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Comment · 2 days ago
Back in the day you could send logos, ringtones, and bunch of other random crap thru carrier APIs, provided you signed a blood contract with them lol

Those APIs are probably still online, and still require to nail your ass to the contract, but technically I would assume it's possible.

Comment · 5 months ago
I feel like most of those AI generated websites follow the same pattern of repeating the same comparison (today vs after it passes, now vs future)
Comment · 6 months ago
This has been default experience for "normies" for quite some time now. Same for Google gallery which syncs to gdrive.

Just today we had a guy who got similar messages from one drive as one in the blogpost, and made the mistake of asking chatgpt about it. After renaming, moving, deleting and even doing regedit as llm instructef, some of the files went missing, some we managed to find.

Few weeks ago I had to explain over the phone how to setup windows without ms account, and we had to resort to turning off WiFi in the house lmao

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Comment · 1 year ago
Those "least well-off" that happen to live in the zone, which is less and less each year due to gentrification
Comment · 1 year ago
This is some 1960s level of optimism lol. While I applaud the authors enthusiasm, this will break as soon as a warship shows up at your free city, and your society (made up of people who avoid governments as much as possible) turns out to not be willing to fight for yours. This doesn't have to be a warship - I would wager that at first major obstacle many would defect.

The closest historical analog seem to be Jewish communities of medieval europe, perhaps up to 1900s. They could sometimes get different treatment, and had some structures, although never as centralised. Some countries even wanted them for their knowledge/skillset and connections (?) which lines up with digital nomad's attributes.

Comment · 1 year ago
>I think lots of non-EU and non-technical bloggers would likely see the email I had and think they were in breach of something like you say they are probably not.

This is true for all laws, all scams, all ads.

Comment · 1 year ago
The article has the same usb-c photo three times, but doesn't actually explain what it is, or how it works.
Comment · 1 year ago
How do normal paper printers work on such networks? From what I gather there is some standardised solution to that, wherein here bambu requires their own "connect" software, correct?

I think that big enterprises are full of old systems that are put on vans, vpns, conditional access rules etc., so it's weird to me that ftp is such a problem?

There is also a point in their tos: 7.4 - boils down to "your printer will block printing until you accept critical security patches" that directly contradicts the linked blog post

Comment · 1 year ago
WHO wasn't supposed to be a tool of soft power, and the fact it turned to one makes the decision to leave it all more valid. What soft power does a healthcare organisation provide, that couldnt be better served by your own means?
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Yep, Matt (wordpress guy) has a dramatic writing style, but in essence WPE is using plugins, their security research, user system, theming store etc, without contributing back that much.

Worth adding that WPE is owned by private equity, and they allegedly tried to remove the newsfeed from wp-admin to hide his (dramatic) posts about them

Comment · 2 years ago
>royalty free implementation

Yeah, but not the spec itself, meaning it's hard to have both secure and conforming implementation.

Comment · 2 years ago
When I read "Advantage Air" I needed to check if I am reading sequel to Cory Doctrow's "unauthorised bread" because of how dystopian it sounded

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