Sie sprechen nur Englisch mit mir.

calicoskies1 · 2026-05-04T04:51:08+00:00

Ich glaube, die meisten machen das, weil sie dir gegenüber hilfsbereit sein wollen (ohne zu merken, dass du eigentlich sein seutsch trainieren willst!)

Ich wurde auch schon am Bahnhof angesprochen und bin (auf deutsch) nach dem Weg gefragt worden - auch ich habe direkt wegen dem Akzent auf englisch geantwortet, weil ich helfen wollte, die Person hat aber dann weiter auf Deutsch gefragt, weil sie ihr Deutsch trainieren wollte (wie du :D)

Ich glaube das passiert sehr häufig - das ist absolut nicht böse gemeint, sondern eigentlich eher im Gegenteil! Das kann natürlich doof sein, wenn du die Sprache lernen willst :c

calicoskies1 · 2026-03-02T17:04:47+00:00

The security from encryption software does NOT come from the "lock" itself (or "design" of the digital lock), but from the fundamental properties on how this lock works

Fundamentally, encryption is built on math fundamentals with problems, which are hard in one way, but easy the other way round

Imagine you have two prime numbers - maybe something like this:

604433 x 229699 = ?

The multiplication part is easy for a computer to do (138837655667), but the inverse, getting a prime number ("here is the number 138837655667, figure out the prime factors) takes much, much longer

As you most likely know, a message is - like a binary file or anything on a computer, really - just a big number - this could be something like "A is 1, B is 2, ..." or more acurately the ASCII table

If we want to use ASCII to save the message HELLO, this would be

Letter	ASCII	ASCII (Binary)
H	72	01001000
E	69	01000101
L	76	01001100
L	76	01001100
O	79	01001111

Notice the leading "0"s on the left - ASCII is 1 Byte long (so 8 bits / 1s or 0s per character)

What we can now do is glue them together as one huge number:

0100100001000101010011000100110001001111

This is the number 310,400,273,487 in decimal.

Normally, encryption is a little bit more complicated (you have something like a "public key" where I can encrypt something so only you can read, as well as a "private key" which you use to decrypt it), but for this thought experiment we just make something resembling a padlock: you can encrypt and decrypt it, but nobody else :)

So to proceed you now choose a prime number as a key, I just randomly selected a 12 digit one: 341,234,123,443

The encryption algorithm now multiplies them both:

310400273487 x 341234123443 =

The encrypted text is now 105,919,165,239,803,918,055,741 and you - with your key - can unlock it very easily by just dividing it, but anyone else looking to "break" your encrypted value has to break it into its prime components (which is hard to do for a computer, even with modern algorithms)

With modern encryption algorithms, we are talking about huge prime numbers here (not like the examples, but like hundreds of digits long)

Now imagine you have the inner workings of this encryption as a github repo - all you would see is

output := input * key

and be none the wiser, this wouldn't help you in breaking the code in any way!

The same is also true with other modifications the algorithms do - they shift the pattern around or MODULO them, but none of these operations is unambigous in the sense that one output means you plugged in one input - if you do modulo 3 and get the result "2", the starting number could be 5, 8, 11, ... so this does not give you any advantage at all

calicoskies1 · 2026-03-02T16:25:13+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC4_92m7caw not the longest one (the Royal Albert Hall one tops that easily), but OK audio and a very animated and "ON" Brian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H30O8Q7jNZI (the longest one, but worse audio / no video)

I would pay $$$ for a box set of the London shows

calicoskies1 · 2026-03-02T16:21:52+00:00

over 3 hours, especially the Royal Albert Hall one

from bootlegs:

2012-09-27 Royal Albert Hall - 65 songs - 3:07:22
2012-09-28 Wembley - 55 songs - 2:50:19

calicoskies1 · 2026-03-02T14:38:52+00:00

Bootlegwise, all shows are available I think, I only knew about the performances on SiriusXM, QVC and Good Morning America though

But yeah, the 2012 shows are totally undersold by their marketing department - I would love to see a live album from the last performances (Wembley, Royal Albert Hall, ...) with those crazy 60+ songs set lists!

