mkwt

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[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Are these hippo sprint speeds, or real proper endurance speeds?

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Foreign nationals, let alone foreign governments, are not allowed to give money to political campaigns in the United States. Actually illegal. Bill Clinton got in trouble for it

If you can prove that an NFT scheme was foreign campaign money laundering in court, people can go to jail.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Most places in the US will have nothing about severance written down anywhere, but it's very common to actually pay severance in a mass layoff situation (unless the whole business is going under).

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 91 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Current IT best practice is that passwords should never expire on a set schedule, but they should expire if there is evidence they've been breached.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (4 children)

They said England is no more, but that red X is also deleting Wales and Northern Ireland.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Medical devices are required to comply with 21 CFR 820 in the United States, which establishes quality management standards. This includes minimum standards for the software development lifecycle, including software verification and validation testing.

In the EU, broadly equivalent standards include ISO 13485 and IEC 62304.

If an OEM wants to do a software update, they at minimum need to perform and document a change impact analysis, verification testing, and regression testing. Bigger changes can involve a new FDA submission process.

If you go around hacking new software features into your medical device, you are almost certainly not doing all of that stuff. That doesn't mean that your software changes are low quality--maybe, maybe not. But it would be completely unfair to hold your device to the standard that the FDA holds them to--that medical devices in the United States are safe and effective treatments for diseases.

This may be okay if you want to hack your own CPAP (usually a class II device) and never sell it to someone else. But I think we all need to acknowledge that there are some serious risks here.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The Linux software you can get as a regular user from your typical Linux distributions is absolutely not any more secure on average than your typical Windows software.

I say this as someone who writes application programs on both systems.

I think it's really debatable whether the Linux kernel is really any more secure than the Windows NT kernel. Linux advocates have pushed the "many eyes, shallow bugs" line for a long time, but high profile lapses seem to really have put the lie to that.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

If wasn't full garbage collection in the spec. It was some infrastructure support in the spec that would make it easier to write garbage collectors in C++.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago

"Look, we've only got the one engineering set, so we'd better use it."

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

And Roe v. Wade increased access to abortion about the same time, together with the leaded gas.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

According to the non canon Star Trek Technical Manual, the transporter physically disassembles your particles, moves them to the destination location, and reassembles them with quark level accuracy. So-called "Heisenberg compensators" are a key technology to allow this to occur.

The on screen canon is at least somewhat consistent with this, but maybe not entirely.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Another aspect to this is that Android is Linux, but it is not GNU / Linux. This is true both in the literal sense of not using GNU coreutils or glibc, and also in the broader sense.

What I mean by the "broader" sense:

  • no X or Wayland
  • GTK or Qt support is something an application has to bring with them.
  • filesystem is substantially reorganized
  • users and system permissions setup substantially differently

To the application programmer Android / Linux looks like a completely different ball game.

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