BanditMcDougal @ BanditMcDougal @lemmy.world

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Just so we're clear: just because I don't want the government in my safe doesn't mean I'm right-wing. Based on your shitpost, I'm kinda curious where you were on Jan 6th...

The safe being subject to a search warrant isn't what concerns me.

How/Why the manufacturer of the safe got involved is what concerns me and is the context here we're missing. If they volunteered to open the safe, I have ideological difference from the company and wouldn't trust them with my belongings. If they were issued a warrant/court order to open the safe and complied, now we're in a gray area for me. If it isn't publish they'll comply with warrants and cooperate with court orders, then people didn't get what they thought they were buying.

Without knowing the details of their involvement, we're just speculating and tossing out hypotheticals as to how we feel about it.

There are a couple of issues here.

• Unless there was a warrant issued to the company, they've overstepped. If I buy a product to keep unauthorized people out, I have a reasonable expectation that means everyone.
• In some states, you are liable for the crimes committed with your stolen firearms between the time of being stolen and when they are reported stolen. This is meant to cut down on the false claim something was stolen as well as encouraging people to secure their firearms. If a safe has a backdoor, it becomes a liability in this situation.
• Unless the company had disclosed they had backdoors and would comply with warrants, then they sold a false sense of security.

Can't. He was born in South Africa.

(Getting this out of the way first: I'm not a Trump supporter.)

Convicted felons can and have run for President in the past. Some campaigns have even been run from prison. Disqualifying somebody from running for office because of a conviction is extremely easy to weaponize. It's the next step in removing somebody's right to vote because of a conviction (a thing we do/have done and shouldn't).

I agree with you on the age thing, though. If you can vote, you should be able to hold office.

I'm extremely pro-WFH for professions that can. I've been doing it for 10 years and it has only gotten better since others started to experience it and have empathy for what it means to be a remote worker. Just getting that out of the way before chatting more about hidden difficulties of converting buildings to residential use...

I can't speak for European office buildings (your use of "flats" has me assuming you're on the other side of the pond from me), but a large number of US buildings would either have to be 100% gutted back to the main supporting beams OR pulled down and rebuilt. Issue here is a combo of proper placement of utility lines (mostly plumbing) within the building and the added weight residential use brings rather than business use.

Large office leases here have a lot of control over how their floors are laid out, but floor planning normally takes electrical runs into consideration and will leave spaces like kitchens and bathrooms unmoved. Executive offices and other private interior spaces can be created/adjusted by making interior walls and tying into electrical connections already in a floor or drop ceiling.

Plumbing is a whole other monster and takes a lot more work. Not an insurmountable consideration, just harder.

The weight of residential living is one I hadn't considered until someone pointed it out to me. In addition to all the additional plumbing needed (whose pipes add tonnage by the time you've converted a building), you also have to consider water within those pipes, and if a lot of people run their kid's evening bath around 7 PM, that's even more tonnage, normally all in a similar vertical line because of repeated floor plans. A lot of corporate buildings here, esp older ones, just weren't engineered for that and a lot would need significant remediation to support it.

I have way less to say about the super cancers... We did use a LOT of asbestos as we built up urban areas, though.

Ah, so very similar to what Amazon did with Sidewalk a few years back. I shocked people are ok with allowing this data through their devices. Sidewalk caused a massive backlash because of privacy and data rate concerns.

I'm not a big Apple person, so I've not really cared about Airtags, so I'm probably missing something. If I don't allow them to connect to my device, how are they a concern?

Edit: I realized I asked my question poorly. I get they're a tracking device. My understanding is they're a Bluetooth device that do not have direct Internet access on their own; how is their location being updated if you're not pairing with them to allow them access to your device?

Imo, nobody won here and the reddit user lost everything. The Fediverse wasnt ready for the influx of users and lost its chance to "win" for a long time. The sites couldn't support the load and there was a lack of polished mobile apps that felt familiar to people that wanted to browse and shit post.

Without content -- without interaction, a platform whithers; and my experience, so far, has been comment oasises while scrolling through pages of desert.

I don't care about what a Trump re-election will do to the world. The civil war that happens after the fact will make it impossible for us to hear global news for years, anyway.

Put myself through college serving at a fine dining restaurant. This show did it's research on kitchen/restaurant culture. Seriously takes me back.

Who is handling the permitting process and where it is handled also impacts who feels comfortable trying to get a permit. Areas where you have to go see your Sheriff in person to have your permit approved have a lower percentage of firearm ownership from people of color because of a valid history of distrust of police.

Guns with high-capacity magazines are “not commonly used for self-defense, and are therefore not protected by the Second Amendment,” Immergut wrote in her ruling.

I'd like to see the numbers she's working with. When the majority of modern firearms are sold with magazines that have a capacity of 15+ rounds, my suspicion is that statement is incorrect.

It does raise an interesting concern, though. As capacity bans are rolled out in more states, what is commonly used will change.

I get why politicians want these photos. I struggle to understand why people want a politician to kiss their baby. I was barely ok with the med staff taking my newborn for legit reasons...

Fair take.

I've got a static IP for Truenas now with an internal DNS entry pointing directly to it for smb and another DNS entry pointing to Traefik for the web UI. Annoying to have 2 names for it and was hoping to not have to, but this may be where/how things stay.

Not all. This is all internal. I got annoyed with with insecure warnings for all the internal stuff that runs on SSL and fell down the Traefik rabbit hole after watching TechnoTim's video on the topic.

I'm not sure that's right, in the routers section of the Traefik docs they say...

UDP routers can only target UDP services (and not HTTP or TCP services).

Feels possible, just not widely documented. I could be completely wrong, though.

That's such a tough call I don't envy having to make. Some of the content created while he was ok is one of a kind. I'm picturing the interview he had with Quyen Tran where she shared her and Sam's 9/11 story. We're missing that verbal history for people to hear, now. Balancing that with not giving him air time, or worse, having to pay out to him must have been an extremely hard decision.

Ooooh, neat. We have a Quaker and she's similarly sized and shaped, but the number of unique color zones confused me.