But we’ve seen so many “tomorrow guys, it’ll all come crashing down tomorrow” that we’ve become quite numb to them.

This kind of thing goes on very slowly until it doesn’t. Collapse of Soviet Union back in the day had various events for several years contributing to the eventual total collapse but the final stage (or whatever you want to call it) took only few months. Obviously situation today is very different than back in the 90’s, but it gives at least some perspective on what might be expected.

I don’t have any idea how close the total collapse is today and I’m not sure anyone really has, but cracks are starting to show and assuming things progress like they’ve been for the last couple of years it seems like pace is definetly increasing.

Jet Lag: the Game. Available on Youtube and Nebula.

I’ve done quite a bit of freelance work and visited various office spaces with multiple companies in a single building. It was pretty common just to call to the building reception and tell them that I’m working for this-and-that-company upcoming weekend for their network stuff and I’d need access to network cabinets and whatnot and they’d have keys ready for me with very little (if any) verification if I’m actually doing what I’m supposed to or if I am who I claim to be. Some of the locations just handed me keys with access to practically everything, including shared server rooms hosting their CCTV setup, key managing servers and all.

So, just get a name tag with a local operator logo and clothes to match and ask nicely. You’ll get access to a lot more than you think.

Vaalidatan pitäisi pysyä Ruotsissa eikä kopioitua esimerkiksi Amazonin palvelimille Yhdysvaltoihin.

Eikös 365-pilvessä ole klasuuli että datat siirtyy jenkkehin jos sille sattuu teknistä tarvetta olemaan, muutoin pysyvät Irlannissa (tms). Tästä oli kanssa jotain pientä kahinaa aikanaan, mutta käsittääkseni yhtään mitään ei tapahtunut vaikka tuo Microsoftin pilvi taitaa olla poliisihallintoa myöten käytössä. Olettaisin että AWS:n kanssa on sama homma.

Ja vaikka nyt kaikki menisi teknisesti aivan täydellisen nappiin niin tuo antaa nyt silti kaikenlaiselle valitukselle, foliohattuteorioille ja muille ilmiöille melko mehevän pohjan minkä päälle rakentaa. Mielummin vaikka tehdään tukkimihen kirjanpitoa kynällä ja paperilla koko valtakunnan vaalien kanssa kuin annetaan nuo datat mihinkään valtakunnan ulkopuolisen toimijan alustalle. Kotimaiset kaupallisetkin toimijat ovat vähän niin ja näin, mieluiten näkisin että homma hoidetaan ihan valtion omana työnä, omalla raudalla ja omassa verkossa.

En kovin syvällisesti vielä ehtinyt tuohon perehtymään, mutta ensimmäinen ajatus jo pelkästään otsikosta oli että nyt jumalauta stuntti seis. Olkoot konesalit missä hyvänsä niin ne on jenkkifirman vehkeitä ja sinne on siten pääsy jenkkien valtakoneistolla, jossa on tällähetkellä varsin räikeänoransssina hehkuvia ongelmia. Sillä ei ole edes ihan hirveästi merkitystä mitä dataa sinne tallennetaan, ainakin niin pitkään kun se on jotain muuta kuin ylen tulossivut tms millä ei ole konkreettisen lopputuloksen kannalta niin merkitystä.

Kyllähän noita kotimaisia tekijöitäkin olisi tarjolla jos ei omaa osaamista löydy tai jos nyt pakko on johonkin kilpailuttaa niin toimijoita on pitkin eurooppaa valita asti. Mutta ei, jenkkien syliin vain niinkuin kaikki muukin julkishallinto. Siellä makaa onedrivessä ja sharepointeissa ties kuinka paljon meidän dataa vailla minkäänlaista huolenhäivää ja tämä(kään) tilanne ei näköjään mene parempaan suuntaan ennenkuin on ihan oikeasti ruskeaa kunnolla ropeleissa jos sittenkään.

Se ei taida edes olla tarpeen. Eri asia sitten kelpuuttaako edes Venäjän armeija Anoa mukaan erikoisoperaatioon. Tervemenoa jokatapauksessa, ehkä joku seiska joskus tekee jutun miten auvoisaa elo siellä onkaan.

English is not my native language and for whatever reason that makes text almost unreadable. But no worries, I can feed that to copilot to clean up:

Can you replace those strange characters to normal from this text: Beautiful! I had þis vinyl, once. Lost wiþ so many þings over þe course of a life.

