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I've heard from multiple independent 3 letter agency associates (past and present) that hackers often often get frustrated and quit US Gov work due to the strict "rules of engagement", that limit offensive operations to critical US infrastructure and government systems.

Often times they know that adversaries are going to attack well in advance and even send advance notice (or retroactive notice) to important targets in some cases. But their operations are, according to them, limited to non-disruptive (though impressive, thorough, and highly specialized) information gathering.

No guarantees that all hands of the government are playing by the same rules, but at least those people's story was pretty consistent.

https://github.com/pietvanzoen/gifable

Exactly! It's not a competitive game. It doesn't involve an online component.

Frankly I think it's exactly what it needs to be, bugfixes not withstanding. It's complex, fun, challenging, but not overwhelming.

The only thing I can think i might want are more challenges, but that's such a minor thing if I never got another I'd be perfectly content.

Oh no argument here with that point at all, that's a fine perspective and observation. Classification is necessary, but nuance and patience when dealing with the gray areas between are too.

My initial point was just poking fun at the mess poor astronomers have to deal with. It being one of the oldest natural sciences and all it has a bigger mess than most.

I'm afraid you are arguing with the simplified non-scientific definitions. Did you think I was making the complexity up? The reality of our classification system is a mess, like most classification systems, since nature doesn't care what labels we attach.

• The scientific definition of an asteroid is actually a combination of several factors, including where the asteroid resides (inside Jupiter's orbit? A Trojan? A Greek?), it's size, it's composition (just basically not entirely icy), and it's historical origin. This gets exceptionally complex when you take into account and icy body in the asteroid belt (we know of many), a comet that has burned off it's ice, an ejected asteroid in strange orbits, an asteroid orbiting a planet (see Mars' moons), a body that otherwise meets criteria as an asteroid that is larger than the other asteroids (Ceres etc).... Generally scientists today don't use 'asteroid' in technical writing, they prefer 'minor planet'.
• The scientific definition of meteor/meteoroid/meteorite means that any body can become a meteor if it's in the right conditions, but it'll still be a meteoroid/comet/asteroid/moon/dwarf planet too. It's nearly useless as a set of definitions, especially when the meanings of the same words have changed consistently since the founding of modern astronomy.
• A comets definition, like that of an asteroid, is actually tied to its location (oort cloud? Kuiper belt? elliptical orbit? Stable orbit past Jupiter? Currently orbiting a planet? Currently close enough to the sun?), speed (influences if it can form a coma), temperature (influences if it can form a coma), composition (influences if it can form a coma), historical origin (oort cloud? Kuiper belt?). It's another definition rarely used by scientists outside scientific communication because it lacks a firm foundation to stand on.

Nature doesn't care about our silly label system.

And it is a very silly label system, decided mostly by people who didn't fully understand what they were observing. Ask an astronomer to explain the differences asteroid vs meteor vs comet vs dwarf planet and see what dirty looks you get in response.

Long story short, it's going to involve Venn diagrams, classification on multiple traits that can change over time, classification on multiple traits we don't fully understand, and a lot of historical figures making arbitrary choices in their writing.

I know the org intimately. This this exactly correct. Most of their business is B2B. UHC is actually a fairly small slice of the pie. They have literally dozens of CEOs. The one killed is the CEO of the healthcare insurance entity.

The local hockey scene would be ecstatic, lol

Can Minnesota and Michigan come too?

Asked specifically about the GPDA’s calls, Ben Sulayem said: “None of their business. Sorry.

“This is our business,” he said when asked about recent events. “We'll do whatever is good for the FIA. So it's really none of people's business to interfere in ours. It's the results that we produce.”

“Do we have to tell them? When something in the teams changes, do they tell us? No, they don't. Nobody has to. We have the rules, we follow our rules. We don't follow someone else's rule. Simple as this.”

“I mean, with the media, with all respect, why do I have to answer everything?” he said. “I have a responsibility towards my members and towards the sport.

Arrogant piece of shit needs to be humbled badly, ideally moments before being shoved out the door. He thinks he's untouchable and unaccountable.

Obsidian Live Sync plugin is a great combo of self hosted and offline/local.

No idea how I'm supposed to take this ranty blog needlessly interspersed with furry cartoons seriously. But it's basically just restating (poorly) all the same criticisms and alternatives written about here: https://www.latacora.com/blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem/

The 'real' criticisms of PGP are that it's old, it's clunky, and it doesn't support forward secrecy by design. None of that is invalid, but I think the importance of those points depends on the use case and user.

The alternatives given are myriad and complexity and clunkiness are interspersed between dozens of solutions instead of well understood and documented in one tool.

That isn't a superior approach. I'm not arguing that PGP is perfect, but it's absolutely asinine to suggest (like this blog and others suggest) that the solution is to use dozens of other solutions with their own problems and with less auditing.

If we're going to replace PGP, we need to do it properly in a centralized library/toolchain. Breaking up the solution and spreading it around just magnifies the problems.

They really don't. They've been told it will cause problems by the only talking heads they listen to, so they believe it.

My group uses Nextcloud, and with plugins it has decent support for 3dp files.

Another option I've been looking at is https://manyfold.app/

Understandable. The Blackbird has that effect on people!

They're referring to the SR-72 Darkstar

Though it looks more like a Valk, I think.

The "real meaning" of Christmas was getting the pagans on board with Christianity, don't let anyone lie to you otherwise lol.

The long answer is Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

It is. But at the same time it's important to keep perspective on the sport and the lessions we've painfully learned along the way. I can see both perspectives for sure.

What the hell are you on about?