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Jim Bauer @porwest (90937) • United States 22 Dec

I get why passwords are important, don't get me wrong. And I am pretty good about coming up with a password that well, you'd have to know a very deep secret about me to even come close to what they are. Not bad secrets, mind you....

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santuccie @porwest Yeah, I have clients who used to use pen and paper. There are a few problems with that: first, they end up with multiple versions, as they forget passwords again and again, struggle to find the correct password in their cluttered tablet, and keep...

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Jim Bauer @porwest (90937) • United States 22 Dec

I get why passwords are important, don't get me wrong. And I am pretty good about coming up with a password that well, you'd have to know a very deep secret about me to even come close to what they are. Not bad secrets, mind you....

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santuccie @porwest Ads are good for monetizing offline apps, where the developer doesn't have overhead. They can just launch the app on an app store, and release updates periodically as bugs are found and features are added, but they don't have to pay for their own...

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Jim Bauer @porwest (90937) • United States 22 Dec

I get why passwords are important, don't get me wrong. And I am pretty good about coming up with a password that well, you'd have to know a very deep secret about me to even come close to what they are. Not bad secrets, mind you....

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santuccie @porwest LOL, they gotta pay to keep those servers running, so all my devices stay synced. There are free alternatives, but most are harder to use. Some of them don't provide synchronization, and you have to back up to a third-party server and sync all your...

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Always smiling @allknowing (136540) • India 16 Jul 23

I have had a unique experience of earning crypto currency by writing for two Sites . One is already closed and the other one I am losing interest as they are concentrating only on reviews that I find boring It was not easy to...

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santuccie What sites do you use? Crypto seems to be leveling the playing field a little bit. Whereas a lot of websites that pay fiat currency are only available to Americans, a lot of crypto earning sites are available to almost everyone except Americans, haha. But I'm...

28 Dec

santuccie @santuccie (3384) • United States 5 Jan 16

When I was young, my parents had some presumably low-budget, non-Disney fairy tale cartoons on VHS. They were pretty funny, but likely not very successful. I've tried searching Google for every known publication of a title, as...

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santuccie Me too! And I finally found them. The cartoons were made by Rankin Bass, in the 1970s.

18 Apr 20

Scott Andersen @DocAndersen (54402) • United States 9 Mar 19

Do you still have a directly connected monitor at home? Or, in fairness is your monitor actually also a TV? Do you use Chromecast or do you use a cable? It is an interesting question, I am interested in what people are doing!

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santuccie @DocAndersen Correct. That's why I use ridiculous WiFi and router admin passwords, and keep all streaming devices on the guest network. The one unsecured device on our internal network is the new HP printer. I'm researching IoT firewalls for that. Feel...

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Scott Andersen @DocAndersen (54402) • United States 9 Mar 19

Do you still have a directly connected monitor at home? Or, in fairness is your monitor actually also a TV? Do you use Chromecast or do you use a cable? It is an interesting question, I am interested in what people are doing!

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santuccie It looks nifty. Not for me, though. I don't like connecting unsecured devices to my internal network. And I only need to stream one device at a time, anyway.

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Hanni Harel @Hannihar (130218) • Israel 13 Jun 17

I am a home computer person. I had a laptop but did not like it and it is too heavy for me to carry around. I have very badly injured shoulders.

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santuccie @Hannihar LOL, my mom had an orange tabby years ago named Killer, who absolutely loved to fight. He tried to murder my right arm once. By the time he fell asleep on my chest, my arm was looking like the body of Christ.

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Hanni Harel @Hannihar (130218) • Israel 13 Jun 17

I am a home computer person. I had a laptop but did not like it and it is too heavy for me to carry around. I have very badly injured shoulders.

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santuccie @Hannihar I believe so. I didn't create the gif myself. Funny enough, my mom had an orange tabby named Killer, and he lived up to his name.

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The Invisible Man @TheInvisibleMan (17597) 13 Jun 17

One of the most basic lessons when you start using a computer is to have to install a good antivirus to avoid major problems. It's not possible to use a computer in a 100% effective way without having an anti virus installed...

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santuccie @youless Malware writers do not release their payloads publicly. yet the authorities still manage to track them down every now and then. Antivirus vendors stand to gain nothing from writing malware, but they stand to lose everything if they do it and get...

