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- Comment on Someone hacked my Apple account and stupid AI gatekeeper kept me tied up so long I missed the actual people who could help me 2 days ago:
Your reply seemed to be responding like OP would be as if they wanted to explain further.
- Comment on Someone hacked my Apple account and stupid AI gatekeeper kept me tied up so long I missed the actual people who could help me 2 days ago:
Are you OOP?
- Comment on Someone hacked my Apple account and stupid AI gatekeeper kept me tied up so long I missed the actual people who could help me 2 days ago:
I read about a trick that used to bypass the old systems that used voice recognition to have you navigate a phone menu system, if you started cursing it out, it would transfer you to a human directly.
- Comment on Meet *sshole, the vulnerability that lets hackers SSH into Linux devices 6 days ago:
Sorry but that is a crap title.
SSH will allow anyone into a Linux device as long as they can authenticate successfully.
I get that they mean that the vulnerability bypasses the authentication, but still a shit title.
Eh, I am probably just cranky as I just woke up.
- Comment on Do reasonably priced non-Bluetooth headset exist? 6 days ago:
What you need is a DECT headset, Jabra makes several models, as does Yealink and HP.
HP sells the headsets under the Poly and Savi brands, these are the same headset series that Plantronics used to make, I remember how weird is was that Plantronics was first bought by Polycom who became Poly, only to almost immediately after that got bought by HP.
I miss Plantronics, HP have gutted the series, I miss my CS540, and later a modern variant that worked directly with a computer and didn’t need a special freak cable. But my hearing has got worse and I like my stereo Jabra headset at work.
I am actually considering buying a Jabra Engage 75 SE, though a 45 SE would be brilliant as well.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
To be fair, it doesn’t say that Elon was the instructor, just that they were both attending the same training session
- Comment on and they wonder why reddit stock is tanking 1 week ago:
I wonder if management is deliberately destroying Reddit while shorting the stock…
- Comment on ram 1 week ago:
I ain’t giving those greedy bastards free electricity and compute power.
- Comment on Vote! 2 weeks ago:
I did vote back in September, but the election was so close that we still don’t have an actual government.
- Comment on These signs should be everywhere so we can stop wasting our lives on nonsense 3 weeks ago:
Not with that terrible font.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
We have had flyibg cars for decades.
Look up the aerocar…
- Comment on Chinese-owned rental cars recorded Norwegian military drill 4 weeks ago:
Swede here, it is a disgrace that Geely was allowed to buy Volvo.
- Comment on Fandom won’t allow adblockers 4 weeks ago:
I use the app Wikipanion to access fandom wilis on my phone
- Comment on Anon listens to the radio 4 weeks ago:
Not texting at all is far less dangerous that any texting
- Comment on Anon listens to the radio 4 weeks ago:
Texing while driving is wholesome?
- Comment on What could possibly go wrong?!? 4 weeks ago:
Thanks, I needed an excuse to stay home from work today, “Sorry boss, I don’t feel so good, I trew up on the metro, I am heading home”
- Comment on How did Google win the search engine war? 5 weeks ago:
Hehe, this classic.
Back in the day, I seem to recall using AltaVista before Google came along.
Anyway, most search engines back then were more like web portals, full of ads and annoying UI elements, they were treated more like a startpage than a simple search engine.
Then came Google, it was clean, it loaded fast, it got out of your way and let you focus on your work.
Then the actual search…
While other search engines had their tools to find the best result, none had done it with the care that Google did.
Every search engine had the same problem:
“How do we decide to rank the pages we scan to find if they are reputable or not?”
Someone at Google had a brilliant idea:
“Let’s simply check how many times a page is linked to from other pages!”
That is a really clever idea, back in the day websites were built by enthusiasts, people wanted to share what they found, so they made link pages to interesting and good sites.
Google used that data and put it into their page rank system to help users find the best result.
Better result lead to more users and so on.
Then it was time to monetize…
- Comment on Just found this behind a wendys dumpster 5 weeks ago:
Wow, eight cases gold and an entire extra case of money, well do the responsible thing and hand these over to the police.
- Comment on If you ever see a CEO like this, warn a brother. 5 weeks ago:
🔎
- Comment on Anon updates Terminator 2 1 month ago:
Huh, this made me able to put word to what I have realized LLMs are doing all the time…
LLM are just artificial yes men.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 1 month ago:
I just wished they got the fuck on with it and left earth already, so we can turn off their radio coms and start fixing things
- Comment on Classic Move 1 month ago:
“Oh, sorry, please go ahead!”
- Comment on Day 797 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
I have a top tip for you about Myst, no spoilers since you cleared the mechanical age:
Pay extra attention during the building rotation simulator.
- Comment on Who 1 month ago:
- Remove everything to the left of the video ID, the “?is=xxxxxxxxxxxxxx” part is just there for tracking.
- As for the claim itself, it is dumb to argue what temperature scale is better to use outside of scientific/technical applications, it is just down to personal preference, what you are used to.
- Comment on ‘A maelstrom of his own making’: how Ed Sheeran’s tour turned into a full-blown culture war 1 month ago:
I could see that argument being used in the weeks after the October attacks, but after nearly three years of intensive systematic genocide?
Fuck off with that shit.
- Comment on Anon can't go home again 1 month ago:
I used post on a mobile phone forum called Lasyk, this was some time in 2004-2006…
The forum is long since dead and erased, but it was a huge forum with 100k members, subforums for just about any mobile phone made by mainstream manufacturers.
I remember managing to create a huge thread over on their misc forum, where I asked other users to post a screenshot of their desktop.
It just kept going, and I think it became a staple thread with 80-100 pages or so…
- Comment on Why does most of the world use WhatsApp as their messaging app rather than RCS/SMS? 2 months ago:
RCS is not yet working on my carrier here in Sweden.
And since most people are already using alternative messaging apps, no one really cares.
- Comment on a tale of two Labor Day messages today 2 months ago:
True enough I guess, neither side shows the entire truth, but one has some connection to reality, the other doesn’t.
And even if both were detached from reality, Biden’s message at least sounds nice, Trump’s message is just an incoherent rant
- Comment on Why Should I... 2 months ago:
A good tip is not to try to make vegan food taste like non vegan. Just enjoy the vegan foods as they are.
As a non vegan/vegetarian, I agree fully. By trying to replicate something else, the result often appears like a worse alternative.
I enjoy plenty of vegetarian and vegan foods, but don’t try and tell me that a plant based burger tastes the same as a normal burger, that just ruins the experience.
Play to your own strengths and don’t pretend to be something you are not, by doing that you reduce the stigma of vegan and vegetarian labels becoming associated with lower quality.
The concept of being vegetarian one day a week sounds like a brilliant idea, not sure that I would go the entire way to vegan across a full day, but a few vegan meals in a week wouldn’t be so hard.
- Comment on Reject modernity, embrace tradition 2 months ago:
Or, you could use the current situation to quit smoking and vaping alltogether.