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Any solutions for eBay? The super hostile "eBay Live" videos intertwined everywhere on the main page are awful.

Either it's bad AI coverart (bonus points for 'glamming it up' with a 'sexy lady' as your stream photo to lure desperate men in), or it loads into a stream with some random middle-aged chud trying to hawk bad baseball cards for "$2 starts!" as you're trying to scroll through the listings.

Kids also got a toy based off of Timex Datalink - I had one!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8ig2UPjOXQ

... The DSI e-BRAIN is also fully working in timex_datalink_client, which amuses me so: https://github.com/synthead/timex_datalink_client/issues/111

Yep. Welcome to "regional transportation optimization". Every single day is painful being in an RTO territory for the post office.

https://www.savethepostoffice.com/rto-n2024-1/

It's so frustrating. If I want to mail something out, it sits for over a day in the local post office. Even Priority Mail Express can no longer get something out locally overnight. If I need overnight service, I have to drive a significant distance to get to a UPS station to get something into the network.

If something mis-sorts to the wrong post office, it sits for over a day at that remote post office before it can re-enter the stream.

I have had more and more late and missorted packages that compound the late deliveries and all I want to do is cry that I can't get the mail anymore in a reasonable fashion.

Boonies? No. Literally EVERYONE has a damn Alexa and it's on the network. The coverage map is staggering. https://coverage.sidewalk.amazon/

They don't have to cut direct with the operator. They can go up a little higher in the chain to a global "wifi offload" operator like Wefi.

https://www.wefi.com/wifi-offload

Then they can just get Passpoint access through a shitton of various endpoints.

... funny thing, that. How about Uber for Amazon? Literally just gigwork in the warehouses at this point, in four hour shift chunklets.

https://hiring.amazon.com/promotions/anytime-shifts

Verizon forces me if I want battery backup for my ONT to provide 12 D cell batteries.

https://www.verizon.com/support/residential/battery-backup/p...

What a fuckin' joke.

Iunno, but it was a blast going back through Rockos Modern Life as an adult and catching all the shit I missed as a kid.

That’s about five months of wages up here in rural nowhere NY doing IT, for what it’s worth.

Some of us are just out of the AI race completely.

They're not fully confident yet on the mmWave to go in the Macbook.

There's a reason they carefully have been bringing their own modem in via "weird" devices. The C1 came in on the 16e, C1X was the Air (phone+iPad), and they're finally confident enough to bring C2 to the mainline iPhones, but it seems like maybe not ready until C3 comes around next fall.

"Scan this QR code!"

The cool thing is my office Microsoft Surface Laptop that will randomly wake up and sit there with its keyboard backlight full on and act dead... then you have to hold it for 30 seconds!

I guess I'm the one contributing to those crashlogs.

Or they could just be more 'powerful' compute that can clear the challenge faster.

I know I'm incensed at all of this because I feel like I'm the one that endlessly waits in front of the Anubis challenge for 5-10 seconds, or keeps getting extremely difficult or brain-draining hCaptchas thrown at me with no real solutions.

And I'm stuck with low-end compute for probably the rest of time at this point - not a single machine in the house has more than 8GB of RAM. So I'm just doomed to wait and burn my time and my sanity some more.

They didn't even need the AI to make thousands of hot bricks nationwide. Here's just one of the latest hits...

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/field-notices/743...

"Cisco Access Points That Are Running, Or Have Run, Releases 17.12.4, 17.12.5, 17.12.6, or 17.12.6a May Exhaust Flash Space, Preventing Upgrades"

Recovery path basically involves either factory resetting every single AP or up to, if it's already bricked, Cisco TAC + you having to console into every single bricked AP you have to pass a secret challenge/response at the bootloader to flash a recovery image :)

"Assembled" in Alberta, but imported from China... shouldn't it just be the Chinese ODM beating their chest?

At the same time, though, the thought is "a criminal won't give out their business burner's cellphone number" to sign up for a card/unlock a case. There's still an additional level of self-selection required to be honest enough to want to acquire the loyalty card that a "dishonest" person does not want to spend time doing (they want to snatch and run).

Same reason Walmart gated the self-checkout Scan-and-Go-via-phone system behind a paid membership on Walmart+, criminal's not gonna burn fifty bucks to steal a couple times if they have to hand over anything vaguely close to PII, even if it's burner PII.

I mean, I didn't go to the worse version. Step right up to the little display, enter your phone number, smile for the camera, and the case unlocks magically!

https://indyme.com/solutions/freedom-case

The CV footage just adds that extra comfortable feeling, doesn't it?

https://indyme.com/hubfs/E6A61CF7-E252-4994-91E1-0FC0E88781F...

It's "freedom" for "honest shoppers"!

