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Platystemon posted:The hardware mute on my desk mic makes a big ol’ clack on recordings because the manufacturer Muntzed it. We were trained to press the button while the
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Mister Facetious posted:I used one of those the one year i did tech support. The mute button definitely works. Lord knows i used it to laugh at customers' ignorance often enough. f5 networks enterprise support, how may i troubleshoot your cisco switch's bullshit for you
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Apr 19, 2022 05:11
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That's a neat story
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Apr 19, 2022 05:49
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IoT is poo poo and fucks people over. Must be Tuesday.
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Apr 19, 2022 07:10
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Just lmao at anyone stupid enough to use a smart home service that dies if it can't contact a server outside the home
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Apr 19, 2022 13:27
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Once again, IoT proves the "printer and a handgun in case it makes a noise I don't recognize" movement correct.
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Apr 19, 2022 13:43
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Was their tagline seriously "We're keeping the lights on"? Because that is hilariously on the nose.
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Now just think, if it were all blockchain based this never would have happened!! (because it would have been a much more transparent scam)
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What do you guys think of this? Researchers develop plastic with the power to self-repair https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14586016 quote:Researchers said they have found a way to create “self-repairing plastics” that can be used in smartphones, cars and other products and reduce the amount of waste now fouling the planet. I think this sounds really promising but I also wonder if now we've just invented an even more stubborn and non biodegradable material. Toys, phones, computers, cars, etc. become obsolete and people WILL throw that poo poo in the trash. I suppose the idea is that this almost replaces recycling for plastic and we'd just use this stuff with its own separate sort of recycling facility. Not sure if it's safe to use for bottles and packaging food or if it can be made into bags and poo poo like that.
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BiggerBoat posted:What do you guys think of this? The article says nothing of biodegradability, so we're just making longer lasting plastic that clumps like cat litter. Seems like we should just stop using plastic in as many places as possible.
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Apr 19, 2022 15:21
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The “specialized agent” sounds like a plasticizer. I have my doubts that it is safe as mother’s milk.
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Platystemon posted:The “specialized agent” sounds like a plasticizer. That's trade secret, can't talk about it! No sir!
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Apr 19, 2022 15:30
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:The article says nothing of biodegradability, so we're just making longer lasting plastic that clumps like cat litter. Seems like we should just stop using plastic in as many places as possible. That was my initial reaction to it as well. I started trying to think deeper about it and picturing this stuff winding up being reused - or at least more than the 9% rate that regular plastics do anyway - but then I started thinking about an ever growing Katamari Damacy ball of self healing plastic that would eventually form its own county. I think it would almost require its own level of infrastructure and that seems impossible. Also, if it bonds, merges with itself and self heals at room temperature, how do stack or group items that are built from it? Like if you put your phone in the center console or a thermos in your cup holder, does that poo poo bond together overnight? And I'd imagine this would rule out packaging as well since everything on a shipping palette or a shelf display would just fuse together. Picturing the contents of a 6 year old kid's toy box as this giant stuck together Lovecraftian 75 pound mass of transformers, legos, star wars figures and hot wheels tracks.
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BiggerBoat posted:What do you guys think of this? It's a science news piece about a paper some local professor is publishing without a link to the paper. Therefore, it is automatically overhyped bullshit pulled directly from a uni PR office press release. If you actually found the paper, I guarantee it would be making much more modest claims with clear examples of research having done this years ago and problems still needed to be ironed out in development.
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Yeah, this is like looking at a 3D printer and thinking that Star Trek style replicators are right around the corner.
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Platystemon posted:The “specialized agent” sounds like a plasticizer. I have news for you about mother's milk.
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Funko Pops but even more immortal
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Splicer posted:Funko Pops but even more Cronenburgian
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Out: Hack the Planet In: JB-Weld the Planet
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Can't wait for the ocean to be covered in a sheet of plastic the size of an island instead of covered in trillions of pieces of plastic the size of an island.
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poemdexter posted:Can't wait for the ocean to be covered in a sheet of plastic the size of an island instead of covered in trillions of pieces of plastic the size of an island. I mean that sounds like it'd be easier to clean up. Just drag it in and fold it up!
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Alien Arcana posted:I mean that sounds like it'd be easier to clean up. Just drag it in and fold it up! Just gotta get it before they try to setup crypto miners on New Sealand and turn it into Swiss cheese.
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BiggerBoat posted:What do you guys think of this? Not sure lack of durability is the thing causing us to throw most plastic out so much as being addicted to buying poo poo we don’t need and the convenience of single-use plastic. We could just use existing containers over and over like they do with glass coke bottles in some developing countries, but we can’t be bothered and they’re not as shiny (or rather companies have no incentive to).
