Recommend the book Safe for Democracy by John Prados. It's a damn doorstop and gets pretty dry at parts (think a full outline of the obtuse bureaucratic names various covert working groups gave themselves), but it's an exhaustive record of the CIA from their founding up to their adventures in Afghanistan.
It mostly focuses on armed conflict rather than the cloak and dagger spy games, but still shows the lengths the agency has gone to just because a world leader leaned a little too far left for their liking.
Would you be willing to share that Quadlet? I also run rootless Podman on my main VPS and I'm approaching that point where I have enough services to justify a dedicated IDM solution.
+1 for Rotring (or rOtring if you prefer). I have both a pencil and ballpoint pen, the latter has been my daily driver for over half a decade now. Refills are readily available, it's all metal construction so I can throw it in my bag and not worry about it getting banged up, and it feels really nice in my hand.
They are more expensive than my other go-to, which is just a Pilot G2, but truly BIFL in my book. Also worth buying a 4 pack of G2s in my mind if you let people borrow pens a lot, I've had countless of mine walk away...
Is there actually a source for this? It doesn't seem unbelievable in this day and age but there's a wide gap between supplying plutonium for tech startup power (as in electricity) fantasies, which they've openly talked about, and letting Palmer Lucky build nuclear-armed drones.
It also looks like the Chat Control 1.0 has a carve out for E2E encrypted communications. So I'm not saying don't worry about it, but seems more like a procedural measure than the more ominous and technology-destroying second version.
Daily reminder that not everything you feel needs to be put into messages or posted on the internet. Practice good OPSEC if you're participating in any sort of lawful gathering. Your freedom of speech extends to what you choose not to say.
I've recommended before and I will again. Locally produced, union led, and they support a lot of good causes in the otherwise shit state of Iowa (apologies to any Iowans who aren't of the Chuck Grassley ilk).
Literally the Hock Tan playbook. Buy a foundational technology and jack the price way up assuming the whales will keep paying while mid and small customers fall away. Did it with Symantec, started to do it with Bitnami but backed off a bit due to massive backlash.
They bank on the asspain of switching tech tooling being greater than the financial pain of the price gouging. But hey, that's capitalism for ya.
I get your point but look at any harbor in the Mediterranean when an event comes to town, it's full of super-yatchs. The rich will always be fine peacocking for each other, and yatch builders manage to stay in business just fine. I realize it's a bit different since there's a whole social aspect of the game, arguably the whole point is to play with others. I just don't see the bean counters having that foresight.
I'd put more weight behind IP law, where if a company chooses to shut down an online game then it gets treated like abandonware and they cannot pursue fans who run their own servers. That does put the onus on the fans at the end of the day, but I think in the long run it would make companies more willing to appeal to a wider audience if we always had an open model to fall back to.
That said, considering how many illegal services continue to run on it, I don't think it's as porous as some make it out. Definitely has well-documented weaknesses but the project maintainers tend to address them fairly straightforward.
Of course, you're also just as likely to be buying drugs off an Onion market that the FBI seized and kept running just to catch more bad guys, despite it also hosting illegal content itself.
Spot on. Anything based on the AR-18 design, which begat the AR-180 semi auto civilian version (which was promptly banned), gets rid of the buffer tube function on the AR-15 to balance the BCG. It uses the dual captive recoil springs, a design that migrated to a bunch of other modern firearms.
I've been interested in the Aly & Kaufman AKB-23, basically a L85/SA80 replica lower that you throw a BRN-180 on and add some furniture to complete the look. So short version, yeah I think you could whittle a wooden lower for AR-18 style uppers. Probably only get a few shots off before it cracked though, wood can be quite brittle like that.
I know this is a joke but I still do this when wearing a suit with creased pants. Let's you do up your laces and if you're tucking the shirt you need to undo the trousers anyway. Keeps them looking crisp, at least when it's an event you change into the suit right before.
It's intended to be a successor to the current reCAPTCHA, sold as harder to spoof than current picture-based versions. Now, almost from its start, CAPTCHA existed to train AI vision models. So Google basically painted themselves into a corner using free labor to train models good enough to recognize images, now they are switching to device signals.
That said, they're going to have to provide a compatibility layer for iOS which AFAIK doesn't come with Google Play Services right now. So I have some faith in the smart folks who make these de-shittified OSes working something out via microG or the like.
It very much seems to be a response to those regulations.
Recommend the book Safe for Democracy by John Prados. It's a damn doorstop and gets pretty dry at parts (think a full outline of the obtuse bureaucratic names various covert working groups gave themselves), but it's an exhaustive record of the CIA from their founding up to their adventures in Afghanistan.
