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postnataldrip

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    I’ve spent many hours walking down memory lane with the Commodore 64 Ultimate, and it’s wondrous if sometimes intimidating

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  • I was forced to bin my original C64, tape deck, disk drive, joysticks, a couple of printers (one was a daisy wheel lol), many many games and apps and my own projects etc. It still saddens me thinking about it.

    These stories rub a bit of salt in the wound but it's pretty cool that there's still interest in them. They were a fantastic thing - easy to use for the basics, powerful enough that once you moved past those basics (and BASIC itself) it still had plenty to offer. And crucially, in a modern context, it's not so advanced that it leaves nothing for you to do - you still need to figure things out for yourself, and there's a lot of satisfaction in figuring out a hack to make it do something. So good.

    I'm tempted to get one but that's a rabbit hole I'm not sure I have the time for these days!

  • BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace

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  • Came across this which I've not validated but does seem to make sense at a glance: Comparison of WLTP and CLTC

    Based on that the WLTP range would be 828-900km (515-560 miles).

    Real world, 6-700km at a guess?

  • Something about work / life balance

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  • It's been ages but if my memory isn't lying to me...

    you're right about the bad guy end up being a VP, the whole story unravels in front of Robocop and the company's board, and the dude is standing there smugly because one of Robocop's core directives is he can't kill an executive of the company. The CEO in standard 80s action movie style says "hey

    <name>

    ... you're fired", Robocop pauses long enough for the bad guy to realise what just happened, then shoots the guy

    Also the above is for the first movie, I think the second movie is where the sentry thing does the deed.

    I should dust these off and watch them again lol

  • Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 days

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  • Sadly many won't care, but for those that do it removes one of the key differentiators. Plus it's kind of hard to trust a company that has had such a wild change in values - Apple have at least been consistent.

    Edit: I didn't think it needed to be spelled out, but no I'm not suggesting Apple are trustworthy.

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  • Gotta love a heroic snotpest

  • Whats a good way to help my mother be profitble at craftfairs?

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  • Is her goal to make money? Or is it just an outing and a chance to socialise with people who share an interest? If the latter, then she may be getting everything she wants out of the experience so doesn't see the need to change anything, in fact being more popular might be bad in that context. (Edit: just realised this is pretty much what one of the other replies asked, apologies.)

    Otherwise, and I'm no expert at this stuff by any stretch, but purely from a casual attendee's perspective, location is really important. Don't be in a corner where there's hardly any foot traffic, and if you can, try to set up next to whatever booths are busiest at your events - for the ones near me that'd be things like coffee, ice cream, bakery etc depending on time of year. They are always packed, and food/drink booths usually have people with a few minutes to kill while they're waiting for their order.

    If you have dozens of people milling about in front of your stall waiting for a coffee, the odds of someone spotting one of your products increases massively, and some of those may turn into sales.

  • Hundreds of Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking

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  • Gotcha, and apologies for missing your point.

    I agree 100%, the privacy and security tradeoffs are enormous and concerning.

  • Hundreds of Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking

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  • By all means call out if I've misunderstood, but the tracking vulnerability isn't that BLE (by design) makes devices visible to everyone within range, it's that by binding an unclaimed device to an account you gain the ability to look up that device via Google's service, rather than needing to be nearby - you can simply ask Google to call on its global network to find "your" device. In other words, there's nothing stopping me from setting an alert when a given BT device is nearby, that's spot on, but I can't fire up Google to look up that device when I'm not nearby, or look up its location history.

    And yes needing to have never been connected to an Android device definitely reduces the victim pool, but (and to address the other reply) I'm guessing it'd mean devices that have only ever been connected to iOS, Linux, Windows etc aren't "claimed" and can still be enrolled by the attacker. It's not about default creds, only having used devices that don't enrol with Google is enough, as it leaves the device available to claim.

    3.5mm ftw and all that, but I doubt all the parents of teenagers with potentially vulnerable devices will have much luck convincing their kids to switch!

  • Hundreds of Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking

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  • If you want to listen to their mic via bluetooth or whatever, yes. But there's also this:

    Some devices also support Google's Find Hub network. This enables users to find their lost accessories using crowdsourced location reports from other Android devices. However, if an accessory has never been paired with an Android device, an attacker can add the accessory using their own Google account. This allows the attacker to track the user via the compromised accessory.

  • Easy-Intermediate-Hard

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  • My dad was the opposite thankfully! He taught me to drive in the bush, on the beach etc, well before legal driving age, as soon as I could reach the pedals, and taught me to ride a dirt bike when he scored one small enough for me for cheap. He also taught basic repairs, we were not wealthy so everything we had needed fixing pretty regularly lol.

    For him it was a father/son bonding thing, and we both loved it. I still have a love of cars and bikes which I suspect stems from those early experiences.

    I have to assume too that learning the road rules and the like was a lot easier without needing to learn driving basics at the same time. Why most places seem to teach "car control" and "road rules and traffic" together is beyond me.

  • Ever happen to you?

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  • English is my native language. I have on more than one occasion gone blank trying to think of a word, only to remember it in Japanese. Which is particularly amusing when it's the kana-ised version of the English word I had forgotten.

  • Is Autism something old or has it been developed recently?

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  • Others have answered but I feel obliged to add this.

  • You just can't win

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  • Assuming it's not made up, I dare say they had to be booked for something, otherwise the next evening there'd be a parade of cars being pushed home from their local watering holes

  • So apparently full stops in texts are 'passive agressive' now. What other unwritten rules for texting have changed over the last couple of decades?

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  • LOL means Lots Of Love

    "She didn't make it. She's dead 😭"

    "OMG LOL"

  • Which of your most fucked up exes tried to come back to your life in the most fucked up way?

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  • Please tell me she yelled "fork you"

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  • Aussies could be a world superpower

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  • Chundersaurus

  • Options for remote Wake-on-lan. Or I guess wake on WAN.

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  • Booting on a schedule as others have suggested would be the simplest by far.

    To answer as asked though, it's not something I've needed to do but it sounds like a VPN + IGMP proxy (I'm assuming you have a separate subnet for your VPN) might fit the bill.

    Alternatively some kind of low power device (a Pi or something) that lives in the same subnet could make the WOL call locally, and you just need to find a way to trigger it. Could do it via a http call for example.

  • What little things do you do each day that are your small ways of sticking it to the man?

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  • I used to do that, but here (Australia) passing on surcharges has sadly been normalised, and during covid heaps of businesses went cashless.

    The salt in the wound is that there's not really any reason for businesses to push payment gateways for a better deal. They don't give a shit any more as they just pass it into the customer.