WW2 makes it incredibly unlikely

But, fun fact, Wikipedia and other public websites totally CAN (unknowingly) have sensitive material on them. In large part because saying “Hey. We need you to remove that snippet that said the Asgard landed in Toronto, hitch hiked to Dallas, and blapped JFK” because… it confirms that that is “close enough” to real that it has revealed classified information.

I am not familiar with this specific event. But I can also see that as just being a catch all policy they have regarding sources to have fewer cases of governments calling them and asking them to remove “something” with the only info being “You know what it is”.

Its also why a lot of the “War Thunder or whatever has classified information leaks again!” are usually actually more just export control violations (… which are actually MUCH scarier but…).

It genuinely amuses me that DCS has had very few instances of sensitive or classified information being leaked.

Whereas frigging War Thunder can’t make it a quarter without needing to scrub their forums.

I understand the reality is that it is not about authenticity and more about being able to say the missile they schlep around a hanger is the best missile in the world. But still! You would expect the sickos who get off on the exact right shade of deteriorated grey being on a bezel would care more than the War Thunder crowd.

I would be incredibly careful how you apply that. Because there is no ethical consumption under (minimally constrained) capitalism. There is also basically no ethical production because of supply chains and fundamentally evil policies. And, at the end of the day, if it is your family or someone else’s family who suffers, who are you gonna pick?

But hey, you are showing exactly why this mindset is so pervasive. Because it becomes a case of “Well, they just aren’t working hard enough and should bootstrap them to a more ethical job” and it gives people someone to fixate on so that the CEOs never have to worry about someone in a mask waiting for them outside of a hotel.

No.

They are people just like you and me. They are trying to shut out the voices in their head while they follow the orders from on high in a world where, if they refuse, they will be the ones in the gutter and not the person who had the misfortune of getting hit by a car.

The problem are the executives who push these policies of murder. The drug companies that will crank up the bill to astronomic heights because they can. And the politicians who refuse to do anything about it because they get kickbacks from lobbyists.

I mean, the guy would have been able to write their whole message on one knife rather than needing three bullet casings to get it across.

So I guess environmentalists and the metal industry (Big Metal?) would probably care a bit?

Its xkcd so I assume Randall et al did the math.

From a play session perspective? If the GM is that good that they can mental math it, I would much rather be given one roll than a series of rolls. Ask anyone about their horror stories about grappling in 3e about how much that kills the game flow.

Also: The verbiage is ambiguous (less so if you have the context of how many attacks per round a player has and what feat they are using) but I think you can represent “I grabbed two at once” and “I grabbed one and then one” with a binomial coefficient. Been more than a minute but poking chatgpt to remember the notation (nCk) and it is likely representable as (5C2)/(10C2) which is approximately 22.2%.

As for the dice? I forget if the type of die meaningfully impacts this but 3d6+1d4=4-22. Whether a 16 maps to that 22.2% range is beyond my brain right now as this comment was mostly because I forgot the difference between nCk and nPk and felt like googling that.

Cowboy Bebop (ESPECIALLY the dub) was very much written and “acted” in a “western” style. Same with contemporaries like Outlaw Star and Big O (which is very much a referene to Batman).

In general? Rowdy Roddy Piper once said (paraphrasing) that pro wrestling is about explosive acting and emoting and film is about implosive acting and emoting. And ask anyone who has done theatre (which pro wrestling basically is)) and they’ll say something similar. Because when the camera zooms in to that single tear in Ryan Gosling’s eye? We can see it. When Ryan Gosling is on the stage behind twelve layers of plexiglass so we don’t try to lick his sweat? We can’t see that tear and he needs to make a big gesture to make it clear he is having an emotional breakdown.

And that applies to animated content. With very few exceptions (almost all short films), you can’t have the level of detail where such a subtle response will be noticed. Even the truly amazing finales of Cowboy Bebop was built on us having learned enough about the characters to fill in the gaps by that point.

So you get the very over exaggerated “acting” styles so that you know this fairly hastily drawn person is really feeling it. And that is true regardless of the country of origin for the cartoon.

It is similar to other countries getting rid of “no fault divorce” or abortion access.

By making the strict cutoff early, you have women who genuinely do want kids much more likely to do it with the nearest guy they can find and while their careers aren’t stable enough to really recover from a pregnancy. Which then traps them in the marriage and means they continue to be barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen for the rest of their lives.

I saw it play out in grad school far too many times. Women who wanted families would start early (and there are actually very strong health reasons to not wait until your mid-late 30s). And even with our advisor being very understanding… it is a massive derailment at a time where even a two month delay can be the difference between being cited for a foundational concept going forward and having to start over because someone else published. Same for getting internships that can lead to jobs and so forth. Which leads to “oh it is just too hectic right now. I’ll go back to school when my kids are old enough to not need me all day”

But even five or six years later? Both partners have a solid salary. So it is still a big hit to have diminished capacity for the third trimester and then maternity leave but that kid goes into preschool and things get back on track pretty quickly.

But… then you have one or two kids. Rather than the person who gave up on a career and is a stay at home mom (and no shade to people who DO want to do that) where it is “easier” to have more.

It’s almost like this behavior comes from the training data.

it is unclear just how much trump is angry at ivanka and jared for allegedly narcing on them.

But pretty sure even eric and don jr know they are getting dick all. He openly loathes them and it might be his only redeeming quality.

