An oath or legal affirmation can be made if what you're saying is true and accurate to the best of your own ability and perceptions.
If you say something under oath with the intent to deceive or omit key information or evidence for any reason really, then this could be considered perjury, which is a crime under most legal systems.
If you truly believe you saw an alien and were completely convinced of that and testified that you saw one, yet your claim was found to be factually incorrect, you most likely would not be liable for perjury nor did you do anything illegal (in many modern legal systems). You would simply be wrong.
This could cause you to become an "unreliable witness" which might mean anything else you say or claim is taken with less weight, even in areas you might specialize in. For example, how much would you trust a cardiac surgeon who claimed they had frequent encounters with aliens from outer space?
How are they measuring the costs here? Even fast-food burgers have significantly shot up in price.
If we go by raw ingredients, then healthy food can be considerably cheaper than pre-made garbage and fast food.
If we add the time cost of traveling to a grocery store, shopping, and then preparing the healthier food, then it could become more expensive.
There's also the fact that most of the USA has absolute shit public transportation which increases the burden for people who can't afford cars to get groceries in the first place. That and the time costs can be reduced with grocery deliveries, however. this might not be a viable option in all areas or work schedules; You want to be home when the groceries are delivered.
Then there is the fact that there are a lot of food deserts , especially in low-income areas. This can make it harder, if not impossible for people to even get healthier food.
Not sure where I'm going with my train of thought here...
Question. For remote headless Windows servers which can only be accessed internally by specific people via RDP, is there really an added security benefit for locking the session after the "standard" 15 minutes? Going back to the lock screen doesn't prevent RDP session hijacking if someone really wanted to do that.
Not only do we work remotely the majority of the time, our work computers already lock after 15 minutes of being idle.
Heh, I almost dealt with this yesterday when I cleaned up my room a tad. Everything was scattered on the floor and in order to clean up things better, I had to shuffle everything around until I got everything put back away, albeit imperfectly.
This is one of those situations where ADHD people need to keep going and find a home for the displaced items, even if it's back where it was before. In fact, I'd recommend putting everything back either where it was before, or close to it. Maybe just keep like things with like.
If you're ADHD, you're going to forget where you "reorganized" everything to and you'll end up tearing everything apart looking for that thing you put away yesterday.
It's not a perfect answer, but it's better than leaving everything on the floor...
Since the newest update, I see Kbin on a different language. I think it's Polish, or some similar language. The strange thing is that I don't remember a setting where one can change the display language. And the other strange thing is that this happens only on desktop. If I see Kbin via mobile, the page is in English....
I play with the brightness/contrast/gamma until I can see everything.
It seems like video editors forget that not everyone is using a multi-thousand dollar display specifically tuned for video editing and most people are probably watching whatever on a cheapo Walmart special TV or monitor.
I think a lot of people here are confusing liquid assets/cash and genuinely believe millionaires and billionaires have this as pure cash in their bank accounts.
In reality, a lot of the money is tied up in non-liquid assets like property, physical assets, and stocks.
Sure these wealthy people can sell their shares for example, but if they sell too many at once, it will drop the value of the shares.
This is likely why Elon Musk can't afford to pay his bills. Not only is he a grifter and a loser, he's likely extremely cash poor and doesn't have enough liquidity to pay his debts. It's unlikely he'll ever admit this however.
Arguably, the majority of the money these billionares have is essentially speculative.
The more you think about how the economy works, the more you realize how much of a facade it really is. The stock market is a huge sham as well. Most stocks simply don't exist and the amount of value manipulation that occurs is astounding. It's all fake.
I think the sooner we begin to realize that the economy is one giant paper tiger and if we just start telling banks and other "money" purveyors that lock us into our flawed system to go fuck themselves, we can really take away the power from "the rich."
I'm curious how many of these POS (Point-of-Sale, not Piece of Shit) systems have the default settings to ask for tips. If so, I wonder how many of these places are committing wage theft by not actually paying tips out to the employees.
@printerjammed Simply put, this is bad for so many reasons. Since you're likely going to reject any direct reasons why this is bad, I'll give you an analogy.
I'm going to take "and never update it" almost literally and assume you guys haven't installed security patches since you first installed it, or stopped at some point long ago.
You're essentially driving a 15 year old car that hasn't had an oil change, brakes changed, or tires changed. There are known MAJOR safety recalls on the seat belts, airbags, and seats. You have refused to take your car in for free servicing under the recall and basically said, "It's working fine now. It's not worth the hassle scheduling an appointment at the mechanic. I'll take my chances."