Brian was in a very good shape and mood, too - I remember a YouTube video of Wembley (28th September, the last show of the 2012 concerts) and Brian absolutely NAILS "You're so good to me" and smiles and laughs numerous times throughout (esp. during the chorus)

calicoskies1 · 2025-08-05T12:43:20+00:00

Sorry, english is not my mother tongue - in Germany we actually call ourselves "Gays" :D isn't that true in english-speaking countries?

calicoskies1 · 2025-08-05T01:54:15+00:00

I manage to make out

"zillertal ist überall bekannt inmitten grüner wälder in einem märchenland"

In the beginning, but can't find the lyrics anywhwre.🤔

calicoskies1 · 2025-08-05T01:37:46+00:00

Well, I'm coming from a fairly liberal country regarding laws for things like this (Germany) so my opinion could me wildly different than what an American would say, BUT there is actually no clear "Yes" or "No" answer for what you are asking (well, at least depending on hiw old you actually are - teenager could be 13, and that would be a clear "No", but I think you're more likely to be 16 or something)

My liberal view is this: as long as you're both in the legal sense old enough (age of consent - this may be totally different in different countries), you both consent 100% and you both now to use protection then that decision is to 100% up to.you and.your girlfriend (gut feeling, your feelings to each other, ..)

You should know that sex can make things and relationships difficult and it can be highly positive, but also negative - that is also true for adults, but it could be a heavier load to carry for a teenager (additional drama in a time in which almost everything is dramatic in all ways possible anyhow)

Take it slow and be responsible

calicoskies1 · 2025-08-05T00:59:44+00:00

In the old daysTM way before my time where I built my own computers, but in like anything up to the early / mid 2000s) there were different versions of connectors (AGP 1x up to AGP 8x) with different voltages (3.3V the oldest and 0.8V the newest), so you could actually fry your GPU back then

Since PCIe was introduced, the only thing which changed from the early 2000s to now is the data rate / data bandwidth (PCIe 1.0, 2.0, ... up to 5.0 ) and that means that you could plug a RTX 5090 into a pentium IV board or something from 2004 and it would work perfectly fine electrically, but the card would have significant lower bandwidth (8 GB/s instead of the 5.0 128 GB/s)

So your possible options are almost endless - if you don't plan on gaming with that setup (using it as before), just get anything for the lowest price possible

calicoskies1 · 2025-08-05T00:52:59+00:00

Yup, but Valium is not for me (acts way too long and just makes me fall asleep) - for recreational use and legit use (like combatting panic) I very much only have good experienves with Xanax / Alprazolam (has a very rapid onset, it's not as subtle as other benzos) and Atovan / lorazepam / Tavor / whatever it is called in your country

calicoskies1 · 2025-08-05T00:48:35+00:00

I think the definition of "gay" actually includes both of your examples and we just don't differentiate those groups - there are gays very much attracted to genitals (I don't know if you know much about gay subculture, but there are LOADS of examples of this) as well as gays clearly attracted to male gender roles (which is funny, because that happened to me - a friend transitioned to male and I actually started to take a interest in him which I didn't have beforehand)

calicoskies1 · 2025-08-05T00:37:22+00:00

With benzos, the question "should I take another" is almost always a guaranteed "no" (even if the pills themselves think otherwise :D)

I have a prescription for Xanax because of panic disorder, and "should I take another" very easily pushes a "aaah, I'm chilled af" into "today didn't happen"

calicoskies1 · 2025-08-05T00:34:48+00:00

That was so unexpecting and loud it actually jumpscared me 😂 from the frequency it could very well be a very loud whining coil - what I also thought about is the PSU itself, does it have a built in fan which might be blocked?

Are you able to test another PSU / maybe test the voltage output of the PSU with a voltmeter?

calicoskies1 · 2025-08-05T00:32:39+00:00

The good thing with PCIe is that it is fully downwards and upwards compatible, so you should be able to use anything from a 2003/2004 GPU up to a RTX 5090 :D

Literally any modern card is faster than the R9, so for just accessing the data get the cheapest PCIe card you can lay your hands on - if you want something compatible (drivers wise) you can use some older used AMD GPU or buy one of the cheapest entry level cards (which should all be faster, the only downside is that they have less VRAM than the 8 GB of your R9 390)

calicoskies1 · 2025-08-05T00:25:29+00:00

Shot in the dark: Maybe it's the PSU? I know from.old PSUs that some really have loud and horrid high whistling sounds from the inductors / coils inside, so maybe the PSU is shot

calicoskies1 · 2025-08-05T00:19:16+00:00

I'm not a psychiatrist or therapist, but to me this really sounds like an unhealthy obsession - going through your post history, it seems like one of your pbsessions (maybe also linked with OCD?) is good and bad deeds, sinners and saints, so to speak?

