So there you are, an orc in mordor, on guard duty while sauron makes the rest of the army. It’s pretty great being on guard duty, nobody bothers you and you’ve just caught a rabbit that you’re now roasting on a small fire.

In the horizon a weird dude with a beard and a grey cape appears, he has several smaller humanoids with him … and a trebuchet.

The trebuchet is launched and a small dude is flung above you. The projectile/dude is manically trying to open the box that he’s apparently wearing as a hat?!?

You turn the rabbit, and when you look up again the guy has opened the box… Where did he go? You follow his path, and suddenly, next to the entrance to some random cave, you notice what could be the result of a small dude, with a metal box for a hat, hitting the side of the mountain. The sound hits your ears 2 seconds later. It’s like both a thud, a clang, and a squish all at once.

Even at this distance you can see something in the mess. Something shiny that you for some reason just know isn’t part of the box. You set off for the impact site.

What do you do now? If you want to investigate goto page 56 and if you want to alert the chain of command go to page 182.

Nebula as well

Only because Arch Linux was too much of a hassle

I didn’t notice the USB port on the right, I was so focused on the shitty alignments. Like how can you fuck up only some of the 'S’s? I get that the ports are a result of the outline of the parts soldered to the board. And getting the HDMI vertically centered, or having the single USB port not turned 180°, would require both effort and a bit pricier BOM … But! The engraving? It’s the one thing that’s not relying on external factors.

Yes

I teach various certification exams, from what I’ve seen so far, you shouldn’t need to worry. Not if the exams are administered properly that is.

That’s no ballroom

But researching and shopping is an essential part of the dopamining

How I learned about it (am European so not part of my history) https://youtube.com/watch?v=o7jlFZhprU4

Found Lars Ulrich’s account. Dumme svin!

Don’t bother with Lenny Kravitz either. What a pretentious and whiny little bitch. Yes, we know it’s raining, but it’s also like 25°C and the rain is merely a light drizzle, so stfu about it. Besides part of the stage is dry, we paid for your name to come not your attitude, and we’ve been standing in the rain for hours, listening to far more talented musicians than you, so just play your two hits and piss off

Don’t forget to ban renting servers, vps and cloud services by individuals.

I think Microsoft and Adobe might lobby against the latter… But if they could expand the ban to AI, I’d be in favor of banning all the other stuff as well. I mean, what good is banning and blocking smut, when you can just ask an LLM to generate whatever your perverted 13yo heart desires?

That’s the reason I don’t drive a VW ID3. I wanted one, I really really wanted one. But during my test drive, I got a 10s timeout from the display, for apparently tapping too fast while trying to adjust the AC, WTF? And don’t get me started on the stupid mood lighting.

Too bad, it was in my price range, rear wheel drive, 236hp and a decent range. And there’s soo many of them on the roads in my country that spare parts wouldn’t be an issue.

Luckily it looks like some car manufactures have decided to ditch the ginormous look-at-me-I’m-just-like-a-tesla touch-screens. Kia, hyundai and VW at least according to https://www.slashgear.com/1995254/major-automakers-removing-touch-screen-dashboards/

We’re all different, I do realize that, but I don’t do just-in-time delivery for my household products. I’ll buy a couple of bottles of rinse aid, and once the last bottle is empty I put it on the grocery list.

I don’t need to know that the dishwasher has run out, I’ll deal with it when I see it.

And do not tell me where to jump or not 😀 I’ll jump in front/on top/behind of ridiculous conclusions if I please /s

Because, and this may surprise you, some (most?) people don’t think about how their stuff works. They just see it has an app and goes “neat!”.

I don’t know why my dishwasher should be online. But I’ve been with people who’s smart watches twinkled to alert them that their dishwasher, located 30min away, was out of rinse aid. I can think of no scenario in which that is relevant. Rant warning There’s a God damn light on the front of the unit, that tells you the same damn thing, and you can’t do anything about without being at the unit. What are you going to do? Drop whatever you’re doing at work and take an hour lunch break early to drive home and deal with it? Didn’t think so.

BUT the person had seen the dishwasher and thought it was neat, modern, and needed a new dishwasher. And that’s whywe end up with a lot of “smart” devices, which are just “ordinary devices with an cloud based remote control”

Shoulda done that with Vance

The driver should be able to use the PA to announce “this is your driver, prepare for ramming speed, brace for impact”… But the trams should also be equipped with something that could key cars parked close to the tracks. That way nobody would chance it parking a little close.

I don’t mean like a machete, that would probably not go over well at the stops. Just something that would scratch any car coming with 5cm of the tram.

And even if you sampled at 10 sps, and did 50 sensors at 10b, you would still only be looking 5000bps or 5.8x10^-7 GBps, meaning that it would take roughly 26 years to fill up a 512GB SD card.

While I don’t know for how long the sub had been submerged, I doubt it was close to a quarter of a century. If that was the case, I believe that we would have been talking about that as well. Even if it was 500 sensors, at 100sps at 12b we’d be looking at 79days.

IMHO there’s only a few things a 512GB SD card would be used for. And I hope it was music, because I don’t think we should watch the final moments of these people’s lives.

Lets say a malicious actor infiltrates the supply chain and loads custom firmware on the device. Somehow the malicious firmware avoids detection, and is installed in a secured environment.

What can be exfiltrated in the flash is probably pretty limited, but top 5 usernames and their top 5 IP-addresses, perhaps as many jobtitles as can be stored correlated to the above information. And now the attacker can extrapolate all sorts of classified information.

TBF if you’re still on reddit, heroin may be a healthier alternative