In other news today...
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@cabrito https://what.thedailywtf.com/post/1862304
But I'll upboat anyway, because the only way it could be more awesome is if some miners had chained themselves to their stupid crap, but the roller operator was not amused and just selected a lower gear.
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@cabrito I guess that's one way of making sure GPUs stay unobtainable.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
And "turning your phone off" because it has no reception? Airplane mode is a thing.
Or just plugging it in.
Also IME the battery doesn't drop that quickly anyway.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@cabrito I guess that's one way of making sure GPUs stay unobtainable.
They look like ASICs rather than PCs using GPUs.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Garmin Nuvi 200
Mine was the Nuvi 1450.
The really nice thing about standalone units like these is that they don't need to download maps. When I travel to northern CA, I have to turn my phone off for a while (about 50mi) because otherwise the battery drops like a stone while it constantly searches for a cell signal. Sure GPS works. But if the map hasn't downloaded yet, that's not very useful info.
You can get offline GPS apps for the phone as well. You still have to download the maps, of course, but you can do it ahead of time on your own wifi (or on coffee shop wifi after discovering that the travel sim card that was supposed to come with a data connection couldn't do the needful)
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
And "turning your phone off" because it has no reception? Airplane mode is a thing.
Actually, when driving that section of road, I just turn the screen off. (especially when driving) to actually turn it off.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Or just plugging it in.
Also IME the battery doesn't drop that quickly anyway.LOL. When plugged in and running GPS, my phone will lose about 1-2% per hour. Stupid decrepit cheap ass USB shit in 2015 Subarus.
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@dcon The built-in USB in my car doesn't charge all that well, so I only use it for playing music off a USB stick. For charging, I got a lighter socket adapter and that works very well. Technically I also have a USB charger connected to the fuse box, but that exclusively powers my dashcam.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@dcon The built-in USB in my car doesn't charge all that well, so I only use it for playing music off a USB stick. For charging, I got a lighter socket adapter and that works very well. Technically I also have a USB charger connected to the fuse box, but that exclusively powers my dashcam.
The lighter socket is powering my dashcam. Yes, splitters are a thing. But space isn't.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Or just plugging it in.
Also IME the battery doesn't drop that quickly anyway.LOL. When plugged in and running GPS, my phone will lose about 1-2% per hour. Stupid decrepit cheap ass USB shit in 2015 Subarus.
I had this problem. Then I cleaned out the charging port on the phone and it does much better. Though I think I need to clean it again.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
The lighter socket is powering my dashcam. Yes, splitters are a thing. But space isn't.
Don't you have another lighter socket inside the center console (between the seats)?
There is one in my 2011 Impreza
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
Why aren't you doing donuts?
I do that in the winter.
Cue "it's always winter in " jokes
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
Why aren't you doing donuts?
I do that in the winter.
Cue "it's always winter in " jokes
Oh I already made mine.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Don't you have another lighter socket inside the center console (between the seats)?
No. I think there's one on the back side of the console, but the area behind the seats is full of dog show stuff. Plus, none of the wires are long enough.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
the area behind the seats is full of dog show stuff. Plus, none of the wires are long enough.
This is common with legacy breeds.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
the area behind the seats is full of dog show stuff. Plus, none of the wires are long enough.
This is common with legacy breeds.
Happens in the outback too.
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Systemd
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Systemd
allows a local attacker, able to mount a filesystem on a very long path, to crash systemd
As far as I can tell, mount is still a privileged operation, so it still depends on having access to another tool that can mount on user-provided path, which is already a severe security issue in Linux anyway.
… ok, the tool can validate the provided path for not stomping over anything important, but not for overall length, which should otherwise be safe. But most reasonable tools of the kind don't allow user-provided paths, but make them up themselves, in which case they won't be excessively long.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
RHEL7 not impacted - Enterprise FTW
RHEL7 is antediluvian. And the bug was apparently introduced with some “optimization”.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
RHEL7 not impacted - Enterprise FTW
RHEL7 is antediluvian.
That explains why some admins still plan upgrade to this version and not any later. They fear the flood...
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
And the bug was apparently introduced with some “optimization”.
alloca()
is always suspicious.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
RHEL7 not impacted - Enterprise FTW
RHEL7 is antediluvian. And the bug was apparently introduced with some “optimization”.
systemd
is asking for this sort of trouble, just absolutely gagging for it. Too many derps picked it up thinking "finally! the Year Of Linux On The Desktop" and the only surprising thing about this bug is that there aren't many more of it and sooner.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
alloca()
is always suspicious.In the words of Shakira, "it's crazy but you like it, alloca alloca alloca".