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The Invisible Man @TheInvisibleMan (17597) 13 Jun 17

One of the most basic lessons when you start using a computer is to have to install a good antivirus to avoid major problems. It's not possible to use a computer in a 100% effective way without having an anti virus installed...

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santuccie There are indeed rogue antivirus products (a.k.a. scareware), which are the ones that pop up on your screen while you're surfing the Internet, ominously warning you that your computer is infected with 43 viruses and you have to "click here" to get it...

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Rohvannyn Shaw @Rohvannyn (3098) • United States 11 Nov 15

Why? Because inevitably, that higher minimum wage will drive up costs in every sector. Companies won't be able to hire as many people, so anyone still working will be overworked. My wage, which is more than $5 more than the...

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santuccie @RonElFran To me, the only thing that wasn't a given was that a stronger economy may actually decrease demand in the food service sector, and that's exactly why I used the word "may"; I know better than to assert as fact that which I don't know to be fact. If...

9 Jan 16

Rohvannyn Shaw @Rohvannyn (3098) • United States 11 Nov 15

Why? Because inevitably, that higher minimum wage will drive up costs in every sector. Companies won't be able to hire as many people, so anyone still working will be overworked. My wage, which is more than $5 more than the...

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santuccie Prices go up anyway. Wages stopped rising for the middle class years ago (and some even fell), while inflation did not. Pay people a living wage, and there will be some backlash from executives who won't be hitting the record margin they wanted this year due...

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Rohvannyn Shaw @Rohvannyn (3098) • United States 11 Nov 15

Why? Because inevitably, that higher minimum wage will drive up costs in every sector. Companies won't be able to hire as many people, so anyone still working will be overworked. My wage, which is more than $5 more than the...

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santuccie Actually, inflation isn't waiting for the minimum wage to go up; it has marched on while wages have stagnated (and some have even fallen). We can't NOT raise wages as the cost of living continues to rise.

6 Jan 16

Rohvannyn Shaw @Rohvannyn (3098) • United States 11 Nov 15

Why? Because inevitably, that higher minimum wage will drive up costs in every sector. Companies won't be able to hire as many people, so anyone still working will be overworked. My wage, which is more than $5 more than the...

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santuccie Technology advances, creating new jobs in the process. A few decades ago, there was no such thing as a software engineer, network analyst, systems administrator, penetration tester, or chat/email support representative. Today, the IT industry is hurting...

6 Jan 16

Rohvannyn Shaw @Rohvannyn (3098) • United States 11 Nov 15

Why? Because inevitably, that higher minimum wage will drive up costs in every sector. Companies won't be able to hire as many people, so anyone still working will be overworked. My wage, which is more than $5 more than the...

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santuccie @Rohvannyn Logical extrapolation is exactly what I'm trying to offer to you. Are you not open to it?

6 Jan 16

Rohvannyn Shaw @Rohvannyn (3098) • United States 11 Nov 15

Why? Because inevitably, that higher minimum wage will drive up costs in every sector. Companies won't be able to hire as many people, so anyone still working will be overworked. My wage, which is more than $5 more than the...

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santuccie @Rohvannyn I may be mistaken, but I was of the understanding that the job losses in Seattle were largely confined to the food service sector, not across the board. And that would make more sense: eating out tends to be affected more by lifestyle than...

5 Jan 16

santuccie @santuccie (3384) • United States 15 Apr 13

A really nifty woman contacted me on eHarmony, and we seem to have a lot in common. As we were going back and forth in the process of asking and answering questions, she provided her e-mail address and asked me to please contact...

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santuccie @1hopefulman Thank you. And I'm over it; who can predict the fickle hand of fate? Of all the women I've met in my lifetime, among them were surely a number of potential matches, any of which might very well have been "the one" for me. But things happen,...

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santuccie @santuccie (3384) • United States 15 Apr 13

A really nifty woman contacted me on eHarmony, and we seem to have a lot in common. As we were going back and forth in the process of asking and answering questions, she provided her e-mail address and asked me to please contact...

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santuccie I know I did. My concern was in case she started talking with someone other than me, and that someone had worse intentions.

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