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@quinn care to recommend a dumb printer for those interested?
@farrisswisher @crazyeddie Alas the situation has not gotten better afaict but here's the EFF https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-display-tracking-dots
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@farrisswisher @crazyeddie Alas the situation has not gotten better afaict but here's the EFF https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-display-tracking-dots
@quinn @farrisswisher That's only regarding the fact that a lot of them print out crap to help ID the printer that did the print and it's only about one technique for doing so.
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@quinn yeah I don't know about that, fam. I've got a home lab that's sick AF.
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@quinn @farrisswisher That's only regarding the fact that a lot of them print out crap to help ID the printer that did the print and it's only about one technique for doing so.
@crazyeddie @farrisswisher well i did say the situation had got worse, which is also what the EFF says. my best recommendation is accessing some public printer somewhere with a lot of users.
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@quinn yeah I don't know about that, fam. I've got a home lab that's sick AF.
@admin home lab is different... you know what i mean damn it
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Yes. This!
The more i got educated about Tech/IT the more shit flew out of our house.I am back to analog solutions, no smart Home shit anymore. It is all gone ( Alexa, Smart heating Controll,...) and the Smart TVs are the next that is going.
My Computers are allowed Internet Access on my terms. Same goes for my phone.
Everything else reverts back to the old ways.
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@crazyeddie @farrisswisher well i did say the situation had got worse, which is also what the EFF says. my best recommendation is accessing some public printer somewhere with a lot of users.
@quinn @farrisswisher Weird.
I thought I was the one suggesting the library and it was you who were suggesting one could go buy a "dumb" printer.
I get confused these days.
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@quinn
Me: I don't want to use your app.
Them: Oh its really easy...
Me: I know, I don't want to use it.
Them: Its so easy, would you like me to show you?
Me: No, for the third time. I won't tell you again. I don't want to use it precisely because its so convenient. I know how it works and its not private and probably not even secure.
Them: well, there is no need to be like that about it.
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@quinn @farrisswisher Weird.
I thought I was the one suggesting the library and it was you who were suggesting one could go buy a "dumb" printer.
I get confused these days.
@crazyeddie @farrisswisher dumb but traceable, talking about something a bit different from there we started. i don't use printing much these days, and when i do it's usually stuff we're sending to the government with our names on the docs.
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@quinn Out of all the pieces of hardware to keep, this person kept their printer???
Those things are constantly trying to call home and rewire themselves to keep you from using unapproved ink. That's the official story of what they're doing anyway--who even knows if that's true. They're like the last thing I'd keep around. You can go to the library and use a printer. You probably have to anyway because you're out of ink. You just bought ink yesterday but you're out.
WTF with the printer?
@crazyeddie@mastodon.social not if you buy yourself a Brother monochrome laser and don’t hook it up to your network :3
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@crazyeddie @farrisswisher dumb but traceable, talking about something a bit different from there we started. i don't use printing much these days, and when i do it's usually stuff we're sending to the government with our names on the docs.
@quinn @farrisswisher This is a very weird, very confusing conversation I had no intention of starting.
I thought it odd for a tech person to pick a printer of all things to hang onto. That's 100% everything. I'm not going to say anything next time. I thought we were in joke zone but this has gotten weird.
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@quinn @farrisswisher This is a very weird, very confusing conversation I had no intention of starting.
I thought it odd for a tech person to pick a printer of all things to hang onto. That's 100% everything. I'm not going to say anything next time. I thought we were in joke zone but this has gotten weird.
@crazyeddie @farrisswisher i have no idea, just chatting, but do what makes you feel comfortable
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@quinn *smart people
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@quinn this always bothered me because if all you have is a printer, how are you printing anything anyway?
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@quinn I have been trying to find the original meme of this tweet for a long time. The search still continues.
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@quinn i work on the cutting edge of technology. I stream music from black plastic discs by dragging a rock over its surface.
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@quinn The programmer is driving a bunch of us to lunch, and we come to an at grade RR crossing with automatic gates and signals
The programmer STOPS the car, rolls down the windows, looks carefully then crosses the track
when we all say: you don't have to do that, there are automatic signals, he says
Software
@failedLyndonLaRouchite
Pardon the train geekery...
I look both ways too, despite rail safety systems being rated for a dangerous failure of ≥ 10−9 to < 10−8 per hour.
https://www.intertechrail.com/understanding-sil-in-railway-systems
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@quinn I have been trying to find the original meme of this tweet for a long time. The search still continues.
@unsungnovelty so it was on old Twitter, and it's probably still there, but the account went private a while ago -- looks Trump related going private to ignore Elon's stupid fash
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@quinn Ray was a great guy. I'm so glad that I met him. We shall never see his like again.
@lauren it's so nice when your heroes are actually awesome. The pulled up socks and shorts will always kill me.
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