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r0ertel

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  • FTC’s click-to-cancel rule has been struck down by federal judges at the eleventh hour

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  • This is the FTC's rule, but nothing prevents each and every state from implementing a law to do the exact same thing, except slightly differently than every other state, making it extremely costly for the companies to implement.

  • What automation processes have you implemented that make your life easier?

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  • Wxterior lights turn on and off with sunrise and set. It's been running on a raspberry pi b for ages with Misterhouse. I'd like to change it over to something newer, but I automated it because I have other things to do.

    I used to download school menus and expose it to my phone as an ical feed, but no longer need that. It still runs. I should shut it off some day...

  • What's the most unexpectedly useful item you've ever bought under $20?

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  • I have an old one, maybe they were manufactured differently. The main part is a hard plastic. I never noticed a plastic taste, but it could also be the rubber/silicone plunger stopper that imparts a taste. They do now sell a glass one, but I've heard that it's overpriced.

    I know people who also swear by their French press. From what I know, regardless of the brew method, the grind is the most important factor, followed by the water quality and temperature.

  • What's the most unexpectedly useful item you've ever bought under $20?

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  • An Aeropress. I bought it when work removed the free coffee and was super surprised at how good it tasted vs what they were serving. Later, I found a bean hand grinder that fits right inside the Aeropress plunger and now I take it on work trips, vacation and camping.

    It's not fully inclusive for $20 because you need a cup, some way to procure and heat water and beans but still, it's served me well.

  • Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy

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  • I keep my seedbox in the planter at the coffee shop down the road with free WiFi.

  • Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy

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  • I couldn't afford one of those fancy 2-cassette boomboxes, so I had my friend bring his tape deck and we put them real close together in the quietest room of the house and recorded that way. Having several siblings meant that there were no quiet places, so we used the empty garage when my parents were at work. The audio was autrocious, tons of echo and static, but I played that tape thin until it snapped.

  • Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy

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  • Several countries require proof of ID to purchase a SIM card.

  • What topic do you have the most knowledge, and can you explain it so a child can understand it?

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  • This worked well for me when I could see the screw and it's orientation was the same as me viewing it. If I was turning it and it was rotated 90° away from me, I'd get it wrong. In physics class, we studied electromagnetic forces and I learned about the right hand rule which for some odd reason works better for me than righy-tighty. The Wikipedia article is long and the TL;DR is that if you use your right hand and turn in the direction of your fingers, the screw will move in the direction of your thumb.

    Of course lefties are SOL as are folks without thumbs.

  • [SOLVED] ELI5: How to put several servers on one external IP?

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  • My mantra is "plan to be hacked". Whether this is a good backup strategy, a read-only VM, good monitoring or serious firewall rules.

  • Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

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  • Are you referring to the AI search results? If so, I've fallen into a similar strategy. I'll search for something, usuaply how to do something then read the AI result. If it's what I'm looking for, then I'll click through to the referenced articles. The AI result is usually too vague. Part of my problem is probably bad searching skills on my part. I'll often find what I'm looking for way down the first page or sometimes the second page of results. The AI cuts through that searching page after page or tells me that I need to change my search terms.

  • Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course

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  • I suppose that makes perfect sense. A corporation is an accountability sink for owners, board members and executives, so why not also make AI accountable?

    I was thinking more along the lines of the "human in the loop" model for AI where one human is responsible for all the stuff that AI gets wrong despite it physically not being possible to review every line of code an AI produces.

  • Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course

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  • I was thinking about this the other day and don't think it would happen any time soon. The people who put the CEO in charge (usually the board members) want someone who will make decisions (that the board has a say in) but also someone to hold accountable for when those decisions don't realize profits.

    AI is unaccountable in any real sense of the word.

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  • Completely off topic... I saw a comedian in Arizona (USA) who said that his family was so poor that the family car didn't have air conditioning installed. They didn't want anybody to know that they were poor, so they would drive around with the windows rolled up.

  • Console display options

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  • It's a VGA connection and, yes, my primary concern is resource usage. I'm running 2-3 VMs on it so that I can easily migrate the VM around.

  • Console display options

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  • I had plain old top and it was boring. I did not know how many alternatives there were.

    I'll also have to check out cmatrix.

  • Console display options

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  • This is an excellent idea!

  • Do you actually audit open source projects you download?

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  • Generally, no. On some cases where I'm extending the code or compiling it for some special case that I have, I will read the code. For example, I modified a web project to use LDAP instead of a local user file. In that case, I had to read the code to understand it. In cases where I'm recompiling the code, my pipeline will run some basic vulnerability scans automatically.

    I would not consider either of these a comprehensive audit, but it's something.

    Additionally, on any of my server deployments, I have firewall rules which would catch "calls to home". I've seen a few apps calling home, getting blocked but no adverse effects. The only one I can remember is Traefik, which I flipped a config value to not do that.

  • Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world

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  • This smells a little funny, as others have suggested. I read an article a while ago that suggested that we're not running out of raw materials; we're thinking about the problem wrong:

    Chachra proposes that we could – we must – treat material as scarce, and that one way to do this is to recognize that energy is not. We can trade energy for material, opting for more energy intensive manufacturing processes that make materials easier to recover when the good reaches its end of life. We can also opt for energy intensive material recovery processes. If we put our focus on designing objects that decompose gracefully back into the material stream, we can build the energy infrastructure to make energy truly abundant and truly clean.

    This is all outlined in the book How Infrastructure Works from Deb Chachra.

  • ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows

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  • I read recently that the lidar on many self driving cars can wreck the CCD on most phones. I don't know how it works, but maybe parking one of the cars by your front door will solve your problem.