Rising Fuel Costs, Stagnant Ticket Prices Spark Airline Bankruptcies
OK if fuel prices are going up why don't they just raise the ticket prices why are they going bankrupt.
If You Worry About Windows Privilege Escalation, Your Security Fails
Repeat after me: Your security program is not good enough to have to worry about escalation of privilege on Windows
Battery‑free Smartwatch Eliminates Charging Hassle Forever
My daily. It's smart enough to sync time and footsteps. I own the original Apple Watch and several generations of them. I'm done. I don't have to charge this thing for two years. There is no mental burden to own it....
Why All Armies Share Similar Structures Through History
Why are militaries seemingly all structured similar? Who came up with this, its historical antecedents? Want to read more.
Farewell to My Beloved HP LaserJet
I was so upset about a venerable HP LaserJet I was being made to retire I took a picture of it in the cart as I took it away. https://t.co/WSp2KRucih
Florida Condos: A Teen's Warning of Shared Decay
Distinctly thought as a teen watching some TV episode on Florida condos, "these seem like a collective maintenance time bomb."
AI‑generated Ramblings Clutter Timelines with Metric‑driven Fluff
These overly long explanation posts about modern events read like AI slop. It would've taken an hour to write this and I've never seen anything like this until AI appeared. It's attention metric manipulation and it's obnoxious and filling my timeline....
US Hardware Destroyed in Iran; Possible EP‑3 Link?
Shocked at completeness of destruction of stranded US military hardware in Iran. I would love to know this entails/influences of EP-3 incident?
Allowlisting CRLs in Plants: Ongoing, Working Fine
I went through a process to allowlist CRLs in our plants. It's not complete but it's been fine.
JSOC Commander Bans FARPs, Calling Them Dangerous
From Relentless Strike by @SeanDNaylor, about history of JSOC, quoting commander ".... after the third or fourth one he said, 'We are not putting any FARPs [forward arming refueling point] in – FARPs are dangerous.'" https://t.co/amzS7911en
Witnessing History: IPhone Unveiled From My Desk
I saw the world change at my desk. Steve Jobs presented the iPhone. I watched. I watched the world change.
CASS‑Ready Address Software: A Mind‑blowing Experience
I used to work at a company that did premier USPS address correction (CASS certification) software. And oh my God.
Old CPU Layouts: Photographed, Contrast‑enhanced for Clarity
You ever think about how this is how they used to layout CPU's and then take a picture of it and boost the contrast
Use “Are We Dancer?” To Expose AI‑masked Impostors
Protip if you think you're dealing with a DPRK fake job applicant using AI masking as an American millennial, ask them to respond to "Are we dancer?" Will take them too long to read in too formal a tone and...
Early Gaming Shaped by Hacking Tribes 1 Mods
The founding video games for my life were highly modded. I "hacked" Tribes 1 mods in C programming language. When you connected to a server it would just download C code for the mods on the server... and run. I wanted to...