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* influx of Indian users on US-based residential proxies causing the 'popular in US' feed to be nothing but nonstop Indian-based clones of popular subreddits (indianteenagers and various others)

* influx of group-specific-hate subreddits being allowed to exist freely (it's OK to hate men, but not women, from what I'm seeing on Reddit)

I still can't even get a physical key anywhere in person. You can certainly get phones just about anywhere, but you can't get any FIDO keys at brick and mortar, last I checked.

Until I can tell Grandma to "go down to Walmart and ask the man at the electronics counter for a Yubikey", we still have a few issues.

(No. Ordering online is *not* a valid option in this scenario. If I want to order a Yubikey to this address at this exact moment in time and space, Amazon won't deliver one to me for at least six days at the earliest, based on their rural delivery estimate. Replacing a key is basically impossible.)

They're too busy pushing malware on the rest of their lineup in system updates left, right, and center.

silently re-enables com.glance.lockscreenM one more time on you...

Junkyard Jumbotron redux? ;)

https://github.com/mitmedialab/Junkyard-Jumbotron https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAUtSVSTbzU

Comes with the full Tesla experience of recalls and safety issues.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2023/Radio-Flyer-Recalls-Cyberq...

They charge 63% for user-created items inside Fortnite as of next year. No, you don't get to build your own store inside Fortnite, but you do get to bend over to Epic's price gouging and profiteering of its own.

"If you think autistic people can't be funny you've probably never seen one being hyperfixated on committing to the bit, no matter the cost."

[oof, I also feel this in my approach to projects.]

Also getting slammed with the "to keep Reddit safe" bullshit.

How do banned users access Old Reddit? Do they just Not?

Same - I had an extremely horrid experience at a local dealership's service department, and that one only appears when I'm signed in and looking at it, but doesn't appear at all signed out, yet the rest of my reviews are A-OK.

A little worrying.

"Tech workers"?

"a salary of more than $500,000 in her most recent position, as a mid-tier executive at Meta"

I'm sorry, but if you're making over half a million in TC a year, you can have an emergency fund set aside as an overpaid executive.

How many actual tech workers (the ones making under $100k, lol) are facing even harder financial security than the first-world-problems of some Facebook exec who could afford two nannies?

Slate also had 3 years of skunkworks behind the scenes by Re:Build Manufacturing as "Project Re:Car" with millions being thrown behind it by Bezos and friends.

https://rebuildmanufacturing.com/work/slate/

The fact these guys are still trying to find manufacturing partners and suppliers is killing me when Slate's got Tier-1s (Vitro) already lined up cranking out windshields in Mexico for them (among the rest of the f*cking owl that is the truck coming together here in the US ;) )

I've also had basically zero issue with Lightning connectors, but had a constant battle with USB-C of every kind to figure out what's charging, what's data, what's PD, and so much more hassle.

I don't get why Apple was forced to colonize by the EU when they had the market-leading connector in place for significantly longer than USB-C even existed.

"It's only USB2!" Does it have to support the faster USB3 speeds? Not really... we don't have to keep forcing everything to include the latest kitchen sink support.

Sure? With the continual modern improvements and safety engineering and education, I'll live right at the nuke if you'd like.

Every plant doesn't operate in a silo (well, it does in a physical sense), the operating knowledge and expertise is shared far and wide to help keep another Three Mile Island or another Fukushima from happening. I enjoy watching the training in action from the control room simulators.[1]

Just let me hunker down in the FLEX shelter when the time comes.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuLuQvxJTpQ, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXfuuWfyP6Y is nice and soothing.

and the hilarious part is if you're along the US-Canadian border (or in most of Maine), you're in this magical 1.9GHz PCS coordination zone that they can't provide T-Satellite service in, and provide basically zero information that that's a thing.

https://i.imgur.com/pagujRS.png

this is a map of the t-satellite coverage from the t-mobile coverage map, just the t-sat layer.

So... I got banned from PayPal (with no explanation) and Stripe closed my account (with no recourse for 'crowdfunding' after linking to Ko-Fi).

Cool, awesome, that's gonna be a great monopolistic picture for those that get unbanked across the entire Internet.

I've been using retractable USB-C cables with as many compact "connector-size" dongles as I can get my hands on.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FC1HSS9X/ for RJ45/Ethernet - these are super small and deliver full gigabit speed, for instance.

