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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brad buys a house⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine is my first name in neat Gregg Shorthand, then squiggle squiggle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brad buys a house⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the date in the username. So dorky.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A bunny?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A conundrum⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Joke’s on them, I have a 15-year mortgage on my condo. (Lower interest rate than a 30-year mortgage, USA, ymmv)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another win for the blind⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s for the best.

  (I’ll describe it in case you’re serious ||You know those Asian squat toilets, a fancy hole in the floor? First shot is of one of those with a toilet seat suspended over it like a swing. Second shot is outside the stall, angled along the stalls. We see the feet of someone swinging out of the stall, like they’re enjoying the toilet swing. A brown turd-shaped object rolls out from under the stall door. A hand with holding toilet paper reaches out and picks up the turd, pulling it back into the stall.||)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Become irreplaceable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Slaps car. You can fit so many cats in this baby.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Become irreplaceable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same, but my state. It was maybe 6 months after mind was stolen.

  (technically, you can still sell them but the rules are strict. One of the ways was if the catalytic converter was attached to a car at the time. I think the other way was just more paperwork.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are they even doing this, the grass wasn't even that tall⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’ll start making major changes on this active system people are actively using while they are actively using it. Or… I could do it at 10pm when they’re all in bed and won’t write me nastygrams about interrupting their workflow.

  I’m also thinking of things like roadworks, where you can either have land closures when folks are out and about or at night when there are fewer folks on the road and working with hot asphalt is less hot.

  There are also some processes that need to be done at a certain temperature, like thermite welding rail (skip to like 4:00). So, either you air condition the railroads or you weld when the outside temperature is right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The average age of Disney princesses is 505y.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It also twinged my implausibilty meter when they said there were several easy to find podcasts and blog posts on the depths of AiW, but didn’t link to any…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always have a good password⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m optimisticly guessing the devices talk to the router in such a way that their mac addresses can’t be eavesdropped out of the ether, and there’s enough mac addresses in the universe that cycling through spoofed addresses is unlikely to be fruitful.

  Though, I could learn a device’s mac address by setting up a competing wifi device, possibly by a: having a battery-operated one during a power outage or b: being friendly with my neighbors “sure you can borrow my Wi-Fi”.

  Now I’m curious how mac addresses are determined (like, is a Pixel 3’s mac address going to follow a specific pattern?) and I’m going to go look that up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always have a good password⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that bypassable using a spoofed mac address?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The average age of Disney princesses is 505y.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What I got out of it (including the clarification) was “AI ties to Alice in some way also Alice in Wonderland is deeper than you think” and the ties to AI were where I felt it was either nonsense or not written for the audience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The average age of Disney princesses is 505y.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you. I follow a tad better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The average age of Disney princesses is 505y.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand what you wrote. Please explain like I’ve not take a literature class since high school. (I read, but mostly for fun or computer tech information, which is also for fun.)