For something end-user facing: I could understand this argument.

In this case they were more or less just calling a C function that had an unsigned long long as the parameter they were setting negative.

The whole ‘bug’ was that the other side of the function call was seeing a positive number no matter what.

The real situation was a bit more complicated, but that’s the gist.

I once had a QA engineer file a bug saying they couldn’t do negative testing since negative numbers were converted to positive.

The function took an unsigned integer. Took a lot of explaining to get them to understand that negative testing isn’t necessarily negative numbers.

Dead internet theory… except it’s basically dead world theory.

If ya want to not be plugged into the internet, or use new external media, ya can probably run it safely forever.

Bad eh security advice: use an alternative ssh port. Lots of actors try port 22 and other common alternatives. Much fewer will do a full port scan looking for an ssh server then try brute forcing.

Also money. If it was all free to get the paper online, who would pay to get it in person?

For some reason a collective of cats sounds like some sort of organized crime group that wears suits.

My cat doesn’t wear a suit, though probably partakes in organized crime. 🤔

Bottom left made me miss Kmart

My home server has been running on a i7 960 with an Intel motherboard for many many years now.

I have both but just use pihole as a local DNS server/forwarder. I bump into too many random times where sites or redirects don’t work properly since they get blocked.

Where’s the I did that stickers and artificial blame?

Why does that only go one way?

Consider using containers. I used to think this way, though now my goal is to get down to almost all containers since it’s nice to be able to spin up and down just what the one ‘thing’ needs.

I figure maybe towards the end of my lifetime laws will catch up to allow some form of real digital ownership. Until then: you lose it when they go out.

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Dial up

99/100 people will not care. I’m one of them.

For that 1/100: sure it’s infuriating but probably more than mildly.

The sun rose today.

No one is too dumb to be a contributor: big or small.

If this is your fear, why not just have a will or something that specifically describes what to do and where to go?

My cat is good and eats only what she needs. She always has a bowl full of her regular food. We’ve been like this for almost 10 years now.

It all kind of depends on the cat and how they handle the buffet always being open.

To me it’s a bit too much like download/upload. Though I guess depending on the context that’s sort of like load/save.