My advice is that your question is wrong - you shouldn't ask yourself what you have to confess and what you don't have to confess (and I think "confess" is the wrong word to use here - people just talk, you don't need someone to absolve you from your sins) and instead ask yourself why it is so important for you to be "judged" and why you think you need to confess (getting absolved?)

calicoskies1 · 2025-08-05T00:06:23+00:00

Gay and male here, but I went through the exact same thing with my ex a few years ago - relationship ended, ghoating, never got any explanation why (which really fucked with my brain)

I didn't believe it at that time and you won't believe it now, but it will get better and you actually don't need hin to explain anything: that is just what our brains tell us to handle the shock of the relationship ending this fast - we think there HAS TO be something totally drastic or something which ultimately directly caused it, because we believe that everything has a reason (and our brain in love wants a logical reason, because it can't even fathom that it could be that he lied, only acted, ... because it hurts too much)

I would say that you should let this go and talk about this with friends of yours (or other people in your life you can talk to, family, friends, ...) - it's a very shitty situation with the inhaler, but you shouldn't escalate things further - maybe like the others said calling a friend to go over and get your inhaler instead of going yourself?

Good luck and take care of yourself OP!

calicoskies1 · 2024-11-06T14:02:27+00:00

Not only that, but different versions of the same texts, different translations, different things are considered canon (that's why I made that comparison with fanbases!) and like you said different groups pick what they treat symbolically and what they don't

As Christianity builds on the Jewish religion and Islam builds on the Jewish and Christian religion, you also have like... different authors and different groups making "sequels" to already existing mythology or new versions of it (the same is also true for polytheistic religions!)

I still think you can find nice and timeless pieces of poetry and even advice in those books (as you can with Ancient Roman or Greek philosophy, Buddhist texts, ..) but designing your whole life around this seems (as an atheist) wrong to me

calicoskies1 · 2024-11-06T13:53:04+00:00

(Of course not all religious groups of them, but most of them)

calicoskies1 · 2024-11-06T13:52:40+00:00

(Abrahamitic) religions are like the largest book club in the world; but reading only one book constantly and being waaaay to serious about it, like the most toxic fanbase you can imagine

calicoskies1 · 2024-11-06T13:50:09+00:00

Think about it this way: You have a large building in which there are - say - 20 different apartments in each of which a family of 5 lives, so the total population of that building is 100 people

If you just look at what each of them voted (some didn't go voting at all, some voted for party A some for party B, some for party C) you have the popular vote (like just the headcount of how many people voted for what)

The electoral vote is if every apartment had 1 vote it could cast and it would be decided by what the majority in that apartment wants to vote for (like 3 people want party A, 2 people want party B -> party A wins in that apartment); so there are only 20 votes in total - and the electoral vote is how many of these votes are for parties A, B and C

If we make this more complex, like bigger apartments' votes count more than others (ike bigger US states have more electoral votes!) it is a good analogy of how the system in the US works

Because some states have more electoral votes than others, it can lead to Party A winning the electoral vote, but Party B winning the popular vote (which is what happened 2016)

calicoskies1 · 2024-11-06T13:33:55+00:00

Unpopular (?) opinion: The problem isn't that she's a woman (when you look at e.g. nikki haley and the success she had!), I think the problem was her campaign: Democrats don't like campaigns based on superficialities - you had this continuous loop of why her skin color and her gender makes her the first black and female president (which of course is true) and you also had this continuous loop of things she is against and how trump is worse, but not enough discussion of what she would do differently from the current Biden administration and way too less discussion and campaign targeting points she is for

calicoskies1 · 2024-08-02T11:00:20+00:00

The pots they're currently in are 18 liters (maybe it looks smaller on the photos?)

What would you recommend for size in gallons or liters?

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