Tech Nightmares: Ghostline the flux

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	Her job is guaranteed; what are you even talking about?

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

Kyte posted:

Ah ok so it's just a bad fit for the use case. Cool, for a minute I was worried there was something terrible about Pis I'd missed.

They aren't as cheap as they used to be, and of COURSE theres a coin to mine with them and ESPs. I can honestly say I have wanted a Pi Zero for a few years and not been organically able to get one for the $10 or whatever they were. IE the issue of MagPi that had one free on the cover.

Pi Picos are the new hot trend though for me and exactly what I require.

# ¿ Oct 4, 2022 11:30

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 01:29

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

Neito posted:

The Pico's really more like an arduino than a full-on SBC, right?

Yeah. I was kinda being specific for my usage sorry.

# ¿ Oct 5, 2022 03:11

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PhazonLink posted:

oh yeah, here's the video for reference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppM_7-uTH14 some other notes I remember is how kid logins for roblox are getting some of the harder captchas.

And the parents rejoice, now for minecraft

# ¿ Oct 6, 2022 11:08

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Kwyndig posted:

Didn't they eventually put in a nonverbal cue for picture taking, but had it make a sound every time a picture was taken?

Someone I know plays a lot of Pokemon Go and complained to me the other day that no matter what he does, his phone will always make a shutter sound when he takes a pic of pokemon. Trying to explain that it's to alert people around him that someone could be taking photos of their kids really took too long to get into his head.

# ¿ Oct 13, 2022 02:28

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Arivia posted:

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)

A link to the actual article for people who aren't insane for wanting to read twit thread bullshit.

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/28/fade-to-black/#trust-the-process

# ¿ Oct 29, 2022 06:33

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Kwyndig posted:

Oh I doubt the Tesla engineers will have firing powers, Musk is planning on firing half the staff at what is essentially random.

He watched that Marvel movie didn't he?

# ¿ Nov 5, 2022 06:52

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Payndz posted:

Probably more than Twitter will.

It's somewhat hilarious that the guy who you just know thinks of himself as the world's smartest man has put up over $20 billion of his own money, plus as much again of various powerful institutions who really like getting their investments back plus interest, into a company that he's promptly changing in a way guaranteed to piss off the very people who use it. If the whole fiasco torpedoed Tesla's massively overvalued shares, that would be the icing on the cake. But hey, at least in the meantime the 8-buck bigots will have their voices amplified, which seems to be his primary motivation for the whole thing. (That and spite.)

# ¿ Nov 7, 2022 09:37

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

I feel kinda smug that I found some crypto account I forgot about with a few hundred bucks in it and cashed it out immediately before the poo poo going down without knowing. LOL

# ¿ Nov 11, 2022 08:32

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

Nissin Cup Nudist posted:

Does this FTX thing means I can stop seeing crypto ads/shills everwhere

No, unfortunately even that annoying seemingly everywhere crypto.com made a statement that they aren't worried. Even though they had $10mil or something lost.

# ¿ Nov 11, 2022 09:39

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Agents are GO! posted:

Twitter and crypto are both collapsing and we've got fucken transportation chat for how many goddamn pages?

Because Public Transit is real.

# ¿ Nov 17, 2022 11:43

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Doggles posted:

https://twitter.com/9NewsPerth/status/1594633908733321217

That's what you get for pulling Xmas poo poo in November. Also wow that company owner and mayor look skeevey as gently caress. I guess Taxpayers lose again!

# ¿ Nov 22, 2022 13:51

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Blue Footed Booby posted:

I prefer to unleash the drilldo.

Don't leave us hanging...

# ¿ Dec 14, 2022 14:04

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eXXon posted:

The Android version is slow and janky and Opera is way better (especially the tab Ui).

The sponsored locations on Google maps seem to be gradually getting more and more obtrusive.

Holy poo poo I haven't thought about Opera browser since I had a Sony Ericsson P910i smartphone.

# ¿ Dec 24, 2022 08:00

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TACD posted:

haha, did Microsoft even figure out how to add tabs to the file browser yet?

Oh how I want this

# ¿ Dec 25, 2022 16:06

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

I ran a background check on a prospective new employee, and ever since then I get targeted spam addressed to that persons name. Fun!

# ¿ Dec 31, 2022 05:13

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goatsestretchgoals posted:

Hmm yes let me gamble my career on a promise of $1m from a company called *checks notes* DoNotPay.

Don't laugh, reports of Alex Jones' lawyers formulating a plan are emerging. (not really but LOL they are pretty fucken dumb)

# ¿ Jan 10, 2023 11:25

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BiggerBoat posted:

And it's still maddening because when I go to the online store it says right there that I already have the loving game installed (?)

