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Sokath, his eyes open.

With apologies to the rest of the industry, boots on the ground equipment reseller-wise: Upgrading scanner scales costs us ~$1,800/lane/store for a 7895 before our markup (and I don’t know the actual figures, I’m not a money guy), and we barely convinced store owners that EMV was needed because of the liability shift. I’m skeptical that UPCA is going away entirely, and would expect GTINs to be more complimentary than anything.

We’re having a hell of a time convincing people to get off of POS applications that were sold ~10 years ago running Windows Server 2008 R2 and an app that is just recently past its support cutoff. They would need to completely replace their POS in order to upgrade.

I still haven’t heard of anything in this space, as a part of an NCR dealer with ~170 independently owned grocery stores as customers. A fair amount of them don’t have imaging scanners, and the scanners they do have can’t scan QR. Not saying it’s not happening, but I am strongly skeptical that the industry is switching away from UPC/EAN as a whole *by that date.

I haven’t heard of an actual direct initiative here, that 2027 date sounds more like marketing for IBN than an actual industry-wide push. Walmart is banking on RFID, for example.

Man, I never knew that my ISP was working so hard for me.

What?

I mean this sincerely, I’ve been loosely following this project and the OS it is from and would like to know more about what you know, because this is the first time I’ve heard such accusations.

Life support for a monster set aside as insurance against the day that the monster needs it.

Agreed entirely, Mozilla doing nothing would be far preferable to me here then them helping extend our current experience with advertising by working towards a future with a minimal set of meaningless concessions that Meta’s involvement with suggests would not meaningfully negatively impact their business in any way.

To my mind, fixing advertising means making advertising a much less lucrative business. Doing anything else is only making the already dire problem worse.

The Device is now more valuable than the organs and combined incomes of everyone in SubjectHometownHere.

He would’ve liked that. He was a real nice guy, always said I had a face for radio.

As my father always said: you may be a funny person, but looks don’t count for everything.

Ah gee dang, you’re right. Thanks!

It’s a quote from a Star Wars show movie.

I hope that going back will reinvigorate Cyan. Firmament was… Unfortunately underwhelming. After the third time I got stuck on a puzzle because it broke and had to restart from the beginning, I was really struggling to keep going.

It can be, sure. But when used in a limited manner where it makes sense it can be the more readable option. I’ve used it in a try/catch to retry the operation after changing a variable. One label (“reconnect”), one goto, totally easy to understand on a surface level.

The solar eclipse from Monday.

I genuinely had someone stop and ask me why you can’t see the moon during an eclipse because “it’s got light in it right”.

They’re soon to replace our HR manager.

It’s useful for UltraVNC to pass through key combos like alt-tab without triggering them on the local PC.

Lemme know when you’re done, I’ll take up the next shift.

Look in the mirror for something invisible?

Hey, at least it wasn’t the moose.