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Mister Facetious posted:Out of curiosity, how well has something Awful dealt with the problem of keeping minors out of the forums? Mods knew all the kids on the forums, yes.
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Neito posted: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. 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!!!
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Feb 26, 2022 05:24
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Neito posted:UEFI is explicity not a BIOS. I'm aware, I'm using the layman case of "the menus you log into to configure settings before your OS", which everyone still calls the BIOS menu.
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Feb 26, 2022 05:27
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GrandpaPants posted:But like, why? What problem does this solve? they can't show you ads on the regular glass transparent doors
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Mar 12, 2022 20:29
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cmerepaul posted:Cant wait for some old geocities page I made 20 years ago that still happens to be up somehow to get noticed by one of those nuisance ADA lawsuit guys and get I served with a lawsuit. Unless you are a public institution or a business open to the public it does not apply to you.
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Apr 7, 2022 06:44
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TACD posted:the UK keeps threatening to implement a serious for-realsies age gating requirement on any site hosting porn (including eg Reddit and Twitter), involving handing over your credit card details to a Secure and Trusted™ third-party site, but it hasn’t happened yet A funny thing that is not immediately obvious about porn sites is that they are incredibly, extremely scrupulous and above board about their payment/credit card processing and security. By the nature of the industry they deal with incredible amounts of fraud, chargebacks ("Oh honey no, someone must have hacked our card! I would never have paid for a Playboy subscription!"), et cetera so they're always trying to do the absolute best they can to stay on good terms with the payment companies, reduce consumer complaints, and so on. They know that pulling the kind of poo poo many regular companies do (such as Apple, who hand out free trials only as long as you have a listed credit card for them to bill at the end for a subscription) would pretty much wreck their income instantly.
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Apr 24, 2022 12:40
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Ghost Leviathan posted:That's an absolute dead end, and Apple knows it from experience. You say that but apparently Google was working overtime on a way to spoof blue (iPhone) messages in iMessage from Android devices recently. Apple has a fair amount of cache with iMessage being only for Apple products.
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Apr 26, 2022 18:38
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The Lone Badger posted:Isn't the entire point of chip-and-pin that you can't read the private key off it? Reader sends a code, chip converts it into a different code and sends it back, without ever revealing the other half of the keypair. I bet that’s how it works in non-us countries with better card systems, yes.
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May 14, 2022 04:12
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BiggerBoat posted:Ah, poo poo, your car is 4 years old? Sorry, man, but we can't install the new turn signal and braking software on this ancient piece of poo poo cause it won't run on that OS. My mom's Apple laptop is finally reaching end of updates this year in October. Guess how old it is. ten years. gently caress off with this specious bullshit, Apple definitely has some issues but length of support is not one of them
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May 20, 2022 13:41
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:Gotta defend mommies computer brand. My 7600k is blacklisted from running Windows 11 and Microsoft won’t say why despite it meeting their CPU requirements in every way. All electronics companies do this poo poo to one degree or another. I’ll get less than 10 years of support for Windows on my desktop because of this, so yeah, we can all make comparisons to make whomever sound better or worse.
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May 20, 2022 16:56
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:Windows 10 will still support that with no issue. or just roll 11 unsupported. it's not like they completely switched CPU architecture twice in the last 15 years. microsoft is only supporting windows 10 until 2025. so yeah, same lifetime for this PC as with mom's macbook!
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May 20, 2022 17:20
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I got to do my high school World Religions presentation on Discordianism. I found some ritual where I handed out donut and we did a chant about how good they are. The teacher was like that’s fun and no one is ever doing that as their topic again.
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Jun 15, 2022 18:50
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Where does everyone sit during takeoff and landing? What do you do if there’s turbulence?
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Jun 27, 2022 17:04
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VideoGameVet posted:Peet's Coffee uses an old-school (I'd say early 1980's) screen for tracking the coffee orders: EPIC BARISTA
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Jun 30, 2022 20:37
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Absurd Alhazred posted:All I've been getting is smooth 70s/80s Japanese Jazz. Same. Not really my thing but Flying Beagle is a cute album idea at least.
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Jul 12, 2022 23:28
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Uh... yeah, that's one I got recently... YouTube does this thing where if it thinks something should be shown in a particular kind of video it shows it to everyone it thinks will like it. Not spying on you, just an educated guess my weird recommendation would be the same as yours.
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Jul 12, 2022 23:40
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Wasn’t STIR/SHAKEN supposed to fix all this?
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Jul 13, 2022 16:36
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PT6A posted:I'm sure India (and Canada, in retrospect) wishes Canada had agreed to extradite Talwinder Singh Parmar, too, but international relations are poo poo like that. Okay time to convince Linus Sebastian to get really mad about spam calls
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Jul 14, 2022 06:58
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Thanks Ants posted:I fully support printer companies making their products so hostile to their customers that people give up on printing amazon needs to sell printer buyers the loaded gun as an add-on at checkout
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Jul 22, 2022 12:11
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I’m curious, could these kinds of changes in printing files over time result in content accidentally getting printed on a different page like there was a rogue column/page break in between?
