If you follow it, you quickly end up with the Infinite Improbability Drive from The Hitchhikers Guide - if you have an infinite number of typewriters, an infinite number of them will be loaded with paper that already has the complete works of Shakespeare written on it

Something like

!“A line with exactly 0 or 1 characters, or a line with a sequence of 1 or 3 or more characters, repeated at least twice”!<

Syntactically valid Perl

Yeah, the machine turns off automatically at 3:15pm if I don’t override it, cos otherwise that’s a fast track to zero sleep

Oh man that’s rough, I’m sorry you’ve not had that. I hope you’ve managed to find other opportunities to spend time with family or do things that you enjoy

• Back up your data now
• Reseat the cables for the drive
• Run a self test on the drive - smartctl -t long - if it doesn’t pass, then the drive is trash. If it does, then it might limp along a bit longer before catastrophically failing

Way back when I used to go to the football with dad - kids under 5 could take the train for free, but weren’t allowed in the stadium, so I was 4 on the train, and 5 when we got to the stadium

It’s not that it won’t work - polarity doesn’t quite work like that in AC systems - it’s that as soon as you plug in one end, the other end has a pair of exposed metal contacts with mains voltage between them. One mistake, touching the contacts or having them come into something metal (like the ladder you are using to hang the Christmas lights) and someone dies

Would it be better or worse if you got a friend to come and kneel down with their hands behind their back so you could “check the balance”?

Iosevka is my personal favourite, but will need to spend some time scrolling through

So politics aside, would you really put any money into a financial system run by someone with a proven track record of driving businesses into bankruptcy?

The thing he seems to have forgotten is that unlike the automotive industry where the regulation is designed to allow companies to fuck up then fix things as long as they have the systems in place to fix the fuck up and to know when they fucked up, the medical device industry is very much designed so that the default stance is “this is dangerous and will kill people” unless you can prove otherwise

Disclosure to the company is only half of responsible disclosure.

1. Report bug to company privately, and specify a date where the details will be made public. 90 days is a good starting point, but there is room for negotiation up or down depending on how complex the bug is (more complex = harder for someone else to discover = less urgency to patch) and how much impact there is (more impact = more risk if someone malicious discovers it = more urgency)
2. While you wait, apply for a CVE number and determine a CVSS score - this helps signal how critical the bug is
3. Once the company publishes a patch (or the embargo date is reached, which ever comes first), publish details of the research

The point of responsible disclosure is to balance the vendors need to have time to fix security bugs before the details are publicly known against the customers right to know that there are unpatched bugs so they can take measures to mitigate their risks. It isn’t a free pass for vendors to never patch things

If you have a concrete example I’d love to hear it

Keycloak to provide OIDC, although in hindsight I should have gone with Authelia Authentik

Try the other suggestions, but something that has helped me is putting a thin layer of glue stick on my bed - stops the corners curling on larger prints

… Wasn’t there a story a few months ago about a family that had done exactly that and turns out living in Russia kinda sucks?

At the rates I’m paying for 4G data, there are very few places in the world where it wouldn’t be cheaper for me to get on a plane and sneakernet that much data

It sucks to sit in the theatre and watch something nobody loved

https://youtu.be/QQFpEIJJRWA?si=LZJCliQLKr63eiMc

The books are great, and they continue on the story after the show ended