[-] drwho@beehaw.org 6 points 8 hours ago

Unless somebody specifically installs an explosive charge in a device, it's highly unlikely that modern power cells will detonate. If you want to get technical about it, they're incendiaries. They don't explode, they burn vigorously.

[-] drwho@beehaw.org 13 points 8 hours ago

Yup. Been there way too many times. "Too gay to be straight, too straight to be gay."

[-] drwho@beehaw.org 1 points 1 day ago

Odds I've been hearing for Trump being re-elected are about 3.4 to 1.

[-] drwho@beehaw.org 1 points 1 day ago

The thing about an operation as big as Amazon is that one or two people work on one component of one thing. If the folks who work on that one thing both bail, it doesn't slow down Amazon or any of its constituent components overmuch. The way things are architected it can chug along for quite a while until somebody else is tasked with learning about and maintaining it.

[-] drwho@beehaw.org 3 points 1 day ago

This is, unfortunately, true. The kids of some family friends are trying in the worst way to get in at Amazon or Facebook to make their bones. They figure that they can build their brands by surviving there for four or five years (Amazon's reputation for burning through people like toilet paper at Wing Wars is well known in the tech industry, and respected), sock money away because they still live at home, and get a jump on the good life.

I can't tell 'em what to do. They asked for my advice and gave it. What they do is their problem.

[-] drwho@beehaw.org 1 points 1 day ago

I didn't know Audacious was still being developed.

[-] drwho@beehaw.org 3 points 2 days ago

Additionally, there are hangers-on who are banging the drum about another January 6 if they don't get their way. It's foolish to take them at their word and think that it only means a voter supporession billl.

[-] drwho@beehaw.org 6 points 2 days ago

The golden rule: "He who has the gold makes the rules."

[-] drwho@beehaw.org 4 points 5 days ago

People want to be lied to.

[-] drwho@beehaw.org 3 points 5 days ago

So much for going on a Shodan safari in South Korea.

[-] drwho@beehaw.org 7 points 5 days ago

News flash: IoT doesn't always mean "backend is on AWS."

Sheesh.

[-] drwho@beehaw.org 5 points 6 days ago

The only way you won't have to provide PII is if you buy it from someone outside of the exchange ecosystem (from somebody face to face with cash or a gift card (note: Local Bitcoin has been gone for about a year now)). Exchanges have to comply with KYC (Know Your Customer) laws if they want to operate in the US, which is why they're asking for PII.

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