Do you have any non-hyperbolic examples of this kind of overreach?

It’s not an insertable toy, it’s just a novelty vibrator.

I don’t think we have to choose. “Maintain your websites so you don’t get taken advantage of” and “Here’s an example of a major-world-power-affiliated group exploting that thing you didn’t do” are both pretty important stories.

Nono, see this was totally normal procedure. It was just a wild accident that the kid was sealed inside completely inverted. Not their fault. Clearly. For some reason. If they’d left him the right way round, he might have set off the alarm?

I thought this was a bit absurd until I looked up what a “bivy” is, as I’d been assuming it was just a tent.

Yeah, not hard to see how a kid could suffocate by getting turned around in what is basically a watertight sack with two sticks added. Wtf? who puts kids, let alone kids with anxiety, into one of those things unattended? holy shit.

If cows made tools, they’d probably suck.

TL;DR - Uhhhh… russia has been the #1 source of firmware jailbreaks and torrents for industrial software for 20+ years. Their government is so awful that their people had to figure out how to work around the world hating them.

Oh and capitalists are traitors. Burn the rich.

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So… whats stopping something like sponsorblock from nixing this potentially bankrupting choice?

While the influence is much smaller than with windows or apple, it’s still there. Linux is hardened against capitalism, but if we start believing that it has no influence we set ourselves up for Debian Pro+ in the future. Just because it’s good now doesn’t mean it capitalism can’t shit all over it faster than we believe possible…

I’m sure if we spend enough time working on it, we can figure out how this is all OPEC’s fault. /s (jeeze tho I hope your friend was okay!)

I bought my mother one of these for mothers day, since then she has been hiding it all over the house so moopsy can jump out at him when he least expects it. It’s very cute.

Thats on the companies to figure out, tbh. “you cant say we arent allowed to build biological weapons, thats too hard” isn’t what you’re saying, but it’s a hyperbolic example. The industry needs to figure out how to control the monster they’ve happily sent staggering towards the village, and really they’re the only people with the knowledge to figure out how to stop it. If it’s not possible, maybe we should restrict this tech until it is possible. LLMs aren’t going to end the world, probably, but a protein sequencing AI that hallucinates while replicating a flu virus could be real bad for us as a species, to say nothing of the pearl clutching scenario of bad actors getting ahold of it.

Lmao, okay thats patheticly bad baiting. Come on.

YES, IT DOES, THATS MY ENTIRE POINT.

You understand that search results are different for different people, right? I’ve been a dev for… an embarrassingly long time, I’ve never heard “libreware” outside of specifically the libreoffice suite. Sorry I’m not as in-tune with the slang as you are or whatever.

Waht is “libre software”? this is a totally new term to me and searching for it has turned up nothing.

… What??

No problem, I’m just glad all that time I spent memorizing the McMaster-Carr catalog finally came in handy!

The cylinders are sealed units, so they’re safe to handle even after beating the crap out of them. The danger happens when people decide to repair a failing seal or leak and try to open the cylinder itself to get at the piston head - usually with a hacksaw…

Clamshell clamps or Truss Clamps aren’t exactly what youre looking for, but they’ll work. Clamshell clamps are used in automotive and plumbing applications, truss clamps are used for mounting lights and speakers to stage trusses. You can get them cheap on amazon, and stacking several of them up works great for spacing shafts.

“Stroke Limiting Shaft Collars” are exactly what you’re looking for, since they’re designed to do exactly what you’re attempting here but for industrial pneumatic or hydraulic equipment. Unfortunately since they’re for industrial equipment, they can be stupid expensive and a royal PITA to find. But they do have a very silly name, even for hydrualic equipment (which is a field whose jargon is entirely made up of double entendre), which is a point in their favor. Also, many of them work very well as bearing surfaces!

PLEASE be careful messing with the cylinders in office chairs though. It doesnt sound like youre planning to, but just a blanket warning. Much like garage door springs, those cylinders store WAY more energy than you would believe, and fucking up trying to take apart a damaged cylinder can send the piston an impressive distance through your chest.