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This. I had a huge problem with static shocking my desk in the dry winter air, causing my monitor to blank out for a few seconds. A small, quiet ultrasonic humidifier completely el…

Yep, there is always the human factor. Leave a USB drive in a parking lot, someone will insert it. You don't even need an obvious drive anymore, a malicious cable will suffice.

I miss the days when the big security concern was quantum breaking contemporary encryption. Air gaps and local stacks are overdue for a comeback.

I'd forgotten about PageMaker. I was on my college newspaper staff and we used it for layout. It was a small college in the rural midwest, so the local newspaper ran our copies. Th…

Thanks for sharing - I hadn't seen that video. I'm a fan of Technology Connections on YT. I've sent his Nyquist-Shannon video to several friends: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW…

I experienced ChatGPT confidently giving incorrect answers about the Schwarzchild radius of the black hole at the center of our galaxy, Saggitarius A-star. Both when asked about "t…

> AI projects, like much of digital technology, need to be regulated far more heavily than they currently are. The ideology of “permissionless innovation” so cherished by tech lead…

I agree. A live chat support option, appropriately staffed, is often the most expedient way to get help. I work configuring contact center software. Chat agents are often more expe…

This is the crux of the issue. If society places value on more future taxpayers, it needs to create the environment where more people want to create future taxpayers. We would have…

Man, I miss webrings. I could rabbit-hole down a group of sites about a particular interest for hours.

I read 4 months of severance, plus 2 weeks per year of service (likely up to a maximum?), 6 months of health insurance paid, plus job placement services from a 3rd-party vendor. Th…

Funny... my roommates and I used "just" for comedic effect in college. I was stuck writing an algorithm and asked my more-experienced roommate for help. He briefly scanned my code …

If Elon can get enough publishers on board I'd gladly pay more than $8/mo. Maybe offer a tiered system. Or better yet, choose-your-own. $8/mo: Choose 2 $12/mo: Choose 4 $15/mo: Cho…

That one still kills me. By Carmack's comment, surprised him too.

Same conclusion here. Pushing 500+ watts through surface-mount solder joints is pure negligence.

At my last company, we had 12 identical Facebook apps working as service-to-service messaging integrations. They chose to have 12 apps due to data sovereignty reasons, separating i…

"Purchases."

I live near Carmel, Indiana, the roundabout capital of the US. Small ones, large ones, figure 8's, figure... double-peanut-looking things with elevated crossovers near interstate j…

Having an absolute shit-show for a healthcare and education system falls under "not perfect". I'll freely admit a good many Americans (even most) would be better off living in Euro…

"Freedom of Expression and Belief": US, 3/4. Germany, 4/4. Report invalidated.

France has similar restrictions. French courts tried to restrict eBay from selling Nazi memorabilia to French citizens. I don't like it. Which is why I choose to continue living in…

I was going to say, there are valid security use-cases for doing this.

All I can say is "welcome to hell". I had a job managing ~13 Facebook Apps and permissions, which I left in August for greener pastures. The opportunity not to work with Facebook (…

I've seen several job postings requiring 10 years' experience with the cloud platform I work with. It released in 2015. I always go by the "75% rule" - if I meet 75% of requirement…

Oddly enough, I do. Seems to be a visual bug only. Win 10 20H2 build 19042.928.