Also python: “we’re all consenting adults here”.

Imagine if a romantic partner said “I will send you a unique string, probably exactly 8 characters” to verify that I am your partner. You would laugh and remind them it takes less than a second to generate every 8 character combination possible.

Instead, your SO makes a key and keeps it with them at all times, and you promise to talk to them using a machine that makes secret messages only their key can decipher. For fun, they give you a key and make a machine too… Explaining this shit is complicated I’m sorry for what you’re about to read.

They send “heyy”, You send “whatup”, They send “send pics”, You take one, encrypt and send the pic, They say “huh? Wtf?”, You remind them about the secret key, They have no idea what you’re talking about -fail OR they send something in return back (which you decrypt) -success

That’s basically the same thing as authentication with a passkey oversimplified and only slightly wrong but good enough. There’s shitloads of devices that do it, yubikeys, authenticator apps, but they’re all doing that.

Some documentation to add to this: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-office-365/safe-links-about

Basically its a URL wrapper that provides continuity for the user, so if they dont have a threat intel database entry for the site, they let the user go there. They scan in the background as hemko said above to determine maliciousness.

Worth mentioning they do it for email too if you have it enabled.

NZ should be above us

I’ve got 2:

Playing phasmophobia. The ghosts hands reach around my screen signifying I’m about to die. As my head is snapped back the power shuts off and everything goes black. And thunder clapped outside. Properly scared the shit out of me.

Another time, power went out and fried my Seagate hard drive mid write. No clue what was happening but pre power outage it worked. Post it did not. Now I’m scared to buy more Seagate drives.

Debated replying to this because its speculation but Stephen King has exactly two tweets that I’m aware of telling people the Epstein client list is fake like the tooth fairy, Santa and UFOs…

Can attest also, I have an Intel i5 and a rtx3050 running cachyos in a Gigabyte laptop and it’s flawless. Power saving is that of a gaming laptop, I get 2 hours of charge when not gaming and not on AC, considerably less when gaming performance is required. But I only got slightly longer from windows 10 when I needed that for something, and I stripped that down to the absolute basics. If I right click on a game on Linux I get a pop-up asking about using my discrete gpu, otherwise it assumes. I have used Wayland and Xorg within the last few years, both are fine.

Having watched documentaries about it and studied it in uni, I’ve got an idea or two, yeah. Guess what happened to the guy who claimed he “just organised” the holocaust, planning and spreadsheets and such, but didn’t kill anyone himself. Go on, guess.

People I’ve met who worked in the army describe it as a company who kills people. They know what they’re in and they do it anyway. Conscription is different, even Ukraine is different because its self defence. US soldiers are volunteering to kill people overseas. I’ve got some sympathy for kids who get convinced its the only career for them, but there’s no conflicts going on in or around the US and they didn’t sign up for peacekeeping so…

I mean the Nazi soldiers that did train logistics didn’t murder the Jews, right guys? They were good people right? No? Huh funny that.

I’m really easily distracted and have things to do when I use my home PC(s). So gnome is really the only thing I can reliably set up and not spend all my time customising. Also, Ubuntu was my first distro (tbh it was Kali Linux but we don’t talk about my larp era) and I liked the DE from that.

Its not like I don’t customise it mind you, but that’s limited to changing the default wallpaper, installing blur my shell and dash to panel, then adding custom icons, usually Tela circle. After that though I don’t touch anything in the DE. If I’m on a laptop, I go full Ubuntu and put the dock on the left vertical side of the screen

In comparison I once spent hours customising KDE to look and sound like windows 98, only to realise I didn’t like it, to change it to something completely different 3 more times. I did not pass the assignment I was meant to be doing. Its fun but I’ll do anything to procrastinate.

Yeah, thought I’d make a stupid joke out of it. Figured we all knew what you meant anyway

1GB may not be enough and could prove challenging for a first time user, even with a minimal Linux install… Though I’m not an arch user myself so probably just a skill issue now that I think of it

Its understandably more expensive for the car companies - they have to make the machine that makes the parts for a retro dash, then install them - but fuck the car companies, this is about safety and ease of use.

I don’t use tiktok for reasons that would be preaching to the choir here, but pardon me for asking… Isn’t everything on TikTok an ad? Like they’re either telling people to buy a book, put sugary syrup in water, buy organising plastic containers, selling slime, selling ice cube trays that ironically make them no longer cubes, selling makeup, clothing hauls, generating affiliate revenue, asking people to enlist… I could go on. It’s just ads all the way down? What would someone see if they removed all the #ad posts?

Overwatch the video game. TF2 felt better in every way - no I didn’t play the original team fortress. I never felt good playing the overwatch, never cared about all the backstory considering it had no standing on the game whatsoever - I’m sure they’ll add a campaign some day though. The mechanics felt so floaty and slidy, and I never felt like my hits registered at all. The community sucked even more because everyone was “one game off going pro” because they got a cool kill 10 rounds ago. Rocket league was less toxic and that’s saying something. Oh and sooo repetitive. I hear the irony of comparing it to rocket league then saying that, don’t worry.

I’ll take the low blow and say Blizzard can get fucked as a company too, I’d be happy if they went bankrupt tomorrow. They’re like the worst of the worst in the video game industry.

Dynamic programming is a headfuck when you first learn it, they’re obviously just a superior being.

Our service desk were forbidden from moving over on release because new outlook can’t modify the subject of an email, so we couldn’t add ticket numbers. They’ve been using this feature since outlook was released.

I did some reading on forums and thousands of people rely on this feature and noticed it missing. Not sure if its been added yet because I still use “classic”.

Is it worth your reaching out to the EFF? It sounds like you may like to work with them. Granted, I dont know if they have much to do with Europe or if they’re just a US thing.

Also possible you’ve discussed this somewhere. I’m just an advocate for pooling knowledge and resources.

It was the British and they didnt burn it to the ground so I’m not sure why people think thats what happened. It was a retaliation attack for the US fighting in Canada, sure. But they weren’t Canadian troops.

They didnt burn it to the ground because the building burnt too fast for them to get the fire hot enough. The outer walls and bits inside were still standing. I believe the British even ate dinner in the house because the chef had prepared it for the president or something but I couldn’t find a source for that.

Sydney and Melbourne have pretty good public transport. Unfortunately they’re compensating for everywhere else, which has some truly fucking awful public transport. Looking at Adelaide in particular but I know others are also shit.