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IphtashuFitz

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  • Atlassian goes cloud-only, customers face integration issues

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  • I used to be on a team of 10 people that installed & managed roughly 3,000 servers and associated networking gear. We got hit hard in the early 2000’s by the Capacitor Plague and it fell on me to identify around 700 faulty motherboards and manage their replacement.

    I don’t miss that at all…

  • Flipper Zero, Car Thieves, and a Brewing Security Crisis: What’s Really Going On?

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  • Part of the problem is how insanely complex modern cars are. Modern cars can have 30+ different ECUs, and knowing which ECU does what can be difficult to figure out. Programming ECUs is also a bit of a dark art, and a model line of cars can go through a number of ECU versions over time.

    I used to own a car that the battery regularly died on. Eventually, after multiple dealer visits, a couple replaced batteries, and hours of internet research, I found two service recalls that described my cars symptoms perfectly. The problem for me was my cars VIN fell outside both recall notices. But I took printouts of both recall notices to a dealer and they agreed to look into it. They confirmed my car had buggy firmware, annd ended up installing updated firmware on two different ECUs. I never had a battery problem again after that. I’ve worked in tech for 30+ years and I wouldn’t have wanted to tackle that on my own…

  • The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security

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  • Yeah, but how would dismantling the SSA have helped SpaceX?

  • Sextortion with a twist: Spyware takes webcam pics of users watching porn

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  • Bluetooth? I got mine from a dial-up BBS via a 1200 baud modem.

  • TIL the US Navy maintains a private forest to supply the wooden ship USS Constitution

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  • None of those were built in 1797. It’s the world's oldest commissioned naval warship still afloat.

  • GOP discontent with RFK Jr. is growing

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  • Oh they’ll be available in states like California, Oregon, Colorado, Massachusetts, etc. where those state governments are willing to stand up to Mr. Worm-Brain. Where they won’t be available will be the Deep South & other red states.

    I’m willing to bet those same states will prohibit reporting on Covid deaths, so there will be no easy way to document that the vaccines work.

  • What are some things for a new home owner to consider getting early on?

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  • The water softener & filter in our house has built in monitoring & alerted me when one of our toilets wouldn’t stop running. Very helpful feature.

  • Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs

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  • This. I’ll happily buy an 8k TV only if it’s a dumb TV/monitor.

  • Should I be concerned about Email responses from my custom email being flagged as spam?

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  • Definitely make sure all of those are set up properly. I would also look up the IP address of your mail server on services like this. It’s possible your ISP/provider has a bad email reputation, and if that’s the case then there’s not a whole lot you can do short of switching providers or using a third party SMTP relay that has a good reputation, like smtp2go.com.

  • I've got a road trip planned. It'll be about 2800 mi, 4500 km. I think I'm prepared but sure I'm overlooking things. I'd love to hear your tips and recommendations; your holy grails!

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  • Excellent idea. I have AAA and it’s saved me a number of times over the years, from jumping dead batteries to helping with flat tires, to a 100 mile tow after my transmission failed…

  • I've got a road trip planned. It'll be about 2800 mi, 4500 km. I think I'm prepared but sure I'm overlooking things. I'd love to hear your tips and recommendations; your holy grails!

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  • Don’t be afraid to make detours. My wife & I have done a few such trips, and on one of them we passed a sign for a memorial & museum of the Tuskegee Airmen. We took a detour to check it out and thoroughly enjoyed it.

  • TIL the US Navy maintains a private forest to supply the wooden ship USS Constitution

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  • For clarification, the USS Constitution typically does not sail or otherwise maneuver under her own power. Instead, she is towed by a tugboat. I think it has sailed under her own power only three times in recent history, starting back in 1997 when it was towed out of Boston harbor, sailed up the coast unassisted for about an hour, then was towed to Marblehead for a visit before returning to Boston. That was the first time in 116 years that it sailed unassisted.

    Source: I was crewing on one of the US Coast Guard Auxiliary escort vessels and had a “front row seat” to the event.

  • Have a Child or Buy a Horse?

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  • My dad was an avid boater. I grew up on the water, and loved it. I learned pretty quickly just how expensive it is to own & operate one. There’s an old adage that a boat is a hole in the water that you throw money into, and it’s pretty accurate. Despite my love of boats & the water I never considered getting one myself when I grew up, mainly due to the expense.

  • What in your country/area is totally normal but visitors get excited for?

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  • Especially if you need to rake them up etc.

  • What in your country/area is totally normal but visitors get excited for?

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  • Painting is of a river in Pennsylvania. The artist painted it while there, then displayed it in the UK. Many who saw it, not being familiar with the fall colors of the northeast US, thought it was fake.

  • What in your country/area is totally normal but visitors get excited for?

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  • Leaves.

    Yes, tree leaves.

    Each fall when they start changing color flocks of tourists come up to gawk at them.

  • Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras

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  • In some states an obscured/unreadable license plate is all a cop needs to pull you over…

  • The AI company Perplexity is complaining their bots can't bypass Cloudflare's firewall

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  • I hate to break it to you but not only does Cloudflare do this sort of thing, but so does Akamai, AWS, and virtually every other CDN provider out there. And far from being awful, it’s actually protecting the web.

    We use Akamai where I work, and they inform us in real time when a request comes from a bot, and they further classify it as one of a dozen or so bots (search engine crawlers, analytics bots, advertising bots, social networks, AI bots, etc). It also informs us if it’s somebody impersonating a well known bot like Google, etc. So we can easily allow search engines to crawl our site while blocking AI bots, bots impersonating Google, and so on.

  • CBO Confirms Trump Budget Law Will Trigger Over $500 Billion in Automatic Medicare Cuts | Common Dreams

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  • But this isn’t a death panel!

    (This is removing the funding so they can’t even create a panel.)