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv8Yqq64I-s
TL;DW: New Mexico state Supreme Court has ruled that gas stations can be sued for damages caused by a drunk driver if they sold him/her gas while drunk, similar to the way a bartender can be held responsible for serving alcohol to someone who is visibly intoxicated. Even though
- Many, even the large majority in many places, gas sales are pay-at-the-pump, where the customer never has any interaction with the clerk, who therefore has little if any opportunity to (possibly) determine the customer's sobriety or lack thereof;
- The customer may not even be visible to the clerk (e.g. on the far side of a distant pump);
- If there is an interaction with the customer, the interaction may be with a passenger, not the driver;
- The customer may be sober at the time of the fuel purchase but become drunk later;
- Gas station clerks are not trained to evaluate sobriety;
- BAC may be over the legal limit without any noticeable signs of intoxication;
- Denial of a fuel sale, assuming that's even possible for a pay-at-the-pump transaction, might put the clerk at risk of violence from an angry customer;
- And the sale or denial of fuel may not make any difference to the damages, since the driver probably had enough fuel to continue driving for some distance regardless of the sale.
What could possibly go wrong?
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@HardwareGeek Add breathalyzers to the self-service pump stations.
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@cvi That was discussed in the video comments. Would you put your mouth on a device that was outdoors, in an uncontrolled environment, used by hundreds or thousands of people with who knows what diseases, and may or may not ever have been sanitized, but almost certainly not since the previous customer?
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@cvi said in In other news today...:
@cabrito I guess that's one way of making sure GPUs stay unobtainable.
They look like ASICs rather than PCs using GPUs.
And still a waste of slicon fab machinery time, which could be better used for more important stuff.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@cvi That was discussed in the video comments. Would you put your mouth on a device that was outdoors, in an uncontrolled environment, used by hundreds or thousands of people with who knows what diseases, and may or may not ever have been sanitized, but almost certainly not since the previous customer?
Use some convenient liquid (fuel) to clean it off.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Denial of a fuel sale, assuming that's even possible for a pay-at-the-pump transaction, might put the clerk at risk of violence from an angry customer;
Clerks at fuel stations are often behind protective glass anyway, just to cut the rate of violent theft incidents.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Denial of a fuel sale, assuming that's even possible for a pay-at-the-pump transaction, might put the clerk at risk of violence from an angry customer;
Clerks at fuel stations are often behind protective glass anyway, just to cut the rate of violent theft incidents.
TIL the UK is as much of a hellhole as cough...
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Denial of a fuel sale, assuming that's even possible for a pay-at-the-pump transaction, might put the clerk at risk of violence from an angry customer;
Clerks at fuel stations are often behind protective glass anyway, just to cut the rate of violent theft incidents.
TIL the UK is as much of a hellhole as cough...
I can't think of a single petrol station I've ever been to here with protective glass.
Some of them here currently have perspex shields up due to the virus of unknown origin but not protective glass.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@cvi That was discussed in the video comments. Would you put your mouth on a device that was outdoors, in an uncontrolled environment, used by hundreds or thousands of people with who knows what diseases, and may or may not ever have been sanitized, but almost certainly not since the previous customer?
Use some convenient liquid (fuel) to clean it off.
Or just carry a hand pump and blow it with that.
I expect vintage blood-pressure gauge pumps or similar to peak in popularity on AliExpress...
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@cvi That was discussed in the video comments. Would you put your mouth on a device that was outdoors, in an uncontrolled environment, used by hundreds or thousands of people with who knows what diseases, and may or may not ever have been sanitized, but almost certainly not since the previous customer?
Wasn't exactly an entirely serious suggestion (also hadn't watched the video/read the comments there). But, you're right. However, I was hoping for more jokes about going to a sketchy gas station to first blow and then pump.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
However, I was hoping for more jokes about going to a sketchy gas station to first blow and then pump.
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@loopback0 But not TDWTF
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 But not TDWTF
Our hundredths of thousands of users are well served.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@cvi said in In other news today...:
@cabrito I guess that's one way of making sure GPUs stay unobtainable.
They look like ASICs rather than PCs using GPUs.
And still a waste of slicon fab machinery time, which could be better used for more important stuff.
Commie.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 But not TDWTF
Our hundredths of thousands of users are well served.
@apapadimoulis is literally better at hosting websites than
HSBC bank, British Airways and the PlayStation network
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 But not TDWTF
Our hundredths of thousands of users are well served.
Someone employed by @apapadimoulis is literally better at hosting websites thanHSBC bank, British Airways and the PlayStation network
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 But not TDWTF
Our hundredths of thousands of users are well served.
Someone employed by @apapadimoulis is literally better at hosting websites thanHSBC bank, British Airways and the PlayStation network
I'm just waiting for that reciprocal to be read at the actual magnitude vs 4 orders higher.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 But not TDWTF
TFA said "hugely popular websites". No matter how much we love our little wretched hive of scum and villainy, it doesn't qualify as "hugely popular".
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
No matter how much we love our little wretched hive of scum and villainy, it doesn't qualify as "hugely popular".
It's hugely popular with people who matter.