Disco Elysium

I acknowledge that it was well received, but it was from 2019.

Elder Scrolls 6 will no doubt be polarizing, with some calling it the game of the decade, and others saying that the TES formula just doesn't work anymore. (The game might also just suck.)

Isn't "1+1" the definition of 2?

Third parties certainly know what effect they have. Their motivation is not to make the second party candidate win. Their motivation is to change the first party candidate.

According to Hotelling's Law, a two-party political system with FPTP voting results in candidates that are very similar. This is why the Democrats won't run real progressives for most offices, and why Sanders was forced out in 2016 with the excuse that he wasn't "electable" enough.

Third parties running for president aren't trying to win. They're trying to eat some of the votes on their side, thus pulling the main party candidates toward that third party candidate to reclaim those votes.

But I didn't want Clinton to win. My picks were: 1. Lessig, 2. Sanders, 3. Stein, 4. Johnson (Gary), 5. blank. Knowing only what I knew in 2016, I disliked Trump and Clinton equally, and would never have voted for either one.

(And yes, I did know that Sanders had endorsed Clinton.)

Stein has arranged a lot of good climate protests. Never held office though, as far as I can find.

I don't know much about client certificates, because nobody ever used them. All I know is that they are decades older than passkeys, and "certificate" implies there is a public-private keypair, just like in a passkey.

What are the benefits of a passkey over a client certificate?

Doing good cryptography is hard, and a lot of work. Designing a good key escrow system or other back door is more cryptographic work, so more chances to get it wrong, and more chances for the corporate overlords to demand corners be cut for cost savings.

Even if the software has meticulously perfect cryptography, the government definitely won't. The feds will:

• give away keys to other feds, or local cops, for bad faith reasons.
• give away keys to other cops for good faith reasons, though the other cops are not authorized. This increases the attack surface.
• misuse keys themselves for bad faith reasons, like spying on their ex-girlfriend.
• have poor security from the start, and get their keys stolen by hackers, both foreign and domestic.

Don't thank God. God was a supporter of the 6-day work week.

Thank a labor activist.

It's not really an order. Think of it as more like a threat.

I eagerly await your writeup on whichever calendar you think I need to know more about.

My favorite holodeck exit is the ending of TNG S6 E12, Ship in a Bottle. It's the episode with nested holodecks inside holodecks.

At the end, Barclay says "Computer, end program," and smiles, satisfied that nothing seems to have happened. But then the credits roll. He ended the program.

Unfortunately this won't happen until October 31st 2600. Starting on March 1st in the year 2600, the Julian calendar (popular in centuries past, and still used in a few places) will differ by 18 days from the Gregorian calendar (the current worldwide standard calendar).

It happens that October 31st in the year 2600 lands on a Friday, and so the Julian October 13th, which lands on that same day, is also a Friday.

There may be a sooner Friday the 13th that lands on Halloween, if you know of other obscure calendars like the Hebrew, Islamic, or Chinese calendars. I don't know enough about those to check.

We’re not gonna talk about what happened in 2020, we’re gonna talk about 2024

When asking a Republican "Who won the 2020 election", that is a question entirely about 2024. A Republican's answer (or non-answer) can be used to predict how they will behave after losing the 2024 election.

The easiest way to disable unnecessary services is to uninstall them with aptitude, or whichever package manager you like. Try terminating services one by one, and see if anything bad happens. If nothing bad happens, you can probably uninstall it. On the other hand, if the system does get wonky a reboot should fix it. Or, you can research the services by name and decide whether to uninstall them. (avahi-daemon for example is a good idea to uninstall.)

To make the GUI not run, uninstall your display manager (gdm, xdm, nodm, or whatever) and uninstall your xorg server or wayland server. There may be GUI programs remaining after that, but they will only be consuming disk space, not RAM or CPU.

If the battery is old and holds little charge, you may save a few watts by removing it and throwing it away, instead of letting the system keep it topped off.

Get a power meter, such as a Kill-a-watt device. Then, experiment with different settings. If it's consuming less than 30 watts, you're probably fine. If you live in the US, one watt-year is about one US dollar (or a little more), so for every watt it consumes, that's about how much you will pay per year for its electricity.

Looks like this program is really old. It appears to be designed for a 32-bit system, the way it casts between unsigned int and pointers.

unsigned int is probably 32-bit even on your 64-bit system, so you're only printing half the pointer with the printf, and only scanning half the pointer with the scanf. The correct data type to be using for this is uintptr_t , which is the same as uint32_t on a 32-bit system, and the same as uint64_t on a 64-bit system.

Try changing the type of addr to uintptr_t , and change lines 14-17 to this:

	printf("Address of main function: %p\n", (void *) &main);
	printf("Address of addr variable: %p\n", (void *) &addr);
	printf("\nEnter a (hex) address: ");
	scanf("%p", &addr);

You may have to include <stdint.h> . These changes should make the code portable to any 32-bit or 64-bit architecture.

I wonder if people are now trying to cash counterfeit money orders purportedly from MoneyGram. The scammer would cash the money order (or deposit it, and wait the necessary waiting period, and then withdraw it), and MoneyGram can't confirm or deny the validity to the bank, so the bank allows it. Then, the scammer flees to Russia or wherever.

"According to DataDome". A company who sells that as a service.

More likely, they just don't have any obvious protections that DataDome's lazy engineers could identify. They probably just checked IP ranges to see if the services were proxied by DataDome, Cloudflare, or another such service.

I don't trust anything DataDome says, because they are a known shitty service. They will arbitrarily block users, intercepting their requests to show a captcha page. Then, after the user correctly solves the captcha, they are directed to a page which reads simply "You have been blocked." There is a fake contact form at the bottom of the page, which submits appeals into a black hole.

Here's an example of the block page. This user is connecting from a proxy, so the block is expected, but DataDome is known to block residential IP addresses arbitrarily.

NTFS is considered pretty stable on Linux now. It should be safe to use indefinitely.

If you're worried about the lack of Unix-style permissions and attributes in NTFS, then getting BTRFS or ext4 on Windows may be a good choice. Note that BTRFS is much more complicated than ext4, so ext4 may have better compatibility and lower risk of corruption. I used ext3 on Windows in 2007 and it was very reliable; ext4 today is very similar to ext3 from those days.

The absolute best compatibility would come from using a filesystem natively supported by both operating systems, developed without reverse engineering. That leaves only vfat (aka FAT32) and exfat. Both lack Unix-style permissions and attributes.