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silverwizard 3 weeks ago friendica

Dhan Hurley

2020-08-28 15:57:39

More and more it is becoming ILLEGAL to repair things that you have LEGALLY bought......... Dhan

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Hypolite Petovan 3 weeks ago friendica

@silverwizard I don't understand the legal angle. I'm pretty sure there's a legal argument that you didn't purchase an object, but a service, and as such the provider is free to curtail it as much as they want.

There is and there should be a moral argument with which I agree with, but current US laws are on the side of companies, not consumers. They can and they should change, but until then writing "LEGALLY" in all caps is pointless.

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silverwizard 3 weeks ago friendica

The real problem is that you're accepting the framing that if I buy a cellphone I don't own the hardware, the provider does, and I instead have a service which just happens to have a physical object as part of it.

Which is *not* how *sale* works legally.

And the related problem is that if you accept that framing you accept that it's just fine and normal to rip people off and basically make them dependent on corporations for their lives.

Hypolite Petovan 3 weeks ago friendica

@silverwizard It doesn't matter "how sale works legally" if any corporation can prevent you from repairing the device they provide to you for money without any legal challenge. The law doesn't prevail on its own, and if it isn't enforced as written, it might as well not exist.

And if you don't accept the framing that if you buy a phone you don't own the hardware, you are cutting yourself from a significant portion of the smartphone offer, which is another trade-off to consider.

I'm not sure about your dependency on corporations argument. I can't do everything myself, so I am dependent on corporations to provide me with what I can't do myself. Supposedly with antitrust laws I should be able to choose between multiple options (unless it's a state enforced monopoly like police departments) but it isn't looking good on that front.

I'm not happy about it but it is the reality we are operating within and I don't blame anyone for making the only choice corporations offer. You're talking about ripping people off, but if it is the only available alternative to them because they wouldn't be able to repair their own device themselves anyway for lack of time and knowledge, is it still ripping them off? And if they have to trust another third party for repairs, how much better is it for them?

Don't forget we're sitting on a massive mountain of tech privilege and what feels familiar to us is completely foreign for most people. Most people don't care about "owning the hardware" because they can't do anything with that, they just want to "use a phone", and this is what they are sold, nothing more, nothing less.

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silverwizard 3 weeks ago friendica

I mean, part of that is teaching, learning, and keeping devices cheap. Low income people *need* longer lasting devices, and devices they can repair. This is about partially allowing tech to *not* be privilege.

But the law did previously defend your right to own your thing. The modern moment is a flaunting of the legal tradition and also rewriting the laws to not protect us. So this is important to discuss.

Hypolite Petovan 3 weeks ago friendica

@silverwizard Yes, it is important to discuss, and low income people never pay for the full price of devices anyway, it's paid for by a monthly extra to their phone bill, and they can upgrade every 2 years. It is bad for the environment, but not necessarily for the people themselves. I do not mind having an older device but some people do, and the subscription model is a cheap way to have replacements regularly.

So it is important to legally ensure ownership again to people who want it, but it is illusory to believe everybody wants it or would benefit from it.

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silverwizard 3 weeks ago friendica

The subscription model applies only to some items. The major part of right to repair focused on tractors more than anything.

Hypolite Petovan 3 weeks ago friendica

@silverwizard Ha, I assumed mobile phones, but there's no debate from me about professional tools like tractors.

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silverwizard 3 weeks ago friendica

Yeah. Mobile phones *matter* but tractors are 100% the main focus of the conversation, since they are the most abusive.

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silverwizard 3 weeks ago friendica

Apparently calling two RaspberryPis a RaspberryTau doesn't communicate it

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silverwizard 3 weeks ago friendica

Can we talk about how containers doubles the Works On My Machine?

silverwizard 3 weeks ago friendica

Fairy Tale Fragments

2020-08-28 15:48:27

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silverwizard 3 weeks ago friendica

Sam Nabi

2020-08-28 01:03:10

Quick note: this is a REFORMIST REFORM, not a solution to police brutality

https://twitter.com/samnabi/status/1299150365930160134

silverwizard 3 weeks ago friendica

Josh sez "Keep strong. Keep safe. Take yer meds."

