tony @ tony @lemmy.hoyle.me.uk

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I hear she's got a nice sideline going in Dalmatian coats.

In most of the UK yes, subject to local council byelaws - eg. locally the rule is if you can't get a wheelchair past, you get a ticket (although enforcement is basically non-existent).

In London it is actually illegal.

Those are extreme cases.. they're buying a 48k car (that seems on the high side) but trading in an 8k car (so old/cheap or both).. of course the loan is going to be large.

Normally you'd time the trade.. my current car was an upgrade on my last but the monthly payments reduced because I timed it so the value of my existing car was reasonably high.

Or anything reflective. Throw some strips of tinfoil at it (that's just chaff WW2 style) and it not only disrupts power it has a good chance of blinding a few of the troops on the ground too.

I got offered a more expensive product for free if I'd change my review. So I changed it to 1 star instead. Judging by the glowing reviews a lot of people took the offer.

Laserdiscs were huge for being able to stop on a single frame - I worked for a place that used them for language teaching, so you had to stop dead on a sentence for it to make sense. At the time mpeg could only stop on iframes that could be 10 seconds apart, and paying to get iframes mastered where you needed them was mucho expensive (even decoding required hardware.. mpeg encoding in software was a pipe dream).

Compressed video still has this problem to some extent but it's mostly worked around in software.

Also the hardware to interface to a PC was basically a simple analogue capture card and a serial link for the control. Cheap, at least compared to the mpeg decoders of the day.

I replaced the battery on my 5 and it was just like new.. still is.. except it no longer gets security updates, which sucks otherwise it's be my daily driver today.

when this one dies.

Which is a problem for the phone manufacturers.. because everyone's saying that now. Phones all do what we need them to do already, there are no new killer features.

Phones just do the same stuff now, so updates don't really matter beyond security. That's a problem for the pixel 8 too.. I've got a 7a and it's not really got anything my 5 didn't have, other than being bigger and heavier. So I'm not even bothered by the 8.

Their servers aren't terrible, but they check at boot for HP memory and HP hard drives.. all at a significant markup. We ditched HP kit completely due to that.. just upgrading a set of hard drives was going to cost four times the going rate for 3rd party.

HP printers used to be the gold standard back in the day.. a laserjet would 'just work' and often not even need drivers, was nicely servicable too.. then they went to shit, and nobody with any sense would touch them these days.

4 repairable, one broken, 2 milion glued shut.

What a knob.

Use ddrescue.. but if there are lots of errors what you get back might not be that useful. Once you have a full image mount it loopback (losetup -Pf) and get the files that way.

Don't try to mount the ssd directly as you can make things worse if the OS tries to write to it.

They specifically say the high vulnerability one affects the command line tool, not just the library. High implies privilege escalation.. I'm wondering how at this point because it's not setuid and there's really no reason opening a TCP socket could cause it (and if it does, that's a kernel error not curl).

So don't announce anything.. keep it quiet until the fixes are ready.

Now potential hackers know there's a flaw there and will be looking for it, and they have clear space to do so before anyone can fix it.

I answered the 'why do you want this job' question with 'I'm unemployed and need money', rather than lying about some lifelong ambition to work for a small software company in bumfuck nowhere. Got me the job.

Of course it depends on the interviewer, but TBH I'd rather work for one that values honesty anyway.

Yup qualifications are only one of the things we look at, and it's way down the list. which college.. who cares?

Show us an active github page, boast about how you installed lemmy whilst fighting off a herd of wildebeast... top of the list.

After thinking about it that's exactly what they're doing.

They sold tickets at $700 each to loads of men. So loads of men turned up.

What did they expect to happen. They knew in advance how many tickets they'd sold and to who.. and nobody raised any flags. A few % lying about gender (if they did, gender is complex) wouldn't tip the scales that much.

I'd rather they didn't announce it existed before announcing what it is.. now we've got to sit around for a week potentially knowing the curl command could give someone root access or something.

"If you ever use containers to self-host, do you prefer manual or automatic updates?" "Yes"