@blazera

An oath or legal affirmation can be made if what you're saying is true and accurate to the best of your own ability and perceptions.

If you say something under oath with the intent to deceive or omit key information or evidence for any reason really, then this could be considered perjury, which is a crime under most legal systems.

If you truly believe you saw an alien and were completely convinced of that and testified that you saw one, yet your claim was found to be factually incorrect, you most likely would not be liable for perjury nor did you do anything illegal (in many modern legal systems). You would simply be wrong.

This could cause you to become an "unreliable witness" which might mean anything else you say or claim is taken with less weight, even in areas you might specialize in. For example, how much would you trust a cardiac surgeon who claimed they had frequent encounters with aliens from outer space?

@marmo7ade

This sounds nice and all until you realize moderation becomes a scaling issue.

As communities get larger, it'll be impossible for humans to review everything. Some form of automation needs to exist.

@0101010001110100

Yes and it's over 100 years old and back when flash powder was used for photography.
https://time.com/5241498/how-you-think-you-look-meme/

Heh, I almost dealt with this yesterday when I cleaned up my room a tad. Everything was scattered on the floor and in order to clean up things better, I had to shuffle everything around until I got everything put back away, albeit imperfectly.

This is one of those situations where ADHD people need to keep going and find a home for the displaced items, even if it's back where it was before. In fact, I'd recommend putting everything back either where it was before, or close to it. Maybe just keep like things with like.

If you're ADHD, you're going to forget where you "reorganized" everything to and you'll end up tearing everything apart looking for that thing you put away yesterday.

It's not a perfect answer, but it's better than leaving everything on the floor...

@Brunbrun6766

spez is the landed gentry 🤣

new rule: triangles are the most sexy shape.

@Zebrazilla

This fixed it for me. It was already set to English and didn't think to switch it to something different and back.

I play with the brightness/contrast/gamma until I can see everything.

It seems like video editors forget that not everyone is using a multi-thousand dollar display specifically tuned for video editing and most people are probably watching whatever on a cheapo Walmart special TV or monitor.

I think a lot of people here are confusing liquid assets/cash and genuinely believe millionaires and billionaires have this as pure cash in their bank accounts.

In reality, a lot of the money is tied up in non-liquid assets like property, physical assets, and stocks.

Sure these wealthy people can sell their shares for example, but if they sell too many at once, it will drop the value of the shares.

This is likely why Elon Musk can't afford to pay his bills. Not only is he a grifter and a loser, he's likely extremely cash poor and doesn't have enough liquidity to pay his debts. It's unlikely he'll ever admit this however.

Arguably, the majority of the money these billionares have is essentially speculative.

The more you think about how the economy works, the more you realize how much of a facade it really is. The stock market is a huge sham as well. Most stocks simply don't exist and the amount of value manipulation that occurs is astounding. It's all fake.

I think the sooner we begin to realize that the economy is one giant paper tiger and if we just start telling banks and other "money" purveyors that lock us into our flawed system to go fuck themselves, we can really take away the power from "the rich."

@TheCrispyDud

I looked through their post history and they're a troll. I just reported a few of their posts.

The article indicates the cracks are forming at the PCIe connector and suggests it's due to GPU sag. The issue was predominantly seen in pre-built PC's, but was also happening to separately bought cards. It's unclear if the pre-built desktops were from Gigabyte or some other vendor. Regardless, not only did Gigabyte refuse to RMA them, they charged the customer return shipping and stuck a sticker with an arrow pointing to the crack on the GPU.

Absolutely infuriating. Depending on the scope, I see either a class-action lawsuit or Gigabyte changing their stance and start to cover these under RMA. Gigabyte would also likely be violating European and Australian consumer protection laws here.

In the US, they're also likely violating some laws but the laws in the US rarely have teeth. In the USA, Gigabyte might as well mail the broken GPU back to the user along with a dildo and a note that says, "Go fuck yourself. You have zero recourse."

Regardless of Gigabyte being total douche bags about this, a take-away here (aside from not buying Gigabyte stuff anymore) is this:
If you're not supporting your GPU then you're wrong. Either your PCIe connector will eventually rip off your mobo, or the GPU's connector will crack, or both.

I'm curious how many of these POS (Point-of-Sale, not Piece of Shit) systems have the default settings to ask for tips. If so, I wonder how many of these places are committing wage theft by not actually paying tips out to the employees.

Is this the new Celebrity Deathmatch reboot we've been waiting for?

AM radio is still useful for public broadcast for emergencies. It offers better range, is more simple to generate, and is more resilient to intense weather that could interfere with FM or other radio frequencies.

Some of these emergencies can knock out other communication methods, so the idea of depending on phone alerts is a bit naive.

That's also assuming the emergency didn't also knock out electricity and your ability to charge your phone over many days or weeks or longer. AM/FM radios require a few batteries and can last a long time.

With that said, you can still get emergency information on many FM stations as well. There are also other radio frequency spectrum that are used for public broadcast information during emergencies. Familiarize yourself with the ones in your areas and ensure you have a way to receive those frequencies.