Why do I need the disc? Why do I need to be online? It's already ON my hard drive and I've ALREADY jumped through all the installation hoops and registered the game. Just let me play the games I bought and installed. Is that a lot to ask?

Is it something where they don't want me password sharing with my friends? Like, if I go to their house and they log in their console with my account info, then they can play Elden RIng, NBA 2k or Hitman after I leave if I install it on their console? Because it seems to me there are far simpler ways to deal with that if that's what they're worried about.

In my line of work, I go through this all the time with Adobe because it thinks I'm offline or not logged in when I am. Plus, Adobe already solved this problem 20 years ago by tracking your serial # once you installed the software you bought.

How is this managing to actually get worse instead of better? Besides greed and data tracking I mean.

...

So, yeah, it's an issue with MS servers or whatever. I think.

To troubleshoot it, I put a Blu Ray in and, if it were the disc drive, the movie wouldn't play, right?

I stand with you on this my dude! Recently I wanted to transfer a save from my PS4 to PS5 and it refused to save them to the USB stick that it KNOWS is connected unless I was signed into PSN with the latest firmware.

# ¿ Jan 23, 2023 03:11

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Mister Facetious posted:

There's no automatic solution, but in the "recommended for you" column when watching a YouTube video, you can tap the three dot menu on every lovely channel you never want to see again and select "do not recommend channel".

You'll never see them again.

Now tell me how to get rid of shorts

# ¿ Feb 5, 2023 11:36

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FlapYoJacks posted:

TLDR: Never care about your job because corporations certainly don�t care about you.

For fun I closed my eyes and listened to the hypnotist scene in Office Space 11 years ago and I literally put in 1% now.

# ¿ Feb 11, 2023 10:11

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His Divine Shadow posted:

I also tack on "forums", still a lot of forums out there and outside tech related stuff they tend to have a lot of good info IMO.

More than once I found the info I needed from some old forum thread where some dude I never knew had a similar problem.

One thing I hate is a lot of hobbyist hardware/software projects sometimes live almost exclusively on niche discord servers. Especially game homebrew stuffs.

# ¿ Feb 13, 2023 10:24

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

I cannot wait for AI to have actual emotions. That will surely not cause problems.

# ¿ Feb 15, 2023 10:49

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Blue Footed Booby posted:

They get caught by a significant other or patent who they knew would object, panic and claim it was ID theft. Then they're committed and have to follow through.

Also a lot of pay stuff these days is live webcam stuff with the added parasocial element so there's no way to pirate it.

His eyes are telling the whole story.

My mums husband called me frantically one day telling me he got CC scammed from some clickbaity thumbnail porn. He later confided in me that it was easier to deal with that combo of shame than the reality: He was trying to find a cheaper stream for the world cup soccer grand final. Made worse because they literally live in a building with a sports bar an elevator away that was hosting the damned thing.

# ¿ Feb 18, 2023 06:39

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

withoutclass posted:

The internet already feels like 90% of it is made up of garbage anyway, I'm not sure AI written spam blogs are going to harm it that much.

I had a little chuckle thinking that the writers of places like Ars Technica might be really worried about even the shittiest AI writing better articles than the crap they spew out.

# ¿ Feb 22, 2023 13:55

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

Samsung sent me a phone to push a on screen prompt on the rare event I actually log into their backend system as 2FA. It literally sits in a plastic baggie stapled to my pinboard. We are in teh process of ditching Samsung as a client, so that phone is going to disappear into my pocket.

# ¿ Feb 28, 2023 03:06

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

In short, eat the rich.

# ¿ Mar 3, 2023 08:31

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Volmarias posted:

Whoopsie doodle, someone stole the signing keys used to "identify" a device! Well shucks!

This ignores things like de-lidding the DRM chip, the person at the fab making the thing quietly making duplicates, and so on. At best, you can say that a specific ID was available to at least that specific person, rather than saying that they themselves made it.

I still use an RSA SecurID as a keychain for the pure memory of horror when I accidentally dropped something heavy on it and broke the LCD...that was a FUN time to get access back into that account. Also instilled a need to have multiple different 2FA devices just incase I go swimming with my phone.

# ¿ Mar 18, 2023 13:17

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The Dave posted:

I don�t see the point in the message when everyone knows adobe is trying to not create images of copyrighted characters and it�s model is trained on its own stock images.

Like that�s actually a good thing.

I so wanna ask Adobes AI to give me images on the colours they wont licence fro mPantone which fucks up ALL legacy users.

