Posts by tknarr@mstdn.social
(DIR) Post #Aid7m3NjS5EqnKQAy0 by tknarr@mstdn.social
2024-06-05T21:36:00Z
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@stux I suspect most teens are familiar with how to use the Internet safely. The problem is most of the damage comes from the very people we'd teach them are acceptable: family, schoolmates and so on. We don't teach them how to deal with the same things in the real world very well either.
(DIR) Post #Ak1Ua3xQxWtREUldtg by tknarr@mstdn.social
2024-07-17T13:36:42Z
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@stux Status mostly. Poor people needed the space for gardens. Not needing to use that space for a garden meant you had enough money not to need to grow your own food. Snakes... I don't buy it, grass hides snakes well enough even when cut short.Clear space for a firebreak is another good reason, but usually you just cut down the brush and shrubbery and don't plant yet more vegetation that can burn and needs cut regularly.
(DIR) Post #Ak64MApoy0s7URisO8 by tknarr@mstdn.social
2024-07-19T18:22:19Z
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@zorinlynx Has it cost CrowdStrike in any tangible way? They haven't even lost any customers since those customers are locked into contracts. This is the fundamental problem.
(DIR) Post #AleBNGGhbOqNUAumxM by tknarr@mstdn.social
2024-09-04T03:27:17Z
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@stux My "no" vote doesn't mean I think every citizen should be able to own every type of firearm. Some types should be flat-out illegal. Some citizens with problems in their background (mental health issues, history of violent crime, etc.) should never be allowed to own any firearm. Regular safety exams and range time (at the owner's expense) to maintain proficiency should be mandatory too.
(DIR) Post #AmKqhw22IE83Z2LfEW by tknarr@mstdn.social
2024-09-24T17:28:20Z
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@stux Have you seen the Russian movie "Guardians" (2017)? Arsus, the big werebear, would make a good model for the bears. :)
(DIR) Post #AnQ2cCfXHK3NvTtpOi by tknarr@mstdn.social
2024-10-27T03:27:27Z
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@stux I'd love to be able to redraw the timezone boundaries completely. Start with not solar noon but sunrise and sunset on the solstices and equinoxes. Split the difference so "noon" is midway through daylight, then offset it based on a normal workday (I figure 1 hour would do it, 7am-7pm is more reasonable than 6am-6pm). Then find a best-fit curve between those 4 centerlines and run it through Greenwich as GMT/UTC.
(DIR) Post #AnkhuXLhcdfY8Jn9oO by tknarr@mstdn.social
2024-11-06T02:44:21Z
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@stux It's not the voting part that's hard. It's doing it in a way that's both a) resistant to fraud and b) guarantees ballot anonymity.
(DIR) Post #Aofkkn9L6A5oJTSequ by tknarr@mstdn.social
2024-12-03T15:14:48Z
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@stux If you want fun, look for trailers/cutscenes of Lord Vauthry from FFXIV. The character still hits the mark.
(DIR) Post #AqJJEitd3dekTX6iAa by tknarr@mstdn.social
2025-01-21T15:06:55Z
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@stux Whining that they got gyped on their tickets to the Inauguration and can't get refunds.
(DIR) Post #Ar9pd0p2KpI6AIxS4G by tknarr@mstdn.social
2025-02-15T23:14:56Z
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@stux Putin can accept or refuse peace, too. And if Putin refuses it, Ukraine has to choose between war or being conquered.
(DIR) Post #AvG2h2xsPlhbxxB7LM by tknarr@mstdn.social
2025-06-18T14:37:54Z
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@stux @jorijn Does Postgres have the TCP port enabled? Common configuration is to use a unix socket only, which works for vanilla localhost but doesn't work when you need a real TCP socket to connect to.
(DIR) Post #AwjEmCp0fLxttWiIqW by tknarr@mstdn.social
2025-08-01T04:29:07Z
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Just got the news, Tugrik died after a long series of medical problems. You probably don't recognize the name if you're not in furry fandom, but if you have a Wi-Fi hotspot with cel backhaul? He built the first one for Burning Man. You like how well GPS works on your phone? He was a key part of the AGPS installs that allow that. He was one of the good ones.
(DIR) Post #AzaTK7HQVzryXISP44 by tknarr@mstdn.social
2025-10-26T02:38:59Z
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@stux Think of it as the amount of US Treasury bonds issued, including what's held by our Social Security Administration as the supposed "trust fund".
(DIR) Post #AzaU3eYjdA5kmTGaTQ by tknarr@mstdn.social
2025-10-26T02:47:15Z
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@stux My response to them is "Have they done any velocity changes?". If they were ships of any sort, they'd be using those flybys to adjust course. They aren't. Ergo, they're not ships (or if they are they're dead hulks). Exotic drives don't matter, we might not be able to detect the drive but you can't hide a change in velocity.
(DIR) Post #B06P4HvpPtZT3o06Yi by tknarr@mstdn.social
2025-11-08T15:23:11Z
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@stux Caveat: you can earn money gambling if you stick only to games like poker where you're playing against the other players _and_ you understand the game and the odds and have the stainless-steel nerves it takes to follow the odds no matter how attractive the current opportunity looks. Oh, and you know how to read other people really really well.
(DIR) Post #B0YTLdjrrFoClyyIiG by tknarr@mstdn.social
2025-11-24T01:21:57Z
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@stux One reason to stay: lots of punching targets?
(DIR) Post #B0v37dLzeWiLRXQC2q by tknarr@mstdn.social
2025-12-04T22:46:27Z
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@stux Because at some point it became unacceptable to tell them to their faces "You're a shithead, get lost.".
(DIR) Post #B1iJvjDzU9DkbwNWgC by tknarr@mstdn.social
2025-12-28T17:15:39Z
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@stux Third-person sneaker, a la Thief. Your objective is to build your webs in desirable places while avoiding other insects that want to eat you (and cultivating relationships with ones that can help you).
(DIR) Post #B1v6uRDeAfAu83kd2e by tknarr@mstdn.social
2026-01-03T21:20:57Z
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@stux Worse, he seems to think the real world works like board games. Unfortunately for him, capturing the leader does NOT give you control over that country.
(DIR) Post #B25IEwnQCMFnz6NjZA by tknarr@mstdn.social
2025-12-25T17:55:34Z
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@briankrebs I suspect that label means "The firmware doesn't contain the mandatory hooks for the Chinese government.".