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atx_aquarian, 5 days ago

I

atx_aquarian, 20 days ago

Narrator who sounds just like Ron Howard: “It doesn’t.”

atx_aquarian, 1 month ago

fuck yeah

atx_aquarian, 1 month ago

Morocco?

atx_aquarian, 4 days ago

Was it the cops saying that, or mostly just the Commander In Thief? It certainly wasn’t all cops.

atx_aquarian, 27 days ago

What would give them standing? They’d have to be an entity protected by the constitution to claim that protection was harmed. Is it this (Wikipedia)?

TikTok Ltd was incorporated in the Cayman Islands and is based in both Singapore and Los Angeles. source

I guess I’ve never thought about what makes an entity have rights here. Buckingham Palace couldn’t just open shop here and start suing our government, right?

atx_aquarian, 1 month ago

haaaands

atx_aquarian, 20 days ago

I hitched my horse to just what I consider the basics–zip and unzip–and that has made it easy for me. But I’ve been stuck on those.

Extract anything:

<span style="color:#323232;">tar xf <archive_file>
</span>

Create a tbz2 archive:

<span style="color:#323232;">tar cjf <archive_file.tbz2> <stuff to put in it>
</span>

(And tossing in a -v is pretty universal, if that’s your thing.)

Some day, instead of commenting on a reddit Lemmy post, I think I’ll Google how to tell it to use .xz.

Ok, you know what? Today is finally that day. It’s just capital -J instead of lower-case -j! That’s easy enough to remember, I guess.

atx_aquarian, 27 days ago

I feel so lucky to have been here for this discussion today.

atx_aquarian, 1 month ago (edited 28 days ago)

This referred to CUNY a few times. I thought that, City University of New York, was a different institution, and I got the impression the article was referring to Columbia University as CUNY. Maybe I missed something?

atx_aquarian, 11 days ago

If they control the domain, they can see all incoming mail delivery attempts to sniff for addresses that were used. They’d still have to know the domain of the email address for the login they were attacking, which might not be super useful if they’re going after a certain login. But, going the other direction would be more fruitful: buy a domain, dump all incoming mail into a catch-all box, and start looking for bank alert emails or other periodic/promo emails. You might find services that just use email addresses for a login name, or ones that have a “forgot username” feature that only uses email for recovery. Multi-factor auth spread across multiple services (email, SMS, authenticator codes…) would help mitigate significantly by making them also have to take over a phone number or get an old device. Not impossible, but then you’re making them work harder for it, and when good account recovery services heavily mask the available targets, it makes it harder to know what else to acquire (e.g., a specific phone number) even if they get as far as full email domain control.

atx_aquarian, 13 days ago

Good point, I think you’re right. I’ve probably been making an unsupported leap in logic there.

atx_aquarian, 13 days ago (edited 13 days ago)

Based on one of your comments clarifying what you’re wondering, I don’t know that this helps you in what you’re looking for, but the “OMG particle” came to my mind. It was traveling at such high energy when it hit our atmosphere that…

If the proton originated from a distance of 1.5 billion light years, it would take approximately 1.71 days in the reference frame of the proton to travel that distance.

…

The energy of the particle was some 40 million times that of the highest-energy protons that have been produced in any terrestrial particle accelerator.

…

In the center-of-mass frame of reference (which moved at almost the speed of light in our frame of reference), the products of the collision [with a particle in our atmosphere ] would therefore have had around 2900 TeV of energy, enough to transform the nucleus into many particles, moving apart at almost the speed of light even in this center-of-mass frame of reference. As with other cosmic rays, this generated a cascade of relativistic particles as the particles interacted with other nuclei.

I don’t know if that cascade is the same as the Cherenkov radiation it produced, but that radiation is how they detected this particle, and it’s interesting a.f.

[It is] emitted when a charged particle (such as an electron) passes through a dielectric medium (such as distilled water) at a speed greater than the phase velocity (speed of propagation of a wavefront in a medium) of light in that medium. … Its cause is similar to the cause of a sonic boom…

I.e., (layman’s understanding here) the particle, having a dual particle- and wave-like nature, is propagating through the vacuum of space “close” to the max speed of propagation of causality itself. As it encounters a medium, our atmosphere, it is going faster than causality itself can possibly propagate through that medium. But the energy is still there and isn’t going to just vanish, so it has to split out into multiple particles that would, with their fraction of the original energy, then be able to propagate through the medium. Or something amazing like that?

Edit: My layman’s understanding of Cherenkov radiation requires a bigger disclaimer, like a strike-through. :)

atx_aquarian, 21 days ago

I interpreted it as teasing someone for duplicity when they are trying to hurt people (suggesting their outward behavior comes from inward self-loathing), and not talking about his body being weird but his behavior (as a dick).

atx_aquarian, 30 days ago

Eating plants isn’t more expensive than eating meat, just eating plant-based attempts at mimicking meat.

atx_aquarian, 1 month ago

An all-powerful, omniscient creator of literally spacetime itself, and he needs an anthill–one that is, on his scale, far smaller than a subatomic particle–to defend his honor against other anthills within the same infinitesimally small particle and to keep defending their anthill by some arbitrary and tiny point in this spacetime so they can have an everlasting party together outside of his pet spacetime, of which that anthill is, itself, constituted.

atx_aquarian, 5 days ago

I’m not even really sure any of it is really about China. This AP article updating about the progress of the attempt to ban DJI drones suggests Autel as “Best DJI drone alternative”. Autel, a Chinese company based in Shenzhen.

Edit: I suppose that could just be the author(s) making an error, but, given the focus on one company in the drone market and a total lack of evidence about security concerns, I just wonder if these aren’t all just companies trying to buy market control through lobbying.

atx_aquarian, 1 month ago

That’s exactly what I did with it.

(Spoiler in case anyone wants to guess first.)

This is at >!Emo’s East in Austin, Texas. (I guess now they just call it Emo’s.)!<.

atx_aquarian, 3 days ago

I guess their statement is news because they just said it, but the behavior is classic by this point. GOP–the “O” means “obstruction”.

atx_aquarian, 16 days ago (edited 15 days ago)

Am I understanding this correctly? NOLA was arguing that, since they tax satellite radio for listeners in their city, they should be able to tax internet streams for the same listeners? If so, I feel like the two things should be comparably applicable (if it weren’t for the ITFA), but also fuck all the way off, NOLA government. Get fucked, seriously.

atx_aquarian, 5 days ago

I hope they keep pursuing this inquiry:

At the time of writing, it is unclear whether these virtual impersonations resulted in any criminal investigations or charges against US-based victims whose IP addresses were hijacked as part of the 911 S5 botnet. WIRED is awaiting a response from the Department of Justice regarding this concern.