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jdofazon Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border

I wonder if what might save him is he asked for a lawyer before giving the duress PIN, a lawyer might have told him it was a bad idea to do it.

jdofazon Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)

I had one for a long time but the isp that was the local registrar is long defunct now

jdofazon Ted Turner has died

It flipped after the analog shutoff in 2009, most US TV stations are UHF now (even if the tv displays their VHF channel number)

jdofazon Memories of .us

I had one but the "Delegated Manager" was a local dsl isp that went out of business and I lost the ability to update the name servers for it

jdofazon SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain people

Copper State Credit Union supports passkey

jdofazon The man who killed Google Search?

Reminds me of when the mostly loved Google Inbox was killed because people spent less time in gmail

jdofazon How Amazon Became the Largest Private EV Charging Operator in the US

Electricity is very cheap next door in Arizona

jdofazon How Amazon Became the Largest Private EV Charging Operator in the US

their minivans are notorious for transmission problems

jdofazon Do You Need IPv4 Anymore?

I get IPv6 on verizon

jdofazon A Return to Blu-ray as Streaming Value Evaporates

I only buy the bluray if I've already seen it and know I'd want to watch again when I receive it. Keeps me from collecting stuff that doesn't get watched.

I loop through the collection by putting a watched disc back in a separate spot until I've gone through them all and then start over.

jdofazon What Is WebTV?

WebTV is probably why I now have a computer hooked to my TV

jdofazon Original WWW proposal is a Word for Macintosh 4 file from 1990, can we open it?

Makes me wonder if the graphics are in PICT format

jdofazon Americans are spending billions on stuff they forget to cancel

I've been reconciling my transactions in GnuCash for 20 years, I've been pretty good at catching charges I don't expect.

I also set the credit cards to send me an email for any transaction over $1.

jdofazon My Fediverse use – I'm hosting everything myself – PeerTube, Mastodon and Lemmy

One issue I've run into with unexpected NSFW in my federated TL on a single user instance is when people I follow reply to an unfollowed account's NSFW post, when the reply gets sent to my server it fetches the parent post

jdofazon Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year

I had a work blackberry on verizon that had unlimited data and no free sms texts. We used BBM and Google Voice to avoid paying sms fees

jdofazon Replacing HLS/Dash – Live Mass Fanout with Media over QUIC

Avatar 2 had HFR showings, I saw the 3D HFR version and thought it looked great

jdofazon Verizon, AT&T customers sue to undo T-Mobile merger

They had a merger condition that resulted in "Connect by T-Mobile" and I went from paying $50 a month to $15 for roughly the same service.

jdofazon Reverse-engineering Ethernet backoff on the Intel 82586 network chip's die

Seems so https://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/internetworking/troubleshoo...

NetWare runs on Ethernet/IEEE 802.3, Token Ring/IEEE 802.5, Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI), Copper Distributed Data Interface (CDDI), and ARCnet. NetWare also works over synchronous wide-area network (WAN) links using the Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)

jdofazon Mastercard Should Stop Selling Our Data

When I opened my checking account at Bank of America I was issued a ordinary debit card. After a couple years they replaced it with one with a Visa logo. I argued with them on the phone long enough to get them to replace it with an ordinary debit card. After than one expired they did the same thing and I gave up. I haven't seen a debit card from any bank without visa or mc in a long time.

jdofazon Mastercard Should Stop Selling Our Data

Sometimes the terminal will ask Debit or Credit, sometimes it will just prompt for a PIN (meaning it wants to run it as debit) and you can just hit OK and it will run it as credit instead.

jdofazon California becomes first US state to ban 4 potentially harmful chemicals in food

You are allowed to say cooking oil spray is fat free because the 1/3 of a second of spray serving size allows you to round the fat value to zero.

jdofazon Pixel 8 to have seven years of Android updates

I think people were surprised Google did the work to upgrade it to Android 13 but only did a couple months of patches for it. I think the old promise was 2 years of major os and an additional year of patches.

jdofazon Tesla blocks Scottsdale woman from charging her car

More accurate to say her car was blocked from using superchargers. Not ok, but she could use other chargers.

jdofazon MGM is down, cybersecurity attack ongoing

I think I started watching that show because it was in HD

jdofazon The Rise and (Eventual) Fall of the SIM Card

Anyone else remember paying fees to change your ESN with a CDMA carrier?

jdofazon USENET rises again?

In the olden times your ISP usually included it like they did with email, the instructions for my old isp still exists though I doubt the news server does

http://www.uswest.net/help/newsgroups.html

jdofazon How will ATSC 3.0 transform TV advertising?

I've had an HD Homerun with ATSC3 for a couple years now, but I haven't yet seen an ATSC3 TV in person.

This sounds complicated to implement compared to "ordinary" digital broadcasts, what is the incentive for TV manufacturers to implement it? It seems like every tv maker has their own plans for streaming and ad tracking, I would think they would view implementing ATSC3 as helping the competition.

jdofazon One million cancel broadband as living costs rise

My DSL is 15/1, it's fast enough to stream 4k. The upload stinks but its cheap and reliable.

jdofazon Pixel Tablet

what phone?

jdofazon X Window System Administrator's Guide: For X Version 11 (1992)

The first Mac I had was released in 1993 and had an 80 megabyte hard drive