Similar things for video (tiny HDMI male adapter), and even my walkie-talkie (the Chinese market has come up with Motorola programming cable adapters that are just little dongles - https://www.ebay.com/itm/800104798120 - I can reprogram and even reload AES256 keys into my radio!).

PD triggers let my travel CPAP run off of battery (using a Transcend Micro - it only needs a 19V PD trigger and a solid 100W).

And of course... an Ecoflow solar hat and a battery I can shove in my back pocket for when I'm wandering around in the open air.

... and I just realized I can hook my Sony Reon Pocket cooler up to the solar hat...

You're absolutely right!

.... and that's because the mainframe industry is so heavily gatekept that the information feels practically word-of-mouth between a circle of old greybeards that don't want to let the kids touch it.

Always wanted to even get my hands on ZD&T but IBM never thought I was worthy enough.

They keep negotiating payments-in-lieu-of-taxes to dodge fair tax rates and grab special treatment, so we do see a loss in value there over decade(s) in many cases.

This. Why the hell are we propping up private "veteran owned" companies that repackage a few things into a Pelican case and call it a revolutionary new product and sell it for tens of thousands over MSRP?

(I've seen one too many local 'defense contractors' building 'enabler kits' which are literally just a couple laptops in a Pelican case for way too much money.)

I keep seeing this with little tiny IT companies in the fed landscape and it slightly irks me. This is just the modern form of the $400 hammer...

Fun fact: When they switch to Axon Outposts instead, just know that they have Amazon Sidewalk modules inside them, too for backdoor C2 to Axon.

(Go check the FCC docs for X4GS06009 and note that there's a Quectel KG100S sitting on the power supply board. https://fccid.io/X4GS06009)

And the amazing thing is that DJI was the ones lambasted for their shitty security practices.

But here we are, with Skydio users openly using public sharing links to their drone feeds 24x7x365 apparently.

Sounds like another vendor needs to get added to the Covered List, methinks, but the lobbyists won't let that one fly.

The gag is that they're bringing it over as a basic electric quadcycle to skirt all US regulations for the vehicle, then offering an immediate conversion at point of sale to equip it to be a Neighborhood Electric Vehicle / Low Speed Vehicle, so it'll actualy do closer to 25.

The kit adds "a rearview mirror, back up camera, pedestrian alert system and up to 25 mph top speed" later this year.

It's basically the modern Ford Th!nk / Polaris GEM.

That actually sorta? exists! Vay uses remotely teleoperated vehicles in Vegas to drop off your rental, then take it away once you're done.

https://vay.io/

fun thing is a bunch of hobbyists are running around with SDRs and old cell hardware and running low power experimental cell networks in their houses, questionable legality be damned.

OpenBTS/YateBTS/OsmoBTS and friends are useful here to spin up a working network and relive a happier time.

I've been meaning to get one of the tiny SDR cards like an XRTX and place it into a Pi or similar device and build a "mobile mobile hotspot" - LTE/5G in, 2G/3G out for old crap.

EDIT: I almost forgot, too. The N95 has Wi-Fi and a SIP client, so it's not completely useless even in 2026!

The easier option I'm afraid would have almost been to just not pay your bill.

No, I'm not even kidding here, Verizon has apparently in the last year randomly just been turning on multi-month past due accounts and going "lol we'll just let you come back if you pay your next month's bill like nothing ever happened" and zeroing out thousands+ dollar past due balances in the name of "customer loyalty".

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/verizon/comments/1tqh4or/400_overdu...

I'm actually frustrated we lost web browser access on gaming consoles, especially in the era of people calling for technical support to their internet providers for "it's too slow" and we can't run a proper speedtest to the world from the console to figure out if it's the gaming provider or the Internet connection...

Throw some of us in support a bone, will ya?

I meaaaaan... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF_qGEzm0JA - definitely a lot further than either of those ;)

We'll know the price in two more weeks. I'm yolo'ing it and I can't wait for my little orange-wrapped pickup.

So far their manufacturing and progress videos are quite impressive. The fact there's 25-50+ basically production-ready prototypes if not more now driving around their factory and doing testing compared to most of the other vaporware companies out there has me holding out strong.

(How many Elios are out there doing testing? How many TELOs? Oof.)

Can't wait for Ford's $40,000 electric pickup.

Pepperidge Farm remembers the $19,995 MSRP Ford Maverick with its standard hybrid drivetrain. Missed my chance to buy one, watched the price bloat out and nope.

is this solution... legally certified for trade?

you may need to look into NTEP approval before this is being used for legal trade... dimensioning is a big deal.