naonintendois

Yes, though this is true of a lot of the easier distros.

Not a lawyer, but worked closely with them in the past. It REALLY depends on your employment contract. Changing variable names and language still makes it a derivative work, so it would depend on the original license. I'm assuming it doesn't have a license which would mean either you or the company owns the copyright: depends on your employment contract. Whether you're a contractor or full time also affects ownership.

Without ownership or a license, you do not have the legal right to copy the work or make a derivative of it.

I'm not clear on whether you actually wrote any code though. If that's the case (that no code was written) then I'm not really sure how that works out. If you do post it and they find out, AND they're mad about it, you could definitely get fired. I'm not sure if there could also be legal trouble or not.

If you need it for a resume item, you can just list it on your resume and talk about it. You could also implement it on your own time (but not share it until you're sure you're safe from legal action), that way you could talk about tradeoffs you've made, etc. in the real implementation.

In general, if you're not sure and you're worried about getting sued, you should ask a lawyer.

HD encryption only helps if they get physical access to the disk when the device is locked or powered off. If they get it via a backdoor or virus, then it doesn't help.

How would you make money as a mastodon instance? Pay to be a member? I don't see the incentive for the average user to pay when it's so easy to join a free instance (I'm considering the average person doesn't know how to host their own).

I was newish to Linux and had just run rm -rf ./.* to remove all the hidden files/dirs in a directory. I then wanted to run rm -rf ./* to clear the rest, but I accidentally ran rm -rf . /*. By the time I noticed it was taking too long and hit Ctrl+C, it was too late.

What IT guys did you go to?

Check that they're actually 8tb. Usually when drives that cheap are opened up, it's USB sticks that have custom firmware to pretend to have 8tb, and you'll really only have something like 8gb. It'll overwrite the data as you keep writing to it, so you may not notice it until a while from now. Even if they feel heavy. Some of them have weights added to throw you off. Take a look at https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/9wimlo/when_you_buy_a_cheap_external_ssd_from_china/

(Sorry for the reddit link, but that's where the images are)

Android phones block most of my spam calls and texts.

Something just seems off with this. Major uncanny valley and the animations don't look great.

The double bat is really interesting. His fingers are terrifying.

I didn't notice it in East Bay but I was also assembling furniture at the same time

I worked at Best Buy a long time ago. Insignia products are in house brands that are REALLY cheap and crappy quality. Dynex is also another one. We used to joke that if they made a whole PC out of Dynex parts it would probably catch fire. Even the dynex CDs would randomly crack