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by fps 3y ago
The US's anti-surveillance laws and sentiment keep ubiquitous camera systems from existing in many places, and keep the ones that do exist, quiet. In my state, Massachusetts, traffic cameras legally cannot be used to issue citations.
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by fps 3y ago
fast accurate plate scanners are relatively new. At most, only on police cars for the past 10 or so years. Many police cars still don't have them, only dedicated highway patrol cars. The sticker system has been in place for over 80 ye
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by fps 3y ago
It's to notify police to stop the car if they see it on the road. The US has a lot of infrequently used or unused cars that gradually transition to a sedentary life in a garage or yard. It's not illegal to let your registration
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by fps 3y ago
in the very early 2000s, home routers weren't a thing. Cable modems hooked up to a single computer. If you were a business, you got a PIX, but home setups were frequently done with a computer that had 2 ethernet ports and either used
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by fps 3y ago
The eastern islands of the Caribbean are currently getting hit with smoke from Canadian wildfires: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/us/smoke-maps-canad... . Smoke is covering everything from Puerto Ri
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by fps 3y ago
Modern password managers run into issues regularly that still require a user to copy/paste a password out of a secure location. I don't know what the solution is for these situations with passkeys, but I know I don't trust pa
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by fps 3y ago
Then the child should stay with the parent most able to provide for them. The big issue a lot of people have with the inequity of child support is that fathers who want custody of their kids are continually denied it by the state. Involved
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by fps 3y ago
Common law marriages are not as easy to happen by accident as many people assume. Living together doesn't matter. Common law marriage, in every state I've checked, requires that you have a ceremony and present yourself as a &quot
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by fps 3y ago
you can scream all you want, most people who buy new cars won't care and will just lease for 3-5 years no matter what the manufacturer puts behind a paid upgrade/software subscription. They never have to repair their cars, because
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by fps 4y ago
Banks don't hold substantial cash. They send whatever cash they collect to the local federal reserve to be recycled and get fresh cash to hand out to people every morning from the same federal reserve. I don't think I've go
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by fps 4y ago
You may not believe it, but the situation is very well documented and certainly a thing that is removing housing stock from cities around the world. Housing has a value as an investment, and leaving the housing unoccupied reduces the cost t
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by fps 4y ago
The small wheels on the front and back are an add-on, called fangs ( https://land-surf.com/products/fangs%e2%84%a2-2-1 ). I’ve had them on my Onewheel for years and I’m not sure they’ve ever actually saved me on a nose
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by fps 4y ago
In this case, it's a community with 1K members, not a company with 1K employees.
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by fps 4y ago
Discord monitors all running processes on a user's machine so it can tag users with a "now playing ..." status text. The content of chats/private messages is also accessible to them. Their ToS allows them to sell/sh
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by fps 4y ago
The average slim carseat is 17" wide. Not just any car seat, but a slim one. It's a whole category of seats. That means 3 side-by-side car seats require 51" of rear hip and rear shoulder room, which is really very doable. I
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by fps 4y ago
We have google now, and lots and lots of parenting blogs. Googling "3 across car seats" shows that Britax, Chicco and Graco, the big 3 in car seats, all make several extra narrow car seats for packing kids in to smaller cars. Dio
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by fps 4y ago
There are plenty of narrow car seats that will fit 3 across in any car. I ran 3 Diono Radians in the back seat of a second gen Prius and there was plenty of space. Car seats and cars are the least expensive part of raising young children.
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by fps 4y ago
The majority of high end EVs are muscle cars. Tesla, Lucid, Rivian are all shipping 500-1000HP cars with the drag race times front and center on the marketing page.
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by fps 4y ago
I think most states will fail a car with the "check engine" light on. For cars in the northeast, keeping the CEL off gets more and more expensive every winter. I had a truck that was getting a new oxygen sensor (there were 6 on t
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by fps 5y ago
I think what they meant was an outage so short that it will reset the clock on the microwave/stove/bedside alarm but that you don't notice it otherwise. In the northeast, these happen frequently overnight, usually due to min
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by fps 5y ago
remote pre-heating of the oven, remote alerts when the laundry is done. Non-connected versions of these appliances just make a really loud alarm sound when they need someone to pay attention to them, but a small notification on a phone wou
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by fps 7y ago
yeah, I've used Tesla's software, it's garbage compared to android auto.
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by fps 7y ago
Ran into this issue way back in 2005 when I bought my first modern-ish car (Subaru Legacy.) I'd always just replaced the radio with something decent and modern every few years in previous cars, but in this one the audio system was int
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by fps 8y ago
your cards themselves can disallow contactless payment when a chip reader is present. Discover did this to me when they sent me a chip card - I had been using my discover card contactless for a while with android pay, and all of a sudden it
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by fps 8y ago
I use android pay when it's available in the US, but the first time you encounter any specific reader, there's a learning curve. By "reader", it should be obvious we mean the reader that is in the store that you tap you
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by fps 9y ago
I was hoping for some sort of image or binary processing exploit too, but the attack just uses a Postgres vulnerability to execute arbitrary shell code. [0][1] The fact that the executed code was buried in an image seems to just be a camou
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by fps 9y ago
Phones? It's been 10 years since I worked at a company that gave me a desk phone, and it was archaic and useless then. Email is mostly a dumpster fire because of inflexible clients like gmail or outlook with terrible filtering and cl
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by fps 9y ago
Google's "Beyond Corp" initiative [1] discourages trusted networks and VPNs in favor of secure services on public networks. By trusting the network to provide a level of security, you are more likely to be vulnerable to esc
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by fps 9y ago
I don't believe you. Either that or I've never in my life encountered a "neurotypical" child. Figuring out which behaviors are appropriate/inapproriate and changing accordingly, through self awareness and peer fee
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by fps 9y ago
This seems like it's going in circles, but, if you selfsign modern browsers display a big scary warning. If you're making a device or software meant to live behind a firewall and to be accessed from a browser, users will either h

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