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Ebby

@ Ebby @lemmy.ssba.com

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  • New Year's broadcasts behind paywalls

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  • The "every 2 seconds" hit a chord with me. I hated antenna channels because of the glitching.

    Turns out 4G & 5G cell phone signals cause interference. I added a filter in line with my antenna and most of the glitching went away. I still tuned the antenna for max signal strength, but there is enough error correction in ATSC that a signal strength of 75% or higher is stable for me.

    But definitely look up that filter. It should really be standard kit. OTA sucked without it.

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  • Smart move 👍

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  • Congratulations, you're in a new database.

    I imagine it has a unique code (last digits of CC#) location and timestamp, and valuable purchase information advertisers are salivating over to profile you; and yes, I mean you, not your cousin. The only cash your cousin will see is just enough scraps to trigger feel-good responses so this can happen again.

    Edit: if the receipt is indeed yours...

  • To Save Las Vegas, Pedestrianize the Strip

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  • Las vegas already has an amazing elevated pedestrian system and is incredibly easy to traverse. Some casinos and attractions have designed their buildings to use this as direct ingress points. I do wish more large cities have a pedestrian network above ground level. It's super cool. But closing the strip won't bring new capabilities.

    You have a city in a desert and for the majority, driving is the cheapest option. Diverting all strip traffic to parallel 2-lane roads will quickly saturate capacity.

    Not to mention driving down the strip is an attraction to some.

  • Holiday Upgrade Disasters

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  • I had an Ubuntu system eat itself Christmas Eve at 1am. I think an update pooched some folder permissions and wiped the firewall settings.

    It started with "Huh, the network drives won't mount", progressed to containers failing to start with "hardware not found" GPU-related errors -oh yeah, I still have to check that and make sure it is working- and yadda yadda... 13 hours later I got services back up and running.

    Oof, today I slept in until 10. Ahhhhh...

  • Holiday Upgrade Disasters

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  • Man, I wanted my Zoraxy migration to go smoothly, but it's been stubborn as hell for me. 80% of my services transfered well, but a couple docker containers don't like it and never got letsencrypt wildcard dns up and running; always an error. Still working on that in my spare time.

  • What was the last dvd/cd your burned? do you still use such media?

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  • Mine was a live CD of Ubuntu about 3 years ago. It was an older computer and the front USB ports weren't plugged in so no USB drive.

  • YSK about Psyllium husk

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  • ... but they all turned out like shit

    Well punned good sir

  • Dog people vs cat people

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  • Can't argue with that; I'm nursing some scratches from this morning.

  • Dog people vs cat people

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  • Lucky. Your cat faces you while standing on your chest screaming its head off. I wake up to the 'ol one eye winker.

    On occasion though, that pic is accurate and so worth it.

  • Data centers need electricity, utilities need years to build – who should pay?

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  • Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith

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  • We burned a lot of midnight oil on that company. It was a early data analytics type venture that was fun, but had a lot of long nights. We had an ethical spin from the ground up which, in hindsight, is not really the direction the Internet wanted to take.

    It was a great bunch of folks though. We keep in touch now and then.

  • Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith

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  • We had no intention of making/hosting a website with the trademark. The company was in agreement.

    After we got it, the bossman comes to me and says "so we can make this email addresses now, right?"

    Like, duuude... It's not his expertise, I know, but he thought web pages and email was totally separate systems.

    Anyway, that was almost 25 years ago. All water under the bridge.

  • Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith

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  • That's kinda how cybersquatting laws work.

    Someone registered an available domain hours after I searched for it when I received our trademark. The domain was immediately put up for sale. I spent almost a year getting my ducks in a row to sue and reclaim the domain (I even had screenshots of the availability. The scammer was watching registration queries) but they let the domain expire for lack of interest. I scooped it up after that.

  • Your Data Might Determine How Much You Pay for Eggs

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  • I don't think Target is either complying with the law nor violating it; I don't think it applies whatsoever and they just added the disclosure anyway. I no longer know who to believe so I'll just assume they are all a bunch of lying arseholes at our expense.

    Different stores have different prices based on geolocation. There's nothing new with that. But if that reflects on the website, an algorithm didn't use personal data to determine anything.

    What I do think, besides incompetence, may be a desensitizing campaign numbing customers to the practice possibly for a future rollout or drum up opposition.

    EDIT: Instarget is fucking about. "At a Target in North Canton, Ohio, Skippy peanut butter was $2.99 for some shoppers and $3.59 for others. The full 20-item basket varied by about 7% within each store." "An Instacart spokeswoman said retailers on its platform set their own prices... A Target spokesman said the company is not affiliated with Instacart and bears no responsibility for prices on the platform." https://groundworkcollaborative.org/work/instacart/

  • Build Your Own Glasshole Detector

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  • I logged unique broadcasting Bluetooth devices for fun for a few months and I was amazed at how many hundreds if not thousands of devices it found.

    And that logger was stationary. Unless you know and filter the Bluetooth address ranges of what you are looking for, you will be swamped with irrelevant data.

    Side note: those Bluetooth beacons tracking people in stores are absolutely gobbling data.

  • Pebble Time 2 has screws

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  • Nothing wrong if you have the drivers, but if you find yourself in a pinch, they aren't prevalent like Philips or standard screwdrivers. A socket set is part of our emergency kit now.

  • Pebble Time 2 has screws

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  • My SO's car is a Ford (pretty reliable actually) and the first fix-it we did needed torx bits. Ugh, go out and get a set of those... come back and start again. I look around and they are everywhere. It might deter some, but to us it was a waste of time and a F-you to those of us who can fix our piles.

    Oh, and a special F-you to whomever designed the absolute useless (not making it up; it's a 4 inch hollow chunk or metal welded to the frame nothing bolts to, hides inside, or protects) protrusion blocking a wrench from the oil drain bolt. A pox on thee!

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    Living Alone In the Woods

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  • TIL Thanksgiving was moved earlier so Christmas shopping could start sooner.

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  • Indentured servants are more exploitable than consumers; you don't have to solicit for their money with goods.