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Between keyboard and seatyifan.luJoined May 2008

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Broken capitalist brains literally cannot think outside of “market” solutions.
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Twitter’s current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark is bullshit. Power to the people! Blue for $8/month.
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I feel like I was “annoying thinking it’s funny” way before all these billionaires started doing it.
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oh no twitter is now run by a crazy billionaire instead of *checks notes* the same crazy billionaire and a bunch of investment funds
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I get more satisfaction from fixing a single toilet than fixing a dozen software bugs.
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I will pay Microsoft for Windows. Just give me a clean install with no ads, no Candy Crush, no trials without having to run some script.
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Ever wondered what's going on inside your headphone jack? Pondered the inner-workings of a power cable? Open Circuits by Windell Oskay (@oskay, @EMSL) & Eric Schlaepfer (@TubeTimeUS) is your window to the unseen design of everyday electronics. Get it here: nostarch.com/open-circuits
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tfw your podcasts get downloaded while you were in France and when you listen a month later all the ads are in French
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20-30% spoof acceptance rate allowing access to your phone’s private data. It was reckless and irresponsible for Google to have shipped this
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The reason it's classified as Class 1 is that its spoof acceptance rate is between 20-30%. Class 2 is 7-20%, while Class 3 is <7%. Face Unlock on Pixel 7 uses the front-facing camera and a ML model, as opposed to the Pixel 4 which had uDepth. ai.googleblog.com/2020/04/udepth
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Rare instance of actual tech journalism.
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How a Microsoft blunder opened millions of PCs to potent malware attacks arstechnica.com/information-te by @dangoodin001
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If you can’t make your VR/AR product sell, market it for enterprise. Aka the google glass playbook.
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You’d think the “kill” command does just one thing and you’d be wrong because that one thing requires the argument “-KILL”.
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Apple: this year we’ll be focusing on safety and life saving features Google: we do things a /little/ different here
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A disturbing number of Pixel users seem to be unable to call 911 androidpolice.com/google-pixel-p
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Away from home so I fixed my gaming mouse with a hairdryer, soldering iron, sewing needle to etch a new circuit, and old wires as wick.
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Does anyone else just fondle the camera bump constantly when using their phone?
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Once in a while I’ll decide to give Edge another try and then something like “built in shopping coupons” makes me Alt+F4 right out.
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*me, 5 minute walk from the beach* “Ughhh what should I do today? Guess I’ll go back to bed.”
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