Scum.

It’s a fair question. The thinking is they’ll stop here and rearm with their very active arms industry rather than throw their war economy into the shitter.

There is no doubt they have squandered their USSR inheritance though.

Wow. I never heard about that one. I do recall some distributed community attempt at breaking (I think) 64 bit DES around that time. It used spare CPU cycles and I had it running on my Pentium 2 machine.

Was DES still widely used at that point do you recall? I had AES in my head for SSL and the like.

Yeah, I went on holidays to the US and got the 128 bit plugin for what was probably Netscape (the precursor to Firefox) and it was very clear during the download process that it wasn’t to be taken outside the US. It was considered a weapon if memory serves me.

Anyway not long after the rest of the world caught up and it looked silly in hindsight so here we are.

Edit: just to add some context on the “weapon” thing… The other standard was either 56 or 64 bit and it was secure enough at the time given compute capabilities but it was also clear that it would be crackable in time whereas 128 bit has a very long shelf life even with modern capabilities, as long as the algorithm was good (and it was / is)

Reminds me of the US trying to prevent the rest of the world getting 128 bit encryption back in the 90s.

I did the maths on this recently in anticipation of this horrible event.

If you were the first human ever born, about 300,000 years ago, and you saved $10,000 a day without ever spending a penny, you would only recently have crossed the 1,000,000,000,000 mark.

Also there really should be an emoji for the guillotine.

God, it’s as if I thought I had reached peak disdain for these cunts but they have more to give.

Some of the larger disposables do have a charging port. I guess it allows them ship a smaller battery which is good

I had amazing ramen in Estonia. It was run by a Japanese lady though so I’m not sure that counts.

Can you describe how they were if that’s your proposition?

Because no, they weren’t social democrats in any meaningful way and even a basic understanding of their economic policy would tell you that.

Someone decompiled it and there’s now versions of it available on the play store and other places. It is a real blast from the past.

I just discovered this yesterday and went all the way down that rabbit hole. Holy moly they are really trying to beat down on the guy trying to do the right thing. That police department is NASTY.

It looks like he has some good lawyers coming his way though. Looking forward to the second part of the civil rights lawyer’s video (and part three of his own).

LONG WEEKEND, BABY 🎉

There was also a festival on in my little town and the kids had great fun at it though my wallet took an absolute hiding.

Chill day today but I’ll go swimming with the kids later when the forecast promises me better weather.

The Riva line were absolute bangers tbh. Mad props to the driver developers who were always playing catch-up on the hardware (mad props to the hardware designers implied) but always delivered the goods. I honestly hope they’re rich AF.

Holy cow that first camera is just so full of genius engineering.

Another thing after talking to my wife is that there are a lot of large American families and children vie for the attention of others, which means having to speak up and over their siblings which sort of trains us to be that way.

Mmmm, it’s a theory I suppose but I have a large family. Our dinner table is busy but not loud (except with raucous laughter which is semi frequently in fairness). Cross conversations go on all the time, it’s just the nature of lots of people at a table.

My own experience with American tourists is that it’s a volume thing. Interestingly I don’t recall noticing it as much while visiting the states but definitely slightly louder than other cultures.

Sounds like you won’t have any issue anyway.

Good luck with the move! I’ve never heard anyone come back from Australia with a bad word to say about it and lots of my fellow countryfolk do a year there (including my sister and bestie).

TIL there is more than one type of Eid holiday. I thought it was only after Ramadan which was back in March.

Nail on the head. I know I’m gonna enjoy a Tom Hanks movie, and he was really great in some roles, but if Frances McDormand is on the ticket my socks are gonna be blown off. That woman is art to watch.

Edit: Willem Dafoe and Olivia Coleman also. There are obviously loads more but they all really excite me to see in a movie.

Ireland has Gaelic football too so you have to figure out from context which football is being referred to.

We even play against the Aussies at a mix of the two football types occasionally which is called international rules.

Their lads are fucking massive as they play it professionally while Gaelic football is strictly amateur (all the money gets pumped back into local clubs which generally end up being very nice as a result).