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by _V_ 3mo ago
I don't see the problem. The last time insurance company tried to BS their way out of the insurance payout, I actually did get the lawyer involved and I successfully got them to admit fault and pay up. Standing up for myself and doing
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by _V_ 3mo ago
Do you really believe that you can discharge a debt of $35,000 simply by saying "I don't support Safari" to your creditor? I would not try that tactic with a bank, I can tell you that much. I would still refuse and force them
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by _V_ 3mo ago
Yeah, for some reason I ran into that issue, too. I'm not giving my governmental ID to some random corporation. If that means I can't use their services, then so be it. Someone always has to be the first to say "no thanks&quo
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by _V_ 3mo ago
Then I save some money and give them to a different company :)
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by _V_ 3mo ago
Not gonna happen. Ever. If a web requires me to do this to access it, I simply refuse. The last time I needed some web was my electricity company - sent them a ticket with a complaint. They replied with some bs like "your browser is si
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by _V_ 5mo ago
Yeah, I have correctly set up robots.txt - if they won't respect that, F them. Bandwidth is not free and I don't mind giving it out to individuals, but I'm not feeding multi-billion dollar companies.
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by _V_ 1y ago
Future is, unfortunately, probably getting back to piracy in some shape or form. Especially with the general idea of the industry that buying something does not mean you own it. In that case all I can say is: F'em. It is definitely tru
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The industry filed false claims against the "Stop Killing Games" initiative [yt] [video](youtube.com)
10 points by _V_ 1y ago|0 comments
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by _V_ 1y ago
I'm thinking about the US in the similar manner as the whole EU, and this is probably the source of my misunderstanding. I'm not surprised by the fact that California has a different politics to for example Florida (I hope I picke
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by _V_ 1y ago
That was, of course, a little bit of an exaggeration just to paint a picture. And it was not that important to the overall argument, that's why I formulated it so lazily (I wanted to sum things up in few words). However if we'd go
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by _V_ 1y ago
Thanks for the clarification! I don't really watch US politics up close that much so this is a new info for me. But if these things are true, it means that political representation in the US is utterly broken and needs to be somehow re
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by _V_ 1y ago
You can be charged, sentenced and then *released* as an illegal without anyone notifying ICE? Wow, that's wild! So the federal justice system & laws are completely separate from the local law and one does not talk to the other? I a
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by _V_ 1y ago
That's what I find so strange as a European - how can you be in country for decades & still function? Like getting a bank account, employment, medical assistance - all of this should be virtually impossible. Or atleast in the Europ
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by _V_ 1y ago
I have been checked like that as I travel a lot through the Europe. And atleast in my case I just showed them my ID, they ran it through the database and that was the end of it. It sucked, but it was a one-off, so I shrugged it off. I would
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by _V_ 1y ago
As an non-American, this situation seems really crazy and is quite hard to understand for me. Why would anyone want to prevent deportation of someone, who is in the country illegaly? Is this a cultural thing? Because I've heard that US
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OpenDrop – Electro-wetting technology to control small droplets of liquids(gaudishop.ch)
36 points by _V_ 1y ago|5 comments
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by _V_ 2y ago
I completely agree with the first sentence - however I would argue that normal, level-headed and sane person either laughs or just shrugs and moves on if that particular joke is not to their taste.
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by _V_ 2y ago
Why on Earth would jokes have to "tolerate" race, religion and gender or anything else? The point of (some) jokes is to challenge anything and everything you deem to be a norm. I'm starting to think that many tolerance-preach
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by _V_ 2y ago
Expecting software to "behave sensibly" is your own faulty assumption. I write software and I've learned never to expect such thing in an environment, that almost anything can bug out, even including the CPU itself.
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by _V_ 2y ago
Software bugs out sometimes. You cannot assume that everything will work as you expect even without easter eggs like this. If this triggers you so much then maybe, just maybe you chose the wrong career path. You know, all that "if you
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by _V_ 2y ago
More details from the original author: https://www.evilsocket.net/2024/09/26/Attacking-UNIX-systems...
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Unauthenticated RCE Flaw with CVSS 9.9 Rating for Linux Systems Affects Cups(phoronix.com)
3 points by _V_ 2y ago|2 comments
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by _V_ 2y ago
Oh yeah, I've spent many hours on DELLs trying to solve S0ix sleep states... What a pain in the butt that is. There are few major pain points: 1) Every component has to be in the right "state of mind" in order for Si0x sleep
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by _V_ 2y ago
I switched to MPV years ago - for some reason VLC started to stutter when opening a file, which is quite annoying. It does not matter whether it is local ol remote file, format does not matter - every open and every seek will trigger this f
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by _V_ 2y ago
Neat, but I'm personally missing some key info here - most importantly "why?". What problem does this solve or why is this particular function good or better than other "standard" hashing functions? And I have to ad
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by _V_ 2y ago
Your contacts can be stored locally but your device will not work if Apple says so as it needs to be "activated" against their servers. And there is no "secondary system". So no, you are completely dependant on Apple and
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by _V_ 3y ago
I would love to take atleast one of these & try to restore it... Such a beatiful piece of engineering (and history)!
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by _V_ 3y ago
I have something similar - except I don't send them ZIP bombs, but I engage in something akin to a Slowloris attack. I keep the connection open and send random bytes with random delays in between. To my surprise, I got few "champi
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Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 returning to select Apple Stores(9to5mac.com)
16 points by _V_ 3y ago|1 comments
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The iPhone 15 Is Everything Wrong with Apple [video](youtube.com)
3 points by _V_ 3y ago|0 comments

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