Oh, is it because decades of incompetence and corruption weakened their already crumbling military? Their lack of a strong economy to support the war effort? Is it because they’re relying on Soviet leftovers instead of modern equipment? The fact their enemy is a motivated, supplied with actually decent munitions by modern/rich countries, and has a competent chain of command?

What do I win?

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They almost certainly have in house legal teams and those lawyers are salaried.

My toolbag calipers are cheap hardware store ones. They’re accurate enough and I’m not out much when they inevitably get damaged or lost.

You know it’s bad when you recognize the user name.

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Dolly Parton

You can’t just mention D&D and Satanic Panic without sharing the Chick Tract.

You know you’re old when young people confidently explain to you things you witnessed first hand. Like Dee Snyder testifying in a Senate hearing.

Having read the paper, there seems to be a glaring problem: Even though the user can’t tell an attacker the password, nothing is stopping them from demonstrating the password. It doesn’t matter if it’s an interactive sequence – the user is going to remember enough detail to describe the “prompts”.

A rubber hose and a little time will get enough information to make a “close enough” mock-up of the password entry interface the trusted user can use to reveal the password.

Also Disney once told a family no multiple times regarding putting Spider-Man on their dead child’s tombstone.

This is one of those situations where it’s better to ask forgiveness than permission. Even the most cold-hearted corporate ghoul is going to understand the cost/benefit of going after that family isn’t remotely worth it.

Yeah, the lawyers are going to say “no”. But even if they’re stupid enough to sue: some suit that isn’t a moron is going to tell them to drop it during the ensuing PR nightmare, and the family will be swimming in donations.

Or buy a Epipremnum aureum – the houseplant that will laugh at your attempts to kill it.

The plant has a number of common names including golden pothos, Ceylon creeper,hunter’s robe, ivy arum, silver vine, Solomon Islands ivy, and taro vine. It is also called devil’s vine or devil’s ivy because it is almost impossible to kill and it stays green even when kept in the dark.

Wikipedia

I’m running a Venstar Colortouch thermostat. They’re not cheap, but they have a local API and there’s a Homeassistant integration.

The world got on fine before the internet too.

I’ve used these apps – when I was quarantining because I had Covid, wasn’t in a state to drive, and needed food.

I don’t use them anymore, but these types of apps can fill a “need”.

Oh, I thought it was because those instances are home to communities of obnoxious assholes.

If not wanting to interact with those idiots means I’m “in an echo chamber” … ok.

The latest lemmy update allows users to block entire instances.

My lemmy experience has been 100 times better with hexbear and lemmygrad blocked.

Another mirror has the original comments. They’re exactly what you’d expect from 2001.

The Dems have run relative leftists in the past: Bernie Sanders was on the primary ballot in 2020 … and lost.

If you want to blame anyone: look at our fellow “voters”. Asking my under-30 coworkers if they voted in the primary and/or the general election was depressing as fuck.

… I thought Lunix was invented by the infamous Soviet computer hacker Linyos Torovoltos.