[-] RidgeRoad@midwest.social 2 points 4 days ago

That would be after the low hanging fruit of Moldova. Neighbors Ukraine, Constitutionally neutral, does not admit stationing foreign military troops on its territory, can only be altered by referendum, and not at all during a state of national emergency, martial law or war.

[-] RidgeRoad@midwest.social 25 points 1 month ago

I'm less surprised by that than the exclusion of video game consoles.
Didn't know the Nintendo lobby was a formidable adversary up there.

[-] RidgeRoad@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago

It’s not like there was a Warren-level progressive in the running.

And if there were, we know from 2020 there'd still be cosplay communists insisting she wasn't progressive enough.

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[-] RidgeRoad@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago

iFixit noted yesterday, "Though the bill is strong and should make repairs more available for everyone, it allows manufacturers to continue to engage in parts pairing, a practice by which they limit repairs with software blocks. They can also combine parts into expensive assemblies, which makes repairs more expensive."

Similarly doubt there's any way to legislate against the dismal engineering that tempts a failure avalanche like the Ford F150 taillight horrorshow I posted a few days ago.

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Water gets into 2018 Ford truck tail light assembly, corrodes connectors, disables vehicle, $5600 repair.

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[-] RidgeRoad@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

Odd. I wondered why friends from Chicago always order tuna salad whenever they visit.

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And now to meteorologist Louis Rossmann with expected impacts of the forecasted snowstorm in Hell.

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Initial commit was June 11. Documentation is here.

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See also PIRG's statement NHTSA Walks Back Anti-Repair Letter, but Questions Remain, including link to the NHTSA's letter.

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Holly Borgmann, vice president of government affairs for ADT, Boca Raton, Fla., said that while these types of laws may make sense for some industries, tools and manuals that could enable someone to disarm an alarm or reroute an emergency signal should remain proprietary. Borgmann is an SIA board member and vice chair of the SIA government affairs committee.

A security system that can be repaired without notifying the monitoring service, nor sending any suspicious signals, is a security system that can be defeated independent of right to repair legislation. Likewise, if the monitoring service can't verify repairs to be authorized by the customer, they can't handle response to an ordinary alarm.

The site specific data of an alarm panel is generally uploaded remotely by the monitoring service using the communication system through which the panel is monitored. That data is retained by the monitoring service in the event it needs restored, or for use as a template should it need modified. This is a trivial operation if there are any doubts regarding the integrity of the programming.

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[-] RidgeRoad@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Recommend also the seminal TMRC dictionary for several terms absent here, plus some memorably elegant definitions:

Kludge: A crock that works.
Crock: A kludge that doesn't work.

Same again true of Peter Samson's original 1959 and 1960 editions.

[-] RidgeRoad@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, just picked up a T480s Thinkpad earlier this week, installed Manjaro Cinnamon. Writing this reply on it now.

[-] RidgeRoad@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Republican House Leader Matt Hall quoted in the article: "offering food stamps to the rich does nothing to put food on the tables of Michiganders in need.”

But distribute $1.5 billion to the rich through the Strategic Outreach and Attraction Reserve fund and Matt will reassure you that it helps create jobs.

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