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Samsung was caught disabling phones in Mexico because people were buying phones from other regions where they were cheaper.

sammobile.com/…/mexican-government-asks-samsung-n…

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Hydrogen Peroxide is perfectly safe to drink.

Because it’s H2O too.

(Seriously, don’t drink Hydrogen Peroxide.)

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“Bad” memory that lasts 45 years in interplanetary space.

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I started just looking at Everything, and blocking the groups I’m not interested in.

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One of the arcades in the town I grew up in had one of these, for a short time. I never played it (I was young enough to not be interested) but saw some of the older kids playing it. Pretty soon afterwards my dad forbid (forbade?) me from that arcade, because he heard that’s where they sold “drugs”. I never made the connection until just now. Pissed me off, because that arcade had Robotron.

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He’s in London. That wall behind him is getting the full bird treatment.

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Is this what we’re doing to get our bridges fixed? We’re throwing boats at them?

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=mET6fhKymR8

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I just bought an MSI motherboard. The memory slots are labeled, A1, A2, B1, B2. So of course it makes sense that the first populated slot must be A2. Followed by B2. Then A1, and finally B1.

Make sure the memory is in the right slots.

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Until they declare bankruptcy and reorganize as JP’s Construction.

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Nobody ever mentions Firewalker as their favorite Lou Gossett Jr. movie. Is it because of Chuck Norris?

“So, we meet again.”

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I read that as “Scourge of Stocks”, and was left wondering what this good boy had done to upset Wall Street.

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When people tell me ‘money doesn’t buy happiness’, I tell them ‘it removes a lot of anxiety’.

These people don’t have any anxiety anymore, and believe they can do anything. Most of the time they’re right.

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No. Unless that hot water is very, very hot vapor, you’re just adding more mass that’s going to be cooled by the original cold water. And even with vapor, the heat transfer between a hot gas and cool liquid just doesn’t happen fast enough, the vapor will be in the atmosphere before the water heats up very much.

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Remember all the hysteria over “death panels” during the ACA debates? Fooled you, they were already here, invented by insurance companies.

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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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Herpes is always on the house. Nobody ever charges for herpes.

[Solved - Firefox extension SingleFile converts the page to a .html file that can be accessed without login!] Any tricks to saving chapters in a digital, online-based textbook as a PDF?

Print-to-PDF is locked down. There’s a print option as part of the software, but it slaps my student email diagonally across every single page, which makes reading it kind of obnoxious....

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Print-to-PDF is locked down.

Locked down how? You say this is online, but also mention software, so I’m not sure if this is browser-based or not. If a browser, can you use an addon like this:

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fireshot/

to capture the entire page?

If not a browser, it would help to know what the software is.

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What’s the website? I may be able to look at it tomorrow. Is it school-specific or one of those generic online document viewers?

Try throwing NoScript at it? But that will probably just break the entire page.

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Noscript is another addon, it blocks Javascript completely. You probably won’t be able to log in, but it’s worth a shot.

I just looked at the Elsevier page, it looks like what I expected. I’m sure there’s a way to get the docs, I just don’t have much access right now to search for it. My last recommendation is to try and find the book on a torrent site. My second last recommendation is to ask at !piracy (I don’t know if that link will work) if someone knows about Elsevier, they’re pretty helpful, and you’re just trying to read a book you already have access to.

Good luck.

What's stopping people who lash out at the world from going after corporations?

Obviously violence isn’t ever the answer but I’m just curious, when people go nuts and decide to take life and cause terror, what makes their decision to attack something like say a school or a church/mosque, a sporting event. As far as I see it in this day and age the biggest stressors in our society are corporations yet...

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Someone did attack the Youtube headquarters several years ago. She was mad they had demonetized her videos.

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Police believe Aghdam was motivated by perceived discrimination by YouTube towards her channels.[29][30] She complained about the company on her website,[31][32] writing that “Youtube filtered my channels to keep them from getting views!” and that the company had demonetized most of her videos.[33]

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Alright, fine, I’ll wear a condom…

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This will never work as a barrier, I’m told Gaza is riddled with tunnels.

