Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

@caz That sucks. The last time I had to play Dell's "don't fry the motherboard" game was 15 years ago, for a customer's Dimension 8100.

Even if a ready-made adapter doesn't exist, it shouldn't be too terribly hard to get Dell's pinouts for your specific model and make your own adapter or have a custom cable shop make one for you. I found these diagrams, but I can't vet them: https://pinoutguide.com/Power/#Dell

@caz Even though they use proprietary pinouts, the connectors themselves are still industry standard. Computer parts stores may have adapters if you search for something like "dell <series> <modelnumber> to atx psu adapter".

Alternatively, stores may have NOS or even new compatible PSUs if you search for the exact model name/number. (Make sure they don't send you a standard-ATX instead if you go this route.)

@Lyude If you ask one of these lauded AIs to give you a code patch, it's going to give you a medical patch for seasonal illness instead.

TIL the `which` command is one of those commands everyone (including me) thinks is standard simply because it's everywhere in the Unix & unixlike worlds, but which really isn't, & is nowhere in POSIX.

LWN, "Debian's which hunt," 2021-10-28: https://lwn.net/Articles/874049/

TIL the POSIX-conformant "which" is `command -v`: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/command.html

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Did someone say "AIOps"?

Even if I did trust you as much as I trust my OS package manager, I can't trust that it will always be the real you on the other end of my link to you, and it's possible for an attacker to trick curl into giving one script to less and another script to bash. https://web.archive.org/web/20240228190305/https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-bash-server-side/ Why set yourself up as a huge target like this?

With all the talk recently about making various forms of code safety national priorities, why in the world does any major compiler promoting built-in code safety features still think the official way to install it should be the anything but safe code delivery method curl-pipe-shell?

@mavica_again Undoubtedly one of the best series finale outros ever.