2020-08-28 01:25:49

I stopped making my players roll ("lore" or whatever) to know "interesting facts about this thing" and just started telling them.
What's the point of me coming up with crazy backstories for things in my game if the players never find out about them?

silverwizard 3 weeks ago friendica

My favourite part about docker is that the primary method of using it uses source containers which might just change randomly

silverwizard 3 weeks ago friendica

Accidental Rob

2020-08-27 19:46:21

Are you FREAKING kidding me

silverwizard 3 weeks ago friendica

We are now officially as advanced as Star Trek 2009 vulcans

psychopomp and circumstance

2020-08-27 16:21:17

Bad and naughty children get put in the school bubble

silverwizard 3 weeks ago friendica

Shadowrun player: "Listen, I am fairly certain that the boat where they are holding a concert... with the slogan that is our names... isn't a trap. Listen, I didn't see any guns when I looked on the matrix. That means there must be none!"

silverwizard 3 weeks ago friendica

Mentally updating the term "Electric Boogaloo" to mean "Giant fight between different teams over a failing zoom call"

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silverwizard 3 weeks ago friendica

David Maxwell

2020-08-27 13:49:23

@Crest_ @Tubsta @mwlauthor @iMilnb @jmcwhatever @Riastradh_ A properly written standards document that provides normative references is the best way to guarantee interoperability.

"Allocating all resources during configuration" is not part of a protocol definition.

@Michael W Lucas Never Left Home Anyway @Jason Tubnor @iMilnb @Jared McNeill @crest @Riastradh_

silverwizard 3 weeks ago friendica

I am shocked anyone sees cleaning graffiti as not part of a white supremacist charade.

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silverwizard 3 weeks ago friendica

https://www.foxnews.com/us/suspected-teen-gunman-kyle-rittenhouse-spotted-cleaning-kenosha-graffiti-before-shooting

Hypolite Petovan 3 weeks ago friendica

Oh for fuck's sake.

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silverwizard 3 weeks ago friendica

Guy Fieri Stan Account

2020-08-27 01:55:49

Most of your next-gen EDR could be outdone by fucking sysmon, if anyone bothered to deploy it.

silverwizard 3 weeks ago friendica

🖤Dorkus🏴‍☠️🌴

2020-08-26 22:50:24

@bettersafetynet @cakeis_not_alie I think being "skilled" has too much emphasis on knowing how to use a tool to accomplish a task, rather than grokking higher level concepts that can be applied in the abstract.

@Mick Douglas @cakeis_not_alie

silverwizard 3 weeks ago friendica

The fundamental value of the statement "the cloud is just someone else's computer" is a rejection of ideas like NoOps and the inherit rejection of a specialization that brings real value and is constantly treated as disposable

silverwizard 3 weeks ago friendica

Teaching a baby obsessed with phones about the handset intercom on our cordless phones
He's *terrified*

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silverwizard 3 weeks ago friendica

I just found out that my old coworker's last commit message was:
Add support fo uncontrollable sobbing while filing AWS tickets

And I miss him

silverwizard 3 weeks ago friendica

It added a script to capture ~1.5 GB of traffic that was kind of undeniable

Turns out there was a bug in the network interface driver AWS had added to Ubuntu

silverwizard 3 weeks ago friendica

Lydia 👟💜🦩

2020-08-26 00:14:30

Kind of niche but does anybody know of any good video tutorials explaining how to understand and troubleshoot commercial networking equipment? Like medium sized business networks.

silverwizard 3 weeks ago friendica

Fandom.com is gonna allow custom javascript?! Prepare for whole new vistas of driveby attacks.

silverwizard 3 weeks ago friendica

Moose

2020-08-25 16:17:43

Help, I've been in this meme and I don't like it.

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silverwizard 3 weeks ago friendica

People talking about "Coming out of COVID" in meetings. I am glad we're still remote, because if we weren't I'd be screaming at them.

If we weren't I would have quit due to the COVID danger though.

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Hypolite Petovan 3 weeks ago friendica (via ActivityPub)

I've seen written "What is a pandemic that doesn't kill people?" after good public health numbers were released in France.

silverwizard 3 weeks ago friendica

What even the fuck?!

