Pup Biru

mandatory minimum warranties are also not relatively minimal effort and yet we have laws that require those… most consumer protection standards aren’t minimal effort: that doesn’t mean we don’t make laws to ensure consumers get what they are expecting when they hand over money

why shouldn’t handing over source code to a game that’s being shut down (and apparently that nobody finds any value in since it wasn’t even bought in bankruptcy auction) be mandated as a last resort?

literally what STG is about

and the law is able to make license conditions illegal/unenforceable (like non-compete clauses in employment contracts)

usually in bankruptcy the game gets sold in order to help pay debts… whoever buys the game assumes the responsibility of contributing to run the online services, or provide options for others to… in the case that nobody buys the game (im not entirely sure what happens to the IP in that case) but it’s relatively minimal effort to release server source code or documentation OR even just remove the online parts that’s usually just for DRM which is now pretty irrelevant because you’re shutting it down anyway so why would anyone care if someone pirates it?!

not to mention whose recent valuations have basically been about selling their data to train models which will be used to make AI slop

A group of conscripted cooks took down a helicopter of landing marines

kinda reminds me of this: https://www.theage.com.au/national/collins-sub-shines-in-us-war-game-20021013-gduomk.html

during war games one of australia’s collins class submarines (diesel electric, quite dated at this point) managed to “kill” a los angeles class nuclear submarine (several times over?) when the US sub was also aided by 2 destroyers

Navigating that level healthcare access is a privilege.

absolutely!

and it’s so rare that i would argue it’s not even a little bit of a problem

like, afaik you have to convince psychologists to sign off on things… pay enough and you can find a medical practitioner to sign off on anything: bogus religious exemptions to vaccines, adhd diagnosis so you can get amphetamines, opioids, …

had to search for that :p yeah aye - we had the same in aus (called jobkeeper)… our conservatives introduced it, and it was hugely successful at keeping people employed but also massively abused by big companies

https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/finance/finance-news/2021/09/03/jobkeeper-rorts

i think this quote pretty accurately describes it

JobKeeper is both the largest rort in Australian history and the most successful job saver

overall there were some reports written about it after the fact: lessons learned etc, but i think people don’t really blame the conservatives for the abuse… it was a programme that was quickly conceived of, and implemented very fast and it achieved a very important purpose. was it wasteful? sure… was it or something like it necessary? also very much yes

i mean, they literally use DEI as an argument for cutting this stuff… they say that LGBTQ orgs are discriminating against heterosexuals, and that support orgs for specific racial issues are discriminatory against whites

so it’s equally the devil and also the weapon they’re using

Working for an organization is not a protected class. It’s not LGBTQ+ people, it’s people who work for those organizations

targeting support organisations is targeting that protected class

medically transition children

sounds a whole lot like the language that trump etc used here:

child abuse, including the chemical and surgical castration or mutilation of children or the trafficking of children to so-called transgender sanctuary States for purposes of emancipation from their lawful parents, in violation of applicable law.

which is absolute shit… surgical intervention is the last in a very long list of steps that is only really offered to adults

first up is simply counselling and psychological support to rule out temporary issues that could be clouding their judgement

then puberty blockers (which are entirely reversible: if you stop them, you go through puberty as normal)

then gender-affirming hormones

THEN surgery, in adulthood

these things all add up very slowly from completely reversible options over many years

perhaps worth pointing out too… focusing on the minimal abuse as a reason the whole program should be cut is very american. i think the rest of the world the attitude is much more that a thing is necessary and abuse is a cost of doing business (like shoplifting: just because there’s some shoplifting doesn’t mean you close the whole store)… it’s very much nobody “undeserving” should get rewarded before people need help

conservapedia page: “this page has been edited 84 times in the past year”

the actual budget is passed, they know exactly how much is meant for each agency. What’s been held up is actually putting that money in the account and authotizing the spending of it

wow that’s actually wildly fucked

failure to fully fund the government would be seen as a sign of weakness in the government

in australia it’s not just a sign of weakness, it’s the end of your government. if you fail to pass a budget, basically the governor general (the crowns representative in australia) dismisses the government, appoints an interim government, and fresh elections are called as soon as possible

there are a few more options than this, but they all kinda amount to the same thing

fun fact: manufacturers often ship specific black friday models of electronics with cheaper internals

https://cybernews.com/gadgets/black-friday-deals-cheaper-quality-electronics/

Having a unique password per device is best practices.

yup that’s all i’m getting at… this vacuum has unprotected access to ADB, which another user likened to root access, and i just think that in circumstances that are root-like, even physical access shouldn’t grant unprotected root

afaik they deal with this in a couple of ways:

• the first step is to go to the fair work ombudsman (this is a government department that handles complaints, fines and orders businesses to make restitution/changes to comply with the law on behalf of ordinary people. they’re free. we also have for example the telecommunications ombudsman, banking ombudsman, energy and water ombudsman, etc). proof required here is simply more probable than not
• not correcting systemic issues that form a pattern when they’re pointed out may be used as evidence in criminal prosecution. proof here - as it’s obviously much more serious - is beyond reasonable doubt, and must require dishonest conduct

so yeah, with regard to criminal conduct, repeated underpayment and patterns counts towards dishonest conduct and this criminal prosecution

thankfully we at least halted that trend for a while with early warning systems: no longer launch all your nukes and you might take out all of theirs… launch all your nukes and by the time they arrive the retaliatory ICBMS will be 5min from hitting their own targets; likely right on top of you… launch an ICBM and you’re fucked

also depth of blocks: if i’m more than 2 or 3 indents deep, it’s probably got a bit too much logic to it and those comments should be converted to a function name

they’re not going to go after the robot vacuum when the thermostat, tablets, computers, TV, router, access point, etc are right there.

… and all of those things should be equally protected

they’re going to go for the easiest thing to extract information or escalate

since they have root they can add a password themselves!

the most absurd thing is assuming that an end-user is going do add a root password to a serial interface

i’m not saying end users shouldn’t be able to gain root somehow, simply that it shouldn’t be wide open by default… there should be some process, perhaps involving a unique password per device

doesn’t mean it can’t do damage - like fox news