InfamousRece

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by InfamousRece 2y ago
My IPv6 prefix changes several times a day with no apparent reason.
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by InfamousRece 2y ago
I worked for a financial company that had 29 day password rotation. One day I accidentally logged in as my colleague. Our user names differed by just one letter so I simply mistyped. It turned out we used the same password scheme to keep up
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by InfamousRece 2y ago
It is RAM as long as you access it randomly.
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by InfamousRece 2y ago
Some systems are still using EBCDIC.
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OpenAI reportedly wants to build 5 gigawatt data centers(fortune.com)
7 points by InfamousRece 2y ago|1 comments
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by InfamousRece 2y ago
I got a notification to check in with a contractor that did some flooring repair in my house a few years ago. I did not maintain any contact with him after the job was done so it felt really strange.
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by InfamousRece 2y ago
No worries. Thanks to Amazon Sidewalk you will not need to enter your WiFi password. The ads will be downloaded via your neighbor’s Alexa.
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by InfamousRece 2y ago
That shitty search bar behavior is extremely annoying to me as well. Luckily it can still be disabled in about:config (the setting is called browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.handoffToAwesomebar or similar). “Awesome” bar is
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by InfamousRece 2y ago
Where I live health insurance is often provided by employer. Sometimes the employer opts to manage a separate pool of insured people - employees and their families. Such pool is fairly small so if one person comes down with an expensive dis
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by InfamousRece 2y ago
Keeping VPN connections alive could be beneficial. Most current laptops do not have cellular modem though so they will have no internet connection while being transported. VPN will therefore stop working anyway. In fact the entire laptop wi
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by InfamousRece 2y ago
Microsoft recalls Recall uninstall option.
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by InfamousRece 2y ago
It could also run Windows 3.1, but could not run the most famous Windows of all time (3.11 for workgroups).
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Why does getting a job in tech suck?(ryxcommar.com)
66 points by InfamousRece 2y ago|52 comments
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by InfamousRece 2y ago
And if you need more than 1 reviewer just do (n+1)-tuple programming (where n is the number of reviewers needed). The more the merrier!
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Federal judge blocks FTC noncompete ban(thehill.com)
2 points by InfamousRece 2y ago|1 comments
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by InfamousRece 2y ago
Very old paper tends to stay white: https://bookcollecting.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/paper-cotton...
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by InfamousRece 2y ago
If they did mandatory binding arbitration it would most likely work. Arbitration trumps everything else it seems.
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by InfamousRece 2y ago
There are also quite a few companies that offer “unlimited” vacation, but in practice they pressure/shame their employees not to take “too much” time off.
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by InfamousRece 2y ago
When I got my first broadband Internet connection my contract explicitly prohibited me from using NAT. Apparently my Internet provider was concerned I would use NAT to connect multiple computers thus “stealing” bandwidth. This concern was n
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The Decline of the User Interface(infoworld.com)
17 points by InfamousRece 2y ago|4 comments
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by InfamousRece 2y ago
Can you use a small claims court if the rental contract has mandatory binding arbitration clause?
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by InfamousRece 2y ago
CP/M was released in 1974 while VMS was around 1977.
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by InfamousRece 2y ago
Unfortunately for me it does not crash. I have to kill this monster myself.
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by InfamousRece 2y ago
Now configure the network card on that thing
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by InfamousRece 2y ago
I would totally watch a movie about Tcl language, even if it was machine made.
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by InfamousRece 3y ago
The 2-dimensionality of information does not apply just to black holes but to any bounded space. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle
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by InfamousRece 3y ago
When I was a kid my grandparents had an old style TV with vacuum tubes. It also required several minutes to “heat up” before the picture appeared. I guess we’ve come a full circle.
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by InfamousRece 3y ago
It’s 600 million years not 600 thousand. Big difference. Species usually do not last that long so there is no reason to believe any humans will exist at that time.
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Microsoft updating windows secure boot keys in 2024(redmondmag.com)
2 points by InfamousRece 3y ago|0 comments
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by InfamousRece 3y ago
Usually from computer’s point of view these devices look like regular USB mice or keyboards so disabling Bluetooth will not disable them.

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