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mcc

"With a software death date baked into each model, older versions of these inexpensive computers are set to expire three to six years after their release. Despite having fully functioning hardware, an expired Chromebook will no longer receive the software updates it needs, blocking basic websites and applications from use…

[Pictured] A pile of Chromebooks with expired software sit in a classroom at Montera Middle School in Oakland, Calif"

mercurynews.com/2023/07/24/bui

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Dear search engines:

If you run out of relevant results to show me, then just tell me I've reached the end so I can either choose better search terms or make a decision with what there is.

Stop trying to stretch your list with an endless stream of absurdly irrelevant results. All it does is waste my time, waste your resources, & make me conclude *you're* irrelevant.

Pictured: a search on Google Shopping for a brand & model of cash register.

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Hourly Kitten

Source: flic.kr/p/idWmki
Credit: sma-lux

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

I finally tripped & fell into the bot-produced churn content on YouTube. (I'm looking at reviews of an obscure cash register.) Reviewbot: "The built-in South Dakota card slot allows a PC link software to synchronize your store." They really don't care as long as their TTS conversion sounds like words.

South Dakota card slot.

Thank goodness I use Noscript & block DoubleClick, so the ads don't run or load.

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Spring Breakdown :jo:

Reminder that it's always morally imperative to deadname corporations.

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The Iconolog

TRASH22D.ICO - System, Trash it

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Working Families Party

Ahem.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Ikso punkto kom...
Xis ponto com...
Equis punto com...
...
Ex dot-com?

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autumnal af

Stop using Chrome as your daily driver.

Google proposed adding DRM to Chrome, which will be used to stop ad blockers, privacy tools, password plugins, accessibility/reader modes.

The only way to stop Google’s Chrome from wrecking the internet like Internet Explorer did for many year to switch to a NOT chromium-based browser as soon as possible for your day to day. You’ve got Safari, and Firefox as your choices.

I know you’ll have to use Chrome sometimes because it’s already happening.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

The "Likes are now florps" and "Timeline goes sideways" joke is so tame compared to the actual hallucinations of reality by billionaires.

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The self-sabotage shenanigans at every major website that can't survive without its visitors posting things is giving me so many outlandish ideas for April Fools jokes.

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Paris Marx

In 2000, Elon Musk tried to rebrand PayPal as X.com, but was forced out by the board and replaced as CEO by Peter Thiel.

Now he’s doing the same to Twitter, but is surrounded by sycophants who can’t tell him it’s a bad idea.

Read more: disconnect.blog/p/elon-musk-wa

#tech #twitter #x #elonmusk #socialmedia

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Fabian Laasch ⚡️🔋

Ich verbuche das mal nicht als TimelineCleanser, musste aber trotzdem sehr schmunzeln. 😆

#conspiracy

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🐧sima🐧

will the real X please stand up, please stand up, please stand up

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Cendyne

Search how to generate password with bash
The first suggestion in the first result is... hash the date

NOOO DO NOT HASH THE DATE

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Manuela Malasaña

i was just locking down the office when in comes this dame. she looks desperate. husband's dead and coroner calls it an accident. his estranged brother was just made successor on his github she says. i take a drag. little did i know my life was about to git reset -- hard

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witch hat hacker :verified_dragon: :vt1: :vt2:

"how will i explain trans people to my kids" you see johnny, some people are just intrinsically sick as fuck and cool as hell, so they dress how they want and name themselves how they want and sometimes hack their own bodies to look how they want instead of letting other people tell them what to do

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

BTW, barcode wands not only come with manuals more complete than a very expensive PC's manual, but they *must* come with decent manuals.

The wand can be a keyboard or a serial port to the PC, user's choice. So how do you configure the wand? You scan bar codes printed in the manual for the settings you want to configure.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

nm usa politics, drugs 

Marijuana is legal here, cannabis dispensaries have popped up, & they're helping to revitalize the city's sagging economy as much as any other local business.

But two of those dispensaries have opened up within sight of the Socorro County Republican Party office: one two doors down, & one just across the street.

I wonder if those were deliberate, & I hope it's a middle finger to the GOP if so.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Today in Windows hardware support is a joke:
A cheap barcode scanner wand barely as expensive as a cheap wired mouse.

Unix:
It just works! Literally plug and play.

Windows 10:
After half a minute, it said it just works, but "031225044071" is not a valid UPC for anything, let alone a router, and "E2>J1>53X>>1" is not a valid MAC address.

Those are consistent misreads on Windows, not random garbage, & I swapped it back to Unix to make sure the wand didn't break itself. Nope, it's just Windows.

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