RegalPotoo @ RegalPotoo @lemmy.world

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Or, alternatively, coms management is important and formally declaring an incident is an important part of outage response - going from "hey Bob something isn't looking right can you check when you get a sec" to "ok, shits broken, everyone put down what you are working on and help with this. Jim is in charge of coordinating the technical people so we don't make things worse, and should feed updates to Mike who is going to handle comms to non-technical internal people and to externals" takes management input

Yeah, but single large mass hitting in one place vs stuff spread out vs planet forming a ring and deorbiting over months/years would affect the outcome

Practically, I'd think there wouldn't be a huge effect beyond some CMEs - the mass of the earth is a rounding error compared to the sun - but I'm not a cosmologist

For a start, the planet wouldn't actually collide with the sun on one piece - once the planet crosses the Roche limit it will break apart

Protip: if you are going to send a company wide announcement, imagine what the 2-sentance summary on a news website might say, and reassess if you still think it's a good idea

Why does patreon even need to be an app? What value does the app bring that the website can't deliver?

https://valetudo.cloud/

There are very few things more obnoxious than an asshole with unsolicited parenting advice

Typically they do, just they call it a "performance bonus" and it's baked into their contract

With Bluetooth you could probably figure out which room a device is in - it'll get you within a few meters - UWB will help you find which end of the couch it is under, at the cost of only working once you are within a meter or two

Ok, bit of an outlandish idea, but how about something like:

• Decree that information about a person is the property of that person, and therefore cannot be possessed without compensation. Think of it like intellectual property, but for your personal information
• Set a standard royalty - say $0.05/year - that must be paid to the owner of that information for as long as that information is held. This forms an incentive to not hold information you don't need, and gives visibility to all the places that are now forced to contact you every year to pay you the royalty
• Places where you have an explicit contractual relationship with (utilities, banks, ...) could have a clause to set the royalty at $0.00, but this can't be extended to third parties - strong incentive not to transfer information to third parties
• Unauthorised transfer or loss of information could be considered IP theft, and result in significant civil penalties

As was "negro" - and that's kinda the point; just because a word is "official" doesn't make it not discriminatory, just that the discrimination was backed by the power of institutions.

I don't 100% buy the argument that the two words are equivalent, but I can see how "oh you can't come here you are obese" could feel similarly arbitrary as "oh you can't come here you are black"

Oh, you misheard - he doesn't like "free speech", he likes "freeze peach" - just a big fan of Super Mario. And Nazis - don't forget how much he loves Nazis

Make sure you have your shiv handy so when someone is "helpful" and tries to push you without asking first you can get em right in the kidney

If you are talking about nation state leaders, I'm struggling to think of one where they don't just end up getting replaced with someone similar - Putin turning to magic dust doesn't suddenly dismantle the structure that allows for a dictator, so another dictator will slide into the void. Same with Trump - American politics doesn't stop being insane just cos he's not around, and now that people know/think that a politician of his style can win, there will be a queue to cynical imitators ready to go.

I'm less familiar with Indian politics, but I don't think the BJP suddenly loses its power if Modi disappeared. Israel will still have it's hard right nationalist core without Netanyahu. North Korea will find another Kim.

I guess my thesis is "focus on systems, not people"

What are you insinuating?

Most of them block everything other than ports 80 and 443, so unless you've set the gateway up to run on one of those ports it'll probably not work

Typically you won't have real people harvesting emails for sale - it's much easier to get addresses in bulk by hacking services and dumping their databases - and you get password hashes as well, which makes it a much better value proposition for the time it takes.

Off the top of my head, a couple of things that it could be:

• Simple stolen card fraud - buy something small with a stolen credit card to prove it works before using it for a higher value purchase. Something where you don't need to worry about a physical product getting delivered somewhere would be great for this
• Escrow fee fraud - commission something small, then use that as a hook to promise a much larger commission, except that they want to use some off-site service to "reduce the fees", then "oops the money has been flagged as maybe fraudulent and you need to pay a fee to get it released"
• Money mule recruitment - again, small commission (using a stolen card) to establish a relationship, then come to you with a great job opportunity where they will send you some money via western union or something, and all you need to do is send it on to someone else, and you get to keep a cut. The catch is you are actually handing stolen funds or helping someone evade international sanctions, and you end up in prison

When I'm buying vinyl, I'm not buying it to listen to - I'm buying it cos I want to support the band or want a souvenir from a concert. I own a few dozen albums, none of which have been played more than a handful of times; if I want to listen to one of them I'll stream it, either from a paid service or off my own machine using versions ripped from elsewhere

The formal definitions of Booleans were proposed by Boole.

Citation needed.

I've seen reports of hospitals delaying non-essential and elective surgeries, but no reports of emergency care being impacted