TBH, 98% of security problems in the Python ecosystem boil down to mission critical projects using old versions of libraries or straight up unmaintained libraries, where the library in question is 100+ megabytes of who knows what, but the project only imports one function, the utility of which the devs could have recreated themselves in 15 minutes without needing to use the library, especially lately when everyone just imports what the AI tells them to import.

Left to right

Montgomery Scott, Geordi La Forge, T’pol, Jean Luc Picard, Jadzia Dax, Julian Bashier, Beverly Crusher, Trip Tucker.

This is me.

Meh, I can make a Swara bastet / Tremere abomination with ranks in Celerity and mage powers and cybernetic arms from that one Pentex supplement who can attack 30 times in Crinos (but that’s not a problem cuz I’m Metis with some pointless “story factor” drawback that has no effect on my combat capabilities) with enchanted plasma cannons, doing 300d aggravated before Cain gets his first action.

I feel like there’s probably a way I could do the same thing without Comcrap as a middleman. Anyone written libraries for doing this kind of thing with an openwrt box and a bunch of Linux machines?

And yes, reading through Xfinity’s privacy policy indicates they do monitor the WiFi motion data, and will share it with law enforcement or other third parties without notifying you.

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Darth Tyrannosaurus.

Is there actually any biologic mechanism to generat and conduct electricity at a high enough voltage and current that it can ionize air over a distance as large as that (looks like at least 1/2m) without damaging the actual animal doing it?

Midichlorians. The ability to cause an extinction level event is insignificant next to the power of the Force.

They have to afford that avocado toast.

The heat shield can double as protection from interstellar debris in slower than light voyages (if your world has no FTL). Karl Schroder’s Permanence has interstellar ships called cyclers that have a design like this (for that purpose). The cyclers don’t slow down and just cycle around on a preplanned route, coming by a given system on their route every few decades - centuries. They can eject cargo at a star system as they fly by and the locals can accelerate up to trade or what ever.

What fuels your ship? How long are the voyages? How do the crew live aboard?

I think it would depend on how much attention it gets. Given that both MAGA and Progressives want this out there (although I bet MAGA won’t like or believe what they see if it DOES come out), it could be dangerous for ANYONE to vote against it, and interesting to see who does.

My guess is

• Centrist media tries to cover it as little as possible and everyone hopes the story goes away. (Hopefully Elon’s antics and both progressive and red cap media make this difficult to the point of absurdity)
• Congress (Mike Johnson) tries to quietly shut it down in way that’s not obvious why nothing ever happened and the doofuses on the right don’t understand who’s responsible (somehow blame Biden). We need to keep telling them “Your boy Mike kept the vote from happening. Why?”
• If Congress IS forced against the will of the establishment to vote on it, they’ll try to make it as procedurally confusing as possible, or make noises about how they are going to vote on it, but not for a while and then they just never do.
• If it passes in spite of all that, Trump won’t comply and no one will hold him accountable and MAGA probably eventually WILL move on to other conspiracy bullshit and this will get left in the dust.

It’s infuriating that the ignorance and stupidity of a huge chunk of the country is what keeps enabling these bastards.

And I went to Venus, to get more…

Their explanation for why it can’t be on Android is that the nature of Android push notifications is such that they (the developers) would need to maintain a database of device IDs that could be tied back to physical devices and potentially be used to deanonymize which users received which alerts.

To me, this sounds lazy and like something that could be mitigated with End-To-End encryption.

The cruelty is the point.

Lando warned Ackbar, THEN Ackbar warned the fleet. Jeez.

This, potentially.

Except Bezos is known to be a reptile.

I mean I’m here to do just that.

Do you have a plan to change Democrats?

I can tell you how to change Democrats and not voting for them won’t work. You don’t have to like it, but we ALL have to live with it. It’s not just you and your principles on the line here.

https://runforsomething.net/ or STFU. Literally lives are on the line and being mad at the math doesn’t change that or wash the blood off your hands when Republicans literally kill people and destroy lives. Sorry not sorry. Hating me for saying so doesn’t make me wrong. Hating Dems for predictably being what they are and doing what they do doesn’t mean they’re not the ONLY weapon we have to defend ourselves and others against Republicans. That sucks, I hate it, but I’m not going to hurt the world and the people around me by giving into that and making objectively bad decisions and encouraging others to do so. In fact, I’m going to be here to call you out for it.

If you’re actually doing something to change Democrats OR have a realistic idea of how to start an actually relevant third party in a country with first past the post voting, you might have a leg to stand on saying that, otherwise seriously STFU, I will die on this hill and come back for more.

EDIT: This is how you change the goddamn Democrats.

Is there a list anywhere of lawmakers and organizations that need to be specifically called out for their hypocrisy? If any of them show up, they should be made to feel unwelcome.

All hail Friend Computer. Death to Commie traitors and glory to Alpha Complex!