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Man survives being lost in California mountains for 10 days by eating berries (www.theguardian.com)

As McClish told it, the 34-year-old outdoors enthusiast from Boulder Creek, California, lost his bearings after beginning his hike the morning of 11 June. He had not informed anyone else of his plans, so it would not be until the afternoon of Thursday, 20 June, that the unkempt-looking hiker was found at the bottom of a remote...

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Rule of 3’s. You can go 3min without oxygen, 3 hrs without shelter, 3 days without water, and 30 days without food. It is a bit of generalization, but its close enough to set priorities in survival situations.

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They had a big library, but not the user base. They were definitely not maintaining anywhere near the infrastructure and bandwidth of major streaming platforms. Netflix claims 260 million users. It’s not hard to get a giant catalog when you dont have to pay for it.

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Just wait until they track your phone in the stores and tie it to demographics like where you live and profession to build a financial profile to estimate how much you are able to pay. As you walk down aisles, the prices change to your price to gouge out every possible penny from you.

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Most homes in the US get their electricity via arial lines on poles vs. Europe, which buries a lot of the electrical lines.

Wires on poles go do virtually every time that there is any sort of storm. Especially in areas with lots of trees.

How many people actually want fully on-site IT jobs?

I’ve been looking for a new job as a software developer. The huge majority of job listings I see in my area are hybrid or remote. I just had an introductory phone call with Vizio (which didn’t specify the location type in the job listing). The recruiter told me that the job was fully on-site, which I told her was a deal...

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It really depends on where the office is in relation to your home.

Before covid and going WFH, the office was only 5 miles away on roads with no traffic. I would go back to this, no problem. Just enough to keep you on a schedule and get out of the house.

The biggest benefit of an office is that when you leave, you are gone until tomorrow.

When everyone is WFH, you never completely leave the office. I know boundaries, but in many cases, the lines can get a bit fuzzy.

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The dead bodies were the people who knew too much and were “suicided” by the establishment to silence them.

Remember that there’s always an explanation when you can just make stuff up as you go.

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The always relevant xkcd.com/806/

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It’s more likely battery than assault. Battery is just putting hands on. Assault generally needs higher threat level and/or more violent actions.

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Just wait until they start scraping the chans

I expect it to create the next Qanon.

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You mean Fxctory

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I suspect that it’s because they are marketed to be as much of a tech gadget as transportation. An iPad on wheels. So they figure that they can slip in this crap.

How does harddrive failure work when there's multiple partitions?

My laptop’s HDD is failing, it shows a bunch of signs such as slow file manipulation and clicking sounds. The Linux btrfs partition keeps going into read-only mode to prevent further damage, makes sense, but the windows partition is working fine (for now)....

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It depends on the exact nature of the failure. Controller errors are usually a complete failure. Media failure (magnetic spots on the disk or failed cells in ssd) are often sporadic and only impact data stored in those spots.

Regardless, drives rarely give you any warning. Look at any warning as a gift and get everything off and replace it ASAP.

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And don’t forget about all of the other “news” outlets that get away with echoing every lie by reporting, “OAN said…”.

These guys don’t have to run a retraction at all if they phrase it as a story about what someone else is reporting.

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A real bacon, pork roll, or other pork fat + salt processed meat sandwich needs to use waffles instead of bread. Don’t forget the Mrs Butterworth syrup because you need your daily dose of high fructose corn syrup too.

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Without all of the other stickers, one might assume “Life Is Better With Pig” was referring to their dating preferences.

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Bonus for the toilet right there in the bathroom with no door.

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self employed handyman pretrial release for a pending child-solicitation case

Jan 6th aside, The Dude works in people’s homes, and there’s at least enough evidence to change him with solicitation of a child.

Everybody has the right of innocent until proven guilty, but surely scary for any of his clients. Hope none of them have kids in the house.

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It’s not criminal for a publication to bury or promote stories, but the fact that they are admitting to just making shit up with malicious intent opens up all sorts of lawsuits.

I bet that there’s a bunch of civil lawyers all chubbed up right now thinking about all of the libel and fraud cases that they can bring.

The other thing to remember is that the case is not about influencing elections. It’s about cooking the books to hide the payouts. They are only using this guy to show that Cohen was the bag man for funneling payments in this scheme. This refutes Trumps claim that all payments were for legal services.

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Pause? Not Canceled?

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The kids in the strollers are about 30 now.

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Not if you are not required to participate in that part and not causing a disturbance in the court.

This is a jury trial, and jurors are watching. Even during selection. If you don’t care enough to stay awake, it’s not a good impression.

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I am old enough to remember when they only had manual screw drivers and thicker wood screws that needed to be pre-drilled and lubed with soap.

Go buy a modern “cheap” wood screw. Not a deck screw. An actual wood screw. Pre-drill the correct size hole, including the countersink, and use the correct size manual Phillips screwdriver. You will never strip out the screws.

