kotaKat

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by kotaKat 3d ago
Mix of. Large metros they'll use their own staff to install, rural Americana they'll use Dish's OnTech division. Dish realized they have an entire 'trained' workforce of cable/dish techs that they can put to
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by kotaKat 3d ago
DR stands for "didn't realize"; the first time it happens you just run back to the drawing board and add some safety boundaries on it. So... just make sure the automation only becomes available from ~6 AM to 8 AM. ;)
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by kotaKat 5d ago
> I literally had to retake trigonometry, while simultaneously being advanced into pre-calc, because my teacher saw that I aced the exams, but said I had to do the homework. I loved one of my early math teachers that caught that out in h
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by kotaKat 5d ago
Coward. Post on your real account.
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by kotaKat 5d ago
(None of it was possible. We haven't gotten the purported DOGE dividend, or tarriff refunds. Though the $500 Obamacare 'refunds' are in the works and the soldiers all got some $1776 bonus... and everyone's suddenly priva
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by kotaKat 5d ago
Don't forget the $5000 DOGE dividend, the $2000 tariff refunds, the $500 Obamacare refunds, and the thousands+ in Trump Accounts! (But $10k in student loan relief? That's Socialist!)
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by kotaKat 6d ago
As once before said: If they didn't want you to drink, John Deere wouldn't have put a cupholder on it. C'mon, that's entrapment!
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by kotaKat 6d ago
also needs a "Show HN" tbh
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by kotaKat 7d ago
When they show up to the depot and get their bus assignment they get a slip with the PIN (IIRC), otherwise they can call dispatch back up, identify themselves, and be given a reset remotely. ( https://www.cleverdevices.com/pr
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by kotaKat 7d ago
Transit buses generally actually don't use keys, amusingly. You pop the drivers' window open and reach in for the manual door release, then climb on board. The headlight switch is also the 'master on' switch for the bus,
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by kotaKat 7d ago
Turns out depending on the metro they already solved that problem. Just let them piss. They actually do let bus operators randomly stop the bus at rush hour to pee in some cities. In Ottawa (Ontario), for instance, as long as an operator is
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by kotaKat 7d ago
The difference here is Microsoft didn't have to take the hardware and pivot a new OS onto it at the last minute. Remember... the Duo was supposed to be a cursed Windows 10-esque device. They brought on Movial to do a pivot to Android,
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by kotaKat 7d ago
Anyone else remember Nintendo's absurdly explained 50 cent fee to create a child Nintendo Account? https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/... "Verifiable Parental Consent (VPC)
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by kotaKat 7d ago
Ford takes that approach. Every time you hop in one with the location/telemetry services on it gives you a big distracting "Location and connected vehicle/usage data collection active" message.
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by kotaKat 7d ago
That's why I'll drive my Slate down to AutoZone and grab the 12v heated seat massager pad and strap it to the drivers' seat. Take that, paywalled subscriptions.
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by kotaKat 7d ago
"you can only use a cyber weapon once at full potential, as it’ll either get patched and/or everyone can reverse engineer it to use" This is why I jokingly always suggested to people the safest public charger to use was the
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by kotaKat 7d ago
> “Why can’t the person opt out? It’s because if your car gets stolen, if something were to happen, moreover, the government requires you to have a license plate. It’s the law. And it’s plain view information,” [Flock Safety’s Chief Comm
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by kotaKat 8d ago
And even funnier, we're now seeing the EV battery aftermarket breathing a hell of a lot more life into some older vehicles. https://vivnevs.com/ Wanna see a 2012 Leaf doing over 250+ miles on a charge? Absolutely amazi
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by kotaKat 8d ago
> I doubt any human would solve them for 3 minutes straight Cognitive overload. There's days I'm just straight up tired and don't realize it until I'm at least one "please try again", page refresh, and endle
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by kotaKat 8d ago
> But a recent update has caused them to block users with ad blockers. I'm noticing that Ad-Shield is becoming a continual fight these days with pageloads that complete then they fly in with a "ha ha here's a fake error
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by kotaKat 9d ago
Curious what Tesco was going to go to, considering most of the old Retalix/NCR WinPOS/ISS45 stack was heavily Windows-reliant underneath it. I assume Azure or Hyper-V of some sort?
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by kotaKat 9d ago
I've thought for a while on this and with 5G RedCap I really see a day where they include a fully ad-supported 720p streaming TV service over the 5G link and some kind of "premium" offering to pay more for higher streaming qu
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by kotaKat 10d ago
"RCS isn't an open platform in practice. It isn't even as open as SMS/MMS. It heavily depends on proprietary Google and carrier infrastructure in practice. We can start by replicating Google's approach and then we c
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by kotaKat 10d ago
Also everyone started screaming when Tesla was starting to rumor to start using the cabin cameras to recognize people when Subaru has a totally creepy facial recognition system on their current vehicles to do seating presets and the like. I
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by kotaKat 11d ago
after having had unions literally put me out of work as a blue collar employee - yes. i've had enough of them. my family has also been in a long line of tradesworkers, and they have been continually screwed by their bargaining be it wi
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by kotaKat 11d ago
Nice shitty astroturfing campaign, bro. How much does Flock provide in payola? Five figures and I'll start singing the praises, too, bro.
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by kotaKat 11d ago
So they're using this to finally implement AirPlay 2 support, right? Right? Rules for thee...
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by kotaKat 12d ago
Lots of GDP entries there. Uh. Like terabytes of it downloaded. I would quite like to think that GDP references... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GirlsDoPorn - where "six people involved with the website were charg
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by kotaKat 12d ago
as someone once forced to put Windows XP back on a hospital CEO's laptop in 201X... yeah. also all the incident reports i used to file about doctors getting malware went to the circular file. maybe that's why they got nailed wit
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by kotaKat 12d ago
"This project was born out of accidentally changing the area option to EU in the EZ-Adjust service menu on a US TV. The factorymanager binary enforces a region lock (geolock) that prevents reverting the area code — even through the sam

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