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by spzb 4y ago
People still keep money in their Paypal account? After all these years?
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“New online store’s marketing copy beats Amazon and Walmart’s to be uncritically regurgitated as news on CNN’s website”
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I had this idea myself but never bothered to make anything of it. Thanks for saving me the effort!
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Zombie pigs : https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02112-0
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Google answers "who is the queen of England?" with the reponse "Charles III". Close, no cigar.
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St Paul's Letter to Tech Support
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"Step right up, folks! Spin the Brexit wheel of bullsh*t! Is it a bonus? Is it a disaster? Nobody knows where the wheel will stop this time!"
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The whole bill is a clusterF**. Some potentially useful bits of regulation of Big Tech thrown together with some dangerously authoritarian attempts at criminalising encryption. Bits of the bill keep getting taken out, put back in and then t
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by spzb 4y ago
I sold a second hand Pi Zero W (v1.3) with a broken camera connector for over $40 on eBay recently. Broken (as in LEDs come on solid, no HDMI output, or completely dead) Pi 3s are going for similar prices in the $30-60 range. It's all
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by spzb 4y ago
More frighteningly we might manage to make it three premierships with only two PMs if Boris Johnson's saviour dream comes true.
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ZX81 was the first computer I ever used. I learnt to code on it. It led me down the path that made me gainfully employed all my adult life. It might have been built to a price point but that price point meant it could be afforded by my fami
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Again.
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Linode London Connectivity Issue(status.linode.com)
9 points by spzb 4y ago|1 comments
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I received several of these. Forwarded them to PayPal phishing email address. Never got a response beyond an automated acknowledgment.
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Yes. The malice is coming from the ones who hide behind the incompetents.
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Given the caravan of clowns we currently have in government who’d rather debate the meaning of nouns than deal with a cost of living crisis unprecedented since the 1970s, this is not at all surprising.
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Linode postmortem for August 1-2 Connectivity Issues London and Frankfurt
8 points by spzb 4y ago|0 comments
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Maybe it’s the time the cleaner plugs in the vacuum.
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To be clear, exif data was still present when uploaded (including the orientation data) but the GPS location had been removed. I think problems with photos being incorrectly orientated is more to do with the website not correctly interpreti
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It appears not. Safari appears to remove the GPS data when you upload. I tested it myself by uploading a photo to https://exif.tools/ and no GPS location was reported. The same image copied to my laptop and then checked loc
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Here's some expert responses to this paper https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-a-revi...
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It's hardly science when you try to wave away questions about stress by pointing to studies about IQ.
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And that's exactly the attitude I'm talking about
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> females are worse at handling acute stress Every time this kind of issue comes up on HN there's someone who comes along to mansplain why women are inherently less able to do tech jobs. It's not a good look for our profession
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Pretty superficial article soliciting email sign ups to get the full whitepaper
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My gas stove, which is over ten years old, cuts the gas supply if it runs for more than a couple of seconds unlit.
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She's usually done six unspeakable things before breakfast
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Deporting people to foreign regimes is literally government policy https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61808120
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This is the UK government desperately trying to find something they can sell as a Brexit benefit. So far we've had blue passports (which we could have had in the EU), rapid Covid vaccine approval (which we could have done in the EU), r
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From the downloads page [0], I presume he means he's distributed the applications as unsigned applications [1]. So "free developer certificates" in the same sense that self-signed SSL certificates are free. [0] https:/&

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