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CoopaTroopa··on Dexcom forces ToS\Privacy Policy acceptance to see glucose levels
Would you mind sharing your setup with me or pointing me to some resources on it? My friend's wife using the Dexcom G7 and I wanted to look at some alternative's with them. I think she uses the Omnipod for a pump
CoopaTroopa··on Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera
While highly unprofessional, the "Who's a good boy?!" status message makes me like them a tiny bit more
CoopaTroopa··on Nvidia crypto mining GPUs hacked to restore locked-away VRAM
Oof I am seeing that now and of course all of the listings say AI card too
CoopaTroopa··on Nvidia crypto mining GPUs hacked to restore locked-away VRAM
I just grabbed the tagline of the article. I hadn't gone searching for the card yet and found the hack to be the more interesting topic
CoopaTroopa··on Nvidia crypto mining GPUs hacked to restore locked-away VRAM
software mod unlocks 64GB of VRAM on $250 CMP 170HX

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49342894

CoopaTroopa··on Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout
I didn't say they fixed everything within those 14 updates. I'm pointing out it's disingenuous to say they didn't start working on the issue until start of business when there are 14 updates of what they have found and done during that time.
CoopaTroopa··on Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout
Sure, that timeline looks bad when you leave out the 14 updates between 12:11am PDT and 8:04am PDT.

The initial cause appears to be a a bad DNS entry that they rolled back at 2:22am PDT. They started seeing recovery with services but as reports of EC2 failures kept rolling in they found a network issue with a load balancer that was causing the issue at 8:43am.

CoopaTroopa··on Verizon thinks $0.002 is 0.002 cents [video]
George Vaccaro was a Verizon customer who, in early December 2006, had a customer service phone call where Verizon had a legendary "math fail" as it would have been dubbed at that time. This is a viral tale from the early/modern internet age of the oughts. In the calls, the Verizon employees repeatedly fail to acknowledge the distinction between 0.002 dollars and 0.002 cents because they think "0.002 cents" is $0.002; in other words they think $0.002 is 0.002 cents simply because the 002 comes after the decimal point.
CoopaTroopa··on The Whispering Earring
"The parable of the earring was not about the dangers of using technology that wasn't Truly Part Of You, which would indeed have been the kind of dystopianism I dislike. It was about the dangers of becoming too powerful yourself."

https://web.archive.org/web/20121007235422/http://squid314.l...

CoopaTroopa··on Can you block it? A simple Ad Block Tester
Ironically this site falls into my company's content filtering and was automatically blocked
CoopaTroopa··on A receipt printer cured my procrastination
Easiest achievement hunting I've ever done!
CoopaTroopa··on Cloudflare was down
The Pentagon Pizza Report has been having a lot of activity the past 24 hours. Maybe just a coincidence
CoopaTroopa··on Cloudflare was down
No, Cloudflare.
CoopaTroopa··on A receipt printer cured my procrastination
What does it say about me that I stopped reading the article to play with the progress bar down at the bottom right?... And now I'm writing this comment before finishing the article.
CoopaTroopa··on Cuttlefish 'talk' with their arms, study reveals
Cuttlefish confirmed Italians
CoopaTroopa··on Learning to Love Dandelions (2021)
iirc the Dandelions we know are are native to Eurasia and are considered invasive across the US. They were brought over by early settlers for their health benefits
CoopaTroopa··on How good are American roads?
You have a good point. I live in Michigan and recently traveled down to Austin, Texas. The roads didn't seem all that much better but all of the road markings really stuck out to me. Reflectors in all the lines separating lanes, soft bollards surrounding cross walks and parking areas, extra curbs built in for bike lanes. It makes things look a lot nicer but my first thought was, "could you imagine trying to plow around those bollards, or those reflectors would get ripped up on the first pass."
CoopaTroopa··on What is the origin of the lake tank image that has become a meme? (2021)
Just google 'tank of the lake, what is your wisdom' and you can catch up on a new meme genre
CoopaTroopa··on The egg or the chicken? An ancient unicellular says egg
My ego is in awe. Maybe the credit goes to the Id we found along the way.
CoopaTroopa··on The egg or the chicken? An ancient unicellular says egg
Sorry for your ego but that came right from my brain as a joke. It wasn't until after I hit submit I paused to think, "that's actually kinda profound for a Thursday morning."
CoopaTroopa··on The egg or the chicken? An ancient unicellular says egg
A vessel to cross the street.
CoopaTroopa··on Hacking 700M Electronic Arts accounts
Most likely they were in the process of adding this feature to fix your issue when it was sadly exploited before they could announce it
CoopaTroopa··on PS5 Dashboards Flooded with Unwanted Ads–Sony Claims It Wasn't Intentional
Please do not give them that idea. I still haven't gotten over Sony charging $60 a year to give you the privilege to play online with your friends.

Soon it'll cost $150/yr to play a modern console like you should be able to

CoopaTroopa··on The Growing Threat of Malware Concealed Behind Cloud Services
Who else is mfro supposed to ask if not the guy who said they had an issue with it?
CoopaTroopa··on Stop Killing Games
>I guarantee you the result will be less games released

Best case would be that it results in less games that are reliant on a public server to connect to. I don't really think we need any more 4-5 person team deathmatch shooter games

CoopaTroopa··on Man convicted for trying to help undercover game wardens recover deer with drone
Most likely to get rid of the confusion between a hunter recovering a dead animal at night and poachers using a spotlight to illegally hunt
CoopaTroopa··on The Miele Dialog: cook a fish in ice without melting the ice
>That’s because the Dialog’s underlying technology is based on medical devices used to reheat donated organs that are kept cold for transport.

The first guy to make the jump from heating donor organs to heating your food probably got a couple of weird looks. I wonder if there was any viewing the Silence of the Lambs before the connection was made.

CoopaTroopa··on (IEEE Spectrum) Your navigation app is making traffic unmanageable
The street I live on just did this. I live on a residential street one block off of a main road, they added "Road Closed to Thru Traffic" construction barriers to both entrances of my street. They've been there for 2 weeks with no sign of construction.