On any command line you can likely just run a single letter command: w

Rule 34 wants a word …

What a surprise, lawmakers in the USA cut their noses to spite their faces … again.

I wonder what it would take for this to stop happening.

Pretty much everything on Linux is a “file”, which is a metaphor used throughout the operating system.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_is_a_file

The file you create using the dd command is just a file. It can live on any filesystem capable of storing a 256 GB file.

Make sure that you compare the checksum between the drive and the file and store a copy of it with the file, so you can check it after restoring the data.

Note that you can even mount that file using a loopback interface, so you can read the content, but if you alter it, the checksum will change.

Welcome to Linux where all manner of magic is built-in.

… and then goes on to point out how they are arbitrarily applied.

If this company that’s tied to the bankrupt individual has money to bid, does that mean that money is already part of the bankruptcy proceedings and if not, why not?

Word of caution, it doesn’t render on Connect for Lemmy.

This is now what spammers are doing. I’ve got about 50 different “companies” offering their services complete with follow up, meeting bookings, reminders and encouragement to sign up now, then come the threats or request for acknowledgement, then they change their email address and start from the top.

Come to think about it, it’s probably more like 100 different attempts, each with their own repeating thread.

99% automatically land in my spam folder, but it’s just ludicrous. It also makes actual commerce via email pretty much impossible.

I’ve had offers for lead generation, appointment setting, transcript services, SEO, website redesigns, app development, social media marketing and management, investment opportunities, offers for speaking engagements, conference sponsorships, purchasing and product offers, the list is endless.

The tool providing you with access to that Google Drive has not made the storage space available in any way that can be used by the rest of the system.

The problem lies with that tool, not any application or operating system.

I’d be surprised if there’s not a better tool that uses “fuse” to access Google Drive.

Well that’s one way to shoot yourself in the foot…

Iridium by Motorola was working in 1997 when I interviewed one of the team.

They had everything working, satellite to satellite call handover, line of sight handover, uplink and downlink, all the technology was great.

The only problem?

Billing. They couldn’t figure out how to make billing not be an international long distance call because local telcos refused to allow ground stations in their country.

Now Starlink is making agreements with those same telcos to allow direct to satellite mobile phone communication.

“You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.” “Your proposal is acceptable.”

Right here is where the rubber meets the road. If the GDPR isn’t enforced, the outcome is worse for everyone because the companies in breach will point out that nobody has successfully won a judgement against them, so in other words, they’ve done nothing wrong, whilst all the while they’ll sell your private information out the side door to the highest bidder.

For me the icing on the cake on that image is the “Translate” link which makes me wonder how you might translate this into say Klingon or CEO talk or ELI 5.

Other than that, it’s a sad state of affairs that we’ve allowed this to happen unchecked and wholesale across the planet.

Depends on who you ask:

https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/

Still showing up in Australia right now.

Seems that charging fees like that will make it profitable to hire video editors to provide a “top notch highlighted edits reel” for every FOI reasons, what could possibly go wrong?

Not all Australian humans are female…

I’m sad to say that apparently Australia has the unevitable situation where 100 women were killed by men in 2024.

The population of the UK is 68 million, Australia is 27 million.

Just think about that for a moment.