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tired, wanna hug friends

one password? sounds risky, i think you should have at least two

i'd probably be scared of anarchists too back in the early 20th century, given that they were known less for distributing food to people in need or squatting in some long-unused buildings, and more for setting off bombs and killing people in cold blood (even if those people were gilded-age robber barons)

terrible people in positions of power: concerned that they might actually be hated by the public and not allowed to retire peacefully in case they were to face uncorrupted legal accountability or if law and order were to collapse

me: sickos.jpg

random thought: names that are also regular words (like "jade" or "beryl") are useful for fantasy works, because they are familiar to the audience, yet imply the least about the language or culture of the fictional setting

whoever wrote those two characters clearly took inspiration from the edison/tesla rivalry, bc i'm pretty sure that's about the same thing edison did to make people doubt the safety of alternating current

tired of being a passenger in a bus driven by one of several drivers who treats the road like a game of chicken

IIRC is short for "in internet relay chat"

#HITMAN3 #HitmanWorldOfAssassination

The hottest place for startups to strike a deal? The F1 paddock

Over cold drinks in the Florida heat, this TechCrunch reporter watched from the paddock as founders and investors — the rich and the richer — mingled in search of deals. Conversations barely paused, except for the occasional glance at the track where drivers, sealed inside multi-million-dollar machines, chased the chequered flag.

F1 weekend is a three-day affair, with the race as the finale. In between are kickoffs, soirées, cocktail parties, dinners, and nightclub takeovers — spaces where business and pleasure blur. Events like this, where wealth concentrates, have historically been places where business deals are struck. But the popularity of the F1 paddock has grown in recent years, especially among the startup and venture crowd.

“It’s a hot place for everyone with access trying to strike a deal,” one founder said, recalling being brought to the paddock by a venture firm two years ago.

please stop making the miami mission from hitman 2 a real thing

who the heck makes a 144 hz screen

144 is not divisible by either 50 or 60

don't forget to be excellent to each other

fun fact: i really like my online friends

(this includes people who i haven't talked to in years and only see in form of their name popping up online on steam or other platform)

weird

#GNOME offers a 133% and 166% scale on my laptop screen, but not a 150% one

today i learned that the "a man has fallen into a river in lego city" line was voiced by david bateson, the same voice actor who also does 47 in the hitman games

now i think that man might not have fallen by accident...

(but seriously, guess the market for "english-language voice actors for works made in denmark" would be pretty small)

i hope #vim eventually switches from ~/.vimrc and ~/.vim/ by default to ~/.config/vim/vimrc and ~/.local/share/vim by default

i finally saw one of these "stanley cups" in its actual size

it's huge

probably even as big as that north american hockey league's championship trophy, whatever it's called

i miss the news for a short moment, and apparently keir starmer resigns as a member of parliament and some woman stabs two people in times square, one of which might have been the VP of bank of america?

https://reddit.com/r/PeterExplainsTheJoke/comments/1t4hmb7/petahh/

i feel like this entire "explain the joke" comment thread misunderstands why "555,555" is "scary" in german specifically

as i see it, it's less "oh no, long word" and more that german numerals jump around in orders of magnitude, you basically need to say "five hundred five and fifty thousand five hundred five and fifty"

tbf it is reddit i'm talking about

occasional reminder that just because someone on some committee or a single legislator said a thing, that doesn't mean it's the unanimous official opinion of the entire entity (city/country/organization) this person is part of

🦆 social networking service for boring people who only know one foreign language and only learned things when they were necessary for work

every time i read about sega's history in the 90s, i find out another shocking revelation that makes me wonder how the company even functioned

the american and japanese branches acted more like rivals to each other than partners, even though in reality neither would have achieved success without the other

but then i look at some of the decisions each branch made, and honestly i can see why

sega of america, apparently, really liked meddling in japan's games -- not only did they replace most of sonic cd's soundtrack, but today i learned they also tried to do this with sonic 2 -- or at least that's what the tv tropes article on yuji naka says

if you want to listen to what they wanted to replace masato nakamura's legendary soundtrack with, here's a taste, and i apologize for that

and sega of japan, likewise, couldn't tolerate a bit of downtime between consoles, so they were the ones who came up with the 32x in order to compete with... the atari jaguar (this time, it were the americans who were right and thought this was a stupid idea)

so yeah, i can see why they were at each other's throats so much

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange okay, check out Qalculate, it supports unit conversions and gave me this:

