salient_one

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[–] salient_one@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Love it! Reddit was unusable to me with its crazy mods, so I mostly lurked. I also personally find lemmings to be more welcoming than redditors.

And I like to be somewhere closer to the start of the journey we're all making here on Lemmy even though it's been years since it was released. We're still early (but for real, unlike with creepto).

[–] salient_one@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, something like this.

[–] salient_one@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

My biggest pain point with Duck is that the minus operator doesn't seem to do anything. Have to use Startpage (!s) when in need of excluding a word.

[–] salient_one@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Remote work threatens the status quo.

The most immature billionaire. Scary.

[–] salient_one@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It certainly is somewhere around the peak of the hype cycle.

[–] salient_one@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It appears that users in this case include agents such as software. A bit confusing for the general public.

For instance, a malicious app obtained from an app store could use the Downfall attack to steal sensitive information like passwords, encryption keys, and private data such as banking details, personal emails, and messages.

Official website

It can theoretically even be exploited via a browser:

[Q] What about web browsers?

[A] In theory, remotely exploiting this vulnerability from the web browser is possible. In practice, demonstrating successful attacks via web browsers requires additional research and engineering efforts.

FAQ at the official website

[–] salient_one@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's so that the machine elves have some time to hide!

On a serious note, I found this explanation here:

Washing machines must have some way in which you can lock the door closing mechanism when the machine is started up and then unlock them with a certain delay (normally two minutes) after the current has switched off via the program or on/off switch, in order to ensure that the door cannot be opened while some of the components are still rotating initially (in particular the motor and the drum of the spin-dryer).

Washing machines have a bi-metal strip inside the door lock which is heated by PTC Heater (resister) when live and neutral are activated on to the pcts it heats up and bends the bi-metal strip which then moves the arm to activate the common terminal and push a pin into the closed door to lock it in place. Once this has happened (usually a second or so see video) the power then can flow through to the common wire, and therefore on to the rest of the machine allowing it to start.

It was a metaphor for personal hygiene.

[–] salient_one@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I sometimes think to grok CSS you have to have a printing degree.

[–] salient_one@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A "sassy personality" just puts the assistant into the uncanny valley for me. I prefer it to just do its job and not try to fool me into anthropomorphizing it.

But the name was pretty cool, though, as noted by another commenter, not the easiest to pronounce.

[–] salient_one@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

For a second or two I thought that you didn't even get any actual ink. I had seen a post about multi-function printers refusing to scan if you're out of ink, and I thought perhaps you could buy a card with an unlock code for such situations (hence "instant ink"). That's not too unbelievable these days though, is it?

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2546109

Read why "Web Environment Integrity" is terrible, and why we must vocally oppose it now. Google's latest maneuver, if we don't act to stop it, threatens our freedom to explore the Internet with browsers of our choice.

 

Wikipedia article for those unfamiliar with the term.

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