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, …
there are public STUN servers: just like DNS, STUN is a fairly critical part of modern infrastructure
peer to peer real time video is a fairly solved problem. the fact that we have google/amazon/zoom/etc in the middle isn’t because it’s necessary
that having been said, STUN servers are also incredibly cheap to run… i wouldn’t consider it exactly off the cards for a company that’s selling products to support a public STUN server indefinitely… it’s not quite as simple as them having to pay tens of thousands /mo in infrastructure costs to keep the lights on: it’s more like $100/mo, which at numbers that small you’d make back in just interest on the sales you made… but i reckon it could go something like “support for 10 years” and then they release an update that lets you set your own STUN server; perhaps defaulting to a public, free one
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
you can make very cheap to maintain peer to peer solutions
you can use a STUN server to discover your public IP and use a method called UDP hole punching to open a port others can connect to. STUN servers are very cheap to run: they don’t actually handle the data; just provide a kind of handshake service in the middle for coordinating
this is often used for peer to peer video chat etc
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:
so yeah, with regard to criminal conduct, repeated underpayment and patterns counts towards dishonest conduct and this criminal prosecution
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
and yet climate change is still an even more long-term important problem
https://www.victorianchamber.com.au/news/understanding-criminal-wage-theft-laws
this is the way
The new criminal offence of wage theft, which commenced on 1 January 2025, targets deliberate underpayment practices by employers.
Key changes:
- Intentional Conduct: Penalties apply if an employer intentionally engages in conduct that results in the underpayment of employee’s wages or entitlements.
- Liability: Both companies and individuals, such as directors, managers, or payroll personnel, can be held criminally liable for wage theft.
- Severe Penalties: The penalties for wage theft include fines of up to $8.25 million for corporations, and up to 10 years of imprisonment for individuals.
It is important to note that this offence is not intended to capture inadvertent errors or genuine mistakes.
my state (victoria, as) recently made intentional wage theft a criminal offense, and both companies and individuals (directors, hr, managers, etc) can all be liable … it’s amazing 😍
you’re on programming.dev so i assume you know that secrets is a generic term to cover things like your cloud account login (whatever form that may take - a password, token, api key, etc) for the robot vacuum service and you’re being intentionally obtuse
it’s a realistic attack scenario for some people - think celebrities etc, who might be being targeted… if someone knows what type of vacuum you have, it’s not “carefully take apart” - it’d take 30s, and then you have local network access which is an escalation that can lead to significantly more surveillance like security cameras, and devices with unsecured local access
just because it doesn’t apply to you doesn’t mean it doesn’t apply to anyone… unsecured or default password root access, even with physical access, is considered a security issue
yes and no… i agree with the sentiment, but with root you can extract wifi credentials and various other secrets… you shouldn’t be able to get these things even when you have physical access to the device… the root access itself isn’t the problem
+1 davinci… it’s incredible what you get in the free version, and the studio version is getting more and more worth the money in a value add way rather than a need it way
not to mention whose recent valuations have basically been about selling their data to train models which will be used to make AI slop