https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_mule

The wavy lines are to make it harder for people to figure out the shape just by taking pictures.

If it’s really a BMW then my headcanon is going to be that they taped over the blinkers since nobody uses them anyway…

Apart from what everyone else here has said LegalEagle did some videos on this, and the big takeaway was that everybody needed to get a lawyer ASAP instead of trying to plead their case in the court of public opinion via podcast/youtube videos/whatever. Reckless Ben got the audio from his court case and used it to make a youtube video (he was representing himself). This whole thing went from ordinary mess to Great Big Mess with no signs of anyone trying to dial it down.

It think this is the one depending on how far the rabbit hole you want to go down:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH09tltEw1U

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cop_Land

It’ll be funnier when it plays out at a spacex shareholders’ meeting.

Long story short: Microsoft just helped pop an alleged hacker using some windows device ID. I linked to a post in the hackernews thread about d-bus:

https://lemmy.world/post/49138921

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48815684

Ft. Knox

Did anyone ever go in there and show the gold? I thought someone campaigned with that as a promise.

it would be able to detect

“It” doesn’t have to be any good at it:

https://blog.princelaw.com/2009/07/08/nfa-and-constructive-possession-myth-or-reality/

https://johncderrick.com/dinosaur-timeline

The timeline stuff always gets me.

https://www.spaceweather.gov/

Pretty good resource for that kind of thing if you have another interested kid and access to the internet. There’s also this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton's_law_of_universal_gravitation

Most still will. Like I’m sure a lot of people are doing, I was trying to reuse old hardware for a new purpose. Perfectly good computer with 16GB of RAM with an AMD A8-3850. I’m not complaining about progress’s march towards the future, but I missed the warning signs about the changes. I’m sure some other folks probably did as well.

I’m going to drag out my same soapbox: a lot of systems old enough to use DDR3 RAM will have x86_64 v1 or v2 processors. Some projects have already removed support for those, the big one being the RHEL kernel as of RHEL9.

You’re approaching this with the attitude of a parent who’s already got their future grandkids named.

Happy cake day.

The article just before that about the “missing missing reasons” hits just as hard. That whole site makes for an informative read for someone frustrated with dealing with their parents as an adult.

Replying to myself here and including a link that just dropped:

• https://lemmy.world/post/48881740
• https://nsa.2026.action.cr.yp.to/
• https://blog.cr.yp.to/20260405-votes.html

Apparently the debate was more spirited than I thought. The argument appears to revolve around whether it’s OK to jump to the new stuff directly, or use a combination of the old and new.

I think this is how I can message people…

• @[email protected]
• @[email protected]

reddit cant afford [the V3 captcha system] but google lets them use it in exchange for AI/datamining

Had no idea they used that. I edited all my comments to crap then deleted them around the time the admin monkied with the backend database, and stopped using old.reddit to browse once I found lemmy. I once went through the effort of making a temp account to comment on someone else’s comment there because they had suggested trying something specifically dangerous and didn’t seem to know about it. I doublechecked later and the comment I wrote was caught in some filter, likely the result of the account being too new. I can’t imagine what garbage that site will be in the years to come.

abusive scraping

As opposed to the plain old scraping they do to train AI, and generate revenue by selling user comments for others to train AI.

I read a half-cocked internet theory that a certain someone might’ve purchased twitter just to gain access to an ex-gf’s personal tweets. I judged it as possible but unlikely, as that’s a lot of money to spend on such a thing.

Now, we’ve all heard stories about reddit blocking accounts for no published reason, and tracking folks down across accounts/IP addresses/etc. That code must be pretty expansive to do the things they’ve done. So one has the thought: if you’ve ever reached out to the reddit hive mind for some kind of support with a personal issue of any kind then that data about you is still floating around in their database and tied to whatever alternate accounts you have, even if it was the “good old days” when you did it.

Abusive scraping, my ass.

Alice in Chains - MTV Unplugged

If I had to pick just one.

I was never as good as I always thought I was

I, too, try to avoid the water fountains on the common wetwall where the water in the pipes is cycled all the time thanks to the constant use of the bathrooms. I usually shoot for the fountain next to the old eyewash station they were forced to put in when the electronics lab used to be the chemical lab–there’s never anyone using that one.

Make a bingo card out of the phrases:

• “We didn’t do anything wrong.”
• “We paid Company X to do that.”
• “What’s a computer license?”
• “How much do they want?”
• “If it’s free then why are we talking?”
• “If it’s free then what did we pay Company X for?”
• “What does GNU mean?”
• [… some time later …]
• “Can’t we just pay them?”
• “Don’t pay Company X because they fucked this up.”
• “Why do we have to give everyone the changes we paid for?”
• “Whatever. I don’t want to hear about this again.”

Add your own phrases. It’s a fun game for all ages.