HiTekRedNek
@HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world
- Comment on Trillions of miles of data: Your car is spying on you, and it's only just the beginning 4 days ago:
The legally required minimum liability insurance for my 20 year old Honda is $36 a month.
My wife’s 2013 Lexus? Full coverage: $120 a month.
Both of them are paid off, but hers is “prettier” and so she wanted to keep full coverage on it when we paid it off.
- Comment on Trillions of miles of data: Your car is spying on you, and it's only just the beginning 4 days ago:
laughs in 20 year old shitbox
- Comment on Sony's new wearable air conditioner runs even cooler 6 days ago:
Because 27 degrees in the US would freeze you.
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🤣
- Comment on YouTube Is Pausing Premium Family Plans if You Aren't Watching From the Same Address 8 months ago:
Because fuck truck drivers, fishermen, pilots, traveling salesmen, and all those other people who routinely spend weeks or months away from home, and still wind up with a few hours a week of free time to watch streams.
- Comment on High-severity WinRAR 0-day exploited for weeks by 2 groups 9 months ago:
Ark uses p7zip…
- Comment on UK to ban public sector orgs from paying ransomware gangs 9 months ago:
Insane that it wasn’t, “Oh, you’re trying to blackmail our government? Here, have an airstrike.” TBH
- Comment on US | Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP 10 months ago:
I know. Isn’t great? When there’s no party in true “control” then whoever wants to think it’s the other guy’s fault can easily do so.
I was already an adult in 1996. It was definitely a bipartisan thing. Despite many tech insiders warning how it would cause the exact opposite of what it was intended to do, Clinton didn’t just sign it. He and Al Gore, for years, claimed it as their own.
Hell, it was this exact act Al Gore was referring to when he claimed he “invented” the Internet.
- Comment on US | Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP 10 months ago:
The deregulation in the 90s is what killed the local ISP. Thanks, Bill.
- Comment on FolderDrive USB-C flash storage drags computer folder icon into the physical world – Skeuomorphism in reverse 10 months ago:
sings The cirrrrrrcle of liiiiiiiife.
I mean, the computer folder icon is modeled after a real folder, sooooo
- Comment on Half a million Spotify users are unknowingly grooving to an AI-generated band 10 months ago:
That’s less of a defense of AI slop than it is a condemnation of the entire music industry.
- Comment on The Guardian, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, launches open-source Secure Messaging technology 11 months ago:
takes picture of screen from another device yep, so secure.