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Fun fact: if you don’t take the lamp from this chest and go through the escape sequence, the chest in Zelda’s cell which normally has 5 Rupees contains the lamp instead.

Nah, His boss’s boss is just upset that Ukraine keeps blowing up his oil tankers

“Probably, but I have several questions.”

• Were you always a doorknob, or is this some kind of witch’s curse situation?
• If you were always a doorknob, how did we meet and what was our first date like?
• If this is some curse, what did you do that warranted polymorphism, and how do we change you back. (Would you even want to go back?)
• Could I be cursed to be the door that you’re installed in?
• How would intimacy work between us? I’m simply not creative enough to incorporate a doorknob into this
• Being presumably immortal as a doorknob, or at the very least having a much longer lifespan than us mortals, how would you move on after old age claims me?

I’ve always loved the cover of The Resurrectionist

I maintain that this should be the default behavior and the AI be opt-in

It usually happens in 2 steps.

First step is that everything gets connected to the LAN and you can only access the PLC network from within the building’s network. Then some time later, management finds out that keeping someone on-call to go out costs a fortune, so they request that access be made so they can make the change from anywhere.

The IT team argues security, but no new hardware can be provisioned and a developing a new process is too hard. Then the magical phrase is uttered: “Just make it work”. So IT punches a hole in the firewall, adds a NAT rule, and job done.

The specific advice they give is to disconnect all PLCs and only access them through a VPN, enable password protection and change the default passwords, and only allow IPs from known engineering laptops and other critical assets.

This is absolutely doable and any IT professional could manage this change. The only barrier that prevented this from happening before is that you need buy-in from someone with access to the purse strings

Librewolf is exactly the same browser with all the security features dialed to 11 and all the AI removed.

Middle click to free scroll

“Hegseth declare that all banana splits served to troops be gendered as male”

Yeah, I would absolutely take issue with the head of a government institution saying something like that. That is a bonkers thing to say as a public official and should invoke some kind of mental health check.

I’m aware Hegseth is just posturing for brownie points with this Scouts thing, but this kind of behavior should not be normalized. I still remember when Howard Dean lost his bid to be a presidential candidate because he got too excited during a speech.

There should be no need for this to exist. The internet has been around for long enough without age verification that it doesn’t need to be added now.

That being said, this is the lesser of the two evils, I think. If your age data exists at the device-level and can send an authorization to a service that says “This user is an adult” without needing to send them any additional identification, that would be better than needing to trust some nebulous cloud service with identifiable information tying your personal identity to your online habits.

If the end user can arbitrarily sign code themselves that is bootable then it kind of defeats the purpose of secure boot.

The whole idea is that it makes it impossible to start if the chain of trust is broken.

You can have a world where both The English Patient and Paddington 2 are considered good movies

Sometimes a movie is neither fun, nor has anything valuable to say

Right has the far better perspective. Thats the one I try to take into all movies sight unseen.

Movies made for Left tend to make themselves known within the first 15 minutes or so, and then he can come out and offer literary critique

“Hey, wanna get garlic bread and talk about dragons?”

I think he probably believes this too, but even if he didn’t, he wouldn’t say otherwise as that would cause a huge panic.

A headline that reads to the effect of “Mark Carney believes that Canadian sovereignty is at risk from the US” would cause nothing but problems for us.

Nah, nothing really changed. Your profile picture is just an aspirational version of your ideal self.

You went from wanting to be a strong army guy at 11 to a cute girl at 23.

Yeah, no doubt.

Having access to visual basic is dangerous enough, let alone Python

Pound for pound, cats are way more dangerous in a fight than dogs. It’s just that cats are usually ~1/3 the weight of the dog that also lives in the house.