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Some further light reading before I pop the case and possibly discover hardware encryption preventing straightforward usage.

https://github.com/themaddoctor/linux-mybook-tools

Hmmm. I have one of these drives sitting on my desk. Hasn't been powered up for weeks. Do I disassemble it, take the drive out and grab the data that way or just wait? What are these things formatted as?

Schrödinger storage: data is both lost and found.

Edit: This isn’t the Live version. I think its going to be in pieces Real Soon.

See? It sells itself.

Most people would see it as severely limited because they'd want to add some sort of poison like alcohol or ice cream etc.

You could try consequences. Some variation of the following might work.

Your diet fallback position now consists of chicken and broccoli and one meal per day. No sauces no famcy drinks, no coffee. You must walk the equivalent of 15000 steps. That is your "little hell". You come up with a different scenario for "little heaven".

There's your fallback position when you don't deliver on daily or weekly goal. If you do deliver you know what happens as well.

Now do your thing. Set goals etc.

The actual choice of food etc isn’t important. Hell: Make it spartan / Make it limited. Heaven: make it fun / expansive. Don't even need to make it food/exercise. Plenty of other options. Use your imagination.

TSMC are a critical piece of the world's infrastructure. The fact that car makers are grinding to a slowdown and for particular assemblies, a complete halt, is very telling. The automakers themselves now fully appreciate just how critical TSMC really are. If they weren't critical, then they'd already have an alternate supply ready right now. But they don't. Its TSMC being pressured to increase production capacity, not an eager competitor taking up the slack. They wouldn't be furloughing employees otherwise. The Germans and many others wouldn't be sending letters to Taiwan requesting higher production. So TSMC is critical.

Does this mean there are absolutely no alternatives? Likely not, but TSMC are essentially the only game in town. At scale. At quality. With a useful track record of known production characteristics.

Not if they double each failed time. eg the claim they lodged was thrown out because it was fair use.

It's a form of nostalgia mixed with updated capability. You had a device as a kid but couldn't make what you wanted. Now many years later you actually can. So you do.

It's a do-over in some ways.

Also, modern platforms require a lot of overhead and toolkits and it can all get too much. Some of the older platforms are a lot simpler in many ways. (They're still plenty complex in other ways as well - don't underestimate the coding golf challenge angle either)

On top of all that as well is the ability to use brand new tools to build software for old platforms. Graphics/sound/code editors are now vastly improved.

I'd go to a different doctor. Antibiotics always require a reason involving something bacterial. There is no "try".

Example case in point: antibiotics can mess up a healthy person and induce stomach issues.

Personally I think it had more to do with corruption than anything. The CIA was happy to profit off it. The anti-drug people loved it, particularly those who were against cannabis. anyone who hated hippies. Anyone working against the antiwar movements. Those against hemp were happy. That's a lot of money just there. Politicians could use it to demonstrate a hard line stance against crime. Or just use it to target particular groups.

Then theres the people lobbying for anti-drug laws to expand the prison population. Lawyers and respective district attorneys that were happy as well.

The drug war was basically a felony printer as well. This made all sorts of social problems including unemployment / housing even more problematic. It tore apart families and still does. Meanwhile other legal drugs (opioids in general) flourished.

Then there's the overdoses / poisonings because the source and distribution networks are utterly motivated to mess with the supply.

The truly stupid aspect is that drug use has not significantly decreased. The whole "war" aspect was a complete failure. So it wasn't a good investment anyway.

So many parallels with prohibition. Government poisoned that supply as well and killed thousands.

Just say no. Indeed.

A sharp blade is a lesson in itself. Apologies to Pratchett who probably said it better. Like a lot of other things.

Wow! Today I discovered PHP was lurking in MacOS the whole time.

What was it used for? CUPS? something else?

VW has an interesting prior track record with economics, truth around numbers and diesel emissions in particular.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-09/vw-charge...

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15339250/everything-you-n...

Based on that history I'm not convinced that $8.50 per hour is even remotely reasonable and they already know it. Autonomous driving is a lot cheaper.

This doesn't mean that people won't pay it. Plenty will. But its more expensive than it should be.

Or those that go: "its like my day job and there are no idiots stopping me from solving problems!"

I'm not sure what public utility means in this context.

Does it still mean privately owned?

So these vulns weren't needed any more by some 3 letter agency? Or were they being used by someone a 3 letter agency didn't like? Or were about to be?

