thefurdrake

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by thefurdrake 3y ago
> Is this supposed to manipulate me? Low-effort, low-investment "journalists" whose trash-tier writing styles are facing a serious existential threat now that AI chat bots can produce content superior to their standard mind-num
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
This seems like a behavior from a government that can be trusted to have access to all encrypted communications traffic from its citizens. This is definitely confidence inspiring.
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
> “Upon pilot ejection, the aircraft is designed to erase (or ‘zeroize’) all secure communication.” So much for that reading comprehension. > So you assumed it. I worked loading crypto on aircraft. Stop running your mouth.
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
You should ask this question somewhere that isn't deep in a minor argument with another user rather than following my user profile :)
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Oh? Which ones?
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
If you read the article, you'd see that the claim is that the storm is only a datapoint in the pattern of worsening weather events, which does, in fact, have supporting evidence-- weather events are growing more intense and more common
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Ah, but it is equivalent. It makes an absurd statement about being able to predict and correlate the effects or not of a phenomenon we have evidence of occurring in the past numerous times. Because climate change is real and observable with
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
He probably wants to protect his prime number. Smart lad.
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Well. That was an adventure. I'm not going to lie, I laughed. A lot. This was one of those moments where the broader internet floods into a niche corner of existence, and it's kind of fascinating to see just how sharply internet c
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
I wasn't putting words in your mouth, I was lampooning your position by making an equivalent statement.
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
> I wrapped the wire around a circular bottle, then counted the number of loops, and then multiplied it by the size of a single turn Somebody arrest this kid; he's gonna figure out RSA encryption next! ... That's really clever,
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
> Perhaps specific phrases that are only likely to appear in military documents, or a classification level in a header/footer, or even some specific combination of font, font weight, line spacing and indentation. Do you have any ide
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
You are not committing a crime or doing anything special by finding and sharing this information (/unless/ you are read in to whatever program may or may not require one to protect it). The crime was performed by the performed lea
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
8 years is a... pretty long time for a murdered google product, at least?
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
> What a joke. Severe weather, including rain even worse than this, could have occurred even if there were no climate change. "I've coughed before while I'm healthy, that means the common cold is a lie; could have occurred
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Who?
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
The lack of difference is that the functional result appears to be the same based on observation.
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Homophobic would be appropriate, yes, but that's not what the was claimed, and there's nothing else related to sex/gender in my response to him, so I guess that's the angle he's going for.
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
"Taking the dick" is arguably a sexist position. I disagree, but it's a tiresome argument that isn't worth having. Going on about it would distract, which is what the point of the objection was; that's why he led wi
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Shutting up is always the optimal path. Edit: Not that Russia 10 years ago was a country known for its respect for rule of law...
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
> Please refrain from insults and crude sexist personal attacks. It violates the site rules, and weakens the effectiveness of your argument. Fair enough. (Edit: What I said isn't sexist and it won't ever be, but this guy seems
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
If the device is illegal in the UK, that definitely changes things.
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
I'm definitely not a sniper. But anti-reflective devices have been designed, sold, and presumably used. These devices are designed to mitigate against human eyes. Modern cameras are way more powerful than the human eye. Even if you onl
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
> He didn't just mouth off, he claimed that he could use the device to circumvent their access badge control system through cloning. It doesn't matter. What is allowed inside and what is not allowed inside of an airport should
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
> large subset of people [citation needed]
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
> "[...]done at the discretion of airport security personnel and not part of an aiport-wide mandate." Turbo get fucked. Yeah, I'll even take the downvotes for vulgarity on this one. This is a bald-faced statement: "W
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
I'm a single person who bought a house for himself. ... definitely a minority situation, though. Did a dig, though: "The latest number is considered unaffordable by common lending standards, which call for a 28 percent debt-to-inc
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
I hear Walgreens is pretty bad, too. Not whataboutism-- this seems to be universal right now?
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
I'd expect to be paid the same amount for accomplishing the same tasks. It's not that hard to comprehend.
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Assuming this actually works (I /assume/ this is based off of passive lens flare detection???), this is easily countered with a bunch of 300 dollar drones with 120 dollar off the shelf optics attached, sitting in tree branches vag

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