apple everybody would be praising their ability to cut ties with old cruft.
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by schmuckonwheels 11mo ago
> The only things that continue to amaze me are the number of (mostly "enterprise") software products that simply won't get with the times Yeah, no one's rewriting a bunch of software to support automating a specific,
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by schmuckonwheels 11mo ago
> And that's one thing about EVs here in general - they are coming with no spare tire but a flat tire repair kit That seems to be the standard for all new cars, both ICE and EV; sometimes a spare is available as a paid option. Which

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