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lua posted:Not sure lack of durability is the thing causing us to throw most plastic out so much as being addicted to buying poo poo we don’t need and the convenience of single-use plastic. Local produce place has a juice bar and they sell it in the heavy milk bottles you would see 40 years ago. But they won’t take returns and they don’t wash & reuse. Citing some unknown regulation. (Jimbos, Carlsbad CA). Really F-Ing Stupid.
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those bottles arent actual 40 years old and were bought in bulk from whereever
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PhazonLink posted:those bottles arent actual 40 years old and were bought in bulk from whereever They are new, but they look just like and are as heavy as the old returnable milk bottles.
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https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-canada-netflix-inc-abd9845644a87b434e53c1c13bbb377a It's a shame that Netflix seems to be entering into it's death spiral, I always thought they had the best UI/performance but losing content and subscribers, raising prices, and password crackdowns? Yikes.
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roffles posted:https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-canada-netflix-inc-abd9845644a87b434e53c1c13bbb377a Capitalism means profits must always be increasing. If you can't make more money than you did last year, your business is a failure and everyone jumps ship.
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Tuxedo Gin posted:Capitalism means profits must always be increasing. If you can't make more money than you did last year, your business is a failure and everyone jumps ship. And in pursuit of that you start panic cancelling shows after 2 seasons, killing what little brand loyalty you had and making your customers think of you as just another service to sign up for and cancel every X months. Same thing as Fox canceling shows like crazy then wondering why their new shows had poo poo ratings.
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Netflix lost its mojo when they started cracking down on VPN content tourism
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quote:I work at a safe house for women and children who are survivors of domestic abuse. I work the night shift. A couple of months ago it was cold and snowy out and it's just 2 of us women working alone for the whole safe shelter. Well one night my coworker went to do her regular check around the shelter and took her walkie with her. I was in the office doing paperwork, tending to clients and watching the security cameras. Safety-critical equipment should not rely on an Internet connexion.
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It's incredibly odd not to have the control system be in house and then things get mirrored off-site. It does sound like they use cheaper cloud cameras instead of a purpose built system, considering the cost and upkeep that might be why. My friend volunteered at the local woman shelter and they barely made ends meet, let alone could afford upgrades like that or have people trained on it. Most shelters rely on people gifting them stuff like that or having someone that donates the time and equipment to set it up. I'm honestly not surprised if they went for a cloud system that was a total of 1k with a monthly cost (that likely was negligible to them as a non profit) compared to a several k system they had to setup and support.
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roffles posted:https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-canada-netflix-inc-abd9845644a87b434e53c1c13bbb377a It was inevitable. As long as other companies avoided streaming Netflix had a captive audience and their pick of content. Now there's a billion choices and Netflix has no edge other than being the first. I saw the writing on the wall way back when they lost the Starz content.
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Once again piracy is the best. insert that Lazy Town pro pirate song meme here.
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https://twitter.com/SamMorrisDesign/status/1517157199985975296?s=20&t=vqYpr-uV8y3xquezFLZp9Q
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Calling it a "dark pattern" is quite the euphemism. I'm pretty sure that at least where I live the consent qualifies as a contract. And deceiving people about the contents of a contract…well, we have a word for that. Basically, web devs should be in prison for this and other offenses.
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Yeah, there are a lot of cheeky attempts to try and trick people into giving consent against their will. Especially early on right after the passage of the GDPR, some cheeky fuckers only gave you a list of their 100+ advertisers and you'd have to manually click and opt out of them one at a time. However, the legal guidelines are actually quite clear on it: opting out must be as quick and easy to do as opting in, and obviously cannot be deceptive. Most of the common plugins manage it at this point, but there are still some that expect you to go through several screens to opt out. And of course there are still some US sites that outright go "Well if you don't let us dump a hundred trackers on you, we just won't let you use our site at all!"
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Antigravitas posted:Basically, web devs should be in prison for this and other offenses. leave astral alone <  >
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Perestroika posted:Yeah, there are a lot of cheeky attempts to try and trick people into giving consent against their will. Especially early on right after the passage of the GDPR, some cheeky fuckers only gave you a list of their 100+ advertisers and you'd have to manually click and opt out of them one at a time. However, the legal guidelines are actually quite clear on it: opting out must be as quick and easy to do as opting in, and obviously cannot be deceptive. Most of the common plugins manage it at this point, but there are still some that expect you to go through several screens to opt out. And of course there are still some US sites that outright go "Well if you don't let us dump a hundred trackers on you, we just won't let you use our site at all!"
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