so you just think dead children are an acceptable price to pay for… absolutely nothing. got it.

they were saying that the “patriots” (so maga, not actual patriots) are claiming that they would step in and stop tyranny, but are actually doing the opposite.

and them claiming that that’s the reason they need their guns is the most prominent reason that constantly comes up in discussions about gun control. which is true.

so they are saying that particular argument is utter bullshit, and that gun reform should disregard that argument.

and gun reform/gun control doesn’t mean nobody can have guns.

it just means stricter rules on who can have them. which, yes, is a necessary legislation that every civilized country already has.

autocorrect/spellcheck tripped you up friend: it’s serf (as in serfdom) ;)

that was super obviously sarcastic…

.:|:;

it only sounds like that, because it is. :/

saw a setup like that at work, until it was determined to be a fire hazard. which it was.

had to short the start pins of the MoBa with a paperclip to start the damn thing.

we called it “the scorpion”, cause it would shock you if you touched it wrong, and it kinda looked like a scorpion with the cables hanging out all over the floor…

#tales-from-IT

mosquito nets in third world countries

oooohhh…yeah…about those…

turns out the mosquito nets are devastating local fish populations, because people use them to fish, since they get them as a finished product instead of having to knit nets themselves. and starvation being a bigger immediate threat, they prioritize that over malaria.

the nets are also laced with toxic chemicals (against the mosquitoes), which are extremely toxic to fish.

they also have much smaller holes, so they catch the young offspring as well, leading to rapid depletion of stocks.

so, yeah…good idea in theory, but didn’t turn out so great…

probably highly dependent on your work environment:

it’s the exact opposite at our office…

• mail service goes down
• dafuq.jpeg
• check icmp; no ping
• was there an update, patch or something? …nope?
• check with network: did you guys change anything?
• oh yeah, new network config!

head>desk

yes, that’s why it’s called fingerprinting:

it’s a kind of mathematical function that takes the entire code as input and outputs a unique result.

the result is just some string of symbols (which really just represent a unique string of 1’s and 0’s).

this unique string of characters is, as mentioned, unique for any given input.

this string can then be compared to any arbitrary other string, and if they match, then you know it’s the same code.

so in the case of signal anybody can download the source, compile it, and verify that it matches the fingerprint of the compiled code on their own device.

that’s why it can’t be faked: you compare the already compiled code.

if even a single digit of the code is out of place, it’s not going to result in the same string, and thus immediately get flagged as a mismatch.

it’s mathematically impossible to fake.

if it’s just gaming, consider a side-grade to bazzite:

it’s an atomic fedora distro (even has a dedicated Nvidia installer), meaning it’s more difficult to break and easier to rollback when it breaks!

and it has a bunch of gaming related tools pre-installed, which is helpful, but not the main selling point imo.

anyways, yeah, linux gaming is really, REALLY easy these days!