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RogerBW

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#Emacs, #Perl, #Rustlang, #PostScript, #Linux sysadmin, polyglot programming, #boardgames, #RPGs, too many #podcast s, 3d modelling and #3dprinting.
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eff, to random
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EFF has called the UK’s Online Safety Bill “a blueprint for repression around the world.”
https://www.theverge.com/23708180/united-kingdom-online-safety-bill-explainer-legal-pornography-age-checks

RogerBW,
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@eff See, the UK can still be a world leader!

ndw, to random
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If you publish a software product on the web, is it necessary/reasonable/unnecessary/silly to publish the MD5 hashes of the download artifacts? If it's some flavor of reasonable to do so, what's the right way to go about it? Putting the hashes in web pages on the same server seems somewhat incautious.

RogerBW,
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@ndw If your users have your GPG key already, you sign the hash and they can verify using that. Or if you can publish in some way that's not susceptible to alteration, but there aren't a lot of those. (Bearing in mind that with a compromised server the attacker can claim to have released a new version, so there aren't two competing "v1.4.9" hashes.)
(Also, MD5 and SHA-1 are pretty easily collidable these days.)

sonictyrant, to random

Me, as a couples therapist: have you considered just getting divorced?

RogerBW,
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@sonictyrant And if they say "no!" you say "well, why not, what's your reason?" and work from there…

satsuma, to random
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You are at the bottom of the cellar ladder when the trapdoor slams shut and you hear a bolt slide across and lock. You hammer on the trapdoor desperately trying to escape, but your captors cover the trapdoor with a heavy oak cask and keep guard in the room above. Four days pass before the lock slides back, but the hands that open the trapdoor are bony and fleshless.

Your life and your mission end here.

.... our first insta-death of the book ... insert timey wimey rewind here!

RogerBW,
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@satsuma Huh, post just before this one in my feed was '“I definitely won’t make THAT mistake again” he said inaccurately.'

jasonmoore, to random

In the mouth of madness… The dreaded draw-bag from Arkham Horror: The Card Game. I reach into this thing as if its filled with grumpy scorpions, and every time it chooses violence. I’m glad they designed a “fail forward” system in the game. I thought my luck with dice was bad enough…

RogerBW,
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@jasonmoore Coin capsules? Love that clacky plastic feel (I use them for tokens in Ashes).

Garwboy, to random
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I appreciate the optimism, guys, but I'm fairly confident it's going to be Charles.

RogerBW,
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@Garwboy Even if…?

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    RogerBW,
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    @josephthomas "Due to supply chain problems, your order of extra pepperoni will incur a three month delay."

    RogerBW, to random
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    We have the evidence, but… Session 6: Straight to Star Vampires https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/1740

    HCBunny, to random
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    Might find something to bedazzle tomorrow. You know, really let my sparkly freak flag fly.

    RogerBW,
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    @HCBunny I trust there will be sequins.

    DarkestKale, to random
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    Good morning folks

    RogerBW,
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    @DarkestKale The "prime" would typically refer to the planet's position in the list of planets - the star is Risdal, the most significant world orbiting it is Risdal Prime. Moons might be called Risdal P1 ,P2, etc., or named after minor entities from the mythology that gave rise to the name "Risdal" in the first place.

    RogerBW,
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    @DarkestKale I think the most systematic approach I've seen would call our moon Sol III.1. But really there are no rules for this. Just remember that "prime" can and often does mean not "first" but "distinct from", the way we might now talk about "thing" and "thing B".

    RogerBW,
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    @DarkestKale Or in order of discovery (which will probably mean biggest and most visible worlds get lowest numbers).
    This isn't a question that has a canonical real-world answer so I guess just pick your favourite SF model and extend it. P3X-498?

    RogerBW,
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    @DarkestKale "Upside" is reasonably common in en_GB usage I think.

    BigJackBrass, to random
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    This picture pops up now and again, and every time I wonder how Doom can possibly manage an effective embouchure with that helmet. And no lips.

    RogerBW,
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    @DarkestKale Clear silicone rubber.

    casey, to random

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    @casey Invest in my nexus, it's 6% less tormenting.

    RogerBW, (edited ) to random
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    If the flyer hatch doors are fused shut […]

    CAIN estimates that it will take you twenty-five minutes with his expert guidance to repair the damaged circuit of the flyer hatch door. Will you:

    Leave Falcon's Wing without the flyer?

    Spend time repairing the circuit which is located under the com-console?

    RogerBW, (edited )
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    You have almost completed the repair work when CAIN chimes: 'Whatever we are inside is swaying rhythmically. It is possible that we are inside a plant, not an animal. May I suggest that you take a sample of the fluid beneath the ship for chemical analysis?' You complete the repair and, deciding to do as CAIN suggests, take a container from the nutrition dispenser and crouch low upon the Main Access Disc which turns to gas beneath you. The invisible tractor beams lower you towards the liquid and you reach down to gather some of it, activating the hatch again so that you are drawn back into Falcon's Wing without touching the liquid. Pouring it into the analyser you wait for CAIN to test it. After a minute the console screen flashes up a list of chemicals. Apparently you are inside the cavernous fruit of a gigantic plant. There are traces of an irritant but nothing that would corrode your environment suit. The flyer hatch door is operational now. Will you:

    RogerBW, (edited )
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    You step onto the Main Access Disc which turns to gas beneath you and invisible tractor beams lower you into the milky liquid up to your chest. Beneath your feet are spiny ridges of woody fibre. You walk gingerly towards the arcing ridged wall. Make a Chance Roll.

    You carefully edge the rest of the way to the ridged wall of the prison that encloses Falcon's Wing. It arches above you towards he puckered rim that shows a deep magenta sky, high above. The climb up one of the ridges will be arduous and tricky. If you would like to use your blaster to cut foot and hand holes […]. If you prefer to climb unaided […].

    DarkestKale, to random
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    Good morning folks

    RogerBW,
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    @DarkestKale I won't say Piper is great on female characters but at least most of them do things rather than sitting around panicking.

    RogerBW, (edited )
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    @DarkestKale Yeah, I'm pretty much a fan of all of Piper, maybe not so much the later Fuzzy books but those were late in his life and I think at least partly driven by commercial pressure to do "another Fuzzy book". Should reread the rest.

    RogerBW,
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    @DarkestKale …which he got from Paul Jennings, and people think Pratchett made it up. This irks me just a little, because Paul Jennings was a comic genius and is now almost entirely forgotten.

    RogerBW,
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    @DarkestKale He used to admit it quite happily in person, and recommend that people seek out collections of Jennings, but this doesn't seem to get written up much.

    RogerBW,
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    @DarkestKale I think also some fans want to believe in an image of Pratchett as the perfect comedic genius who made everything up himself.

    RogerBW,
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    @DarkestKale @lordof1 I knew you were going to say that.

    RogerBW,
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    @DarkestKale One of the most depressing writers to come out of WWII without having been a PoW in the Far East.

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