This was at a stockpile yard at a port where raw mined materials were stored before being shipped.

Basically, if the wind was blowing strong enough in the right direction, it would blow over a nearby town. The problem wasn’t really knowing where the dust was going, but where it was coming from. Accurate monitoring could detect exactly which pile the dust is coming from, so you could direct all the water to the source. It’s impractical to wet the entire yard, as it’s huge.

This reminds me of something I worked on at my last job. I made software to detect plumes of dust pollution from a mining site blowing onto a nearby school and town. The EPA issued fines if they detected too much dust over the town. This system could catch it early for quick intervention.

After it was deployed, I got a glimpse of their production config. They hadn’t configured the alarms for early intervention. They had configured them so that they could get as close as possible to their allocated limit before they intervened at all. Because, ya know, spraying water on stockpiles of ore is expensive.

Fucking mining companies, man.

My bank apps all work fine. Just keep your physical bank cards on you because Google Wallet won’t work with credit cards, NFC or transport passes. Your gig tickets and membership cards will load fine though.

You probably don’t want Google rummaging through your purchase history anyway. I certainly don’t miss it.

We call it “streaming”.

Not really. If they use TLS / HTTPS then you won’t see a damn thing.

My car is built in 2003 and I don’t think I’m ever moving it on.

It peaked in 2005 before the driver inputs got overrides and and speed outputs started lying to you.

I couldn’t even imagine a car connected to the internet.

Shit. It’s 1:30AM. I went to bed at 9, and I’m on Lemmy while eating a bag of Doritos in bed.

Wait. WINE is not an emulator?! Why didn’t anyone try to tell me? 😂

I play HD2 under proton. Even if there is a rootkit, it’s sandboxed.

Ahh. Approving every piece of software would make them… Apple.

You did say “driver”, and Microsoft typically approves every single driver on the majority of PCs.

What do you think WHQL is?

The problem with CrowdStrike’s solution is that they got csagent.sys driver signed by WHQL, and the driver will download p-code from the internet and execute it. This allows them to push out changes without waiting for Microsoft approval.

The biggest problem occurs when you don’t sanitize your inputs and someone accidentally uploads a blank file padded with zeroes. The driver dereferences a null value, and crashes your system. Hard.

Printers are always horrible to administer. Brother are typically the best on Linux. I wrote a massive instructional blog a few weeks ago because it took so much work to get my HL-3150CDN working over USB. I had to repackage a Frankenstein’s monster of a driver because my printer never got 64-bit CUPS filters.

What’s the lesson here? Clean your bongs?

Imagine facing 30 years for not emptying out an old coffee cup.

Poke a pinhole and squeeze the juice into your mouth.

Protip: use frinkiac.com to generate Simpsons memes effortlessly.

There’s a Mulligrubs vibe to this.

Yeah, and I have to practice mental arithmetic because I won’t always have a calculator in my pocket.

Not sure of trolling… or just very stupid.

I got that. It turned out to be ADHD and it required stronger stimulants.

If you have steam, btrfs compression will dramatically shrink the size of an installed game with zero performance impact. In some cases, the disk read speed even increases.