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@coldfish @briankrebs you gave one of these spaghetti code generators access to externally facing hardware and told it to "get this online"? Cause you should probably go through that entire system now, you have absolutely no idea what it opened and allowed access to. Like, if someone told me they'd done that to one of my systems, I'd be reflashing the whole thing and loading the configs from backup.

@missed_sla@infosec.exchange @mschulkind@sigmoid.social That one is an 18650, however they do also make the 14500, which is exactly the AA form factor, there are actually a lot of flashlights that can take both 1.5v AA's and 3.7v 14500's.

@loke@functional.cafe @taber@woof.group intuit and the other tax prep companies lobby extremely heavily to keep the situation this way, because their entire business model is "taxes are hard to do, pay us instead".

@loke@functional.cafe @taber@woof.group basically, us taxes are filed with the IRS, and the state you live in. The problem is that us tax forms are unnecessarily complicated, even when you have a w2 and the IRS already knows all your info. Its mostly due to the whole deduction system, where you pay taxes up front, and then they send some amount back at the end of the year. The only way to directly file before this was to fill out a paper form and mail it, otherwise you have to go through a service to e-file.

@gumpfloyd@mastodon.social @nikatjef@mastodon.acm.org @erikkemp@tukkers.online @Strandjunker@mstdn.social yeah, the whole "Americans don't view themselves as working class, they view themselves as temporarily embarrassed billionaires" thing is a huge part of the problem, it explains so much of American behavior.