I’ve spent the last few years building up an immunity to iocaine powder.

China is very quietly executing the “Never interrupt your enemy when they are a making a mistake” strategy.

We’ve tried this before. In 1997. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_for_Internet_Content_Selection

The push for this form of age verification is to “close the loop” of strong identity between a physical person, and online content access. And unfortunately, all the relevant parties are aligned on this one:

• Site owners want to prevent non-people AI from accessing their content
• Authoritarian leaning governments want to track and control who gets access to what, and who can even make content available in the first place
• Ad Companies want to make sure ads are being served to real people
• Operating system vendors can kill open source by ensuring this is mandated at the OS level, in a non-bypassable way, so signed/TPM/closed source nonsense.
• Parents who don’t understand the technology enabling this but believe that this ‘protects the kids’ will also support it.

How much does UPDATE tickets SET holder = @newuserid WHERE holder = @olduserid AND ticket_id = @ticketid cost?

More likely, China will just loan/give it to them, in exchange for some future favors. I’m sure China projecting their influence all the way in our hemisphere will give folks warm fuzzies.

“Oh, and we’re gonna need you to carry it up to Calvary for us too, k?”

I will preface by saying, I hate it so much, and fear the day we can no longer put TPM into ‘user mode’ and enroll our own keys for our own signed & authorized OS (on hardware we own, in our house, not in th cloud), BUT if you are building an operating system focused on gaming, performance, and security, implementing and securing trusted + measured boot so the hardware platform ensures all stages of the bootloader, OS + game are the exact code the vendor intended is the absolutely correct way to implement anti-cheat. Sketchy 3rd party kernel mode modules that rummage around your system reporting what to who knows who wouldn’t be needed at all in this environment.

[insert fell for it again meme here]

The drones will be cheap enough that they can send 2 or 3, to cut the net, and then keep going.

Check out AMSAT-OSCAR 7 – Closer to home, but launched in 1974, and still waking up when there’s sun to operate. It’s the oldest “operational” satellite still up there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMSAT-OSCAR_7

I have encountered a windows update that refused to install with a mysterious error code. After searching through the logs, I discovered it was refusing to proceed because it found an installer for an old version of the Netware client (that wasn’t installed) that it knew was incompatible, in a non-common directory (C:\PreviousHardDrive\Backups). It was searching the whole hard drive against a database of incompatible programs.

I think you mean Broth

Actually, it’s probably at http://[fd00::1]/

Don’t forget about the kids!

Remember, within the first month of this term, he fired all the 5-star generals and other military leadership who would have had the wherewithal to pull this off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckTales_(video_game)

It’s 37 years old, thank you very much. (and the OG Chiptune version goes just as hard)

And Millie Bobby Brown …

Listening is legal, and in may areas they use digital modes(P25) without encryption. However, transmitting on any frequency you are not allowed to will get you in big trouble, and they will probably get help from local amateurs that routinely practice foxhunting.

Amateurs will help, not because they’re cops, but because with a flick of of the pen , rules can be chaged to restrict their favorite hobby. Or worse — https://lemmy.world/post/41898188

FULL METAL ALCHEMIST.