Definitely that, but also, are those pins not recessed or guarded?? That seems like really poor engineering. There could have been some kind of physical keying between the charger and the controller to prevent other metallic items from inadvertently bridging the contacts.

Once he loses power, he’ll be pretty lucky if he only loses his freedom. He’s kept a lot of oligarchs under his thumb for a long time…

One of the show’s tech consultants addressed that in this interview:

What are some of the challenges faced in presenting hacking and cybersecurity in both a realistic and an entertaining manner?

I think the biggest challenge is time. We are only given seconds to demonstrate a hack that could take hours. While we are accurate about the details of the hack, we must fudge the time element.

I think the short answer is that it doesn’t. VaultWarden is currently open source, and no private equity organization can put the genie back in the bottle. If things get really bad then someone would likely fork the open source bits and maintain a pure open source version, in which case there would likely be a procedure to migrate existing VaultWarden installs to the purely open source successor. I don’t think VaultWarden users need to be overly concerned at this point.

Yeah, that’s what I was referring to. For years now I’ve avoided buying RAM with anything less than a limited lifetime warranty. I would hope that manufacturers wouldn’t renege on their own warranties, but these are crazy times…

Check the warranty status! Some modules have a lifetime warranty for hardware defects. Not sure if this applies to you, but it could be an easy replacement without having to pay today’s ridiculous RAM prices.

https://mixtape.game/

It’s a game, heavily inspired by the mixtapes of our shared youth. Some people say it’s not a game, because it doesn’t meet their definition of “game.” Some call it a “walking simulator,” which has a pejorative connotation. I haven’t played it yet, but I plan to, critics and purists be damned.

Government contracting is a grift with a long, long history. I bet if you travelled back in time to ancient Egypt, you’d find military leaders overcharging the pharaohs for security services.

Seconding Winboat, works great for the one piece of software I have that is stuck on Windows. At this point I am 100% not going back, I even wiped my Windows disk. That drive is for trying out other distros now.

The reality is that China was completely devastated after the war, and rebuilding was not an easy process.

Yeah, not buying that argument at all. Practically every country was devastated after the war, China’s hardly unique in that regard. Why would it take fifteen full years for China’s postwar woes to culminate in an acute famine? Makes no logical sense, and stinks of excuse-making.

The paper I linked shows that the policies proved to be correct on the whole, and life expectancy increased dramatically as a result.

Mao wanted to reform China, and tens of million of deaths was the price he was willing to pay. It’s a lot easier to make great strides when you don’t give a fuck about your own people. I’ll reserve my admiration for leaders who manage the feat without inflicting untold human misery on the their own citizens.

The graphs in the paper you linked show a big spike in mortality around 1960. The Great Chinese Famine was 1959 to 1961. How does Mao get credit for lower mortality in 1962 onward, but not receive blame for the famine years?

Pineapple upside down cake

I paid my student debt, these kids don’t deserve any handouts!

Boomers who paid tuition and living costs that were a manageable fraction of their part time student job that doesn’t even fucking exist anymore.

No one knows what story she’s denying, or what images she’s claiming are fake. The most likely possibility is that someone is preparing to release a story on the links between her and Epstein. It’s standard practice in journalism to contact the subject of a piece, inform them of the contents of that piece, and offer them an opportunity to comment. A request for comment on an upcoming story seems a likely trigger for this reaction. The entire speech strikes me as a thinly veiled threat, essentially saying “If you publish your story I will sue you for defamation.”

Came into the thread to recommend Abercrombie, glad to see it’s already covered!

Seems like Betteridge’s Law applies to this book’s title.

Leopards, faces, etc. May they have the day they voted for.

Does everything else you buy get delivered to the shops by cargo bike?

You may not pay for it at the pump, but I guarantee you’re still paying.

Yes, Google Safe Browsing is probably the cause. Anyone curious can read more about it here, but that traffic at browser startup is probably going to Google’s Safe Browsing API servers.

My favorite tidbit about the POW camps for German soldiers in Canada is that the camps generally weren’t fenced. Like, you can escape if you want I guess, but you could walk for weeks and guess what? Still Canada!

Most German POWs were happy to stay because the camps fed them far better than what they’d been getting as German soldiers in the European theater after years of rationing. Some felt guilty about how good they were eating, because they knew their civilian family members back in Germany were getting even less.