But hey, "The car still gets me around and fits in my garage" you smugly think to yourself. "Why should I do anything different? It's MY car and I'm only endangering myself here."
Nope. Your car is endangering everyone else on the road. Bad brakes and tires are major risks for everyone around you. You can easily lose control and hurt or kill others on the road.
Bad seats, seat belts, and airbags means that occupants of your vehicle (your companies clients) can be injured or killed if they fail. Even if only YOURS fails, well...you're the driver. Also, if you do crash and your seat belt fails, you're now a projectile in the car and can injure or kill other passengers. I've seen this happen too many times as a firefighter and an EMT. Unseatbelted occupants are an enormous hazard.
Suffice to say your company is a vector for major attacks and vulnerabilities that not only will affect you, but your clients and potentially countless others who have nothing to do with your company since your server could be part of a botnet for all you know.
"bUt We HaVe OtHeR sEcUrItY cOnTrOlS aNd PrOpEr PrOtOcOlS fOr...." I'm going to cut you off here and straight up say: No. You don't. The fact you still have Windows Server 2008 installed and refuse to even update it tells me enough about your entire IT department and policies.
AM radio is still useful for public broadcast for emergencies. It offers better range, is more simple to generate, and is more resilient to intense weather that could interfere with FM or other radio frequencies.
Some of these emergencies can knock out other communication methods, so the idea of depending on phone alerts is a bit naive.
That's also assuming the emergency didn't also knock out electricity and your ability to charge your phone over many days or weeks or longer. AM/FM radios require a few batteries and can last a long time.
With that said, you can still get emergency information on many FM stations as well. There are also other radio frequency spectrum that are used for public broadcast information during emergencies. Familiarize yourself with the ones in your areas and ensure you have a way to receive those frequencies.
But ultimately I get the decision. Electric vehicles are essentially EMI (electromagnetic interference) machines. Like @debouncedsaid in their post, dealing with this EMI is a tough problem to solve. Sure it can be solved, but the benefits really don't outweigh the effort.
Everything on here is awesome right now, it feels like an online forum from the 2000s, everyone is friendly, optimistic, it feels like the start to something big....
Well, title says it clear. We might need some condition to prevent trolls from creating a lot of accounts and taking over whole instance. I'd like to discuss ideas for this. Like, amount of days on instance could work, but I'm not sure if it would work out very well. Anyway, please share your opinions on this whole subject....
@IsThisLemmyOpen There are people who live in truly oppressive places where they need to use VPNs to browse and post things or else they can be arrested and in some cases imprisoned or even executed. Requiring manual approval by the instance owner for unrestricted VPN use is unsustainable.
The biggest risks with a dying microwave aren't you being blasted by microwaves (although this can happen). It's fire because the magnetron coils heated up and melted their insulation and shorted out.
If a fire occurs INSIDE the microwave DO NOT OPEN THE MICROWAVE! Leave it closed and unplug it or pop your circuit breaker.
Smaller fires will typically burn out inside a microwave due to lack of fresh air.
Once it's unplugged, you can use a Class ABC (or Class K) fire extinguisher and then open the door and blast it IF it seems like the fire might not be dying down or is growing. This can be pretty dangerous as a giant plume of fire and smoke will shoot out if you open the door and can cause the fire to spread rapidly so use your best judgement.
For fires in an oven, just leave the door closed. It will burn out due to lack of oxygen. Have a fire extinguisher on the ready though.
When in doubt, leave the area and call for your fire department.
In terms of microwave leakage, this is highly unlikely unless there are obvious holes in the microwave. Modern microwaves have pretty substantial shielding and safety mechanism to prevent microwave leakage.
You'd also know pretty quick if you're being hit with microwaves. The areas where it hits you would heat up and be pretty uncomfortable.
Another telltale sign of excess microwave leakage is it kicks everyone off 2.4 GHz wifi because it over-powers the signal. This was actually a pretty frustrating problem back in the day when wifi was new and wasn't able to handle interference as well, lol. You'd know someone was microwaving something because your signal would drop substantially.
The second risk is electrocution. Microwave transformers are no joke and you should never ever take a microwave apart unless you know exactly what you're doing.
If you're getting a new microwave, look for one with "inverter technology" as these allow for actual variable power output instead of just altering the duty cycle. In other words, with the "inverter technology" the microwave uses less energy to emit lower energy microwaves. This will ensure your food is always being hit with microwaves and actually heats better and more evenly.