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Jul 23, 2022 01:23
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The recent instagram changes are so bad Kylie Jenner complained and they had to roll them back.
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Jul 31, 2022 15:42
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blunt posted:Basically nobody's wrong for enjoying music! Coincidentally YouTube music has an excellent collection of all my favorite skinhead punk and national socialist black metal albums.
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Aug 1, 2022 11:04
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Volmarias posted:"well we filtered out all the things that people said with Tay, that's good enough right? Tay was better because she was at least funny when she was being lovely and terribly racist. This is just capitalism.txt with a chatbot frontend.
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Aug 8, 2022 18:41
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Volmarias posted:Worth noting, one of the arguments that was cited in overturning roe v Wade was that it was affecting the supply of white babies, which is just Alberta just gave an award to a woman arguing the same thing. loving chuds.
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Aug 14, 2022 07:04
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Stexils posted:making counterstrike in VR is one of the safer bets if you can pull it off. the vr experience is different enough to be distinct but familiar enough to be a source of comparison. if i had a headset i would want to give it a try. vr: the only display technology where cs players can't complain about the default frame rate
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Aug 20, 2022 05:14
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I mean it happens in every market where suits try to cut the creative process out of the equation entirely to flood it with low-effort dross and everyone gets bored of it and moves onto something that actually sparks their interest quickly. See reality TV booms and busts. That poo poo has no legacy and no tail. No one's going back to it. Have you seen the new series on Netflix these days? Reality TV has no longevity but it still has huge audiences and is remarkably cheap.
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Aug 25, 2022 08:41
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PhazonLink posted:Ah yes I too remember NG Resonance from that Deues Ex game everyone memory holes. project snowblind?
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hello i would like to buy an art, i have a budget of $5
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Chronojam posted:He was a total rear end in a top hat, and nobody knows why. He’s on a trip
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Sep 2, 2022 20:43
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Baronash posted:Piss off with this. Nobody is shilling on a dead comedy forum, because nothing that gets posted on this site actually matters or moves the needle a single nanometer. It’s just fun to disagree sometimes. Says you, but I think my posting is great and up to the standards expected of me by this thread's sponsor, NordVPN.
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Sep 25, 2022 08:04
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Main Paineframe posted:There's some truth to iamgoofball's complaints that kids need to learn how to do this stuff. No one needs to know how to use a printer these days, but so much of modern life is online that teaching kids to be digital hermits is doing them a great disservice. please teach people how to use printers. like maybe not all the noneuclidean brain shattering geometries of them but yes, printing is still sometimes necessary please teach the children how to press button get inky
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Sep 28, 2022 18:41
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Karia posted:I'm pretty sure he'll keep the "white" 25% of the company, if you know what I mean. Fixed that for you.
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Oct 26, 2022 05:56
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dr_rat posted:I mean sure. Okay. But it better earn that extra + google+ was really good for nerd communities like tabletop RPGs and poo poo, it's a shame it's gone
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Oct 28, 2022 15:47
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Cicero posted:I don't understand how Pantone can assert IP control over colors this way. They can’t. They can assert control over their colour code database in Adobe products though: https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1585913960741609472?s=61&t=SK6XaJSbY4FzC9ncMgEIrQ (thread)
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Oct 28, 2022 16:52
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Absurd Alhazred posted:What's the social media equivalent of making a car that burns you to death or gleefully runs into pedestrians? the algorithm feeding everyone reactionary bullshit and leading to the end of democracy.
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Oct 30, 2022 20:19
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Thing is that actually getting sustainable revenue out of a social media site is very tricky in the first place. When you're literally an emerald mine failson whose big break was selling luxury gimmick cars... wasn't his first big break paypal, and tesla is more recent?
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Nov 7, 2022 11:37
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:man he wanted it to be called x.com and wanted it running x.org!! he should have called it ufo defense
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Nov 8, 2022 03:33
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Magic Hate Ball posted:It's funny to me that their motivation with Alexa was to essentially make it so people can effortlessly buy things through it. Presumably they intended to do this by enabling people to make mindless purchases on a whim like "Alexa, buy me a new toaster", or something? But buying stuff on Amazon is already such a disaster thanks to the complete lack of product moderation, I don't think I'd trust Alexa to buy me a toaster that wasn't actually just one of those scams where they send you a printed jpeg of a toaster. "Alexa, buy me a P-p-p-p-p-powerbook."
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Nov 21, 2022 17:49
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Jaxyon posted:Drones crashing down on top of you from sky for no reason? One of the more haunting parts of Omar El-Akkad’s American War was post-apocalypse America being haunted by uncontrolled autonomous killer drones (originally set up for US border security I think) that would randomly ping what the drone thought was a hostile and come down and wipe out whole groups of people with nothing that could be done to stop them.
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Jaxyon posted:Yeah that's been what we've been doing to large groups of people in other countries for over a decade. It is haunting and horrifying. Yes, sorry, if it wasn’t obvious I was agreeing with you. El-Akkad is a Canadian journalist and a big theme of the book is “what if what the US did elsewhere across the world was visited upon it instead.” Highly recommended.
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