krayj @ krayj @sh.itjust.works

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In some parts of the country, people wont even tell you to "go fuck yourself" without throwing a "please" in there. Is "please go fuck yourself" any more polite than just "go fuck yourself"? The word "please" is so overused as to have no inherent meaning at all. For all intents and purposes, the entire word "please" is just a new kind of punctuation. We finish sentences that end in questions with a question mark, and we initiate sentences that are a request with the word "please"...but it's just basically a form of punctuation at this point.

I thought data caps for home internet were a thing of the past…

For the past 15 years I've had a data cap on home internet, but never had a data cap prior to that.

That's led me to believe the exact opposite of your observation; unlimited data is a thing of the past and data caps are a thing of the present and future.

Gennady Lopyrev, 69, had been due for parole but was reportedly diagnosed with leukaemia on August 14 and died two days later.

Polonium-210 poisoning manifests as rapid onset leukemia...what a coincidence!

Did he cut off the ankle monitor or did they not install one?

This is the stupidest shit I've seen all day, and I've seen some pretty stupid shit today.

Maybe I should start broadcasting a new SSID from one of my wireless access points named "super secret Dominion voting machine wireless internet router" to help out.

How are they going to stop people from downloading the source and modifying it and building versions of the browser that do not comply with that bullshit? Are they going to block French citizens from accessing the Firefox open source project entirely?

Pixel tablets are not priced as if Google is "desperate to sell Pixel Tablets".

I think the author is confusing "marketing team motivation" for "desperation" just because they got a push notification.

This usually means the transmit power on your WiFi access points is too strong. The problem is that the way the current wifi protocol standards are written and implemented, most devices will just hang onto a wifi connection for as long as the connection is still functioning even if there is a superior alternate access point to connect to that's closer and faster. If you imagine drawing a map of your property, plotting the location of your wifi access points, and then drawing a virtual circle around them that represents wifi coverage, then you want as little overlap as possible between access points, and you do this by intelligent/strategic placement and by adjusting down the transmit power of the access points. There's free utilities you can download to your device to help you map out these rings. Although some less expensive and less configurable access points probably don't offer the the ability to change transmit power, prosumer and enterprise gear do. Some signal overlap between access points is unavoidable if you want to also completely eliminate all deadspots on your property, but with minimal overlap your device should be dropping a distant access point as you move out of range and pick up the closer one with the strong signal.

Most people think more power equals more better when it comes to access point signal strength but that's not really how it works because WiFi is 2-way communication and your mobile device is always gong to be the weak link because it has the weaker transmitter. There's no reason to broadcast a maximum strength signal from an access point if you have more than one of them.

Much has been written/documented on this topic and you should have enough keywords in the previous two paragraphs to find all the expert instructions for doing it that you could possibly need.

If the same SSID, it should automatically swap to the highest connection strength AP

Unfortunately, that is not part of any WiFi protocol standards. Never has been. It would be amazing if it were.

A few solution providers have bolted on their own proprietary junk to WiFi standards to kinda make this work, but it's generally expensive and still not flawless.

Well - 79% of 'the almighty shareholders' is Elon Musk, and I somehow get the impression that as long as he is convinced that he's doing exactly the right things nothing will change. The next biggest stakeholders are Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal (5.7%), Oracle founder Larry Ellison (3.0%), Jack Dorsey (3.0%), Sequoia Capital (2.4%), and Vy Capital (2.1%) - and they've all been publicly silent on the topic of twitter self destruction - I think they've transitioned into train-wreck mode where they are in such disbelief about what they are witnessing that they aren't able to articulate opinions about it.

I wouldn't call that the sound of desperation. Sounds more like business as usual to me.

"Prosecute all the criminals you want, as long as it isn't us." - GOP, Circa since the beginning of time

Because the vast majority of them don't use the 3ton vehicle to commit murder.

You do know that adults use vehicles as murder weapons also, yeah?

ActivityPub is, itself, a client/server api. If they implemented that, there would be no need for access to their private API to do everything that any 3rd party app maker would want to do.

I didn't say it was expected or peachy...just that it was known.

I think it's perfectly acceptable to dislike the practice, and even acceptable to be vocal about how shitty it is. I was just pointing out how weird it is to be surprised about it - because I thought everyone already knew what they were doing.

Considering all the past, current, and future disgruntled employees - I wouldn't be shocked at all by an insider leaking stuff like this. The company is unstable like its leadership - which isn't very trust-inspiring.

"Good Bot" "Bad Bot" was done on Reddit because there was a "Bot Ranks" service watching for that feedback and aggregating results on the https://botranks.com website. That's one of the many services that are drifting into oblivion after the reddit API changes.

I don't think there are any bot ranking services running on lemmy yet, but it's very technically possible and it wouldn't surprise me if one springs up.

Is this not a thing that is already known by every customer of these services? Seems naive for people to suddenly have a TIL moment over this. During covid lockdowns (my first and only experience with InstaCart), I was aware of this pricing scheme on my very first order.

Instacart is not the first nor last service to be doing this. People still using DoorDash better go start comparing the cost of the food items they are ordering from restaurants. And if you run out of gas in your car and call AAA to bring you some, newsflash: you aren't paying the local pump prices for those gallons of gas.

This is like seeing a trailer for an awesome new movie that doesn't come out for another 6 months. The anticipation is killing me!

Without water how will we ever make Brawndo?

I think you are missing fully half of the story here.

If someone gives you lavish gifts, free luxury vacations, use of their private jet, all-expenses paid vacation cruises, you start thinking of that person as a 'friend', no?

In this case, 'friend of the court' clearly has double meaning because the amicus curiae is also simultaneously one and the same person as the billionaire gift giver I described earlier. In layman's terms, it's bribery.