This is contrary to your run-of-the mill boring microwave which uses "duty cycles" which is a fancy way of saying "how long is the thing on emitting full power vs. how long is it not" which will heat up food unevenly.
@Sexypink
Not sure about you but having two different things called the same thing is pretty confusing. kbin is a social media platform for everyone and shouldn't have confusing "gotchas" like this.
And before anyone says it, yes, I know Linux and Unix (except MacOS and Android) are case-sensitive.
There's also a difference between Calorie and calorie. The "Big-C" Calorie is a "kilocalorie" which is 1000 "little-c" calories which is 4.184 joules. I have no idea where I'm going with this but enjoy the shitty science lesson 🤣
The instance seems to be mostly right wing trolls. I know defederating is unpopular but I don't think much is to be lost in this case and it can save the mods some headaches....
The article indicates the cracks are forming at the PCIe connector and suggests it's due to GPU sag. The issue was predominantly seen in pre-built PC's, but was also happening to separately bought cards. It's unclear if the pre-built desktops were from Gigabyte or some other vendor. Regardless, not only did Gigabyte refuse to RMA them, they charged the customer return shipping and stuck a sticker with an arrow pointing to the crack on the GPU.
Absolutely infuriating. Depending on the scope, I see either a class-action lawsuit or Gigabyte changing their stance and start to cover these under RMA. Gigabyte would also likely be violating European and Australian consumer protection laws here.
In the US, they're also likely violating some laws but the laws in the US rarely have teeth. In the USA, Gigabyte might as well mail the broken GPU back to the user along with a dildo and a note that says, "Go fuck yourself. You have zero recourse."
Regardless of Gigabyte being total douche bags about this, a take-away here (aside from not buying Gigabyte stuff anymore) is this:
If you're not supporting your GPU then you're wrong. Either your PCIe connector will eventually rip off your mobo, or the GPU's connector will crack, or both.
Whistleblowers testify about recovered UAP craft under oath (apnews.com)
Why is healthy food so expensive in America? Blame the Farm Bill that Congress always renews to make burgers cheaper than salad (fortune.com)
Rules of Use for Bots
As we see more and more bots on Lemmy World every day, it’s about time we publish a set of rules for bots and bot-owners....
100 year old meme (lemmy.world)
Edit to add:...
Help I thought cleaning out my closet was a fun and exciting idea 6 hours ago and now I can't walk in my room (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
We should start saying "Thanks /u/spez" from now on as reddits bad practices made us move to lemmy
Title said it all
rule (lemmy.world)
It’s inside a cardboard triangle tube.
Kbin is in Polish after the newest update
Since the newest update, I see Kbin on a different language. I think it's Polish, or some similar language. The strange thing is that I don't remember a setting where one can change the display language. And the other strange thing is that this happens only on desktop. If I see Kbin via mobile, the page is in English....
What do you do with too dark tv shows and movies?
Hey guys and gals!...
Can a rich person be a good person?
I don't mean doctor-making-150k-a-year rich, I mean properly rich with millions to billions of dollars....
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg agree to hold cage fight (www.bbc.co.uk)
Two of the world's most high-profile technology billionaires - Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg - have agreed to fight each other in a cage match.
"Tipflation" may be causing tipping backlash as more digital prompts ask for tips (www.cbsnews.com)
Windows compatibility is insane! (lemmy.ml)
New electric cars won’t have AM radio. Rightwingers claim political sabotage (www.theguardian.com)
Conservatives say liberals want to kill talk radio. But there’s plenty else on the AM dial – much of it essential
I feel like there is a pending wave of AI bots incoming
Everything on here is awesome right now, it feels like an online forum from the 2000s, everyone is friendly, optimistic, it feels like the start to something big....
[Discussion] Do we need some kind of condition to make votes count?
Well, title says it clear. We might need some condition to prevent trolls from creating a lot of accounts and taking over whole instance. I'd like to discuss ideas for this. Like, amount of days on instance could work, but I'm not sure if it would work out very well. Anyway, please share your opinions on this whole subject....
Microwave Madness = Appliance Advice needed
#Solved...
Hey could we defederate with exploding-heads.com/
The instance seems to be mostly right wing trolls. I know defederating is unpopular but I don't think much is to be lost in this case and it can save the mods some headaches....
Gigabyte RTX 30, RTX 40 Series GPU PCBs Are Reportedly Cracking (www.tomshardware.com)
The company allegedly refuses RMA on cracked GPUs.