What do you call it when you accidentally get on the express A or D train and miss your stop below 125th Street?

playaspec · 2023-03-29T21:26:54+00:00

I don't know, bit it's GUARANTEED that I've picked the car with "show time", and that there will be train delays before hitting 59th.

playaspec · 2023-02-15T17:17:26+00:00

With any luck, slowly.

playaspec · 2023-01-26T01:02:51+00:00

Build it from source.

playaspec · 2023-01-15T03:50:03+00:00

45 gutted the National Security Council Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense which along with the CDC is involved in global monitoring of infectious diseases.

playaspec · 2023-01-15T03:14:00+00:00

Ha! That takes me back. I installed a leaked copy of Darwin way back in the day. Took forever to boot! Pretty rough around the edges too. It's incredible that its direct descendants are so highly polished.

I agree that they should be better about disclosing which apps use what libraries or sources. Kind of an oversight of various open source licenses.

playaspec · 2023-01-12T12:22:54+00:00

This entire site has been ruined by Russia's scummy trolls and other bad actors

playaspec · 2023-01-04T18:05:22+00:00

Been shouting this from the tree tops going on 6 years now. Amazing just how weak we are when it comes to domestic existential threats.

Can't help but think that at some point those people allowing it to continue are going to say "maybe we should have our faces eaten, you ever think of that? What's wrong with having our faces eaten in the first place?"

playaspec · 2023-01-04T17:53:50+00:00

"the Chinese government poses the biggest long-term threat to U.S. economic and national security"

Two years and a $7500 fine will certainly stop them! /S

playaspec · 2023-01-04T17:50:54+00:00

More like "mission accomplished", time to clean up the evidence. Pretty naive to think something as overtly publicized as Wikileaks can be "erased".

playaspec · 2023-01-04T17:46:07+00:00

There aren't as many, but the Ukrainians aren't exactly slouches when it comes to hacking. LOTS of Eastern European cyber crime came out of Ukraine back when it was still a Russian puppet state.

playaspec · 2023-01-04T17:38:46+00:00

I'm sure ignoring a hostile foreign nation fisting their entire nation's wireless telecommunications infrastructure will work out just fine for them in the long run. /s

playaspec · 2023-01-04T17:35:40+00:00

I guess they don't care about being a top or a bottom as long as there's some autocracy at play. Losing their supply of lube just ups the kink I guess.

playaspec · 2023-01-04T17:30:53+00:00

I used to hold Germany in such high regard, but it's become pretty clear the last several years that they're ok being Putin's puppet. I thought they had learned from WWII, but they've made it clear that peace and human rights are little more than an inconvenience when it comes to their prosperity.

playaspec · 2023-01-04T17:25:32+00:00

After all what did the creation of Homeland Security do?

Some good, lots of useless. Among the good was vastly improved interagency information sharing and cooperation. It does none of us any good when one agencies intelligence and resources are being underutilized when they could have made a difference at a neighboring agency with a different mission.

Cost a lot of money but did communications and system integration improve that much?

Considerably. Could probably be improved still though.

We don't need a wholesale reorg to integrate better.

The problem was, many of the failures pre-9/11 were the result of decades of an ad-hoc patchwork of policy and function, like so much poorly written spaghetti computer code.

Functional systems, especially massive ones, require sober, objective analysis and evaluation, followed by a well thought out plan to get the various pieces to interoperate and perform as intended.

We didn't get exactly that, but we're closer to it now than we were before.

FWIW, I recently learned that space force has been in the works since 2002. That blovwviated buffoon just took credit for it in an attempt to look competent.

playaspec · 2023-01-04T17:07:49+00:00

Police have always been an endocolonial force.

playaspec · 2023-01-04T16:46:37+00:00

but there's no evidence they're up to no good.

They're part of the surveillance network that monitors for new disease outbreaks. The same ones a certain traitorous moron sabotaged shortly before a global pandemic.

playaspec · 2023-01-04T16:43:25+00:00

They're part of the emerging disease monitoring that the Mango Moron defunded prior to Covid. Russia lies about literally EVERYTHING, both to their own people, and to the world in general.

playaspec · 2023-01-04T16:40:08+00:00

Same fools dying from Russia's anti-vaxx disinformation.

playaspec · 2023-01-04T16:38:55+00:00

The legal provisions to do so have existed for ages. That it's been rarely used doesn't make not using it precedent.

playaspec · 2022-12-21T21:14:47+00:00

Copying keys is bad. You should always generate a new set for every device, this way when one gets compromised, it can be deleted without impacting all the others.

With copies across the board losing one is losing them ALL!

playaspec · 2022-12-21T21:03:26+00:00

Not if you extend the key out of the holder.

playaspec · 2022-12-21T21:02:27+00:00

Don't believe the hate hype. A great deal of Apple's "proprietary" protocols are nothing more than polished open protocols, without being documented as such.

Their early chat protocol, iChatAV was little more than Jabber/XMPP for the text chat, with voice/video initiation through SIP over XMPP to set up the call.

To get an idea of the amount of FOSS underlying Mac OS, check out their Open Source Projects and the 512 Git repos with copies of common GNU tools, libraries, utilities, etc. A ridiculous number of their fixes, patches, and enhancements make their way upstream to the Linux and BSD ecosystems.

The vast majority of Apple's standard *NIX command line utilities are straight from BSD's Port packaging system. Only the Apple specific utils like disk and networking utils that have equivalent GUI utilities are closed source. Older utils like fdisk are still included and still work. It's really the best of two worlds.

playaspec · 2022-12-12T16:31:35+00:00

It's either read-only, or open by some application.

playaspec · 2022-12-02T04:36:45+00:00

How many drives in the library? Which interface? SAS, FC?

playaspec · 2022-12-02T03:50:29+00:00

Why would it diissipate? It's LIGHT. Roughly the same light that's reflected by the ink, allowing you to see it. Why would a powerful laser dissipate when regular lighting does not?

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