@rpardee

Side note - drilling doesn't do anything with respect to SSDs. Have those things shredded.

@Pat_Walrond

Frankly, this is where they actually needed the input and advice of the longshoreman's union.

Dock cranes get secured in severe weather ALL the time.

@rpardee

If you are asking about an individual - just find a local Shred-It or such. Even a $20 charge is worth the peace of mind.

Or just drill it and send it with your electronics recycling.

Secure drive shredding is a corporate/institutional IT thing, where it's offloading risk.

A properly secured and load balanced crane won't do this. There is time, money, and math involved.

Weathervane mode is only good up to about 100 MPH. They knew it was going to be higher than that.

Save a dime, spend a dollar.

#Milton

https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/st-petersburg-construction-crane-falls-from-high-rise-during-hurricane-milton

@MaggotBrain

Franklin makes more than $800K per year in salary alone. It's also hugely nepotistic and filled with cronyism.

They have cleaned up their percentages enough to get a Charity Watch A- but it used to be about 60% of their donations went to the recipients. Now it's closer to 80%.

https://paddockpost.com/2022/12/09/executive-compensation-at-samaritans-purse-2021/

@Sr0bi

Printing - CUPS (Common Unix Printing System)

@rpardee

And even ad-hoc drive shredding is about $10-15 per drive. About $5 or so if you have a contract with a vendor in place.

And you get all the security of THEIR insurance and accountability if something happens to your data.

@rpardee

Yup - most do gun and drug destruction and have the ability to melt those drives as well.

If you are wondering - sending drives to a vendor to shred or a PD to melt is risk mitigation.

Telling end users to install Linux, wipe and then encrypt their drives, then drill them equals - drill the drives (so no one can check the other parts were done) and own the risk of that.

Complexity discourages compliance. 🤷

Me: I need information on our drive shredding vendor and procedure.

Security: We don't have a drive shredding vendor. You should install Linux from a USB drive, wipe the drive and then encrypt it before drilling it.

Me: Wot? Why?

Security: You can't trust vendors.

Me: OK, can we hand them over to the PD for melting down?

Security: Wot? How is that secure?

It has the date of the assassination attempt stamped on it as "The Day God Intervened"

Because that's not blasphemy or anything.

Oh, and made in China.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-god-bless-usa-bible-china-32a80611605d4052d8238064bbcace4c

Trust me, bro.

I do love teh olds. 🤣

#Tech #AI #NobelPrize

https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/09/after-winning-nobel-for-foundational-ai-work-geoffrey-hinton-says-hes-proud-ilya-sutskever-fired-sam-altman/

Facebook post to a guy in Tampa (not including the YouTube link because I'm not gonna promote amateur MAGA cowboys shoveling disinformation):

"I don't know if you can read the post, but here's the link (The guy prides himself on calling things early, and he really hates NOAA and the like, so it's rather comical to watch him)"

Hyuk, hyuk.

I cannot even.

@JanetZumba_FalPals

Apparently so. 😐

Oh wait - now he's back and insisting he's not going to the shelter - more viral moments, moar money. Insisting it's a showdown (on camera) with the government who can't force him to leave, blah blah blah.

Did I mention he's a "content creator"?

Sigh.

There are REAL aid groups helping REAL people. And this guy is sucking up the oxygen.

The dude in Florida who went viral for saying he was staying on his boat? Well, he set up a GoFundMe, collected 20K, and then accepted the mayor's offer of transport to shelter.

It's always a grift, y'all.

@sumpnlikefaith

Oooh, you should totally try axe throwing then! Super fun!

@Idissent @LnzyHou

If you have light, even from a phone or flashlight - paint each other's toenails or something similar that is fun but requires concentration. Have them read to you (not you to them, reading aloud forces focus). Any kind of memory or focus game like Concentration or jigsaw puzzles.

@corlin

I love CAH more than anyone can possibly imagine. I buy every set for Cosmic Jr. and (I think) all the holiday and special snark stuff.

And they have a magnificent origin story!

https://www.cardsagainsthumanity.com/about