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esaymon MrBeast Failed to Disclose Ads and Improperly Collected Children's Data

Shut it down!

esaymon Google's Liquid Cooling

Yes see: https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2025-07-25/texas-is-sti...

esaymon Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

There were quite a few small ISP's in the 1990's. Even Bill Gothard[0] had one.

[0]https://web.archive.org/web/19990208003742/http://characterl...

esaymon Debian 13 “Trixie”

Are you confusing "386" with 32bit? 686 is the normal 32bit arch. 386 is something from the 1980's right?

esaymon FCC abandons efforts to make U.S. broadband fast and affordable

With satellite internet from starlink (and I think amazon is attempting their own version?) I don't see how running internet over wires to rural housing could ever be seen as a good expenditure of money. That said, I've always felt satellite internet to be yucky but I'm used to "satellite internet" adding 1000ms to your latency and uploads that actually run over your telephone line.

I am curious if good satellite internet will lead to an exodus of people from cities and subdivisions. I actually live in my current house because the place I wanted to build on didn't have any form of internet access.

Also, I'm not really aware of anyone that is truly without "internet access" as cell phones have basically filled that area in years ago.

esaymon AMD CEO sees chips from TSMC's US plant costing 5%-20% more

Oh I'll have to pay $330 instead of $300 for my CPU. The horror!

esaymon What to expect from Debian/Trixie

You should be using an lvm snapshot. You are not even making a valid complaint.

esaymon Taking over 60k spyware user accounts with SQL injection

> The live photo and microphone options are particularly creepy, successfully taking a photo or recording and uploading it for me to view near-instantly on the control panel without giving the phone user the slightest sign that anything is amiss

Oh dear.

esaymon Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion

> WiFi Motion will function only in areas of your home where you have strong WiFi signals traveling between your gateway and your WiFi-connected devices, and Comcast does not guarantee or warrant performance.

It is clearly just monitoring RSSI and everybody's acting like this is some spooky radar based technology.

esaymon 16B Apple, Facebook, Google passwords leaked in largest data breach

I'm pretty sure Facebook and Google passwords are going to be hashed right?

esaymon Dolly Parton's Dollywood Express

Goodness. I've seen people drive for years on a spare. I don't know why you would sweat going 15 miles on one...

esaymon My AI skeptic friends are all nuts

Why don't you elaborate on your setup then?

esaymon The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine

This

esaymon Claude.ai and console.anthropic.com are down

Ok, been over an hour now. Starting to get mad...

esaymon Claude 4

> Try Claude Sonnet 4 today with Claude Opus 4 on paid plans.

Wait, Sonnet 4? Opus 4? What?

esaymon Claude 4

heh, I just wrote a small hit piece about all the disappointments of the models over the last year and now the next day there is a new model. I'm going to assume it will still get you only to 80% ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

esaymon Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom

Keeping things onshore means the offenders could face jail time. Anything offshore just goes into a blackhole.

esaymon Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom

>Would a lower class (for that region) Alabama man have less the susceptibility to insider risk as a middle class (for that region) Philippino man?

The american could be facing jail time, depending on the data. The Philippino man, not so much.

esaymon The ADHD body double: A unique tool for getting things done

Wish I could read it. The menu stays open on Firefox even if you hit the X.

https://imgur.com/a/T6tY7dc

esaymon Dave Täht has died

The fact that he applied to starlink and they didn't hire him is depressing....

esaymon The Origin of the Pork Taboo

>Pigs aren't special.

Apparently pigs can be possessed with sprints. I always assumed that was why they were considered unclean.

From Mark 5: So the demons begged him, "Send us among the pigs, so that we can go into them!" So he let them do this. The unclean spirits came out of the man and went into the pigs

https://biblehub.com/isv/mark/5.htm

esaymon Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18f employees

But are they hiring?

esaymon Software engineering job openings hit five-year low?

I would think $40k-$50k

esaymon Software engineering job openings hit five-year low?

lol was going to ask the same

esaymon Python Port of 600 Line Bash Script: rsync-time-machine.py for Rsync Backups

Better than rsnapshot because??

esaymon VS Code Pets

Would be cooler if it walked around the whole screen and not just stuck in a dedicated panel.

esaymon Take the Pedals Off the Bike

Weird. It didn't click for me until I had to stop on a hill and then go up it. And that is how I taught a few friends (after a few flat street trials)

esaymon Walmart Employees Now Wearing Body Cameras to Keep Them Safe

Nice

esaymon A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

Doing some math, looks like a CR2032 is roughly 200mah while AA is 2000mah. So if CR2032 lasts one year, then the AA will be 10 years, two AA would be 20 years. I guess in that case lithium would be the way to go.

I just know for your typical wall clock that takes a single AA, whether it is lithium or alkaline, both won't make it much further than a year.

esaymon A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

> we recommend Energizer Ultimate Lithium

The advantage of "lithium" is high rate discharge, not longevity right?