But ultimately I get the decision. Electric vehicles are essentially EMI (electromagnetic interference) machines. Like @debounced said in their post, dealing with this EMI is a tough problem to solve. Sure it can be solved, but the benefits really don't outweigh the effort.

@printerjammed Simply put, this is bad for so many reasons. Since you're likely going to reject any direct reasons why this is bad, I'll give you an analogy.

I'm going to take "and never update it" almost literally and assume you guys haven't installed security patches since you first installed it, or stopped at some point long ago.

You're essentially driving a 15 year old car that hasn't had an oil change, brakes changed, or tires changed. There are known MAJOR safety recalls on the seat belts, airbags, and seats. You have refused to take your car in for free servicing under the recall and basically said, "It's working fine now. It's not worth the hassle scheduling an appointment at the mechanic. I'll take my chances."

But hey, "The car still gets me around and fits in my garage" you smugly think to yourself. "Why should I do anything different? It's MY car and I'm only endangering myself here."

Nope. Your car is endangering everyone else on the road. Bad brakes and tires are major risks for everyone around you. You can easily lose control and hurt or kill others on the road.

Bad seats, seat belts, and airbags means that occupants of your vehicle (your companies clients) can be injured or killed if they fail. Even if only YOURS fails, well...you're the driver. Also, if you do crash and your seat belt fails, you're now a projectile in the car and can injure or kill other passengers. I've seen this happen too many times as a firefighter and an EMT. Unseatbelted occupants are an enormous hazard.

Suffice to say your company is a vector for major attacks and vulnerabilities that not only will affect you, but your clients and potentially countless others who have nothing to do with your company since your server could be part of a botnet for all you know.

"bUt We HaVe OtHeR sEcUrItY cOnTrOlS aNd PrOpEr PrOtOcOlS fOr...." I'm going to cut you off here and straight up say: No. You don't. The fact you still have Windows Server 2008 installed and refuse to even update it tells me enough about your entire IT department and policies.

@snixyz

@IsThisLemmyOpen There are people who live in truly oppressive places where they need to use VPNs to browse and post things or else they can be arrested and in some cases imprisoned or even executed. Requiring manual approval by the instance owner for unrestricted VPN use is unsustainable.

@Hagarashi8

@tomve_cz

This isn't what's being said though. How the "AI" or bot does its thing is irrelevant to the damage they can cause by flooding the place with spam.

@CoffeeBlood91

@waspentalive

The biggest risks with a dying microwave aren't you being blasted by microwaves (although this can happen). It's fire because the magnetron coils heated up and melted their insulation and shorted out.

If a fire occurs INSIDE the microwave DO NOT OPEN THE MICROWAVE! Leave it closed and unplug it or pop your circuit breaker.
Smaller fires will typically burn out inside a microwave due to lack of fresh air.

Once it's unplugged, you can use a Class ABC (or Class K) fire extinguisher and then open the door and blast it IF it seems like the fire might not be dying down or is growing. This can be pretty dangerous as a giant plume of fire and smoke will shoot out if you open the door and can cause the fire to spread rapidly so use your best judgement.

For fires in an oven, just leave the door closed. It will burn out due to lack of oxygen. Have a fire extinguisher on the ready though.

When in doubt, leave the area and call for your fire department.

In terms of microwave leakage, this is highly unlikely unless there are obvious holes in the microwave. Modern microwaves have pretty substantial shielding and safety mechanism to prevent microwave leakage.

You'd also know pretty quick if you're being hit with microwaves. The areas where it hits you would heat up and be pretty uncomfortable.

Another telltale sign of excess microwave leakage is it kicks everyone off 2.4 GHz wifi because it over-powers the signal. This was actually a pretty frustrating problem back in the day when wifi was new and wasn't able to handle interference as well, lol. You'd know someone was microwaving something because your signal would drop substantially.

The second risk is electrocution. Microwave transformers are no joke and you should never ever take a microwave apart unless you know exactly what you're doing.

If you're getting a new microwave, look for one with "inverter technology" as these allow for actual variable power output instead of just altering the duty cycle. In other words, with the "inverter technology" the microwave uses less energy to emit lower energy microwaves. This will ensure your food is always being hit with microwaves and actually heats better and more evenly.

This is contrary to your run-of-the mill boring microwave which uses "duty cycles" which is a fancy way of saying "how long is the thing on emitting full power vs. how long is it not" which will heat up food unevenly.

@dannekrose Good to know this is already a known issue. I was about to ask about it. Kind of a funny issue if you think about it.

@DragonFruit

@Sexypink
Not sure about you but having two different things called the same thing is pretty confusing. kbin is a social media platform for everyone and shouldn't have confusing "gotchas" like this.

And before anyone says it, yes, I know Linux and Unix (except MacOS and Android) are case-sensitive.

There's also a difference between Calorie and calorie. The "Big-C" Calorie is a "kilocalorie" which is 1000 "little-c" calories which is 4.184 joules. I have no idea where I'm going with this but enjoy the shitty science lesson 🤣

@Chad_C_Mulligan