Now take a 500 RPM impact driver that has almost enough torque to remove lug nuts, a worn or wrong size bit, and a thin shank screw that was only designed to hold down deck boards and the slightest slip or misalignment and have this photo.

We all do it because it is fast/easy. Just understand that you are doing things the convenient way instead of the right way, and you have to expect the stuff to sometimes not work aa advertised because of it.

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That’s what she said

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Social media doesn’t necessiarially cause mental health issues, but it definitely dumps a tanker truck of gasoline on any spark of mental illness.

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Ethics sounds trivial. Wasn’t this the failed coup that Trump tried to pull off inside the justice department?

This was some mid-level guy who was going to illegally threaten Georgia on behalf of the DOJ, and in return, Trump was going install him as the puppet head of DOJ because the people in charge would not illegally take actions without any actual evidence.

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Guessing people too old to be driving + Florida Man

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Musk is down -$49B YTD. That guy sure knows how to turn gold into horseshit.

Not a solution, but you have to start somewhere.

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Don’t worry they’ll find a way to blame Biden.

Anything is possible when logic, facts, and reality don’t matter.

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BOFH excuse generator

House China committee demands Elon Musk open SpaceX Starshield internet to U.S. troops in Taiwan (www.cnbc.com)

The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party sent a letter on Saturday to SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk demanding that U.S. troops stationed in Taiwan get access to SpaceX's Starshield, a satellite communication network designed specifically for the military....

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Why TF are we renting military stuff from any 3rd party and essentially giving them control to override the military chain of command in the first place? I can’t see this sitting well with anyone on the military side of this.

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What serious coder is happy with one monitor?

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anti-vaccine protest at a Burger King

Trying to wrap my head around that one. The clientele of BK are not known for being concerned about what goes into their bodies.

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With the extremely limited info available, it could also be two people who were wildly shooting at each other in a crowd. It would not be the first time that some stupid beef between people at a celebration escalates into a gun battle that takes out more bystanders than participants.

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Fat fingering BGP config has nuked the internet quite a few times already.

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Time by Pink Floyd.

Back in the day. Moped, cassette Walkman, and very early wired earbuds. The engine noise covered the several minutes of ticking in the beginning, so it seemed like the tape had stopped. Then the alarm clocks kicked in and startled me so badly that I almost crashed.

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This flaw is not really that bad because it requires the attacker to already have total and complete control over the system already. For example, if they were able to steal the root password.

This flaw just makes it easier for the attacker to hide and harder to evict them.

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If he admits perjury, his credibility is gone, and nobody would want to use him in any other case regardless of any deal.

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I am more concerned about the innocent people who will pay for the assholes “bad idea” will their lives.

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What’s the last thing that goes through a bugs mind when it hits a windshield? Its asshole.

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No, there really was a “recall” where they notified drivers to bring cars to the dealership for some software patch to address the issue.

My mom did it, and it broke her remote start function. So it did change something regarding starting, but apparently, it didn’t really fix the original problem.

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You can buy an add-on immobilizer on Amazon or eBay for $20. The cost to a car company to build this into the computer in the factory should be under $10. Virtually every other car company has used them by default in everything since the mid 1990s.

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You can get add on immobilizer with remote on Amazon for $25

What do you use to track BMCs/KVMs/IPMI?

I manage hundreds of servers at work. They each have a BMC (remote power on/off, reset, KVM, etc) and we need to use those features frequently. I’ve been using a Google Docs spreadsheet to track their URLs, what each box is used for, specs, etc but it feels like a dynamic web app would be better for this purpose. Does anyone...

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Check out NetBox. It is a free open source datacenter inventory management and IP address management tool. It will let you catalog all of your physical assets along with the network assignments.

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Use find instead.

Is it possible to use Google Drive reliably?

I’ve been using Google Drive in Windows for about a decade and have a good workflow. I recently transitioned to Linux but cannot seem to reliably connect my drive to the filesystem. My work provides unlimited Drive space and since it’s for work I have shared directories with coworkers that I need access to every day. Hence,...

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Not free, but I have been using Insync for years and it works well. $30 one time cost, but worth it.

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accounts of a subsidiary of one of the world’s largest e-commerce entities.

How to say AWS without saying AWS.

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It must be great to live in a place that has so few real problems that the town can waste time with bullshit culture war distractions.

Can I pre-install Ubuntu on an SSD?

Ths might be a silly question, but asking those is how i learn sometimes. I’m trying to install my first Linux distro to set up a Plex server and one of the few things I know is you need a wired internet connection. My intended server location is across the house from my router, and there isnt much room there to set up...

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Even Nvidia video works out of the box without any additional drivers.

The thing with Nvidia is that although the default drivers work, they are more generic and don’t take advantage of all of the features and performance of recent cards. Most people would want to load the proprietary drivers from Nvidia to take full advantage of the card.

Linux would normally include the better drivers, but Nvidia keeps them under a software license that prevents Linux distributions from bundling them.

Even with this, Ubuntu includes a tool that will download and install these drivers that they can’t

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