Here it’s a shopping chain I rarely go to. The vouchers don’t work on the self checkout and the checkout staff isn’t trained on their use, requiring the store manager to intervene if the balance is negative, it’s an absolute shitshow.

I’m fairly certain that it’s self regulated, so there’s no oversight and the politicians can point at it and show off how much they’re doing for the environment.

Also, trolleys at the bottle return require a coin to unlock them, but there’s no money in the facility. I’ve not had physical money on me for at least a decade.

And we’re still stuck with its aftermath in that search engines require quotes rather than a + for requiring words, which they now ignore whenever the mood strikes.

Why?

Because some fuckwit at Google decided that the + was reserved for Google+ search results.

We did this in Australia.

The return stations are pretty much run by one supermarket chain who do their damnedest to make it hard to get paid in actual money, giving you either a store credit voucher with an expiry date, or requiring that you provide substantial personal details and they’ll deposit the amount in your bank account.

We stopped collecting bottles.

It’s likely not about tennis, unless the CEO is a dick, it’s about an excuse to meet you and evaluate how you are as a human being.

Unless there’s a specific dress code requirement, I’d arrive in comfortable clothes, smart casual, clean and with a smile on my face.

When you’re asked about your lack of racket I’d point out that not only have you never played, you didn’t think it would be prudent to spend money on gear you know nothing about.

Remember, this is about people, not about hitting a tennis ball.

It essentially depends on what level of support you require.

End Of Life is a concept, not generally a fixed point in time … even though the likes of Microsoft are attempting to rewrite history and making everyone move off Windows 10 by a specific date.

And just like in that situation, you have options.

You can consider your relationship with Microsoft at an end and install a different OS, or you can continue the relationship and buy new hardware even though there’s absolutely nothing wrong with what you currently have.

The same is true for a router.

The decision around EOL is about what happens next.

Do you want to yell at the supplier if it breaks, or will you realise that yelling only happens if you spend money on lawyers, and in the meantime you can move on with your life and decide on an alternative path.

My car is worth $700 or so, even though I bought it new 15 years ago. Is it at the end of its life? It’s still getting me from here to there and back.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eswatini

Aka Swaziland.

Just Americans?

Given the level of financial inequality across the planet, I’d hazard a guess that this experience is significantly more widespread than just one country.

Uhm… why does it say “Lemmy Shitpost” at the bottom?

From a security perspective I’d be surprised if number of mentions as a metric has any bearing whatsoever on the impact or urgency of a CVE.

If you’re using mentions as a proxy for affected user base, I’d hazard an opinion that there are better ways of determining the impact footprint of a CVE.

Finally, a vulnerability rating or priority is determined and published with each CVE, so I’d expect that this would take into account some of those considerations.

That said, a vendor ranking seems like something that I’ve not seen before, mind you, the notion that Microsoft didn’t make it into the list is gobsmacking considering that patch Tuesday addressed 81 flaws and 2 zero-days in September.

In my opinion, he idea seems useful, but the execution needs some work.

Stayin’ Alive - Bee Gees

… and this is why we use YYYY-MM-DD as the date format.

… because selecting an icon is what’s missing to get Firefox being used by more people.

The more I look at what’s coming out of Mozilla these days, the less it looks like a company with any clue on what it’s doing or why.

Source: I’ve been using the internet pretty much daily since 1990.

Is this type of governmental funding arrangement used anywhere outside the USA?

This seems at first glance at least potentially doable.

Create a website with content that’s only rendered with JavaScript and embed a miner.

Your challenge is to get the work product back, but you might be able to create dynamically generated URLs that show up in your logs as the work result.

You’d have to find a way to chunk the work and make it such that the work required is enough to be valuable to you, but not so costly as to stop the crawlers from using your site.

I suspect that in order for this to actually happen you’d have to have a significant infrastructure to deal with the crawler load, which you could instead be using to do the actual work.

Ultimately I suspect that this is the software equivalent of a perpetual motion machine, cute in theory, physically impossible.

Good luck!

Pointer Acceleration Profile and Sensitivity should be able to be adjusted to suit your requirements.

100.4°F = 38°C

Doesn’t whomever is writing a ticket have access to the number plates of every driver who had a ruling made against them and is issued with a radio to contact a tow truck on the spot?

Seems like an obvious solution, so I must be missing something.

Set-up a workstation that does everything you want and use a tool like chrome-remote-desktop to connect to your employer or client as required.

Alternatively, use virtual machines for each.

I’m self-employed and for most clients and/or projects I have a completely separate virtual machine configured, so there’s no chance of information leaking between clients.

What’s unclear from the article is what exactly is being disrupted, since microwave radiation (from your microwave oven) is on the same frequency band as 2.4 GHz WiFi, which provides one potential failure mode for a remotely operated drone. Specifically the disruption of communication between the drone(s) and the controller.

However, if the drone is autonomous and not using WiFi at all, the same 2.4 GHz frequency is unlikely to cause damage, unless it’s inducing currents in the on-board CPU or other circuits. This is an entirely different failure mode.

A comment in the article mentions that the drone returns to a safe area, which is what tends to happen if WiFi connectivity is lost.

Furthermore, there’s no information about the actual “microwave frequency”, which goes well beyond 2.4 GHz, technically ranging between 300 MHz and 300 GHz.

Did you actually read the article you posted?

Not in the Philippines, but what is now Indonesia.