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silverwizard 3 weeks ago friendica

I got a call from a weird IT scammer recently. They asked me a few questions and I was going to try to play along, but then I ended up breaking out laughing for a full minute, and hung up knowing the jig was up

I would make a bad pentester

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silverwizard 3 weeks ago friendica

TIL that I am the JIRA admin when IT is away

I found this out since IT is away

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silverwizard 3 weeks ago friendica

mcc

2020-08-24 20:19:28

Right now tech has a rep of having "destroyed democracy" but remember there was a time people fighting oppressive government regimes would graffiti "8.8.8.8" on walls as both a symbol and instrument of liberation and tech ppl this is what you *coulda* been doing with your life

silverwizard 3 weeks ago friendica

Sharon Bennett

2020-08-24 13:44:13

I would normally never talk politics on sm but this angers me to no end! "Take Canada Back" from who and why? I will not support anything or anyone that puts any Canadian "back".

silverwizard 3 weeks ago friendica

Jason Sadler

2020-08-24 15:40:12

You’re telling me that for $90/year/person, Kitchener could have full sidewalk clearing, but that the committee is recommending the status quo? What’s your hourly wage, and how much time do you spend shovelling? At minimum wage that’s less than 7 hours. That’s _so cheap_!
https://twitter.com/m2bowman/status/1297679105475915776
^twitter.com

silverwizard 4 weeks ago friendica

Fuck, patron rewards mean I need to script getting the content, then listen to it
Patreon's setup makes it feel like work to give people money

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silverwizard 4 weeks ago friendica

Once you eat of the spice, you end up putting internal SSO Unix admins for VMs, and put your VMs on internal segregation beyond your original

You have vlans within vlans, wheels within wheels

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silverwizard 4 weeks ago friendica

Wow, I have always lowkey hated Lunduke, but... Whoa

He's apparently just out there supporting the Proud Boys

silverwizard 4 weeks ago friendica

Remember, Alex Jones is the most influential thinker of your time

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silverwizard 4 weeks ago friendica

boilingfrog

2020-08-23 00:07:36

silverwizard 4 weeks ago friendica

It hurts a lot that my son cries whenever he sees me, because he misses me being emotionally available

Jobs suck

silverwizard 4 weeks ago friendica

The @PodsideP episode on I Am Legend *does not* hold up after March 2020

But it definitely works as a morbid artifact

@Podside Picnic

silverwizard 4 weeks ago friendica

@JohnsNotHere :verified: Not wanting to interrupt, since it barely matters. But - why did you go with 1d6 and 1d20 vs 1d6 and 1d10?

@JohnsNotHere :verified:

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silverwizard 4 weeks ago friendica

Was it the Two Standard Deviation is ~5% thing?

JohnsNotHere :verified: 4 weeks ago mastodon (AP)

Something more "exotic" with a 1D20 vs a 1D10. Plus it makes people feel as if they have a better chance. I.e. purely personal and unscientific.

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silverwizard 4 weeks ago friendica

Claes Wallin 🇸🇪🇭🇰

2020-08-21 12:09:56

> it is quite possible that at one point, a samurai used a fax machine

https://nitter.net/BitchWithA_W/status/1295935084151951360

silverwizard 4 weeks ago friendica

Why are wheels called casters when they have a poky bit?

silverwizard 4 weeks ago friendica

I only knew that the USPS employed cops because I did a research project for fun a few years back. But why don't *Americans* know that?

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Hypolite Petovan 4 weeks ago friendica (via ActivityPub)

Wait, is it related to Steve Bannon's arrest?

silverwizard 4 weeks ago friendica

Most people learned this due to Steve Bannon's arrest by one of the post office's armed law enforcement services

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silverwizard 4 weeks ago friendica

I enjoy how much @JohnsNotHere :verified: has managed to figure out how to turn being a DM prep into a business skill
And it's nice because he's teaching others to do it too

@JohnsNotHere :verified:

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JohnsNotHere :verified: 4 weeks ago mastodon (AP)

Why choose? 😈

silverwizard 4 weeks ago friendica

I mean, as a hacker and dungeon master, definitely

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silverwizard 4 weeks ago friendica

I don't mind podcast bumpers or ads usually, but when my baby was born in May 2019 I couldn't listen to podcasts for a while, and I've been slowly bingeing, and I am now on @PodsideP and... I definitely have heard "Hey everyone, this is Connor" too often

@Podside Picnic