Security warfare is fascinating to watch from the mud huts.

Me: Go home excel, you're drunk, see you on 12 april

Excel: when's that?

This is probably a reminder to throw some money at EFF to at least pay for their coffee if not their larger work. This is the kind of silly but serious case they've dealt with in the past.

Two horses?! I can't tell if you're joking. I sincerely hope this is true. I'm imagining a sad Texas cowboy riding off into the sunset with just his two favorite mounts. "At least they didn't take mah horse!"

5 day week as the return to normal? Perhaps for a measurable number but plenty of others don't agree.

I know many people who are already on 4 day weeks. Some are shifting to 6 just over half days. Some are wanting full remote. Others want partial remote so they can see their children grow up or operate homeschooling AND still want to go into an office. No pay cut for any of this either. They don't even consider it a perk.

A lot of these articles about resuming old hours of work are really just aspirations of governments, lobby groups and others with already vested interests, even property developers/large office building owners are chiming in.

Welcome to the Great Reset.

Alex Jones, is that you?

The degree of censorship in play right now is breathtaking. I've spoken to some youtube content creators and they are wary of multiple keywords. One mishap either deserved or not can nuke your channel. Without much explanation. Or recourse to resolve it in any useful way.

Domain registration is just one element. Next you'll need web servers, email etc. Hiding details as seen by WHOIS is an obvious protection that isn’t rare anymore.

Many gadgets don't even work with themselves. Lets say you configure some IoT thing using its app. How do you export that config for later, perhaps onto multiple other similar devices? Often times you can't.

Ok I'm curious... in what way?

Not the only one! I wonder what the difference would actually be?

This cant be just location either. Anything you'd think of as private. I wonder what the privacy implications of using something like DDG on an android phone is like. I'm fairly sure google are quite desperately keen to grab any and all data from anything visited using the DDG app. I don't see any way to stop Google from doing it either.

People get sidetracked, the conversation drifts a little or somewhat or even a lot. Then it continues to do so. Maybe it steers back to the original point but usually only if under deliberate control. At least with tree based commenting the divergence can be collapsed at each branch.

...And I'm painting my house. We're thinking of a reddy color to match the surrounds. Then we talk about what those surrounds are, what plants, pots, the weather, when they can visit...

This is actually how casual conversations work.

Too strict and you lose spontaneous interesting side topics appearing. Too lax and the plot is lost completely. This is a balancing act.

Reddit can go off-topic quite fast as well. Like a lot of others.

This has been my experience so far on HN.

The topic is in violation of policies? For being offtopic? Or for advertising?

I hate it when I'm left to guess the reasoning for administrative actions. It causes me to assume "just because we say so".

I'm an op for multiple things and always quote the specific portion when kicking or blocking or whatever. Helps when you number each part, but to quote my old mentor, "Fortunately, I keep my feathers numbered, for just such an emergency." Ah foghorn!

Much harder to mingle on zoom. Introductions are a little or even more awkward. I think team building will be a challenge.

I get the remote work as "get out of the house" thing. Changing your workspace away from home changes your frame of mind. It can be a discipline thing. You start work at x and finish at y, theres a place to do it, you go there and your return at end of the day. Here is not there, and work happens there and home happens here.

That said, the WFH / remote work has shown a lot of people that in-office isn’t so much about productivity but instead more about other matters. But they're now wondering exactly what those other matters are and whether they're important. I think its not actually clear what the fallout will be but a lot of the pushback around Wfh is from lobby groups and office space owners, property developers and everything else around office life. All those vested interests with a complete ecosystem they've set up and are now a lot less stable about.

The other aspect is that in person face-to-face is still great. Well... as long as no one sneezes.

I've been let go for "not being technical enough" yet I had the requisite current (mandated) certifications. So I don't buy their explanation. Actually I think it was culture fit. I was just "too" old and my boss was weirded out or needed/wanted someone younger. My hobby was FPGA, microcontrollers and general messing around along with hiking. I was also probably too fit for their view of how I should be. But in reality, who knows? I certainly didn't do an exit interview.

I got a job elsewhere doing elixir and nodejs programming (devops) and haven't looked back. I suggest that people, when told they're too old, just smile and get out of that horrible employer's reach. Life is too short. Plus now I can take my dog to work.

I'm actually more interested in how you started hackaday and the story behind it. Early years up to now. Cheers!