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A funny thing about the "stages of grief" is that they are a total myth and the originator of the hypothesis never intended them to be abused this way. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross did he…

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I rented a car last July, and I specifically picked out a small one because I wouldn't need to carry any cargo or passengers around. As soon as I drove off the lot, 3 warning indic…

"Not Gonna Lie": https://youtu.be/_ru0pnAnq7g?si=fKwnDNkRz6XQKDz5

Sure, there's more than one way to skin a cat. There are lots of non-technical users who navigate purely by doing a "google search" on whatever domain they're aiming for, too. Nobo…

You may be surprised to learn that there are many types of botnets out there, and many use DNS queries for the C&C. Although the GP wrote "53/tcp" that is a weird situation, becaus…

"installing software" sometimes still consists of curl | bash So if you want to have a conversation about trusting curl and bash and random gists... Like I said, I installed softwa…

Look we are talking about computers here. Computers don't understand or exercise actual trust as you describe it. Actual trust doesn't make computers work at all, because it doesn'…

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The US Civil War was along territorial lines, of course, and "Electric Boogaloo" will defy those clear delineations. I believe we are seeing more of a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…

While it is true that Silicon Graphics eventually acquired Cray Computer, they did it after the novel, and the film's release, but I would suppose that even before the 1996 acquisi…

Once, back around 2011 or 2012, I was using Google Translate for a speech I was to deliver in church. It was shorter than one page printed out. I only needed the Spanish translatio…

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Well there is no "European military" per se and there will be no "Russia invades Europe" scenario, because "Europe" is a continent and not a sovereign nation. What would happen is …

I mean actually the FSV that you refer to is a clone of the SGI IRIX utility, fsn , that was actually depicted on a live computer in the film. SGI was well-known to the film indust…

What I'm talking about is actual trust. Like, there are cryptographic measures taken, certificates involved, code signing, that kind of thing. You claim that you "can install anyth…

No, that is not how you change search engines. In Chrome on Android (and yeah, on desktop too) you just go into "Settings" and change your default search engine. I can choose betwe…

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SMS is very widespread in the United States. All the B2C services I work with are sending SMS to my phone. Not RCS, not iMessage: they are sending SMS messages. All the MFA provide…

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It was hilarious when I checked the movie listings for this week and found Greenland 2 in its opening run. So I went to YouTube and rented Greenland (2010) . It was a hoot! https:/…