A highly respected school teacher of mine was known to say, “Say what you mean; mean what you say.”

I haven’t tried it yet, but I’ve seen massive lists of trackers floating around that you can add to your torrents, in case the same torrent is indexed on other trackers, but the torrent file you downloaded doesn’t know to search them.

I can think of easier ways of compromising the data besides brute forcing the keys, off the top of my head, and I’m just some schmuck. Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/538/

1. Compromise their endpoint with a malicious app on the app store.

2. Gain physical access to the device and compromise it. Use your imagination – pickpocket, traffic stop or customs inspection by a compromised agent, seduce them with a honeypot, etc.

3. Socially engineer them to mistakingly add you to their group chats.

4. SIM swap

Signal might be fine for journalists, criminals, cheating spouses, and general privacy when used properly with good OpSec but nation state adversaries have significantly greater resources than your average attacker, and thus require more significant security.

If trump starts sending people to gas Chambers and murdering races he didn’t like, I’ll be there with you screaming ‘nazi Hitler’ at the top of my lungs

When I call Trump and Musk Nazis, I’m not talking about concentration camps or genocide as with 1940 Nazis either. I’m referring to 1933 Nazis which were using demonization of others, attacking independent media, and The Big Lie to consolidate power. These are what made the Holocaust possible.

In 2022 they added a paywall to the feature which was previously free to all users of a Plex Pass server. https://support.plex.tv/articles/downloads-sync-faq/

In 2022 they added a paywall to the feature which was previously free to all users of a Plex Pass server. https://support.plex.tv/articles/downloads-sync-faq/

First they removed downloads and now this? Feels shitty. I used this feature weekly to watch a show with a remote friend.

Head’s up – there’s a law firm which many on RFD are talking about being served demand letters from, after repeated warnings were ignored.

Don’t worry though, the demand letters are largely baseless and unenforceable, especially since the SCoC ruled last year that service bill payers are not responsible for the actions of their network users.

Merged -> gone gold

Deployed -> gone platinum

Gone a week without crashing production -> triple platinum

• Push directly to master, not main
• No command line args, just change the global const and recompile
• No env vars either
• Port numbers only go up to 5280, the number of feet in a mile
• All auth is just a password; tokens are minority developers, not auth, and usernames are identity politics
• No hashes – it’s the gateway drug to fentanyl
• No imports. INTERNAL DEVELOPERS FIRST
• Exceptions are now illegal and therefore won’t occur, so no need to check for them
• SOAP/XML APIs only
• No support for external machines. If it’s good enough for my machine, it’s good enough for yours.

So they’re one of us? Welcome to the club, outlaws!

I’m pretty sure they mean half as much.

Did you do anything to stop the violent ego maniac in the White House? No? Then you’ve cooperated with him.

I save my wood chips from carving to use as kindling, and to wrap them in tin foil to use for smoking meat on the grill.

Robot Dreams
Parasite
Poor Things
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
Asteroid City
Last Stop in Yuma County

Just some of my favourites from recent years.

Yeah, he reimplemented it in Java to get garbage collection. The Alzheimer’s is cured but he takes ten minutes to pour a glass of water.

This is partly why I prefer Firefox’s implementation of the find feature - it allows case-sensitive search while Chrome does not support it.

Surely the word ‘in’ would appear countless times out of context on the table of contents.

3D Pinball: Space Cadet for life.

I refuse to pay for pirated content out of principal. It’s bad enough that I’m infringing copyright (and boy do I!) but commercialized piracy rubs me the wrong way. I even prefer Bittorrent over Usenet and FOSS media software over commercial software. Yarr!