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That is no longer secure, and cannot be made secure where voice calls are involved. Any entity trying to authenticate someone's humanity or identity over the phone will be cutting off that service, post-haste.
Pinging such an address is inherently a troublesome practice. This address, like many public DNS servers (resolvers as well as root and authoritative ones), uses "anycast" routing methodology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anycast
Pinging an anycast address will yield a cornucopia of different results. Of course, people who naïvely "ping" a recognizable or easy-to-type IPv4 address get what they deserve, especially when they enshrine it into software, unit tests, or the LLM coughs up such tokens on their behalf.
Fundamentally, the question is "what do you really want to test?" by pinging a particular IPv4? Do you want to test Layer 3 connectivity? Test your ISP's backbone and connectivity? Test only your upstream router? Test the existence of ICMP in your stack and theirs?
... the possibilities are endless. Your router can do anything. Ping zombo.com.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_plates
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC#History
Basically your media only needs to outlive your drives, retrieval mechanisms, software interfaces, and drivers. Or more properly, your backups need to outlive your live system and the need to restore any data from them. Certainly, data may be more precious than a live system, but you also need to concern yourself with format transfers, in terms of software file formats, filesystem formats, and media design/format.
This is not a difficult achievement. The people marketing long-term archival storage media are capitalizing on ignorance of people who have worked with books and photographs, which are "readable" by human senses. Books and photographs are media which can be preserved and fundamentally produced on archival media from the get-go.
Backup media, since it is necessary to have machines read and interpret them, are an entirely different beast, subject to an entire chain of things to preserve. As I've commented before regarding BD-RE XL, my media and the Blu-Ray drive itself outlasted the system it was backing up, and therefore did their job, without any investment or wasting money on M-DISC "Engraved in Stone Tablets" for the gentiles.
And it was rather controversial that some listed a body as necessary for a GET request, and doing my research I came to find out that a "request body" was often quite undesirable and perhaps contrary to the RFC standards, and sending a "body" in a GET could result in undefined or unpredictable behavior. But it's all in good fun.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_India
It previously incorporated the symbol of Indian independence and nationalism, the charkha or spinning-wheel. This is not a sewing machine. A spinning wheel is part of a machine used to spin textile fibers into yarn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_wheel#Charkha
Gandhi loved the spinning wheel, but he was citing the Singer sewing machine specifically as a "useful device... with a romance" that was perhaps secondary to his love for the actual spinning wheel, which is stated clearly elsewhere in the same document.
For thousands of years, women were formerly respected and revered for their spinning talents and skills, in pagan and Christian societies alike: such as the Greek goddess of Wisdom, Athena [Minerva] whose symbols included the distaff; this same distaff was also synedoche for the matriarchal aspect of any family, and mentioned in Proverbs 31, as a tool of the industrious and devoted wife.
It is no accident that, in Romance languages, "machina" is a feminine noun. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/machina#Latin
It is an American Entertainment Industry misconception that victims (or anyone else) have the ability to tell the police or the prosecutors how and when to do their jobs.
Hypothetically, a private homeowner could choose not to report a break-in as a crime, since it wasn't violent, and it wasn't commercial property, and if the crooks are not gangstas or some other group-backed actor, then they could quietly put the crime to rest. This would also be a question of the insurance company's policy.
But if there were a crime that did damage, usually there is a question that comes up in the police report like, "as a victim, are you prepared to cooperate in the investigation?" and if you do not tick "yes" then you can probably count on nothing else being done whatsoever.
https://www.maricopa.gov/911/Remain-Silent
https://www.ajblawfirm.com/articles/understanding-pressing-c...
Isn't there a dedicated site called nohttps or something? NeverSSL? I just tried http NeverSSL, and it redirected me to an https page with a random hostname and an Amazon SSL certificate!
Does example.com still function this way, with http and no HSTS? I noticed that my Chrome browser was immediately redirected in the customary way.
That's why the EMTs and paramedics all cluster around car accident victims, asking whether they are conscious, so they can kill them already
"911, what is your emergency? ... Oh, your grandmother is unconscious? We'll send out our firing squad right away!"
https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01312b.htm
But we in the U.S.A. have cast off the chains of interdependence, and adopted the Enlightenment ethos of rugged individualism and consumerism that defines American values. Who needs grandparents, or husbands, or family support when we can train and pay mercenaries to care about us! All praise, glory and power be to our Constitution!