It mostly focuses on armed conflict rather than the cloak and dagger spy games, but still shows the lengths the agency has gone to just because a world leader leaned a little too far left for their liking.
You a real one, much appreciated
Would you be willing to share that Quadlet? I also run rootless Podman on my main VPS and I'm approaching that point where I have enough services to justify a dedicated IDM solution.
+1 for Rotring (or rOtring if you prefer). I have both a pencil and ballpoint pen, the latter has been my daily driver for over half a decade now. Refills are readily available, it's all metal construction so I can throw it in my bag and not worry about it getting banged up, and it feels really nice in my hand.
They are more expensive than my other go-to, which is just a Pilot G2, but truly BIFL in my book. Also worth buying a 4 pack of G2s in my mind if you let people borrow pens a lot, I've had countless of mine walk away...
I'm getting tonal whiplash after their attempt to kick a guy off for wearing a shirt that criticized bombing children.
For those OOTL
Is there actually a source for this? It doesn't seem unbelievable in this day and age but there's a wide gap between supplying plutonium for tech startup power (as in electricity) fantasies, which they've openly talked about, and letting Palmer Lucky build nuclear-armed drones.
It also looks like the Chat Control 1.0 has a carve out for E2E encrypted communications. So I'm not saying don't worry about it, but seems more like a procedural measure than the more ominous and technology-destroying second version.
Referencing this
Something much better like eufy? Or roomba?
I think it's a law that robot vacuums must be named something silly.
Daily reminder that not everything you feel needs to be put into messages or posted on the internet. Practice good OPSEC if you're participating in any sort of lawful gathering. Your freedom of speech extends to what you choose not to say.
The first time I saw it, it was from these fine folks - https://www.raygunsite.com/products/punisher-pride
I've recommended before and I will again. Locally produced, union led, and they support a lot of good causes in the otherwise shit state of Iowa (apologies to any Iowans who aren't of the Chuck Grassley ilk).
Literally the Hock Tan playbook. Buy a foundational technology and jack the price way up assuming the whales will keep paying while mid and small customers fall away. Did it with Symantec, started to do it with Bitnami but backed off a bit due to massive backlash.
They bank on the asspain of switching tech tooling being greater than the financial pain of the price gouging. But hey, that's capitalism for ya.
I get your point but look at any harbor in the Mediterranean when an event comes to town, it's full of super-yatchs. The rich will always be fine peacocking for each other, and yatch builders manage to stay in business just fine. I realize it's a bit different since there's a whole social aspect of the game, arguably the whole point is to play with others. I just don't see the bean counters having that foresight.
I'd put more weight behind IP law, where if a company chooses to shut down an online game then it gets treated like abandonware and they cannot pursue fans who run their own servers. That does put the onus on the fans at the end of the day, but I think in the long run it would make companies more willing to appeal to a wider audience if we always had an open model to fall back to.
Wait 'til you hear who invented it...
That said, considering how many illegal services continue to run on it, I don't think it's as porous as some make it out. Definitely has well-documented weaknesses but the project maintainers tend to address them fairly straightforward.
Of course, you're also just as likely to be buying drugs off an Onion market that the FBI seized and kept running just to catch more bad guys, despite it also hosting illegal content itself.
Spot on. Anything based on the AR-18 design, which begat the AR-180 semi auto civilian version (which was promptly banned), gets rid of the buffer tube function on the AR-15 to balance the BCG. It uses the dual captive recoil springs, a design that migrated to a bunch of other modern firearms.
I've been interested in the Aly & Kaufman AKB-23, basically a L85/SA80 replica lower that you throw a BRN-180 on and add some furniture to complete the look. So short version, yeah I think you could whittle a wooden lower for AR-18 style uppers. Probably only get a few shots off before it cracked though, wood can be quite brittle like that.
I know this is a joke but I still do this when wearing a suit with creased pants. Let's you do up your laces and if you're tucking the shirt you need to undo the trousers anyway. Keeps them looking crisp, at least when it's an event you change into the suit right before.
"Ah yes, but think about how much faster they shipped that code with Copilot doing all the heavy lifting."
It's intended to be a successor to the current reCAPTCHA, sold as harder to spoof than current picture-based versions. Now, almost from its start, CAPTCHA existed to train AI vision models. So Google basically painted themselves into a corner using free labor to train models good enough to recognize images, now they are switching to device signals.
That said, they're going to have to provide a compatibility layer for iOS which AFAIK doesn't come with Google Play Services right now. So I have some faith in the smart folks who make these de-shittified OSes working something out via microG or the like.
There's https://imginn.com/
Not sure if it lets you go to direct reels or just view stories though.
Same with Nolan's Batman