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Oregon Elections Division shuts down phone lines after barrage of calls prompted by false claims
  • I say there's a good chance Trump deliberately did not submit a statement just to get this to happen.

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    Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more
  • Yes, it is. I just need to know that the passkeys are in that file and that all the apps I use to read that file support them.

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    The Wayback Machine is back as a read-only service after cyberattacks
  • I don't entirely disagree, but I think defining much of that in effective legal terms is going to be virtually impossible. And I'm super-wary of anything that says someone can't link to something.

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    Elon Musk’s X engaged in a ‘pattern of election interference' to help Trump
  • Just be careful how you do it. The First Amendment gives a lot of leeway for people to be shitty.

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    Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more
  • I need to sync my passkeys between all my devices--which really means I need keepass to store the private keys in its DB so I can sync it with all the other keepass-compatible apps I use in various places. Last I looked, this wasn't solved, but it's been a minute. I'm certainly not using a centralized password manager unless they all can freely import and export from one another. I understand this is a "being worked on" problem.

    So someday, yes.

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    Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more
  • If you get my master keepass password, you have all my passwords, too.

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    The Wayback Machine is back as a read-only service after cyberattacks
  • I agree they should. But I also agree they shouldn't be required to. And if they don't, that we should just live with it as the lesser of two evils.

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    Elon Musk’s X engaged in a ‘pattern of election interference' to help Trump
  • A) I don't think there's anything illegal, here, and B) of course large private agencies manipulate elections, from news agencies to SuperPACs to social media, and C) there's not a heck of a lot we can do about that.

    The best thing we can do is smarten up and think for ourselves. In short, we're doomed!😅

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    License Plate Readers Are Creating a US-Wide Database of More Than Just Cars
  • Hmm. I have a bumper sticker that says "I ❤️ Nuclear War". I wonder what bucket that puts me in.

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  • I've never run a big system like this, but like the lead character in the story, I always figured exponential backoff would be enough. Turns out there's more.

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    SSD capacity could quadruple by 2029 — 8Tb NAND will bring big and affordable SSDs to the market
  • I remember it being a big space sink when I was editing video. Now all I have is DVD rips of my collection and those are nice and compact.

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    Nichibutsu's 1981 Space Shooter 'Moon Shuttle' Is This Week's Arcade Archives Release | Time Extension
  • Oh, man, I'd forgotten about this game! Used to play it on the C64!

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    Google Is Stuffing Annoying Ads Into Its Terrible AI Search Feature
  • Yup. I signed up to their unlimited a while ago, so I was happy to not notice this at all. 🙂👍

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    SSD capacity could quadruple by 2029 — 8Tb NAND will bring big and affordable SSDs to the market
  • I can't believe how much mileage I've gotten out of my 512GB SSDs on my laptops. And my "big" backup disks are hand me down 1TB HDs my friend didn't need. I don't do video, though.

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    Mozilla doubling down on ads in Firefox
  • People 100% aren’t going to pay to access every random website they want to visit. So what you’d end up with in a world without ads is only the big corporations being able to run a website.

    I'm not so convinced. I run a website with zero ads or tracking and I'm not a big corporation.

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    Mozilla doubling down on ads in Firefox
  • I've been sticking with FF proper since it has the sync stuff that's easily used. But it sounds like it's about time to set up a sync server and run a FF fork.

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    My experience with microsoft's ads for linux.
  • My parents are in their 80s and this crap will push them to Linux.

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    Cycle helmet safety ranked by new Imperial research | Imperial News | Imperial College London
  • We found no correlation between price and protection, with the highest-performing helmet being one of the less expensive, retailing at around £50.

    What a scam. I'll bet the same thing happens with motorcycle helmets.

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    Massive E-Learning Platform Udemy Gave Teachers a Gen AI 'Opt-Out Window'. It's Already Over.
  • I switched to in-person teaching a couple years ago and am glad I did. It's been a challenging time as an instructor finding ways to make sure I'm added value.

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    Youtube has fully blocked Invidious
  • Not that; I just write free books on how to write software.

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  • newatlas.com Sega Jet Rocket: The trailblazing '70s arcade game with no computer or screen

    Back in 1970, Sega introduced an arcade game that would pave the way for many of today's most popular video games. Known as Jet Rocket, the electromechanical marvel boasted several world-firsts – even though most people today don't know it ever existed.

    This is a pretty cool analog arcade game. I never saw one when I was a kid... I'd have been hooked.

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    www.lumafield.com How does a car cigarette lighter work?

    Explore the engineering of a car cigarette lighter through industrial CT scans, revealing an efficient analog design that operates without digital components.

    This is an ad for something CT-scan-related, but it contains a good breakdown of how an old car cigarette lighter works. And it has a couple interactive CT Scan explorers past the video.

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    https:// hackthedeveloper.com /c-program-compilation-process/

    Have you ever wondered what happens behind the scenes when you write a C program? How does your code transform from lines of text into a fully functional binary executable? If you’ve been curious about the intricacies of the C program compilation process, you’ve come to the right place.

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