amigan @ theamigan @lemmy.dynatron.me

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The state of being alive is just applied chemistry, too.

If you sell a dangerous shitbox product to the general public, it gets recalled. It doesn't matter what the remedy is. Companies need to be dissuaded from releasing half baked products to the market. "Move fast and break things" is quite literally not a viable strategy for vehicle production.

If you use ghostscript, it absolutely should, but you're probably better off using something like cpdf.

I run xorg on my desktops (especially my video transfer/editing workstation) and sway on my laptop. Wayland still has some seemingly intractable bugs and annoyances, if it even supports what you are trying to accomplish. I run it in hopes of helping it improve, but it's far from mature.

Red Book hasn't been updated since 1980, I think you'll be okay.

You need to click search tools and select "verbatim."

I bought a Slate Plus just last month and simply flashed it with vanilla OpenWRT as soon as I opened the box. I certainly wouldn't trust the stock firmware, but this is so easy to remedy it's barely worth talking about.

Torvalds isn't an asshole because of a nonexistent moral compass. He just has strong opinions, and he's usually right, anyway.

Just what the "security" industry needs. It's all either talentless hacks, or skilled assholes.

Edit: lol ok, I've only been working near these people for a decade.

It absolutely is. The thing that isn't enough is doing a full disk TRIM, but I haven't seen that recommended. A single pass of dd if=/dev/zero is plenty adequate.

Yes, unless they are OPAL, in which case it's done the same way as SSDs: throw away the key.

Laughing at all the Hollywood shit in this thread. A single pass erase (or ATA Secure Erase, if they are SSDs that support the command) is more than enough. Nobody is going to waste time and money recovering data of unknown provenance from a landfill.

Imagine if Pirate Bay or Napster were considered completely above-board businesses just because they took down torrents if explicitly requested by the copyright holders.

That's kind of exactly how the DMCA works. That's the bargain, you take down offending content and make an effort to ensure it does not return and you are allowed to continue to exist and not be sued directly. The problem is that this goes against torrent sites' entire raison d'etre (usually under the argument that they don't even host offending content, just a torrent file) and so it never happens this way.

Just playing devil's advocate (I hate the DMCA for many other reasons), but if service providers were directly liable for what their users did, the Internet never would have grown up to what we know it is today.

Not all cheeses are funky, and funk that is not characteristic of a certain style of cheese is considered a defect.

They are also packed per slice because they last a lot longer. Plastic cheese or not, cheese slices have a lot of surface area and get funky relatively quickly. Also, every time you reach into a regular bag of deli sliced cheese, you introduce funk-generating organisms.

If you run a server...

    
#!/bin/sh
INSTANCE=myinstance.com
psql -U lemmy -c "SELECT (person.name || '@' || instance.domain) AS user, 
('https://' || instance.domain || '/u/' || person.name) AS their_instance_url,
('https://${INSTANCE}/u/' || person.name || '@' || instance.domain) AS url,
comment_like.score
FROM comment_like
JOIN person ON comment_like.person_id = person.id
JOIN instance ON person.instance_id = instance.id WHERE comment_id = $1;"


  

Edit: lol@ the downvotes. Do people think lemmy operates on the principles of magic? Sorry my SQL offends you.

I will say, I've had an old mechanical window AC trip the ZEN15's overload detection when the thermostat short cycled and the compressor was stalled. So I would trust it for that in a pinch, and especially with a resistive load. But for an outdoor heating element application, I still would oversize the switching device (and get the 40A contactor), and put 15A circuit breakers before the contactor. Also, that 40A device can drive either a two pole 240V device (unison contacts) or two 120V devices, so you could just put each heater on its own pole and heat up your wiring a little less. Or probably just wire only one pole, I haven't read the manual.

My guess is that they see their device controlling a heating element of unknown (to them) provenance as a liability. My zen15 manual specifically has a warning against using it with heaters.

CAUTION This is an electrical device - please use caution when installing and operating the Power Switch. Remote control of appliances may result in unintentional or automated activation of power. Do NOT use this Z-Wave device to control electric heaters or other appliances which produce the risk of fire, burns, or electrical shock when unattended.

Sir, this is an Arby's.

Again, a one time pad is safer in that instance. Security by obscurity is not security.