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Cake day: June 15th, 2023
  • Question is, what happens if you don’t have dmidecode installed? Even more interesting, what happens if you’ve replaced it with a fake that spews back values of your choosing? If they’re bundling it, given that it appears to be GPL2, they’re opening themselves to a lawsuit unless they provide source upon request.

    (Somehow, I don’t think they’re actually using dmidecode.)

  • Part of being an adult is assessing what “everyone” knows and tells you to see whether it’s actually true, and if so whether it’s relevant to you and the life you want to make for yourself. Granted, this guy is only 23, so he’s got a long way to go with that process.

  • Raking in a $250,000 salary

    And isn’t willing to move to a more ethical company if it means taking even a modest salary hit, I’ll bet. Men seem more likely to make that particular prioritization error, although people of other genders certainly aren’t immune.

  • Part of the problem here is that too many people live to work, instead of the other way around. Once they retire, they have no idea what to do with themselves and take the least-effort path to occupy their time. Which makes them perfect targets for the addictive aspects of social media.

    Maybe what we need to do is flood Facebook and Instagram and all the rest with material about the rewards of volunteering for charity.

    (Sometimes I’m almost thankful my mother is a technophobe.)