someone genuinely interested for intellectual reasons would likely not fall for it. I would imagine that a non-trivial percentage of “antiquity enjoyers” are very light on history substance and heavy on history feelz.

once the appropriate brain tickles have been pushed into their heads their “history substance” feed content becomes decidedly propagandized.

I understand your point here, but the “both sides bad” really loses the plot when the death, destruction and suffering by the most innocent is astronomically asymmetrical.

at this juncture I don’t give a shit if every combatant is the devil himself. stop the flow of kid killing weaponry and get appropriate humanitarian aid in.

20fucking24 and we still cannot pull our thumbs out of our collective asses, put the homicidal money machine into neutral and stop mowing down kids. fuck us all, every goddamn one of us.

brutalist take, but likely the correct one :-(

thanks for the update!

yeah, the abiogenesis idea has been around since the 1950s-ish, I think. it comes and goes, but never seems to get fully debunked. current tepid consensus seems to be that its a plausible earth geo-process, but likely only a very, very minor contributor on this world.

really apprreciate the interaction. :-)

so, quite literally there were non trivial stores of energy dense hydrocarbons available almost immediately after the permian? thats pretty wild.

any real evidence for large amounts of abiogenic oil, or is this still on the weird end of strange?

til 👍

as is traditional, one of our corporate innovators seeks to protect citizens (never simply consumers, no, no!) with a defensive patent - sure to now be locked away in a safe until natural corporate patent expiration 1000 years hence.

now and forevermore we shalll sing in praise of this beneficent corporate citizen and their efficacious lawyerly thrust deep into the heart of our once inevitable (but now vanquished) future boring dystopia of ads beamed directly into our brains 24/7.

ever get the feeling that devil’s blood really is the final “fuck you, mammals!” from the dinosaurs?

the Rust kernel could be many years away from being finished.

the number I saw floating around was 3 years to production useful. regardless, C’s end days as the go-to, large systems level language are drawing nigh.

edit: tear

asm? ha! back in my day we were hammering ones and zeros into clay tablets.

gotcha. you likely know this already, but throw a little ddrescue - data recovery tool at it and let it marinate for a while.

however, depending on the state of the drive and ddrescue recovery option intensity, there might not be much left of the drive once it melts through the desk.

have fun!

not that you shouldn’t replace the drive anyway, but…

depending on the drive epoch (I am guessing its ide/ata not ST-506) you could try a factory format. with the right drive and phase of the moon, the on-drive controller may actually go off and do it for real instead of faking it. its usually worth a try an old drive just for funsies.

no worries.

the net effect of client separation is that your device sees no other layer 2 devices on the wlan besides the gateway. this would typically be enforced at the frame level by the APs and is separate from any radio privacy cryptography.

a properly configured wireless setup would assume every client is compromised and would also disallow local client-client via source routing or proxy ARP or any other escape options. 100% secure? probably not, but its a non trivial barrier that would have to be circumvented.

as with e.g. broken WEP years ago, there are still options to mess with clients at ~Layer 1 but I dont believe its currently as trivial as it used to be.

most properly configured public wifi will enable client separation, of course that potentially still leaves lower level protocol and radio attacks.

…that wireless mac is looking suspiciously shopped and non-existent.

the web. where spiders are spiders, fireflies are spiders and researchers… are probably spiders.

all important¹ parties to this slaughter are in perfect agreement with each other. all of this has been normal and within acceptable parameters.

¹ non-Palestinians

my house just put in $50. would likely not have scraped the barrel for that and done just the usual local/state donations.

see, dems… this is how you juice up your base and get the grass roots hands/feet/wallet support flowing.

now fucking win and fucking deliver. our children are out of time.

…taking the total killed since protests began in July to at least 283.

Mobile internet was tightly restricted.

what a world. :-|

no hanging first? I like the cut of your jib!