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Tbf, uranium is intensely toxic even if it’s not very radioactive. Shit’s like turbo lead, it’s a crazy heavy metal.

Eley makes the best garden hose quick connects on the market nowadays. They’re hideously expensive and can only be purchased through Eley’s website with slow shipping, but good god damn are they stout and reliable.

Yeah, I don’t run shell scripts unless I can review them first. I’m considered “the bash guy” at my job, and part of that means reviewing people’s scripts. I have referenced this wiki page hundreds of times because so many people don’t know how fucking shit Bash is as a language. My god, every time I see set -euo pipefail I want to scream until my lungs exit my body and then I leave a polite comment about how that might be a bad idea and link this page.

My BLE proxies keep picking up my neighbor’s toothbrush. I was briefly tempted to install the integration just to see what would happen. I didn’t because that’s creepy, but just… what a weird world we live in.

No, it’s syphilitic brain damage.

I fucking hate that the use of emdashes (i.e. —) is associated with fuckass LLMs. I use them all the time and now I’m worried I’ll be mistaken for an LLM.

Your link is borked. Here’s a fixed version: https://www.c-span.org/program/senate-committee/meta-whistleblower-testifies-on-facebook-practices/658354

I mean, yeah. I wouldn’t have found that project and gone to the effort of using it if a simple dehu was all I needed. I wanted something I could control with my local home assistant install, and you can’t just hard power cycle a dehumidifier, it kills them.

That’s why projects like this are great: https://github.com/Hypfer/esp8266-midea-dehumidifier

My Midea Cube dehumidifier can never be bricked and will never send data outside of my home. It talks to Home Assistant via MQTT and nothing else.

I’ll mirror what others have said. Arch is the most stable distro I’ve ever used over the long term. Even with heavy AUR use, I’ve been rocking the same installation for over a decade on one of my computers.

I’m assuming that moving the power poles is also difficult due to property lines. I don’t know the rules in Australia, but in the US you’d have to convince the property owners to grant an easement to allow someone to install a power pole and perform routine maintenance on it. The easement is attached to the property, meaning the next owner of the property would be subject to the easement whether they like it or not. This can have a bad effect on property values and (I think) can have more significant legal ramifications.

I doubt this… “roundabout” is the product of pure incompetence. To me, it speaks of a disconnect between the project’s requirements and resources. There’s still plenty of room for incompetence there, but if you give someone an impossible task, they’ll generally do whatever it takes to tick the boxes in the “definition of done.”

source: I’m an incompetent person who has ticked boxes and suffered for it.

EDIT: I should clarify that this is all based off of the assumption that the power poles don’t have anywhere else they could move to without going on private land. Maybe that’s a stupid assumption. Maybe you work with power poles frequently and I’m a gibbering fool. If that’s the case, then I can only agree.

I use one of those daily and god they’re all terrible. They’re huge and they all break really easily. My phone is fucking huge, just give me a built in headphone jack!

I dunno, I’d slow your roll on that. Hanlon’s razor came to notoriety in the field of computer science for a reason. I’ve done software dev professionally for over ten years now and you wouldn’t believe the stupid shit I’ve seen people write. The only thing that sucks more than a computer is the human writing software for it.

For those unfamiliar, here’s Hanlon’s razor:

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

EDIT: After a quick look at the CVEs, this definitely sounds like a big ol’ fuckup. It sounds like there might be some unsafe defaults in polkit as well?

EDIT: Here’s the report from the actual researchers which is MUCH more cogent than OP’s article: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/06/17/4

It’s chaining two separate oopsies together. This overview on GitHub also provides more details about the libblockdev side of things: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mpgj-hch9-5rvx

Specifically, this section:

However, a local attacker can create a specially crafted XFS image containing a SUID-root shell, then trick udisks into resizing it. This mounts their malicious filesystem with root privileges, allowing them to execute their SUID-root shell and gain complete control of the system.

That really doesn’t sound like something intentional to me. That sounds like a HUGE oopsy-woopsy fucky-wucky, to get technical about it.

Absolutely fucking yes w.r.t. the characters being stupid in the show. In the books, the people from Preservation are incredibly competent.

It’s really hurting my enjoyment of the show. Why can’t we have competence porn like we used to with shows like TNG and DS9?

I was in a crowd of ten thousand people screaming “FUCK MIKE LEE” and god damn did it feel good and god damn do I want that to happen again where he can hear it.

Still, the drug’s average price of $466,200 a year is staggering even for rare-disease treatments.

What uh, the fuck‽

Hey!

Hey assholes!

What the fuck are you doing‽ This medicine is literally just a salt of an incredibly commonplace medicine that’s been around for 50 fucking years. I get that you need to pay for your R&D costs and profit on top of that, but does that actually justify charging patients and insurance companies almost half a million dollars a year?

I fucking hate it. I’m glad that the people suffering from a horrific disease can have relief, but it makes me so fucking mad that they get a 466k yearly tax on their fucking lives.

At least the ACA’s preexisting conditions thing hasn’t been rolled back.

I was in a crowd of people screaming “FUCK MIKE LEE” on Saturday and god do I want to scream it again now. Mike Lee is such a worthless cunt and I’m furious that he supposedly represents me.

I wonder what the maximum theoretical efficiency is. The article says the current system is 20% efficient, which is not exactly good. I’m not a physicist so take this all with a grain of salt. They’re going to have to overcome generation losses (this article says diode lasers can be 60% efficient but have Problems™), transmission losses (the inverse square law is a bitch, and they’ll have to contend with atmospheric absorption and scattering), and receiving losses (they’re using PVs which are famously not super duper efficient). I’m sure they’re working on all of this, and it seems reasonable that you might be able to get power transmission up to, say, 50% efficiency. That’s great and has its uses, but it’s not going to replace transmission lines, batteries, solar panels, and gas generators. Plus, we’re talking about sending 10 kilowatts of power across 200 km via light. Can you imagine how dangerous that would be? Like, what happens to anything in the path of that laser beam? What happens if the light gets reflected? a 10kW CW laser is no fucking joke!

EDIT: I could see this being useful for recharging/powering drones or something. It also seems like it would be much more useful in space where atmospheric scattering becomes a nothing burger.

Pig. It was INCREDIBLY emotionally effective and made me cry SO HARD FOR LIKE 20 MINUTES. Holy shit what a good movie.

https://lemm.ee/post/65824884