That’s… not how cookies work. They’re only accessible by the website that set them, and unless Lemmy starts embedding reddit content into its pages, there’s zero way for Reddit to know that you’re here.

I remember having a PowerShot SX110IS back in 2010 and there was an open source firmware I loaded on it. I forget what it was called. It’s a damn shame that we can’t really do stuff like that anymore.

Fair enough. I shouldn’t be posting within 30 minutes of waking up anyway…

The problem is that people read a few things on the internet, think they’re now suddenly domain experts, and do it anyway.

That would immediately blow the fuse in the lights and/or start a fire if the two strands were on different circuits that happened to be on different electrical phases.

While I wouldn’t doubt that some people are stupid enough to do that, it’s actually summer that it’s done the most for because of storms and power outages, and people learn that backfeeding is a thing (that you shouldn’t do unless you absolutely know what you’re doing).

Well at that point all you need to do is cut a normal extension cord and strip the ends. Maybe add a switch or a button for extra safety.

In my jurisdiction, backfeeding your house from a receptacle is very illegal. Transfer switches and interlock kits exist for a reason.

For anyone wondering exactly why it’s a bad idea: Power from your generator can, if your house isn’t isolated from the grid, travel back into the utility lines and backward through the big transformer at the utility pole (so now it’s a few thousand volts again) and give an unsuspecting linesman a nasty surprise. People have died from this. It is a bad idea.

Wouldn’t Google’s crawlers respect robots.txt though? Is it naive to assume that anything would?

Well, here in California we’ve decided that most stores are mandated to provide “reusable” plastic shopping bags (at a cost of $0.10 each) which are more durable and made of a thicker plastic.

I don’t know a single person that treats them as any less disposable than the thin plastic bags they replaced. There is little to no information or infrastructure supporting recycling them.

I’m just glad the stores around here give paper bags if you ask for them.

I think that’s what the US government is trying to do.

Well it already got cold, hence the sticking together in the first place. All they need to do is get it hot again.