ever had to worry whether you’d parked your hard drive’s heads before moving it, child…?
Yes, also you parked it before shutting down the system every time. Once the hard drive was powered down, the heads would just crash into the platters. While not instantly fatal, it wasn’t good for the drive. So, you’d park the drive before flipping the power switch.
I used to be able to and often did in the warmer months. These days, I need something covering my feet and lower legs. I’ll now sleep without any sort of blanket, except for three layers from my knees down.
Last place I worked on site was the same. I sat in a SCIF, so there was only a single door, no windows, sound deadening padding on the walls and white noise pumped in. We weren’t hearing shit in there. So, if the fire alarm went off, we all grabbed our things and walked out. Not leaving for a fire alarm was grounds for adverse employee actions. We also had a lady from OSHA come through regularly and give management hell for any life safety issue. Complete hard-ass, and we were all safer for it. This is really how it should be. There’s too long a history of workplaces putting their employees at risk to eek out the slightest bit more profit.
the lemmy.world one seems like it’s owned by someone who registered random community names
Given the complete lack of content on the lemmy.world Signal community, you may try messaging the current owner and see if they are willing to give it up. If they are not, you might also try reaching out to the admins on https://lemmy.world/c/support They have a history of re-assigning moderation privileges if a mod goes inactive. Though, it looks like the current owner is around (last posted 2 months ago) and I don’t know how the mods would treat dereliction of a community.
The Great Firewall of China The UK
You’d think that a competent technology company, with their own AI would be able to figure out a way to spoof Cloudflare’s checks. I’d still think that.
I would never ever recommend using DeepSeek or Alibaba’s Qwen service though!
Ya, fair point. If you put your data on someone else’s computer, it’s no longer your data.
As opposed to handing that data over to Google, Microsoft or ChatGPT.
If anything, DeepSeek almost seems the better choice. You can actually run it disconnected, on your own hardware. Meaning you’re not sending your data off to handled on someone else’s computer. Granted, having not gone over it, it’s possible it contains malware. But, that seems like the type of claim which would need some proof to back up.
We shouldn’t have stopped at punching the monkey. We should have been punching CEOs.
Fun fact, in some countries the 3.5" floppies were called “stiffy disks”. You know, because the outer casing was “stiff” as opposed to the floppy 5.25" disks. This discovery led to a lot of chuckling among the team I worked with when we opened a new product from one of those countries and read the manual. The instruction to “insert stiffy disk” still leads most of us to chuckling today.