I use a BDXL to backup my ripped music as a fall back to backups on RAID. Probably should update the backup set to make sure my drive is still functional.

Agreed, if the bed can heat to 110 F then that has the potential to do bodily harm. Seems like they failed to define a safe state for the bed.

Sounds like the time some of my coworkers attached a mouse dongle to the docking station of the "victim". Then they'd randomly move the remote mouse from time to time, but not enough to make it obvious. Hopefully the wake phrase is trained to the computer owner only.

My B&W speakers I bought in the 1980s are still working without worrying about when a cloud service will stop. Only had to replace one tweeter speaker when a dog's tennis ball broke the cone.

Meanwhile my Beermkr is useless junk now because the cloud servers have gone away.

Both mice and headsets exist that use Bluetooth, eliminating the need for dongles. Seems like an easy solution if you aren't wedded to using older devices.

BSD 2.8 (or 9 or 10) had a security hole where it was possible to read the tty input queue from memory. With a suitable program and enough time you could watch as a computer center staff member typed in the root password. From there it was just a matter of covering your tracks in the log files.

Lack of any visible lane markings during heavy snow storms is one reason. How well do those vehicles pick up the road edge markers on posts? Hope the automated vehicles will be kept off the roads in heavy snow.

I don't look forward to Waymo vehicles blocking two lane loads like CO 93 in a snow storm. It's bad enough when people with crappy tires do it.

I routinely mark all political text messages as junk too. Doesn't matter from who sent them, consistently applied junk marking.

And 2250 gallons is about 300 cu ft, which is probably enough to flood a small fast food restaurant to a depth of 1 foot (swag)?

Perl has had the concept of "tainted" data for decades now. You have to sanitize the data before using it. Seems like it would be a no-brainer to mark all data obtained from the web as tainted and refuse to use it as instructions.

ISO 32000 also see https://pdfa.org/pdf-standards... Adobe no longer gets to unilaterally change it.

Talking? How about yelling at their computers when the computers can't get things right.

Agreed, many systems running Linux are used in high reliability and safety critical applications. There is no place for crappy code in the kernel or important run time libraries, so we are definitely relying on people like Linus being tough on people who let problematic code into PRs.

Gotcha beat. Had a DEC Alpha AXPpci 33 running Linux in 1994. Installed from 30 or so floppies.