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I can't wait until holographic storage comes in spheres, and you have to bring it to an old Gypsy woman if you forget the encryption key.

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ASUS just retroactively removed access to the router I've had for 3 years, unless I agree to new terms and conditions. They are now and forever off the list of "companies I do business with"

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Do they accept NFTs?

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Every single Microsoft site still does this.

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"Bad" memory that lasts 45 years in interplanetary space.

#BringVoyagerHome

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I didn't know F-droid was on Android TV, but it will be on mine pretty soon.

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My bank restricts the length of my password to...16 characters, I think.

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People with 3D printers will remember how we were lied to about PLA's biodegradability.

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The original story was similar: PLA is made from corn, and is completely biodegradable.

Interested people took various parts made from PLA and put them outside for a while. Some people buried them. Some people put them in their compost pile or canisters. I think the only result was some discoloration and possibly some reduced strength.

So now it seems PLA only biodegrades under industrial conditions, requiring elevated temperatures.

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PERCUSSIVE ENTRANCED MEN

Reddit Is Letting Power Users In on Its IPO. Not Everyone’s Buying (www.wired.com)

Reddit Is Letting Power Users In on Its IPO. Not Everyone’s Buying::Reddit says it wants to reward users by letting them buy into the company’s public listing. Some say it’s too risky—others say they won’t pay a company they’ve already given hours of free labor to.

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Here's my Reddit Gold. 🪙 One share please!

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The electric grid will be ready when it needs to be ready. Power companies aren't going to just leave EVs on the table, even if they have to beg for money to upgrade.

There's a post around here somewhere about a Chinese (BYD) EV for $15,000. I didn't look at it, but that's going to be entry level with few bells/whistles. Still, that's cheaper than any US ICE vehicle I know of.

Passkeys might really kill passwords (www.theverge.com)

Passkeys: how do they work? No, like, seriously. It’s clear that the industry is increasingly betting on passkeys as a replacement for passwords, a way to use the internet that is both more secure and more user-friendly. But for all that upside, it’s not always clear how we, the normal human users, are supposed to use...

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I currently use Syncthing to keep my Keepass database updated on my phone, laptop, and home server. Any change anywhere is instantly sent directly to the other 2 devices.

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I don't know anything about Nextcloud. Syncthing is open source, and there are a couple of Android apps. I use Syncthing Fork and don't have any problems.

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lol, not the rich. If only there were some legal mechanism to freeze his accounts...

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Do I have to follow a script, or can I come out and admit that Biden sucks. Really really sucks. In a very bad way, he sucks bigtime.

But you should vote for him anyway. Yes, it sucks, he sucks, the US voting system sucks, the education system sucks...but vote Biden.

🇺🇸Vote Biden🇺🇸 He sucks, but things could always suck a lot more.

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Can you expand on this? There used to be multiple electron beams in every house in America.

SpaceX execs are accused of joking about sexual harassment and firing workers for speaking up, report says (www.businessinsider.com)

SpaceX execs are accused of joking about sexual harassment and firing workers for speaking up, report says::Seven former employees say SpaceX execs joked about sexual harassment and fired workers for raising concerns, Bloomberg reported.

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You get a horse, you get a horse, EVERYBODY GETS HORSES!

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See also: 2x4s

(how is lumber measured in Europe? Are 2x4s called 2x4s? or 50x100s?)

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What is this clickbait bullshit? Here I was expecting more arguments I could use to move people away from Chrome, but the warning is just typical Microsoft trying to promote their own garbage browser.

Any duck duck go alternative that is better in privacy and security ?

I have always liked and used Duck duck go more than google but now i am considering if i should switch because of the shit they pulled with their app and yesterday when i clicked a link it took me directly to their newsletter subsciption page not even like a popup a proper page without any way except manually backing out . So is...

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I'm on a VPN (Mullvad) and not blocked by Startpage.

YouTube’s climate deniers turn into climate doomers — A new report documents a sharp rise in arguments that clean energy and climate policies won’t work (grist.org)

YouTube’s climate deniers turn into climate doomers — A new report documents a sharp rise in arguments that clean energy and climate policies won’t work::A new report documents a shift away from climate denial and a sharp rise in arguments that clean energy and climate policies won't work.

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An argument I hadn't seen until recently was "Man-made climate change is real, it's an existential problem, and the only way to combat it is to burn as much fossil fuel as we can right now to boost the economy and increase our efforts to find a solution."

Because scientific endeavors work in real life exactly like Sid Meier's Civilization?

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So, what can I do with the code contained in an ink-cartridge chip? Can I play Doom?

Is it irony if the only virus ever written for an ink-cartridge just bricks the printer?

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Engineer here. It's like that because that's the way it's always been. To change it would mean retooling silk-screen printing on the D-pad, and changing the wiring underneath. And they probably use this D-pad everywhere, so someone like me will have to talk to someone else like me, and right now I have phone shyness (can't just be an email, have to call a meeting). I'll also have to talk to a supplier and get them to change the wiring, and Procurement won't let me just change anything, because it gives suppliers a chance to requote a job, and they'll ask for more money. And then I'll have to talk to Production, because they'll have to retrain the workers, make sure someone doesn't stop the line because this new part doesn't look exactly like the old part. Oh, and Quality of course, need to make sure the inspectors don't start rejecting the new parts (just kidding, they never look at parts). Then there's Marketing. Since this is a customer-facing part, definitely need their input. Might have to change catalogs and brochures with new pictures.

No, they just got the good brand of gummy bears in the cafeteria, I'm going to go buy a bag of those, and then fill out these forms my new boss has been asking about. New boss, new forms, same old shit.

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that's the way it's always been!

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Is there someplace to get this list of passwords? I'm not worried about my current passwords being on there, but there was one I used years ago that I still haven't found on any list. I'm curious if it's on there yet.

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OH NO, IT'S ON THERE!

...anyway...

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Nickel-63 is pretty safe as radioactive elements go. It's proposed as an energy source for pacemakers.

Standford says 0.1mm of plastic will absorb all emissions.

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Exactly. There's too much possibility of false positives in most of these technologies to be safe. There's a section where NHTSA covers how they should handle disabling a vehicle in a dangerous situation. For example, if I'm in the middle of the woods camping and drinking, should I be able to drive my car to escape a forest fire?

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Superintelligent AI Just Pried the Keyboard from my Cold, Dead Hands

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