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wil421··on EA Announces Agreement to be Acquired by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners
The controls and movement in the first one were terrible.
wil421··on Oral Microbes Linked to 3-Fold Increased Risk of Pancreatic Cancer
>I literally remember one of my elderly relatives pulling out a tooth at home with a thread tied around a door handle as if this was nothing special. DIY all the way! Early 1990s, former Soviet Union rural-or-so area.

Some form of this type of tooth pulling was common for baby teeth in the 90s. I’m sure it still is today. I don’t know about recommending it for adult teeth.

wil421··on As many as 2M Cisco devices affected by actively exploited 0-day
There’s no way ISPs can function without SNMP. I think network management is like a 1/3 of all traffic. We process billions and billions of traps daily. These are not on internet connected networks and some have dedicated channels.

How did the attacker get the community string?

wil421··on Restrictions on house sharing by unrelated roommates
This is not illegal. I with 3-4 unrelated people in college from time to time. There was one group that rented a massive house and had 15-20 people living in it.
wil421··on Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync
Explain how SS7 access can allow someone intercept my call back to an official number like Bank of America or a number on Fidelity a 401k support page.
wil421··on Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes
Ahh, yes I forgot it’s not fermented you just use vodka or something stronger with the lemon peels.
wil421··on Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes
The yeast eats the sugar and turns it into alcohol. More sugar more alcohol, grandma’s version sounds good.
wil421··on AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts
The area I and in mind the answer is yes. But there are areas where it would be no. I’m in the Deep South.
wil421··on AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts
Where do you live? I could easily find people who speak, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Hindu, Telugu, English, Spanish, Thai, and Portuguese and I haven’t even left the parking lot. It would be harder to find a German or French speaker.
wil421··on The US is now the largest investor in commercial spyware
No he means crime will dramatically decrease and surveillance will increase. I’d be inclined to agree.
wil421··on Dietary omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids as a protective factor of myopia
My eye doc said I had a slight case of blepharitis and that I should use high quality fish oil and eye lid cleaning wipes. The oil would help the membranes or gland in the eye lid, can’t remember which.
wil421··on Hollow Knight: Silksong causes server chaos on Xbox, Steam, and Nintendo
Lots of us have work and families and don’t have time to organically figure out the insane steps to go down some of the late stage paths.
wil421··on Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation
I pay $0.0825/kWh in the Southern US.
wil421··on The Gen Xers Who Waited Their Turn to Be CEO Are Getting Passed Over
They were teaching millennials at 18 or even before that it’s not like your parents age when you could keep one post college job forever.
wil421··on MakeShift: Security Analysis of Shimano Di2 Wireless Gear Shifting in Bicycles
I’d take a wireless dropper post so I don’t have to mess with cabling.
wil421··on Nintendo Switch 2 account bans continue: warning after buying old copy of Bayo 3
Thought about this situation buying used games for the kids and me off Facebook. It’s terrible because I used to trade and buy nes/gameboy and other systems games as a kid. It allowed me to play more games but sometimes you’d get a game that sucked really bad.

Modding is one thing but piracy is another. Nintendo despises both.

wil421··on A.I. Is About to Solve Loneliness. That's a Problem
Sounds like what an LLM would say. Is this satire?
wil421··on Intel's retreat is unlike anything it's done before in Oregon
By what metric? AMD is making headway fast but intel still controls 76% of the server market.[1]

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-records-...

wil421··on Young graduates are facing an employment crisis
Pursue a degree now to get you foot it the door sooner. I went back to school after a few year break. I also worked nights and weekends full time in the restaurant industry. It took sweat, tears, and burn out but over a decade later it’s 100% worth it.

Don’t worry about timing at all.

wil421··on Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and XAI Granted Up to $200M from Defense Department
The US government didn’t build and plan Lockheed planes. Not in WW2 and not now. Not sure about other manufacturers.
wil421··on GLP-1s are breaking life insurance
I could never eat lunch or sometimes dinner if I took it. I gained like 30 healthy pounds after stopping it at the end of my teens.
wil421··on GLP-1s are breaking life insurance
Do you have kids? Even when I meal prep, tasty kids foods draws me in like a bug to a night time light.
wil421··on The death of partying in the USA
I get the same vibe from HN and other places on Reddit. Lots of folks are online in multiple places at all times. If I bring up a random internet topic in real like people give me weird looks.
wil421··on Florida is letting companies make it harder for highly paid workers to swap jobs
Not sure what you mean. The GP listed out a bunch of hurricanes since 2000. Only one of those hit the panhandle in a way that was slightly impactful to my families vacation home(s). 2 storms in 50 years isnt enough to say I wouldn’t live there because of storms.

Insurance costs might scare me away more than the chance of a storm.

wil421··on Florida is letting companies make it harder for highly paid workers to swap jobs
Only one of those hit the area my family has a vacation home in the past 40 years. There was another big one in the 90s. So 2 times in 50 years and both were not catastrophic.
wil421··on "Just Fucking Ship It" (Or: On Vibecoding)
Ask Jeeves 2.0
wil421··on Florida is letting companies make it harder for highly paid workers to swap jobs
I’ll take a chance of a Hurricane every couple decades vs a single season of snow.
wil421··on Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion
I guess you don’t want the fastest speed or no data cap. We easily surpass the 1TB cap with 4K streaming and WFH video calls.
wil421··on Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion
You can’t get top speed or unlimited data with your own modem.
wil421··on The Monster Inside ChatGPT
It’s trained on Reddit, the lowest quality possible, except maybe YouTube comments. But I’m sure Gemini uses those.
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