Ditto. I mostly use it when Google (search, not Bard) fails me. I find it’s really good at answering questions of the ilk: “I swear there’s a function for this in the library I’m using, what’s it called again?”, or telling me that it doesn’t actually exist.
Tangential, but my last employer (US based) outsourced L1 IT to a call center in India, and it was maddening. They didn’t know very much beyond the script, and often you just had to say the right words to get your issue escalated, but it would always take a day or so to get called back. It drove me nuts as an engineer, but I’m sure it works fine for people who are less familiar with computers.
I’ve found that the chat agents are much less able to “be a human” and help you out, it feels like talking to a chatbot sometimes. It’s a lot easier to get someone to empathize with your problem over the phone, IME
FWIW, /etc/passwd itself contains no passwords (the name exists for historical reasons) but it definitely is a globally accessible file that can give you clues about the target system. Given this, it’s more likely the user is attempting to find out if arbitrary disk reads are possible by using a well known path on many servers.
Mastodon actually lets you follow hashtags, which is a nice compromise, but it definitely isn’t curated so you gotta pick which hashtags you follow kinda carefully.
I think it scratches a similar itch as most techbros: “if I can solve this hard problem, all problems are easy!” It’s a mentality I see constantly, especially on the orange site.
Doesn’t really answer your question, but I’ve been really happy making "faux latte"s and such with my Moka pot. A little inconvenient to clean, but definitely takes up less space than a mini espresso machine.
I’d be careful doing this, as the sensor could pivot. I had a mount that did this and I felt like I was constantly having to mess with my Z offset
Yeah, just discovered that, woof.
Thanks for the recommendation of Liftoff! I really didn’t like Jerboa but liftoff seems like a nice app.
LanguageTool is super cool because you can run it locally! I love it because of that, alone.
The idea of a security tool using the same name as one of the most serious security vulnerabilities of the last decade is very funny, lol.
At least with SO, they have historically put up dumps of all user data on archive.org (that stopped recently but it’s allegedly coming back). If something were to happen, at least the information would still be decently accessible, just not indexed as well.
Ditto, actually. The 3D printing communities I’ve seen here are just so much smaller.
I worked in telecom for a couple of years up until recently. There’s actually a growing body of self-regulation going on within the SMS industry. Most notably, any business sending text messages has to apply for a “license” to do so, with some pretty strict consent requirements. Violating those requirements comes with heavy penalties, mostly enforced by downstream carriers. If you’re curious, 10DLC/A2P are the terms to Google for.