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  • Exploding toilet at a Dunkin' store in Florida left a customer filthy and injured, lawsuit claims

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  • Was Florida Man flushing M80s again?

    Toilets can break, fall, shatter, etc and cause injury, but generally won't explode without some help.

  • Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994

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  • The Clippy Key.

  • xkcd #2875: 2024

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  • Even if Obama were eligible, I doubt that we could convince him to do it again.

    He seems way too happy with retirement to want to deal with the militant toddlers that sprung up after he left.

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  • I have had various sticks and Roku highest end models and then got the latest ATV with hard wire port that adds Dolby vision and high frame rate HDR. I have a 2022 high-end TV.

    The video quality is noticeably better. Not sure of older ATV, but this is clearly better than the top end Roku. Also, I'm not sure if it is the same on older tvs

    The other thing is that you want to hard wire if at all possible. Even the best wifi can't touch the reliability of a wire

  • Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th unless you pay extra for ad-free

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  • Enshitification won't stop until the frogs realize that they are being boiled to death and jump out of the pot.

  • we have lost so much knowledge over the (checks notes) last fifty years

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  • There are stories of B52 pilots flying the same plane as their grandfather. Not just flying but still in active military service.

    I suspect that 99% of the parts have been replaced through maintenance or upgrades, but technically, it is still the same plane.

    With parts and maintenance machines can last virtually forever.

  • Rule

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  • The test is negative. Sorry honey, you're not pregnant. You're just fat.

  • Just two dogs, hanging out

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  • You can leash train otters?

  • Just delete it already rule

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  • For commodity online services, you are lucky that people even give you their email address. The number of people who provide anything more is extremely low. OP is freaking out that they are emailing. If they called him on the phone, he would lose his shit.

    The terms of service explicitly state that any communications and legal notices about the services will be delivered via the email address that must be verified at sign up. It is not unreasonable to ask customers to provide a valid way to send them service related messages.

    Google isn't going to call you or send you old-school paper mail when they discontinue a service. Even if they did, 99% of people would think that it was a scam.

    All that being said, we will always scream test things like EOL of a service just to catch anyone who missed the communications.

  • Just delete it already rule

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  • Not sarcastic. I work for a provider, and we warn people of service changes a bunch of times over a period of months.

    Despite this, you will still get a bunch of people complaining that they were never told, we surprised them with it at the last minute, etc.

    A change that deletes customer data brings in legal as well. If one of these people tries to sue for losing their data you want to be able to show that you provided plenty of notice and warning.

    Companies will often "scream test" a data loss change. Meaning you turn it off, but don't really delete right away to see who screams that their data is gone. Anyone screaming gets some short time period to recover the data.

  • Text editor war

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  • +1 for nano. I just need to change two parameters in a config file, not join a religion.

  • Musk wanted to use Tesla cameras to spy on drivers and win autopilot lawsuits

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  • A little piece of electrical tape solves this.

  • reminder

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  • Or maybe you don't install a data mining spy device in the office?

  • Watching ads while grandma is choking on a fish bone

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  • 911 dispatchers are trained and certified to provide concise and accurate medically reviewed instructions over the phone so that you are not just standing there waiting for the ambulance.

  • Usually connect to Walmart's WiFi but they changed their policy I guess, won't be doing that now...

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  • You do realize that they are actually tracking the device itself by the hardware MAC address and other device fingerprints.

    The email is just a bonus to let them legally spam you. Anti-spam laws have an exemption. If there's a prior business relationship like shopping in their stores, they can put you on their spam list unless you opt out.

    Bogus email only helps for spam but doesn't do anything about tracking.

    EDIT: For Android when there's a Captive Portal like the screen shot. devices will use Persistent randomization which while not the hardware MAC will remain the same for the same network where they can track your visits.

  • Ideas for programming rizz?

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  • You can also combine your names into a Linux distribution.

    Deb + Ian = Debian.

  • Google Says It'll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI

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  • Isn't crawling and scraping content what Google and every other search engine has been doing since day one?