Saturday, August 13
Daily News Stuff 13 August 2022
Working In The Coal Mine Edition
Working In The Coal Mine Edition
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- Oceania's funniest home telescreen recordings. (Ars Technica)
Amazon's latest plan for MGM - we are not making this up - is clip shows of Ring doorbell surveillance footage.
Tech News
- Epson is deliberately bricking multiple models of printers because the tiny pads that soak up used ink are full of ink. (Ars Technica)
You can replace them easily enough, but they won't let you.
- A site that let you anonymously deliver a box full of shit to your nearest and dearest got hacked and all the customer records exposed. (Bleeping Computer)
What is the world coming to when you can't anonymously deliver boxes full of shit to your loved ones?
- If you're looking for a modern and affordable small Android tablet this is definitely not it. (ZDNet)
The Galaxy Z Fold 4 is here, and it's still an outrageously expensive niche product. Which wouldn't matter so much if there were any modern and affordable small Android tablets. Any. Even one.
- It turns out that installing customised browsers and digital warcrime Node.js all over people's PCs was not a good idea. (Motherboard)
Discord, Microsoft Teams, and Spotify are among the huge number of apps that use the Electron platform and are vulnerable to hackers.
- 8K monitors are too expensive and 5K monitors are impossible to find so here's half of one. (Tom's Hardware)
I'd rather a complete one, thanks all the same.
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If the anonymous shitmailing was coupled with ring doorbell footage of the actual delivery and televised AND then you got to see Wanda Sykes having the shit poured over her, I might be tempted to watch.
Posted by: normal at Saturday, August 13 2022 10:33 PM (obo9H)
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I don't know what's a worse indictment of our current civilization--the fact that a company that specializes in anonymous deliveries of shit got hacked, or the fact that such a company existed in the first place.
Posted by: Peter the Not-so-Great at Sunday, August 14 2022 06:08 AM (yCp8E)
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I'm going to guess that anonymous "gift" sending services that would send things despite the general revulsion of the public towards the items sent have existed for a few centuries, at least. There are mythical accounts at least of human heads being send to people for whom the particular head would have some meaning. Or as some guy from almost a century ago reportedly said, "There is nothing new under the Sun."
Posted by: normal at Monday, August 15 2022 12:33 AM (obo9H)
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