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I think the 2 funniest I found here are "TT Firebird Ribeye" which just sounds like an incredibly specific steakhouse menu item, and "Privacy II", which I just think is a bit on th…

I've done some pretty stupid things in my day relating to various activities far* from civilization (my dumbest being an offroad motorcycle trip by myself for which I was not nearl…

This reminds me of something I saw on a backpacking blog sometime last year. Project Remote, a family that's finding and hiking to all the "most remote" place in each state of the …

Interestingly, I noticed this in aproximately real time. I had been checking up on the visible-light geocolor composite images every hour or so to look at the massive plume of Cana…

I recently started Postcrossing. 5 sent, with 2 traveling to Russia and China (from the US, it's been ~40+ days, I figured those 2 would take a while, but we will see if they get d…

I get all my 2FA through SMS or a Yubikey. It took a bit of wrangling from corporate IT, but it was "Get my yubikey or SMS working or buy me a company phone and pay for service tha…

I would have had no idea if it weren't for this post. It isn't displayed or acknowledged ANYWHERE on any page, through 3 or 4 pages of "Are you SURE you want to delete your account…

This is the real tip. Thank you. I had gone through a whole process probably 2 years ago now to "recover" my account that I lost the original email and forgot the password. I event…

Luckily our eyes tend to be closed when we're asleep. Evolutionary safety squints.

I saw the "Get $50 off!" and thought "Oh cool, maybe I could get this for $150!" then checked the actual page and saw $499... absolutely not. Also the whole store page just feels o…

I saw the original post first and thought it looked fishy so wanted to see what the comments looked like. My muscle memory for immediately clicking the last link on the right under…

This is only tangentially related to early high-quality materials, but since I'm already strolling down memory lane: My dad used to work as an after-hours maintenance tech at a gra…

I actually had to go check to make sure the DC did originally have a modem before posting. I've been dabbling in Dreamcast modding the last couple of years, and the only network ad…

I don't know, I've got a ~10 year old 1B+ sitting there running Pihole just fine. My ass remains un-kicked.

It's funny that this was my first thought, too. I am sure game console browsers were an entry point for whole generations of kids. Mine WOULD have been through the Dreamcast, but b…

That hit me, too, specifically thinking about my current gas/electricity provider. I have not heard one single piece of positive feedback from the public, and there's only ever pro…

I am notoriously "bad" at texting. My phone's on silent almost 95% of the time, I don't even have a smartphone so the only way to get to me wirelessly is to call or text. I got rea…

I think also to a degree, even if someone knows those other water use figures, it's easy to see an intrinsic value to the community from those sources. Many people do not see much …

I somehow hadn't even considered Bluetooth as an option when I read the headline, I immediately thought about INFILTRATING via audio, which also sounds insanely cool, but I couldn'…

I have always preferred some kind of physical calculator for doing calculations. I never need to do excruciatingly complex math, but I have a cherished TI-34 from the early 90's th…

"You can just make it type words, what's the risk in that?" Makes you wonder what other peripheral companies out there are also operating with seemingly no security team. There mus…

"Diversify my portfolio. Lose no money."