Absolutely! Here’s your cleaned-up version with the unusual characters replaced by their standard English equivalents:

“Beautiful! I had this vinyl, once. Lost with so many things over the course of a life.”

Let me know if you’d like it stylized or rewritten in a different tone—poetic, nostalgic, modern, anything you like.

But it’s not ‘gaming’, it’s ‘learning’. And for all of those there’s plenty of walktroughs around if you get stuck. I’m currently playing the newest Monkey island and it has the spirit of old titles, but it has a ‘hint book’ where you can just practically skip puzzles you can’t figure answer for. That one relies heavily on the old games at the story tho, so it may not be the best one to start with.

But yeah, that might be a concern. You can try a lot of those out at Internet Archive before setting up a dosbox, so it’s atleast cheap to try and see how it goes.

Get old LucasArts SCUMM games for them. Secret of Monkey Island, Indiana Jones, Day of the Tentacle and so on. With those you need to understand English for both understanding the story and to actually progress the game.

I would choose this too. Probability that I’ll win lottery next week would be nice to adjust. Also probability of getting sick/staying alive. And as I’m (allegedly) slowly getting older: Probability that I’ll wake up tomorrow well rested in a good shape and nothing hurts.

Scratch is good, but if you want something with a bit of syntax search for Basic256 (or any other basic interpreter). There’s also games like Autonauts which have basic programming in them (altough Autonauts gets pretty complex on higher levels).

I’m also looking to learn about esp32 and I’m just sanity checking that this is a reasonable thing to do with one.

It sure can do what you’re after. Most likely not on it’s own, you’ll need a mosfet or a transistor as esp32 likely can’t handle the current your light uses. There’s plenty of tutorials on how to do the electronics, but cat least you need a mosfet with gate voltage below 5V and a resistor, both are very cheap. Just be careful with the esp32, it’s pretty easy to accidentally kill it with a short circuit or miswire.

And while you’re at it, esp32 can manage a ton of stuff beyond just blinking an led. You can add light/temperature/movement/whatever sensors, a button to manually toggle the light and whatever else you might think is useful and/or fun to have. It’s pretty much a generic purpose computer after all.

If I browse a piece of software from play store and click ‘install’ it’s “installing” and if I do the very same with F-droid it’s suddenly “sideloading”. Fundamentally every language is just made up, but on this occasion the newly coined term is used to obfuscate things and attempting to paint things something they are not.

I can claim all day that grass is blue and sky is green, but no one will take me seriously. Same thing should happen with ‘sideloading’ vs 'installing. Or if you really insist, sideloading might be something like injecting code to a system in a way which is not normally possible, like how some rootkits for devices work. But ‘sideloading’ is very different from ‘installing’ and installing anything on a general purpose computer doesn’t include any particular tool (like play store). I can install things on my workstation with ‘apt-get install’ or from source via ‘make install’, but the end result is still that a piece of software was installed.

I always killed processes with ps -ef | grep <process-name>

From top man-page global commands:

• k :Kill-a-task

       You will be prompted for a PID and then the signal to send.
  

Last time they tried our grandparents took 105 days to beat Russia with very little formal military and even less hardware. Sure, we had some help back then too, but today it’s on a whole different level. And we’re just a single small country up north, NATO as a whole is quite a bit bigger.

Russia currently has lost million soldiers and stockpiles of soviet relics are pretty much empty with a strong breeze away from total economy collapse. They don’t have power to conquer a potato field from a modern western country right now, much less against the whole global west.

Since the question is ‘vehicle’: Massey-Ferguson 165. Or if you insist a car: Opel Kadett C.

Give users that choice

That’s the one thing they want to get rid of. Security and other bullshit is just a theater around it to get validation for even bigger walls for their garden.

Whole thing is well worth a read, but just from the title alone I was ready to write a long rant about the term ‘sideloading’. Gladly that’s covered on the text too:

It bears reminding that “sideload” is a made-up term. Putting software on your computer is simply called “installing”, regardless of whether that computer is in your pocket or on your desk.

Where in the FUCK in Outlook currently is an option to use preformatted text? It’s not a style I could pick nor I could find an option to make my own. I send copy-paste from terminal every now and then and if it’s formatted like normal text it’s nearly useless. It used to be a text style I could pick, but this new-new-new-classic-new outlook doesn’t have it anymore.

Well, I guess it is safe to assume you are an enthusiastic murderer.

As it happens, I am. I wander around doing all the murdering I want to. It just happens to be none at all.