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kstrauser • today at 6:13 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Yeah? We had an old Unix server that printed its logs in realtime to a dot matrix printer. How are you going to gain control of that?

Read-only is a strong control with lots of solid implementations.


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steelframe • today at 6:31 PM

Depending on the make and model, send a reverse feed code and then overwrite with block characters. You will know that something bad happened, but you won't know what.