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  • Echo Dot@feddit.uktoProgrammer Humor@programming.devMental Health
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    2 days ago

    Anything made by Dell is. Try disassembling one of their mini PCs. I don’t know what tools they have at the dell manufacturing plant, but they must not be made of normal matter that’s all I can tell you, because otherwise how have they managed to put a screw that holds the PSU in place, under the PSU itself.











  • It would be a bit quiet if I joined. None of the content creators I care about are on the platform. All that seems to be on there are a bunch of programmer types, which is fine if that’s what you’re interested in, but if you’re not it’s basically dead.

    Which was my point. Mastodon’s user experience resulted in basically no one other than tech nerds subscribing, this subsequently meant that no one else even tried because they would have to wade through a quagmire of poor UI only to join a platform with no one on it.




  • The problem is they’re trying to implement a law that was put in place to stop kids buying alcohol to stop people looking at pornography. It doesn’t translate well into the virtual realm.

    Circumventing the checks isn’t illegal because they don’t want to be arresting a bunch of kids. So they just take the fake ID or whatever off them. They haven’t bought any alcohol, because they were found out, so no crime has been committed. The law makes no allowances for adults buying alcohol legitimately but still bypassing the safety checks because no one assumed that would happen, and where you’re just handing over your driving licence to a store clerk it wouldn’t.

    But we’re being asked to trust third-party companies who routinely lie about their cyber security. Now there absolutely is a reason for adults to want to bypass the checks even though they’re overage.



  • I don’t think circumventing the restrictions with a VPN is illegal. It’s one of those dumb laws where everyone just has to basically play along but everyone knows it won’t achieve anything.

    This from the government that routinely leaves laptops on trains, with post-it notes stuck to them as to what the password is (this is not hyperbole they have actually done this).