# ¿ Apr 5, 2023 14:13

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

Miele and Bosch are great until they break. I've got a Fisher and Paykel thats almost 20 years old. Theres a secret button combo and when pressed will play the NZ national anthem.

# ¿ Apr 8, 2023 04:29

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PT6A posted:

I think mixtapes are an interesting artifact of history, because although they're not hugely different from burned CDs or (now) shared playlists, they were a lot more work to create, there were more time constraints (not so much relative to CDs, but certainly to playlists) and you couldn't just skip around or randomize the order, so you necessarily put a lot more thought into what you were doing, to get it just right.

It's an interesting situation where the constraints of a system actually make the end result better. See also, arguably: the erstwhile length limitation on tweets.

My mum has always said proudly that the best ever present I gave her was a bootleg Evanescence CD. They had just came out and I got any and all files I could on our lovely dialup. Then made custom artwork and printed it out. Slammed it all in a jewelcase and wrapped it. She knew it wasn't legit, and knew I couldn't afford $30 for any sort of retail CD, and knew I spent actual time making it for her.

Now, shes too lazy to ever watch something on my PLEX server that I can tell you, spent FAR more time and money on.

# ¿ Apr 27, 2023 12:58

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Steve French posted:

Maybe at some point in the future it won't really matter, but I think it's fairly relevant at the moment. Like, a relevant caveat with ChatGPT is that it doesn't really "understand" math:

What the hell is 0.5% beer? One standard drink here is 3.5%

# ¿ May 7, 2023 04:05

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PT6A posted:

0.5%ABV is the standard for a beer to be sold as non-alcoholic. Also, where is �here?� The US and Canada both use 12oz. at 5% as far as I know.

Ahh I didn't get the point of it was about 'non-alcoholic beers'.

Here is Australia. We have a 'standard drink' which is 375ml @ 3.5%. Theres a sort of rule of thumb/guideline that the average adult male can have 2 standards in the first hour then 1 every hour after that. (meanwhile an average aussie male adult has had two beers in the time it took to read this post).

I personally know I am going to be under the limit to drive home if I have two beers after work with my co-workers and if pulled over I won't 'blow over' which is 0.05% Blood Alcohol Concentration.

# ¿ May 7, 2023 05:44

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His Divine Shadow posted:

I've basically stopped buying beer.

Well thats good for your health at least!

# ¿ May 7, 2023 10:23

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His Divine Shadow posted:

Like when I tried watching eurovision with IPTV, system shat itself after 10 minutes and I went to bed. If I actually watched TV I might put up an aerial.

I think they did you a favour tbh

# ¿ May 19, 2023 14:52

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Alctel posted:

Teams is unbelievable garbage and refuses to connect every morning unless I do a GP Update first (everyone in the company has to do this)

It's also slow as poo poo compared to Skype and breaks a lot

At least once a week one of my bosses calls me to their office saying that they have lost all their work. No they are turning their laptop on and ondrive hasn't had you know 1 minute or whatever to actually sync. The time it takes for me to walk to their desk is enough so 'oh I figured it out' is what they say when I knock on their door.

# ¿ Jun 4, 2023 04:28

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

PT6A posted:

I don't think if any of the Dickwaving Billionaire Space Doohickeys got lost, there'd be this level of joking,

You must be new here. If Bezos and Musk were stuck in a tin can in space the internet would be melting down with meme bandwidth

# ¿ Jun 24, 2023 02:34

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Professor Beetus posted:

I'd get a new GPU and finally pick up a PS5. I would probably also splurge and get a second fancy cocktail at happy hour.

If I got paid 300K I would even actually be happy at happy hour!

# ¿ Jun 28, 2023 03:10

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

I like to show foreigners videos of Emus going crazy over something like a beachball or a water sprinkler, then as I got them all softened up, drop 'Emus are so dumb they drown when it rains cos they just look up into the sky mouth open wondering whats going on.'

# ¿ Jul 20, 2023 10:44

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

The uptick of people wanting access to my plex and willing to pay for the privlidge is fun.

# ¿ Jul 20, 2023 14:54

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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Netflix hasn't actually forced people to do it yet in the U.S. Just other countries.

One of my Streamboxes still has an ex for over 5 years agos account on it. It's valid, I don't use it for :files: reasons but it's funny that the device session is still valid.

# ¿ Jul 20, 2023 17:00

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 01:29

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Nenonen posted:

(Also I appreciate it how the Economist is sharing technical tips to domestics terrorists everywhere...)

No need... theres already probably ads for firearms in the pages that seem to be the weapons of choice for American lunatics.

# ¿ Aug 21, 2023 09:35

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