B1FIDO

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by B1FIDO 8mo ago
A funny thing about the "stages of grief" is that they are a total myth and the originator of the hypothesis never intended them to be abused this way. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross did her research solely on people who were dying: people
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by B1FIDO 8mo ago
I rented a car last July, and I specifically picked out a small one because I wouldn't need to carry any cargo or passengers around. As soon as I drove off the lot, 3 warning indicator lamps lit up, including "Tire Pressure"
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by B1FIDO 8mo ago
"Not Gonna Lie": https://youtu.be/_ru0pnAnq7g?si=fKwnDNkRz6XQKDz5
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by B1FIDO 8mo ago
Sure, there's more than one way to skin a cat. There are lots of non-technical users who navigate purely by doing a "google search" on whatever domain they're aiming for, too. Nobody said they were efficient about it.
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by B1FIDO 8mo ago
You may be surprised to learn that there are many types of botnets out there, and many use DNS queries for the C&C. Although the GP wrote "53/tcp" that is a weird situation, because most (not all) DNS is over UDP. One day
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by B1FIDO 8mo ago
"installing software" sometimes still consists of curl | bash So if you want to have a conversation about trusting curl and bash and random gists... Like I said, I installed software in many ways back in the day. I typed it
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by B1FIDO 8mo ago
Look we are talking about computers here. Computers don't understand or exercise actual trust as you describe it. Actual trust doesn't make computers work at all, because it doesn't exist in their world. So you need a pro
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by B1FIDO 8mo ago
The US Civil War was along territorial lines, of course, and "Electric Boogaloo" will defy those clear delineations. I believe we are seeing more of a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partisan_(military) type si
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by B1FIDO 8mo ago
While it is true that Silicon Graphics eventually acquired Cray Computer, they did it after the novel, and the film's release, but I would suppose that even before the 1996 acquisition that SGI and Cray machines were very good partners
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by B1FIDO 8mo ago
Once, back around 2011 or 2012, I was using Google Translate for a speech I was to deliver in church. It was shorter than one page printed out. I only needed the Spanish translation. Now I am proficient in spoken and written Spanish, and I
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by B1FIDO 8mo ago
Well there is no "European military" per se and there will be no "Russia invades Europe" scenario, because "Europe" is a continent and not a sovereign nation. What would happen is that Russia invades Poland,
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by B1FIDO 8mo ago
I mean actually the FSV that you refer to is a clone of the SGI IRIX utility, fsn , that was actually depicted on a live computer in the film. SGI was well-known to the film industry, because their IRIX systems were basically the sine qua
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by B1FIDO 8mo ago
What I'm talking about is actual trust. Like, there are cryptographic measures taken, certificates involved, code signing, that kind of thing. You claim that you "can install anything" on Windows, but that is simply false. Th
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by B1FIDO 8mo ago
No, that is not how you change search engines. In Chrome on Android (and yeah, on desktop too) you just go into "Settings" and change your default search engine. I can choose between Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Yandex, or DuckDuckGo. Th
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by B1FIDO 8mo ago
SMS is very widespread in the United States. All the B2C services I work with are sending SMS to my phone. Not RCS, not iMessage: they are sending SMS messages. All the MFA providers, such as Twilio and Okta, are sending SMS. All the poli
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by B1FIDO 8mo ago
It was hilarious when I checked the movie listings for this week and found Greenland 2 in its opening run. So I went to YouTube and rented Greenland (2010) . It was a hoot! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_(fi
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by B1FIDO 8mo ago
The term you're looking for is "demarc" or: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demarcation_point This is the physical boundary of a network, in telecommunications. This is the junction where the service provi
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by B1FIDO 8mo ago
> God destroyed it Where does it say that? I have never read any Book of Genesis that says "God destroyed the tower". Also it doesn't say "God was afraid". God doesn't have negative emotions like that. God
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by B1FIDO 8mo ago
It is not really though. "Sideloading" refers to data transfer between two local, peer devices. Really, that is it. It is not "something scary" or something forbidden. It is not even really installing. It's data tra
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by B1FIDO 8mo ago
I do not own a vehicle, and most of my life I've depended on public transit. Lately, I take Waymos or I ride scooters, or use public transit as usual. Sometimes, for special errands, I rent a car. For example, I intended to move across
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by B1FIDO 8mo ago
"Installing" has the connotation of doing it directly from the Play Store. This is also known as "Downloading" (because the data is on a server, in the cloud, and you're fetching it "downstream" to a local
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by B1FIDO 8mo ago
Once, long ago, I was a fledgling C programmer working on the TinyMUCK game server. My mentor had released the 2.0 version with MUF, and I had implemented the port to SunOS (where a dereferenced NULL pointer does not return 0, but SIGSEGV:
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by B1FIDO 8mo ago
Multimedia "texts" are actually MMS. In fact, if you send more than 160 characters, those are also MMS because it's an extension of the SMS standard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_Messaging_Ser
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by B1FIDO 8mo ago
The smart projects that are going for L10N will collect all the UI strings into a file or set of files, separate from the code, and indexed so that the app can just switch language and then begin using a new set of localized strings. This a
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by B1FIDO 8mo ago
What's so divisive about athletic Aryan blondes? I mean, just because some Olympic tart lobs a hammer at your face, you're suddenly the admin of this website? Blonde women, running into TV commercials, tossing sledgehammers is no
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by B1FIDO 8mo ago
Fun fact: the athletic Aryan blonde who threw the sledgehammer into Big Brother's virtual face is portrayed by Anya Major, who would go on to star with Elton John in his hit video "Nikita", as a Communist border guard and the
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by B1FIDO 8mo ago
That’s what life insurance is for! Come on, plenty of fathers and husbands have worked in coal mines, oil rigs; gone to war; served on ICE raids against armed insurgents. It is often hazardous to be a breadwinner. It seems that this dude is
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by B1FIDO 8mo ago
https://youtu.be/3V65_L3sCMI?si=HushHA5YdZNJsUAk
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by B1FIDO 8mo ago
You now wish to use an app that freely interoperates now with Meta's WhatsApp, because you don't trust the guy who owns WhatsApp? Trippy, dude!
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by B1FIDO 8mo ago
A really bad platitude can be "let me know if I can help, somehow!" and then leaving it at that. Well, your friend/acquaintance may not know how you can best help. Yes, if it's a widower who lost a home-maker wife, he

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