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Dude, slash-fucking-s holy shit

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Is there any way we can get Boeing to replace them?

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I really, really liked his podcast when the co-hosts rotated, including Kristen Schall and Eugene Merman. Then it became Chuck Nice all the time, and I didn’t stick around to see if it ever changed back.

Anyone using KeePass with Syncthing?

I’ve been using Dropbox to sync my KeePass database for years, but I want to switch to Syncthing. My only concern is losing a password due to file versioning. Usually if I have KeePass open on both my phone and PC, there will be a conflict when saving to database, so Dropbox creates a conflicted copy. In some cases that means...

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I do this with 4 different devices and it just works. I wouldn’t leave the vault file open on any device I’m not actively using though.

Keepass XC (Windows) has a setting “automatically reopen the database when modified externally”. If the file is open and Syncthing updates it from somewhere else, it should open the new file and prompt for the password again.

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worldservice.org/onlineform.html

“Carrying a World Passport enables you to identify yourself as an individual…”

And it does literally nothing else.

“Although the World Passport has been recognized by most countries previously, there is no guarantee…”

Uhhh, yeah, I recognize that. It’s bullshit. Guaranteed.

“The wealthiest countries, especially those in North America and Western Europe, are the most restrictive and may reject your claim of your right to travel, in violation of their human rights obligations.”

None of us have been stupid enough to try using this in a 3rd world country.

“…the fees are non-refundable.”

Yeah, that tracks.

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All that mercury in the vaccine must have turned him into his own Faraday cage.

Knights among toner cartridges (infosec.pub)

(Business people) speaking a language familiar and dear to them. Its portentous nouns and verbs invest ordinary events with high adventure; executives walk among toner cartridges, caparisoned like knights. We should tolerate them - every person of spirit wants to ride a white horse. -William Strunk Jr. (The Elements of Style)

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Is that a page-feed scanner? Anyone that hands me a sheet of paper had better realize it’s going to sit on my desk until the end of the day, and then get dumped in the recycling.

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PERCUSSIVE ENTRANCED MEN

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ballotpedia.org/Presidential_candidates,_2020

Every state has a different number of candidates on their ballot, because every state has different requirements to be on their ballot. Is this ruling going to require every state to accept every candidate? Even those with no chance of winning? Who should decide when someone has no chance of winning? (Silly question, it’s the state, of course.)

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You didn’t look at the link, did you? There’s a map that shows the number of presidential candidates on the ballot in each state. If the federal government was in charge of presidential candidates, wouldn’t all those numbers be the same?

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You just won my argument for me. Those are all state rules limiting who can be on a ballot. The state used to make the rules, now it seems there are no limitations whatsoever.

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They’re not uniform. That’s the whole point of my post.

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Nothing in this story supports the supposition that Putin is in shocks.

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I was on PIA, but they were bought by Kape a few years ago. Kape, previously known as Crossrider. Crossrider, known primarily for developing adware and PUPs.

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Games have been steadily driving away from story-oriented to action-oriented since they began. I expect ES6 to be some type of Dark Souls clone.

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Yeah, but those were meant to be quick, quarter-driven games. Think of Zork and those games (all text). Think of the old Sierra games (King’s Quest 1 had text commands, KQ5(?) was point-and-click).

As computer speed and graphics have grown, story has often suffered.

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I’ve never played, but the videos I’ve seen look like a button-mashing nightmare. And I think you underestimate the Elder Scrolls lore.

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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Of COURSE it’s working. When the desire is to cut spending regardless of outcome, the results are always certain.

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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.

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They tossed Kang, but they’re still moving forward with the Multiverse. I can see Secret Wars ending with IM and CA coming from another universe, plus Black Widow, Quicksilver, etc.

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Listen to you, reflecting upon dodges and deflections. If you can’t understand the difference between kids and children, there’s nothing more I can say.

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 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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