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But again, most people aren’t running Linux

Exactly. This is bad, for the 0.3% of the computing population that use Linux AND have CUPS installed AND actually print things.

Not exactly a prime target, compared to literally almost anything else. If I were going all-in on something after having gained access to someone's local network, I'm 100% in on any exploit that lets me use an infostealer trojan to steal your session cookies, not fiddling around and hoping you print something.

(Patch your shit anyways, but there's no need to freak out.)

That's a very rosy picture, but they skipped a very important detail, alas. Or well, a few.

First, selling your power to the power companies in Texas is great! Except the amount they pay you is always going to be substantially less than the price you're going to pay later to import a kwh.

We have the Freedom(TM) to pay two seperate charges for power: the delivery cost, and the power cost. This is a great Freedom(TM) because it lets the power company pay you the power cost for your exported power, but you get to pay both halves when you no longer have that kwh in your batteries later.

Also this is just an attempt to get someone else to pay their CapEx to catch extreme usage events, and the incentives being paid out to people who have spent tens of thousands of dollars is still tilted in the power company's favor. The article itself even says it's helping them make a bigger profit: if it was a fair set of incentives, well, then that wouldn't be what's actually happening, would it?

And, worse, any non-Texans might not catch how unlivable shit gets if your A/C starts screwing with the set temperature when it's 110F outside. The article says it turns it 'off', but the impact I've seen from some friends who have one of these plans setup is that it simply sets the temperature to something like 86; high enough to stop the usage, but not quite enough to kill you or your pets if you're not aware it's done it. Still, not the most pleasant.

Still, it's a good idea and a step in the right direction, but we need (lol, lmao) actual real regulation around this and the incentives to be a little less... lame. They're very much structured around the 'well, what else are you going to do with your excess?', rather than with a real intent of fair dealing.

I used to print on glass, until I nearly cut a finger off.

Make sure you're using glass that can either handle the thermal cycling (that is not anything you can find at a Home Depot), or is tempered so it won't have giant sharp shards when it does finally break due to the heating -> cooling -> heating -> cooling cycles of 3d printing.

Mine did that in my hands, and the shards it broke into were sharp enough to cut down to the bone on two of my fingers, requiring a hospital trip.

....I use textured PEI now, which probably won't try to remove any digits.

normalized microtransactions

I'd say it's maybe a little more honest to say they normalized the gambling exploitation in gaming with the TF2 lootboxes.

You didn't buy cosmetics, you bought a key to open a box that might get you the cosmetic you wanted.

You have your coworkers on an unmanaged machine with a foreign OS on the guest WiFi with custom networking.

Which, at any of my last few corporate jobs, would be grounds for termination, if not immediately throwing you out of the building and telling you if you come back we're calling the cops.

You really don't bypass controls in a corporate environment like this if you like working there.

(And yes, not EVERY job will react that way, but any that's got any compliance requirements absolutely will.)

A 3 day old kernel build? Will that have support for my hardware? Feels like it might be a little outdated.

....seriously? lmao.

Insert hello-fellow-humans meme here.

It's that Simpsons episode where Mr. Burns is only alive because all the things that would kill him are cancelling each other out, but in PHP form.

I tend to use Squarespace because uh, they have a marketing budget and everyone tends to already know (or at least one of the people in the meeting anyways) who they are, which makes things an easier sell.

I don't particularly think they're the best or whatever, but they at least do what they say at a price that's reasonable enough and I've yet to be burned by suggesting them, sooooo.....

I’m not giving access to my Mastodon account to some random service I’ve never heard of for no reason.

If it makes you feel better, it's all client-side: there's nothing executing on the server (I'm running a copy of it on a server that just... can't execute anything) so it's not doing any data stealing.

Buuut, since it's trivial to host, you could grab a copy of the code and host it yourself as well.

The FTC commissioner opened her Fruit Loops and a Zuckerbot fell out, probably.

Not quite: it'll drop a v2 captcha for you to solve when a v3 one can't clearly classify you one way or another.

So if v3 isn't entirely sure you're human, it'll make you do a v2.