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These kind of stories always worry me a bit because I live near Boston, which has the worst ratio of "techbros who would buy a Tesla and full-auto it so they can do more techbro poo poo in their cars" to "Roads so inscrutable Dread Cthulu himself gets confused by their geometry", so it's probably just a matter of time before a Model S runs me over outside a Dunkies or some other horrible ironic New England death.
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VideoGameVet posted:It’s just in Boston Driver Mode. I mean, even Boston drivers avoid direct attempts at other's lives.
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Feb 1, 2022 23:30
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Hobnob posted:They do? Sure didn't seem that way. I mean granted, my only experience driving in Boston is as a passenger, but I've yet to see any taxies or uber drivers murder a man with their cars. Yet.
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Feb 1, 2022 23:45
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Crain posted:I just pay a guy in Glasgow to screen shot various websites I sent to him via Western Union, print them out, and ship them to me via air mail so I can read them a few days later. Then to dispose of the pages I no longer need I toss them in three different Wendy's dumpsters. rms alt detected.
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Feb 15, 2022 20:18
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Xand_Man posted:Like a memento mori for corporations Memento decocturos.
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Feb 20, 2022 03:12
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NecroBob posted:Gotta agree with you there, and add this to the mix: I think parents should parent their children, instead of offloading that work onto a bunch of faceless moderators and algorithms. Counterpoint: They didn't become a parent to deal with some loving nerd kid and their "wants" and "needs" and "proper emotional development".
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Feb 25, 2022 05:49
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Trollologist posted:Why not front end browsers with "parent password protection" on mobile and desktop. The only effort involved in telling you that this is a dumb idea is pointing out that this is already a thing, and already trivial to avoid.
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Feb 26, 2022 05:18
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Arivia posted:okay but what if parents set the password in the UEFI bios and it's approved by the Intel SGX or AMD/Arm equivalent. then you'd have 12 year olds at least having to learn how to rowhammer to get themselves porn!!! UEFI is explicitly not a BIOS.
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Feb 26, 2022 05:26
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The Toyota Matrix crossover's kinda nice looking in a mini-minivan kinda way.
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Mar 4, 2022 18:31
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https://twitter.com/mikeinspace/status/1503754795848450061 The future of currency, people.
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Mar 16, 2022 23:26
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Ulta posted:If it’s true, that’s a classic case of only testing “sunny day” scenarios and/or rely on line coverage for your unit test. Code bugs are like real bugs, if you see one, there’s many more hiding. "It passes the unit tests" may be the last words the human race ever gets to say.
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Mar 17, 2022 14:30
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quarantinethepast posted:Why sit in a boring old movie theater when you can watch 360 videos in a VR headset. If I wanted to watch Rick and Morty with a bunch of obnoxious nerds I'd just bring my plex server to every convention.
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Mar 17, 2022 22:52
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TACD posted:The fact that advertising is a viable way to fund so much creative content when the vast majority of ads are at worst being viewed by bots or blocked outright, and at best being ignored by uninterested humans should really be a clue that there’s a huge amount of money sloshing about that could just be directly gifted to creators without all the extra unproductive steps of creating, targeting, and displaying ads. We've already seen a pretty big bottom falling out of the ad industry in the early 2000s when tracking tech got good enough to tell us that pretty much nobody cared about these ads and getting a pile of money for "reach up to a couple hundred thousand people" when in reality like five people even cared was silly.
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Apr 7, 2022 16:08
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What did that count as "Advertising", though? I don't doubt the study, but I've also heard studies that say things like "People's decision to buy a car is overwhelmingly influanced toward the one they last saw an advertisement for", and also there's things like those stealth articles in magazines, paying streamers to play games, or even just good old fashioned shelf arranging (that's why Frito-Lay and Coke will often handle that kind of stuff for a supermarket and sometimes even smaller stores).
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Apr 7, 2022 17:40
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Am I just brain poisoned? I really don't see how this is a dark pattern.
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Apr 23, 2022 00:41
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Jose Valasquez posted:Apparently you are The options are clearly labeled and the button to save these changes is clearly labeled. IDK I could just be thinking too much; UX isn't my specialty after all.
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Apr 23, 2022 00:48
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TACD posted:Did you notice the 'OFF' toggles are highlighted red and the 'ON' toggles are in grey? Like it's not the absolute worst thing I've seen but it's very deliberately devious. "Red" being "Off" isn't really a dark pattern IMO, but I acquiesce.
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Apr 23, 2022 01:02
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Alterian posted:A Tesla careened off an overpass and the news' hot take is we need more cops, not holy poo poo Tesla murdered that guy: https://www.wral.com/man-dead-after-car-crashes-falls-to-i-40-in-durham/20258502/ Looks like they set the manslaughter threshold too high.
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May 1, 2022 20:11
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Ghost Leviathan posted:They sold off Hitman ages back. This might be apocryphal, but at one point Nintendo wanted to bring to the west one of the DQ remakes (I think 7 for the 3DS? Might be 8) and The House Yoshi P. Keeps The Lights On In threatened to cancel a pile of games including the then-hotly-desired Bravely Default if Nintendo didn't shut their loving mouths right now. The way Square's treated DQ in the west is nothing short of malfeasance, especially considering that when the games do get a decent western release, they *gasp* do loving gangbusters. (The DQ7 remake did eventually come out in the west much later, toward the end of the 3DSes life)
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May 3, 2022 03:23
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That's one of those takes that, like the "AI will take over all the programming jobs and put all the programmers out of work" take I saw on Tumblr once, is nearly the definition of facile.CommieGIR posted:Yup, this is a significant part. The reality is we keep demanding experience, senior talent without realizing they are all happily employed. Gonna have to train them if you want them. Sorry, training doesn't make the number go up and so we can't afford it.
