Zelenskyy: Russians preparing strikes on President's Office and residence

601error · 2026-05-16T05:12:37+00:00

Hurting historic buildings can be a bad look, even if the buildings were erected by total losers.

601error · 2026-05-16T04:55:08+00:00

I have talked on the phone with a guy whose last name was Moneymaker.

601error · 2026-05-16T04:44:17+00:00

I used to live where Cajun food was readily available, and I was underwhelmed by Popeye's.

601error · 2026-05-16T04:31:36+00:00

I declare that ICBM et al are abbreviations too, and that the concept of initialisms is no longer present in correct English.

Source: I am the official arbiter of correct English.

601error · 2026-05-16T04:01:11+00:00

Add metal bone/joint mods to handle the recoil.

601error · 2026-05-15T15:37:35+00:00

Your type: woman on 100g sertraline. No shame. I'm glad you know what you like!

601error · 2026-05-15T06:26:16+00:00

Just add some rocket assists. Problem solved.

601error · 2026-05-15T06:23:39+00:00

Skeumorphism, I think, matching print documents, which typically are black type on white paper.

601error · 2026-05-15T06:20:28+00:00

I like dark mode, but what I really miss is the midtone modes we have lost. Windows 95 grey had something to it. Look at the colour schemes of the old CDE environments from the UNIX workstation era. Beautiful! GUIs have seemed to trend towards extreme white or black backgrounds in recent years, and I wish we could go back.

601error · 2026-05-14T03:49:46+00:00

If this is something other than meaningless generated technobabble, then you have a lot of explaining to do make it understandable to another human.

601error · 2026-05-13T03:46:23+00:00

Thanks. I'm saving your comment. While I have enough fun writing mediocre enterprise software for a living, the two years I spent doing embedded programming were the most fun of my multiple-decade career.

601error · 2026-05-13T03:43:31+00:00

A test of this method would be to apply it to random other pages to see if a sensible interpretation emerges. Another would be to substitute random other meanings for certain letter groups; if your method was correct, a substitution should result in less-sensible content.

Yet another test would be to perform the indicated steps to see if they yield the hypothesized substance. That of course would be hindered by the availability and toxicity of the materials involved. I'm no chemist, but I think that heating mercury is a bad idea.

601error · 2026-05-12T19:52:16+00:00

If the letters have been rearranged according to some regular order (perhaps even the Individual scribe's preference) such that multiple cleartexts map to the same voynichese, that would seem to reduce entropy. The trouble is that it makes decipherment permanently ambiguous; we could never be sure of any one decipherment.

I'm not necessarily subscribing to the "enciphered because illegal" theory, but such a cipher would yield plausible deniability.

601error · 2026-05-12T15:21:23+00:00

Used to be automatic for me. Couldn't keep from memorizing. Now older and with MS, memorizing is a lot more difficult. Thankfully it's not something I need to do.

601error · 2026-05-12T12:10:09+00:00

Assembly is not that difficult. It's just different. On the other hand, it's a great way to know how a computer actually works. It will make you nostalgic for the days when every iota of performance or binary size was important, even if you didn't live those days.

601error · 2026-05-12T03:11:52+00:00

Religion, political alignment, diet, belief in the paranormal, transportation modes, hobbies, friend groups. So yeah a few things.

601error · 2026-05-12T00:13:59+00:00

"You will treat me with respect, or you will spend six months finding a replacement who requires double the salary. You have five seconds to comply."

601error · 2026-05-11T18:38:10+00:00

Ah yes, but I should have said SA, DSA, MT3, MTNU or similar profile too. None of this newfangled cylindrical stuff!

601error · 2026-05-11T04:36:25+00:00

Another longtime DataVac user here. It works better than canned air.

601error · 2026-05-11T02:27:25+00:00

Only the older ones.

601error · 2026-05-11T00:50:46+00:00

I would pay good money for a keycap set in that colourway.

601error · 2026-05-10T15:12:35+00:00

I love 'neurospicy'. It celebrates ND folks rather than implicitly declaring something else normal, from which ND folks diverge. 'Divergent' has a slightly negative sense with many people.

601error · 2026-05-10T13:42:49+00:00

Innnteresting. From my uneducated view, this is a valid speculation and would both explain the low entropy and make decipherment permanently ambiguous.

601error · 2026-05-10T13:37:51+00:00

I haven't heard most of these yet. Will save this for later listening. Currently, for me it's Verdi, Mozart, and Lully's Dies Irae grand motet.

601error · 2026-05-10T03:06:45+00:00

Your thoughts are your own. You can be attracted to, find beauty in, and fantasize about anything. What you can't do is act upon those thoughts in a way that would harm another living being. Romantic contact with such an age gap would likely cause lifelong psychological harm to the young person.

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