1 / (10.3125 GHz) 1 / (10.3125 gigahertz) ≈96.96969697 ps

(50v / 10kohm)2 * 10 kohm to mW (50/(10 kiloohms))2 × (10 kiloohms) to milliwatt 250 mW·F/J

think the latest version of #wireplumber introduced a glitch, whenever i open the #GNOME sound settings app i see several duplicates of all the sound devices, including the ones that are disabled (such as the HDMI outputs, even when there's no HDMI monitor plugged in)

bedaŭrinde, ne ekzistas en #android-o metodo por tajpi esperantajn diakritaĵojn per fizika klavaro

eĉ la "angla internacia" aranĝo nur subtenas la aldonadon de ĉapeloj, sed ne de lunetoj

teknike, oni eblas krei apon, kiu aldonus la bezonatan aranĝon por fizikaj klavaroj, ne ŝanĝante la funkciadon de iuj ajn sur-ekranaj klavaroj -- la apo "Extra Keyboard Layouts" faras precize tion por aliaj lingvoj

sed, ŝajne, ankoraŭ neniu faris tion por #esperanto

been thinking about how that EU age verification app they were trying out was doing something very interesting in trying to not turn age verification into deanonymization

it, apparently, generates "zero-knowledge proof" tokens that could be presented to third-party services and would only reveal that the user is above the required age and nothing else

it has a limit on how often each specific token could be used, to prevent one person from just using a specific token everywhere and thus connecting every identity to themselves (and also to hinder multiple people from reusing the same token)

i feel like this kind of mechanism could theoretically work, but only if (1) the services in charge of identity verification (which issue the tokens) do not keep records that could be used to re-link tokens to identities (very unlikely, and can easily change after an election) and if (2) third-party services are actually using these tokens responsibly and not sharing their data with 1000 trusted partners for ad targeting (which might be true if the GDPR is as strong as i've told it is, but i still don't believe it)

and i think the people who came up with this system probably had good intentions, given that they've actually paid enough attention to cryptographic developments to know that zero-knowledge proofs are a thing -- if a mechanism like this existed in the physical world (you go to a local government office, show them your ID, they issue you a stamped document that just says you're over 18 years old and reveals nothing else about you, you can show it instead of your ID to go to bars and adult stores), it would be considered brilliant

this is also why i dismissed the news articles about how terrible that app itself was -- a few small client-side vulnerabilities that can allow someone else with physical access to your device to use your token doesn't really compromise the whole system invented to generate those, and can be patched easily

the real problem, as usual, is that things on the internet work very differently from meatspace, and especially when it comes to big tech companies, the default assumption is that every bit of information you reveal about yourself will either be intentionally used against you or get leaked (or both)

like, the reason we as a society don't raise a panic about having to show your ID to buy alcohol is that in most cases, the system verifying the correctness of that ID is a single person who spends, at most, 10 seconds -- they're not going to take a photo of both the ID and your face, then send them to a face recognition system, then send that data to a bunch of different advertising companies for extra profit, and instead they'll probably forget both your face and your ID in just a few hours

if i had to guess, it's another example of most politicians being people over the age of 60 and thus thinking of computers/phones/the internet less like very personal possessions that should only be meddled with in specific circumstances (like how most countries have laws demanding warrants before searching one's property) and more like another piece of equipment that must be "safe" at all costs (like all the safety regulations on cars and industrial equipment and kitchen appliances)

this whole "i'm a trump voter and i'm surprised people hate me now" business is embarrassing

how the heck there can be so many people who are so unaware that they would be held responsible for the very obvious results of their politics

like, you can be surprised about some things, like the war in iran, but a lot of what liberals and leftists have been warning about come from things that either trump or project 2025 specifically promised

you can't say "oh, i didn't think he would do deportation raids or detention centers" knowing that he (1) did those back in his first term, (2) ran both his first and second term's campaigns on a promise to lock down the border and deport people

and if you say "well, a democrat would have been even worse": you know that the biggest reasons they criticized obama and joe biden as for things they promised, but failed to deliver on, right?

there's a difference between saying "i'm gonna do this thing" and failing to do it, and saying "i'm gonna do this thing" with everyone else saying, "don't do it, it's going to be bad", then doing that thing, then the consequences of that thing hitting everyone in the face

i keep buying clothes for spring/autumn, but the weather betrays me and jumps from +5°C (+40°F) to +25°C (+77°F) within the span of a single week, and so i just have to skip all of them and wear a single light t-shirt

hey there, john, pal, buddy

right now you specifically are the main character in a revelation that you and the other conservative-minded justices were using the "shadow docket" procedure to quickly make decisions without proper debate

the first decision to go through this "shadow docket" was a cancellation of an obama-era environmental regulation

and, apparently, the justification for the whole thing was that the regulation would be too expensive for the fossil fuel industry

unless there's something in the u.s. constitution that says the economy has to be protected at all costs, i don't see how that's an apolitical decision

explain that, please