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Jun 1, 2022 13:47
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cat botherer posted:At least you can get Linux working on on the older x86, kind of, with a tremendous amount of effort. Much like an old chromebook that I bought because I'm an idiot. Just gotta do a whole series of key strokes and interpretive dance to bypass the bootloader. Is there a particular version of Linux that's good for Chromebooks? Or is the answer as usual "Just slap Ubuntu on it and call it a day"?
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:gentoo If I wanted to ruin a weekend, I'd just reopen my FFXIV sub.
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Jun 7, 2022 15:33
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Considering how many breaches and bullshit happen because of reasons that basically boil down to "refused to protect self from bad actors", I can't really criticize them for this.
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Jun 14, 2022 16:52
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CommieGIR posted:The problem being they are not improving anything, are almost always doing it worse, and are open about the fact that its a scam. so just like javascript.
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CommieGIR posted:....you have a point, but wouldn't PHP be more apt? PHP was a crime, but it never tried to be everything from a console scripting language to a web app framework to a thing to deliver finished applications to a server-side infrastructure the way JS nerds are trying to push JS. IDK maybe I just hang out with bad nerds.
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CommieGIR posted:.....so a train. They want a train. https://twitter.com/boring_as_heck/status/872144967350632448
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Mercury_Storm posted:Just having your last name changed at your own job can be a disaster. Any idea on how many systems will suddenly break or not allow you to log in because your email address changed and it wont sync over from active directory properly? At least half of them, and you'll be dealing with broken poo poo or finding new broken poo poo for months, at least. It took our company being acquired for my boss to finally get her email address changed.
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Jun 26, 2022 15:39
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Neo Rasa posted:Yeah, there's another game called Fishdom that's just bejeweled but the ads all make it look like you're playing E.V.O. for the SNES or something. There's another one like that for what's advertised as a creepy-rear end Pokemon game that I'd absolutely play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbtdSxteACo
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PT6A posted:Tag yourself, I'm the "Vanilla Latte NO Vanilla" Tech definitely has a bit of an obsession with novelty that I think drives this. It's not just "How do we justify ourselves", but I think some have a genuine belief that their lovely little Electron app is better than the time-proven COBOL code of banks solely because the electron app is newer.
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I never get fashy reccs, but it goes through weird cycles. used to be all game grumps best ofs, then Reddit TTS narration poo poo, now it's all Impractical Jokers poo poo. Really telling on myself there, ain't I?
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Thanks Ants posted:Block all calls coming via international peering that are presenting a CLI of the country they are calling into. If you're a global carrier and you want to drop calls onto the German PSTN from a German number then fine, set up an office in that country, comply with the regulations for operating as a carrier, and enforce those rules on the people you provide service to. There should be no expectation that a company based in e.g. San Francisco should be able to pretend they are calling from Berlin without having any legal presence locally. As someone who works for a voip provider, this breaks far more than it solves. It's roughly the same as saying "We should monitor for illegal activity at all the routers before letting traffic into the United States."
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Mister Facetious posted:Anyone happen to have an article/Twitter post where tech bros accidentally reinvented the public library? https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-Netflix-renting-equivalent-for-books
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Mister Facetious posted:Isn't this the same trick they pulled last time? Selling a supposed secure phone (that was completely open to the government) to right wingers or something? I think it was like US phone or something? Also, this is the ugliest loving android phone I've ever seen, and i own a Galaxy 21.
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sebmojo posted:I finally cracked and paid for YouTube and oh god it is so good. The sound quality seems better than Spotify and it seems roughly as good at guessing what I like. Also: no more fuckin grammarly ads. If Youtube Premium was JUST ad-free on all my devices without any of the other features it'd still be worth every penny, especially now that it appears that you can't install Vanced anymore.
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Jul 31, 2022 21:38
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Professor Beetus posted:(streaming balkanization has undoubtedly help stop people from making the switch or driven them back to cable). I'm definitely one. it's easier to just get a Plex server, an HD Homerun, and a cable card, and figure it out from there than pay for the 20 different streaming services I'd want.
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Star Man posted:It's just unusable on some websites and it's ridiculous. Chrome on Android not having support for extensions has to have been intentional. Considering how they're trying to nerf adblockers on desktop, yes. Originally they didn't even want extensions on desktop Chrome; they only did it because people wouldn't move from Firefox without them.
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Elias_Maluco posted:Its so bad I keep thinking what is the secret plan with this thing? It's definitely a "it can't be this stupid, you must be explaining it wrong" type situation. It's absolutely just Facebook thinking that they can make "VR Chat But Without The Horny And More Ads"
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eXXon posted:On another note, that CEO that got Twitter- and eventually meatspace-famous for giving all of his employees at an otherwise obscure and irrelevant payment processing company a minimum salary of $70k/year, amongst other more performative bullshit, resigned after being outed as a serial abuser, manipulator, and probably rapist. Scratch another ethical capitalist off the list, I suppose? IIRC from a yosthread, he specifically went down to the front desk of the hotel and told the concierge that he didn't have sex because his girlfriend was tired or something, in the world's biggest "My not involved in a sexual assault t-shirt is raising questions answered by the t-shirt" move ever.
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withoutclass posted:Only if you're really into Zuckerberg. He never metadata he didn't like to use to blackmail his oponents.
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exmachina posted:YouTube, especially Shorts, is filled to the brim with content-mills churning out factually incorrect "did you knows", blatant IP theft, and worst of all, potentially dangerous home and cooking "hacks" I know that for a while people were trying to do this thing where they hooked wood up to like dangerously strong power sources to get "cool lightening patterns" or whatever burned into the wood? That was an era. Most of my shorts are filled with random comedians, magic tricks, clips from College Humor shows, and the occasional straight up spam video.
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