Basically the same tragedy is going on in Tempe, AZ. The City does not permit “soup kitchen” facilities, that is, you cannot open a building or cafeteria to feed the hungry, for free. Requires licensing which is not granted. So, churches that want to do this outreach anyway have long done “guerilla feeds” in public parks. It was tolerated for decades, but recently became controversial over permits and whether permits or reservations could even be used for that purpose, or if the City could prevent charitable dudes, church or no church, from making food and inviting strangers to a public park.
Sadly I never, ever put the 8 Pro in any case or protective shell, and the damage of repeated minor drops took its toll. The screen was just cracked a tiny bit around the corners, but eventually the upper-right corner began a creeping black amoeba of darkness, and finally the entire touchscreen became unreliable, I suppose due to that damage, so I decided to bail out. Repairs were exorbitant so I decided to take Google's own trade-in deal.
However, there is nothing preventing function/scope creep of these blocklists into things they should not be. Political bias, censorship, morality policing will trickle into blocklists. Furthermore these false positives are quite onerous for legit businesses and customers who sincerely want to connect. I've connected again to an ad-blocking DNS service, and many people may subscribe to filtering services, or simply be involuntarily subscribed, in the hopes that their Internet would stay usable, and scam-free.
I suppose this is the price to pay in low-trust society (wild and wooly Internet). I wonder if the Great Firewall of China obviates the need for their citizens to throw up such protective measures.
More generally, societal fatigue with tech culture overtaking everything, subsuming power from every other corner. Surveillance, the Zuck and Elon, COVID-19, immorality, Luigi Mangione and Elizabeth Holmes, a glut of cat videos and jackal-eared Wikipe-tans, delinquency of minors, 5G and everything else that technology can share some blame for, now focused on their visible manifestations.
The trouble is, once a danger becomes visible and ubiquitous, you’ve already lost. Fighting “A.I. Data Centres” is literally quixotic. If you look up “quixotic” in the Spanish Wikipedia, there is a photo of a chivalrous knight jousting with Nvidia’s CEO.
The unit you want is spelled “kW”. There really is a difference, especially when you’re inconsistently correcting someone else.
Sure, hungry working girl needs your $5 tip. Now she can have a Famous Star with fries. Story over. No, wait.
Porn money rapidly becomes dark money. Who takes cuts? It goes offshore. It goes to pimps, gangsters, gun runners? Who knows? You don’t care!
Are you opposed to human trafficking and slavery? No you’re not! That spicy OF that you like is part of your problem!
Perhaps Utah and other people with morals are worried about the compromise of their men and the patrons of porn. You can drain a lot of information, and money, and desperate action, from porn addicts. So if there is a statewide financial drain, a trade deficit, if you will, perhaps it is in Utah’s best interest to keep dirty money where they can see it, and prevent their men from falling victim to the whore who sits upon many waters.
Being that you're unwilling to name the vendor or brand, or even a proper link... it doesn't seem a rousing recommendation. Is it an affiliate link, I wonder.
Populations either have personal vehicles or they don’t. For many of my neighbors, “choosing to drive” is an absurd economic proposition. This choice involves paying for the car, the gas, the maintenance, and the insurance, at the very least. Maintaining your privilege, avoiding tickets and accidents, all a delicate urban ballet.
Cars are often assets that will save and even help you earn money, but it is a very interesting thing when the upper classes are incentivized to give up vehicle ownership, or eschew driving. When cars are not saving money & time, they become liabilities, and a millstone around your neck. Some people feel relieved to get rid of them.
Many people love cars and love driving, but car culture was foisted on the unwilling public by the military-industrial complex. You drive cars and have highways because of war. Now your soccer mom drives a toddler munching tank to her jobs. Think about it.
For many people, choosing to be Taylor Swift would be easier than “choosing to drive”. It’s either public transit, or bike/walk/stay home.
Tonto, dunno who "we" is but around my metro area, public drinking is rather tightly controlled.
I am not really aware of the laws around walking down a public sidewalk with a beer in hand. It is certainly gauche but a done-thing to sit at a bus stop and have a Fireball or two.
However, any drinking establishment that serves alcohol will stop you at the door and won't permit anyone to carry drinks outside of their premises. That's a strict thing. My apartment community bans drinking in walkways and stairwells, which was probably done more by non-residents than my neighbors. So there are a lot of bans on public drinking, even if it is not blanket-outlawed.
