cypherpunks, 9 days ago

gif animation of Jack Nicholson smiling and nodding

cypherpunks, 11 days ago

This doesn’t include the vehicle in the post, but has some similar ones like this:

black and white photo of a steam powered track-drive vehicle

The Hornsby steam crawler: 1910

This machine was shipped to Canada from England in 1910, being sold to the Northern Light Power & Coal Company for use hauling coal to the Klondike gold fields in the Yukon, where it worked until 1927. This was the only sale, and the Hornsby company became disillusioned with their "chain track"and sold the patent rights to the Holt Manufacturing Company in 1914.

see also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traction_engine

cypherpunks, 11 days ago

Why is it a subway sandwich?

“dudes be like” meme format with text “dudes be like these memes strayed so far from the original text, my brother in christ, that is the point of the meme”

knowyourmeme.com/…/dudes-be-like-subway-sucks

cypherpunks, 12 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

preferring instant to fresh coffee is the more popular opinion in much of the world, but it’s mostly in the same places where people would rather be drinking tea anyway:

world map of coffee vs tea preference by country

world map of instant vs fresh coffee preference by country. (it is a very similar map.)

(source)

cypherpunks, 12 days ago

/r/shittyaskreddit wasn’t supposed to be an instruction manual 🙄

cypherpunks, 12 days ago

np, you’re actually early

cypherpunks, 13 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

It’s better to run it as not root, which you can presumably do on Linux Mint by adding yourself (or another user account) to the wireshark group after installing the package. See wiki.wireshark.org/…/CapturePrivileges and gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/…/README.Debian for details.

cypherpunks, 13 days ago

related

cypherpunks, 13 days ago

I’d love a community here on lemmy for Meshtastic.

There are two:

• /c/meshtastic@mander.xyz
• /c/meshtastic@lemmy.ml

cypherpunks, 13 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

yeah, they aren’t very active, but (presumably due to federation bugs) there is more there than your instance is showing you: from my perspective the most recent post on the mander community is from one month ago and the lemmy.ml community has three posts including one that isn’t from a mod.

you might be able to pull those posts into your instance by searching for their permalinks there (which you can find from the fediverse icons on each post in the web view of those communities on another instance).

cypherpunks, 14 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

screenshot of notification from facebook found in article, but with the word “if” highlighted in the sentence “If your objection is honored, it will be applied going forward.” and three red question marks added under it

If your objection is honored, it will be applied going forward

cypherpunks, 13 days ago

E: old thinkpad gang input: take the time to reapply thermal grease to the cpu at some point. It makes a huge difference.

What’s a “gang input”?

😂 it’s an input to this discussion from a member of the group of people (“gang”) who have experience with old thinkpads. and yes, if your old thinkpad (or other laptop) is overheating and crashing, reapplying the thermal paste is a good next step after cleaning the fans.

cypherpunks, 15 days ago

Indeed, the only thing WhatsApp-specific in this story is that WhatsApp engineers are the ones pointing out this attack vector and saying someone should maybe do something about it. A lot of the replies here don’t seem to understand that this vulnerability applies equally to almost all messaging apps - hardly any of them even pad their messages to a fixed size, much less send cover traffic and/or delay messages. 😦

cypherpunks, 16 days ago

spiderman pointing at spiderman meme template with the spidermen labeled “bing” and “duckduckgo, qwant, ecosia, startpage, chatgpt internet search”

cypherpunks, 24 days ago

and later it will turn out that the AI solution was actually two clickworkers in a trenchcoat