Posts by randrews@somewhy.net
(DIR) Post #B079y0eTRhJfZlOK0W by randrews@somewhy.net
2025-11-10T21:07:40Z
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@francisscottkey It literally says on the lower right corner of the image "nothing on this page is real." A five second search shows this is fake news.
(DIR) Post #B095RRbmBr0Y7hGWi8 by randrews@somewhy.net
2025-11-11T19:21:21Z
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@kaia Where did the whole "Dubai chocolate" thing come from? I mean Dubai, obviously, but why did everyone overnight decide that regular chocolate wasn't good enough? What even makes Dubai better at that? Anything?
(DIR) Post #B0ErAxlMwFiSCd3cVE by randrews@somewhy.net
2025-11-14T14:09:33Z
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@kaia Kind of like the repeated "walls are closing in" headlines about Trump, during his first term.
(DIR) Post #B0oRTn5r9upAoZFhSK by randrews@somewhy.net
2025-12-01T17:25:08Z
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@Gran3Walder Lol not even close
(DIR) Post #B15ATLWRGyN9lpCtA8 by randrews@somewhy.net
2025-12-09T19:56:00Z
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@magicalthinking I feel like this makes a lot of assumptions about what's in my house. 😀
(DIR) Post #B1Dr1rd49nPuX87zxQ by randrews@somewhy.net
2025-12-14T00:29:39Z
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@kaia It's apparently also known as "first spaceship on venus." I found a torrent for an MST3K episode mocking it, but yeah, not one of the normal movie.
(DIR) Post #B1DrI79UD8gxJI2bnU by randrews@somewhy.net
2025-12-14T00:31:24Z
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@kaia Oh no, spoke too soon, I did find a torrent for it, on a private site.
(DIR) Post #B1FyrXL3vfh2epDHvc by randrews@somewhy.net
2025-12-15T00:47:53Z
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Man... fun day. Played board games with some friends:- Frank's Zoo, a game that was nominated for Spiel des Jahres... in 2000. Weird and interesting trick taking game- Finally finished all of the Fellowship of the Ring trick taking game, in time to start the Two Towers one on New Years Eve ('ringing' in the new year)- Played Magic with some crazy proxy decks, won once and almost won the second game (1 turn away...)
(DIR) Post #B1NPscqiz38IuIUD0S by randrews@somewhy.net
2025-12-18T14:36:23Z
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@kaia Aw, bummer. I'll miss you!
(DIR) Post #B1iRTaEe76CGFum8Nk by randrews@somewhy.net
2025-12-28T18:37:51Z
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@kaia I love that apparently Italy doesn’t use the Italian-suited deck
(DIR) Post #B1lG1CcvmMQguEHL3Q by randrews@somewhy.net
2025-12-30T00:54:17Z
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@scenesbycolleen I really like this one! The ship looks really good.
(DIR) Post #B29xOjpM90JjPYui9Y by randrews@somewhy.net
2026-01-10T18:46:10Z
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@light I used to work for a company that did DNA sequencing. It's an acknowledged fact in that industry that some of the people who buy those profiles want them because there are dating sites that make you prove you're white enough.Our position was, we deliver accurate data regardless of why you want it. Although we did think it was funny that they were ordering this from a company owned and run by two Ashkenazi Jews.
(DIR) Post #B29xOn1AHYXtJ3SgTY by randrews@somewhy.net
2026-01-11T00:36:04Z
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@cy @light > insane people who think that race is a thingRace is absolutely a thing. You can look at a sample of someone's DNA and determine what race they are. That's the entire point of DNA testing.The idea that some races are inherently better than others, or that you can tell characteristics about an individual (like, morality, intelligence, whatever) from that, no, that's stupid. But "race" exists and is measurable.
(DIR) Post #B2ELkhu59VaDLcyLpo by randrews@somewhy.net
2026-01-13T04:06:18Z
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@OpenComputeDesign I think it's a good idea to give cops some latitude in deciding what's actually causing a problem vs what is technically illegal but should be ignored. Not doing that leads to, essentially, homeowner's associations.On the other hand that latitude can itself cause problems, so, you also gotta hire good people as cops. Otherwise they ignore people they like committing crimes and hassle people they don't like.
(DIR) Post #B2IyO40FUj3W4XtFxY by randrews@somewhy.net
2025-12-12T06:04:54Z
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@OpenComputeDesign @trevdev Not just those, anything the user might not want network operators aware that they're looking at, anything that might be private.Which still isn't everything but it's a broader set.
(DIR) Post #B2IyO85MJfWIjYJOTo by randrews@somewhy.net
2025-12-12T22:12:19Z
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@OpenComputeDesign @light @trevdev I think if you need _perfect_ privacy then yeah https isn't gonna cut it, even tor won't work. 1/2.
(DIR) Post #B2IyO8xF5KcbQfWQT2 by randrews@somewhy.net
2025-12-12T22:12:28Z
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@OpenComputeDesign @light @trevdev 2/2 My thing is more, I don't think that makes https useless: someone snooping my traffic on hotel wifi will see some encrypted packets going to cloudflare for a dns-over-https query, then some more encrypted packets going to an address in probably-AWS.Whereas without that, they'd see a plaintext DNS query for whatever.com, followed by an HTTP GET / to whatever.com. Significantly easier
(DIR) Post #B2WBUBmd1lJ28Rnesa by randrews@somewhy.net
2026-01-21T18:07:37Z
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@Rocket "Democrats control the House and have a bare majority in the Senate." This is the thing that can never happen again. Last time, I avoided becoming a felon by one vote; so did a lot of people. All the rest of it is irrelevant; if they're ever again in a position where they can remove the filibuster then it's over.
(DIR) Post #B2WiIKkTAN5qx7kERU by randrews@somewhy.net
2026-01-22T00:35:48Z
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@sj_zero I like to think of it as a "luck surface area." Imagine that opportunity just randomly shoots around all the time. What are the odds of one hitting you? Those odds increase if you hang around interesting people, go to meetups for whatever your industry is, try out weird stuff and publish it, etc.
(DIR) Post #B2jMObdpJgTaSlFSL2 by randrews@somewhy.net
2026-01-28T02:43:28Z
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@vitalis I say it all the time, but, I’m pretty outdated.