A couple of major developments at the shopping mall, though: traditionally all American movie theaters were dry, but that rule has been relaxed, and even the major chains are serving alcohol now. At the mall there has been instituted a "sip & stroll" policy, where designated bars can serve you a plastic cup, and you can roam around the mall with drink-in-hand, as long as you observe the borders of it, where you can't walk into the parking lot or off-premises with your booze.
In general, I have seen many liquor-related laws be relaxed and lightened across my county and state. It seems that there's a general lack of will to crack down on the demand-side, when there is lots and lots of profit to be had on the healthcare-side, where you will get a diagnosis and medication and treatment, whether that is IOP or in-patient, so why not encourage more drinkers to overindulge? Broken window fallacy FTW!
tar cf - . | ( cd /new/path; tar xpf - )
I believe that my motivation was that the Unix wars were still raging hotly; as a sysadmin I needed portable skills and I wasn't tied or certified to one vendor's Unix, and therefore I sought out idioms that worked on SunOS, HP/UX, AIX, BSD, you name it. "cp -r" didn't enjoy that stable support at the time.
Now that I have eaten of it as well, I want to testify to the good that it did in me. My "love life" was full of failures, and terrible relations with my female peers. I realized eventually that I didn't honestly know what love was, or how to be a husband, much less a father.
It was a few years ago when I came across a handful of pornographic scenes that opened my eyes to what people mean by "consent" and what a really loving relationship could look like, as a "fly on the wall". Because it had never played out in front of me until then, I didn't know what it looked like, or sounded like or felt like when people were consenting to intimacy, enjoying that intimacy, accepting their partner, and encouraging them for more. It was literally just beyond my experience, and when I saw it, I was so ashamed of myself.
I was ashamed of how I'd treated women and I was sad because they had treated me so badly, and I hadn't even the guts to say "no". I try not to "belong" to an incel community or foster bitterness to women for how I am, but my gender ID and my sexuality have been thoroughly ruined, even without so much porn. Just from imbibing pop culture depictions, and all the singers, and MTV, and actresses, and fake sitcoms and films that warped my self-image along with warping my reality into fantasy.
Porn addiction isn't moral, and there are many, many ways for a man to be trapped by porn into worse and worse mental health, ruining his RL relationships as well. But it seems that women are empowered to use all their qualifications and gifts to earn a living and provide for themselves and families, and even sincerely follow their faith and conscience to worship the demons that fuel porn. So who am I to judge that they do the needful, because we capitalists live by PT Barnum's maxim, "There's a Sucker Born Every Minute".
Sulfites and sulfates are very different, though related, and the sulfites are the things in question that have required warning labels.
I hate to be the grammar scold constantly, but swapping "i" for "a" is a weird category error and it's quite the deadly difference, like lowercasing "MegaBytes/MebiBytes" or capitalizing "kilobits per second", geez.
Chemistry has a lot of fiddly notation. My mother summed it up thus:
Johnny was a chemist.
Johnny is no more!
What Johnny thought was H2O, was H2SO4!Seriously though, there seem to be many considerate people out in traffic, and oftentimes I am the rudest one on the road, for whatever reason. I do not drive, but I find that queueing up and boarding the bus all the time, that people are generally real polite one-on-one, but also extraordinarily inconsiderate to the collective, insofar as flouting rules and breaching etiquette in crazy ways all the time. And the same goes for my neighbors around here, who seem to go out of their way to irritate others, and oftentimes I snap.
Perhaps it is an artifact or side-effect of DEI, multiculturalism, melting-pot mentality, in the big city, that really there is no common culture or common manners to any of us, and mostly people are out for their own interests. It is extremely common in American cities for road-rage escalations to violence and death. Surely the news outlets cannot even report the accidents and fatalities from people simply losing their temper whilst operating motor vehicles. And we're back to the EMT grind.
I believe that a lot of people accused of xenophobia, or hating immigrants, are actually frustrated by a loss of culture, or a dilution, and the inexorable pressure to cope with increasing diversity of cultures around us, which is simply inhuman and unworkable, IMHO. You can't solve it by mass-deporting or any human strategy. But people who share heritage and share common values are more likely to get along daily, than a crucible of ethnicities, tribes, and subcultures, that are all asserting their supremacy or dominance over one another.