Oh! There's actually good reason!

If you have an Extracare card, in some markets, you can self-unlock the locked display cabinets with the CVS app (because they have your identity via the ExtraCare card which adds inherent trust).

It's powered by the Invue smartlock platform. https://invue.com/smart-locks

https://abc7ny.com/post/cvs-testing-new-nyc-shoppers-open-ca...

Diagnostic software is beginning to require more and more authentication.

https://www.repairerdrivennews.com/2026/05/14/autoauth-certi...

You now need to be a "certified AutoAuth technician" using a "certified AutoAuth tool" (sure, like a $3000 SnapOn).

Or - some manufacturers ALSO require you to have NASTF Vehicle Security Professional access, which is another whole can of worms with insurance and business requirements.

https://support.nastf.org/support/solutions/articles/4300076...

Hyundai now requires you to have this stupid security professional certification if you dare try to service a modern Hyundai with a (lower cost) J2534 passthru tool instead of the official Hyundai service tool.

All of this still doesn't stop someone from sending packets direct on the CANbus to make a new key to someone's car, but it just makes it more miserable for the rest of us trying to work on the diagnostics of it all.

That's part of a weird new segment of things they're doing for physical-world tasks, and a separate one of AI training. I assume the shampoo brand was doing some kind of inventory stock audit, perhaps?

I've heard of that being "a thing" where the brand wants to make sure their product is actually out on the shelves properly, so that Dasher probably got easy money verifying the store did their own job properly.

https://about.doordash.com/en-us/news/introducing-doordash-t...

I assume it's just their own version of Gigwalk (https://www.gigwalk.com/).

Ah, see, the danger there is doing 100kmh on the 401. Traffic's (trying to be) doing 140+, keep up ;)

They're very multi-modal. Walmart will send deliveries out via Instacart, their own in-house drivers (1 year+ employees internally), Spark Delivery, and even Roadie ("a UPS Company"), though Roadie jobs are for oversize things that need a pickup truck or a van like TVs from what I've seen as a Roadie driver.

Walmart+ actually provides a 50% discount if you have a valid benefits card, so that's "only" $7 a month to get "free delivery" from Walmart on the regular. All sent out to their Spark Delivery low-paid gig drivers.

https://www.walmart.com/plus/assist https://www.sparkdriverapp.com/en_us.html

2nd gen was 72kbps, never got to 256. Apple stepped in and got them to write the whole 2nd gen Duplex network off before it got that far.

Mr. Sam would be screaming at what future Mr. Holo-Sam is spewing out of his mouth if we pulled him out of the grave.

It feels a little off-putting to have the hologram alongside his (actual) F150 pickup (and the messaging behind his pickup). The hologram doesn't fit with "what [I'm] supposed to haul my dogs around in - a Rolls Royce?"

Globalstar's technology over everyone else. They've just been crude bent pipes up in the sky. They still are. C-3 is just a bunch of new radio repeaters.

Globalstar's original network was just CDMA over the bent pipe satellite link, their second-gen Duplex network (sold as Sat-Fi 2) was an attempt to go WCDMA, then Apple dangled a lot of cash at them to build out and drop the entire Sat-Fi 2 product, the entire WCDMA core, and go roll Apple's new toys out for them. I'm assuming C3 is going to be heavily LTE-based if it isn't already at this point.

(I had a Sat-Fi 2 device and it was an interesting and short-lived experience. I was also there for the weird interim 201x satellite failure era - I remember having to pull up the Optimal Satellite Availability Tool to go see exactly how many long ~2-10 minute windows I could make phone calls in with a GSP-1600.)

((Double-fun-fact: The GSP-1600 is still actively used on Globalstar today, and it's one of the only tri-mode phones that existed of the era. It was satellite via GSTAR, then had CDMA for local calling and AMPS for the sticks. I had my GSP-1600 activated on a Verizon MVNO for local calls, which was a blast to use.))

On the same note: https://investors.globalstar.com/news-releases/news-release-...

The new direct-to-device network Amazon is getting their hands on is now approved and live on the air.

They USED to, until Canada wanted to lightly arm the border officers (something the US side has done for decades) and then they all lost their shit and forced Canadian Customs to move inland instead of the original POE they used.

Yes, I’m a local, and I lost my entire respect for that reservation as a First Nations myself for how they run their show of crooked corruption.

All they've got is nothing but pot dispensaries (both "legitimate" and "illegal" ones that they're chasing internally because of a power struggle between themselves), the casino, a failed attempt to own the Restasis patent, and endless billboards telling you to either not do drugs or not beat your wife. Oh, and all the 'under the table' drugs at the illegal dispensaries - I've heard from the college news network that they're lacing weed with coke and fent to some students they sell to.

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