Nah. It is just the nature of being the party of gun nuts while openly failing almost all of their purity tests. We actually saw similar (just to a much lesser degree) when trump said something like “I love vaccines” and was boo’d like crazy.

He is a symptom of the rot. Not the source. And by and large he just tries to ride it as best he can.

No. There is every reason to “defend yourself”. The key is to actually be aware of what research and efforts are out there and minimizing your risk profile any time you are dealing with a black box.

I mean, it is known that people can pick locks. Do you plug your ears every time you hear someone talk about how doors can be compromised? Or do you give up on everything and remove every single deadbolt in your home?

Or… do you do a bit of research and figure out what you can do to make your home harder to break into. Whether it is sturdier screws, a reinforced doorjam, or other methods?

I can’t speak to monero specifically

But:

• Why aren’t they catching more criminals? They are. They just are finding alternate sources of evidence. Dick Wolf shows love to talk about how cops need to protect themselves from any poison fruit and blah blah blah. The reality is that they immediately go to the poison fruit and use that to make a plausible excuse for why they investigated something else that can confirm information they got from the illegal source. If you’ve ever wondered why they would think to investigate a random unrelated company that ends up being the smoking gun…
• Why didn’t anyone claim the bounty? Because the CIA and the like don’t want people to know they compromised it?

Back in my pure research days it was always fun to guess what the latest “big thing” was actually about. It was especially fun when you would be looking for funding opportunities and see really weird stuff that made no sense for the org sponsoring it but would have made perfect sense for a different 3LA.

It was ALSO real fun to totally never notice when certain funding opportunities dried up and then there was a big push in the news about how we need to outlaw technology those opportunities totally didn’t already compromise.

Like, for the better part of a decade The Big Thing was graph analysis techniques. And the number of kids who had no idea they were basically writing algorithms to process social media (especially twitter) was downright sad. And the people who DID realize what their work was geared toward? They applied for jobs where they got paid a lot more to do exactly that without needing to pretend it is actually about data storage technologies or optimizing cell tower load.

And… let’s just say that most of those algorithms ALSO apply toward cryptocurrencies and transaction logs (since they had great applications for bank transactions…) and even doing a number on tumblers and so forth.

While I agree this definitely feels like more of a threat than an action, it IS worth understanding the many times that tor nodes have been compromised. Exit nodes are a well documented mess (and have many of the same vulnerabilities normal VPNs do) but eavesdropping and traffic analysis are also probabilities based upon how much of the network any given org has access to.

If that NGO was doing hinky stuff or just doing a sloppy job? Those cops might actually have a LOT of actionable data that just needs a bit of processing.

Which is why it is always important to understand what your risks and benefits from a privacy related tool are. People often think “I’ll just put everything through a vpn/tor” which DRASTICALLY increases their risk profiles. But they also don’t understand how tor works well enough to even know what it gives them over a traditional vpn (as opposed to “Dark Web” stuff which is a different mess).

CEC is pretty amazing for any relatively modern device (console, blu ray player, etc) in a “normal” setup.

The main problems are if you are a bit of a “power user” and have a receiver or something (although I have also heard issues with soundbars) with it not always being clear what audio outputs will be used. And as consoles become more and more glorified computers you can run into issues where a simple workflow like:

1. Start xbox
2. Start download of big game for later
3. Go back to “TV” to watch youtube

Results in the xbox shutting down and not actually downloading the game.

As a “power user” I just got a sofabaton (Just as mediocre and finicky as a Harmony but you won’t have forgotten that because your config is a decade old). but I keep telling myself that I should futz with my nvidia shield to see if I can use my receiver’s remote for everything instead.

That… is a really shitty meme that misses the point?

If you actually look at what the overlay exposes, the User still has the ability to pick specific channels, control volume, power, etc. All they really lose are the DVR (good example) and all of the user friendly stuff related to tv guides and the like (bad example).

I assume this is just AI engagement farming bullshit that someone fell for and posted to lemmy but… I would actually say it would make more sense if the overlay were almost inverted.

While I have strong reservations about photoshopping/deep faking/whatevering for political activism… just saying that it would be a real shame if social media were full of trump jacking off big hairy cocks onto his face.

The bag isn’t THAT wet (just enough chemicals to keep it from going purple AND to make getting good hashbrowns nigh impossible without more effort than it took to shred it in the first place) but yeah. Check your refrigerated lunch meats and cheese displays at your local supermarket.

I personally love them for “breakfast for dinner” or a week night (blasphemous) burrito. They are shit because they take so long to properly crisp up, but you can get them into perfect burrito texture in like 10-15 minutes on the stove.

And yeah. Unshredded chunks are incredibly common. First time I saw like half a potato though.

I mean, it is incredibly disconcerting.

But it isn’t a mechanical noise. It is a noise coming through the speakers themselves. As many have pointed out, it is almost definitely feedback of some form.

Definitely something to get sorted before you do anything TOO critical (feedback can potentially be a precursor to electrical or systems failure) but not a sign that doors are going to fall off imminently.

Yes. Apologies. I did not do a proper deep dive as a “Well ackshually” response to a joke post. I will endeavor to do better in the future.

I mean, it’s funny and ironic in that Alanis Morrisette kind of way. But it actually makes sense.

Fire hydrants are heavily engineered hunks of metal. Metal getting rammed into at speed is a great way to generate sparks. And lithium fires are scary as hell. There is areason ANYONE futzing around with lipos should have a bucket of sand handy and why, as the article states, first responders need to handle these specially.

It is a similar principle as to how you don’t pour water on a grease fire.