Should really be an April Fools tag so you don't have to guess on today's stories

Our old work VPN used to try to auto-reconnect after a timeout, which turned into MFA notifications on my phone every few minutes if I forgot to disconnect manually. The first time it happened, I thought it was someone hacking my account. That may have been one of the reasons we changed VPN providers.

In my case, the previous owner had AT&T, but not their fiber service. So I could see the AT&T line running into the house. I called AT&T to order their fiber service, and 3 trips later found out I was in their "service area" but wouldn't be getting service. What was especially great was the conversation of "Well, there's an AT&T line running into the house, just give me that service.", "We can't because you're in the fiber service area." Now, this was annoying but I did have Comcast to fall back on.

Minor note: When Covid started I decided since I was working from home, I didn't care how many trips it might take AT&T this time around. By then they figured it out and got it on the first try. If they weren't my only gigabit option, I would have stayed with Comcast out of spite.

The same person found a formula using base 10 this year, so that's more about who was looking than anything else.

I didn't use 8 until 8.1 Update 1 and didn't understand what the fuss was about. Then I put 8 on an old machine without any updates (short-term) and it all made sense.

So until someone successfully mounts a 51% attack?

I did this a couple years ago for a Packers game. It worked wonderfully. This year for a Chiefs game, it was no longer possible. In fact, although it could be put into Apple Wallet, on Android the only way in was via the Ticketmaster app. Pretty soon, it's going to require a live internet connection and when the massive crowds at the game over-stress the cellular networks, there's going to be 20,000 people who can't get in because there's no backup system.

I would have thought everyone knew of the NOPLATE issue and avoided this sort of thing.
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I was getting a copy sent to work. I asked to stop receiving it, since there's a digital version. So they started sending a copy to my home address as well. Is it finally going to stop?

Wow, that's a lot of data. Did it take the whole internet's bandwidth for a day to send it to all the sites?

No. We used sneakernet.

As long as no Wozniaks are vulnerable to automation, we'll be OK.

"It's like, how much more black could this be and the answer is none. None more black."

After bug reports that the UI hung in certain situations, I checked the code. The algorithm was supposed to be a simple "is there a path between A and B", Unfortunately the original author did "count the paths between A and B", which for complex enough data, was taking hours.

No. Rejecting applicants because they're too smart is turning our police force into blathering idiots.

A plethora. Think of how many pinatas you could buy with $9100.