My understanding is that the laws about getting in trouble for accessing something on a computer are basically “if they didn’t intend for your to access it and you access it then that’s all that is needed for you to get in trouble.”

It’s basically right up to the line of making a hyperlink that says “oops this was a mistake to hyperlink this, please don’t click on this link we did not intend for this to be linked” and if you click that link then you are illegally hacking.

People in Florida got in trouble for accessing COVID data that was just “hidden” in the non-displayed html of some government webpage. The way they “hacked” the data was by pressing Ctrl+U to view the source of the public page.

People accused everyone of associating with thespians when I was in middle school.

I think it’s like saying “there’s no guard rails now” because you are not in safe and regulated society where all the wild animals you see are on your coins, but you are now outside of that safe comfortable world and the wild animals are actually wild animals.

It reminds me of the saying “when you hear hooves, expect horses, not zebras” because you’d really be somewhere exotic if the sounds turned out to be a zebra. Well you’d really be somewhere outside of your regular comfort zone if the buffalos were sitting in the grass instead of sitting on your nickle.

The hardest line of the matrix is when they say “so I will be able to move faster than bullets?” and the other guy responds “nah that won’t be necessary”

Interesting thought, in the context of the flow chart this falls directly into the “God is not all knowing” box.

Yeah, Dinner in America is a great movie.

So whatever way the camera output is being signed, what’s stopping you from signing an altered video with a similar private key and then saying “you can all trust that my video is real because I have the private key for it.”

The doubters will have to concede that the video did indeed come from you because it pairs with your key, but why would anyone trust that the key came from the camera step instead of coming from the editing step?

If you read the blog post one day older than this one from before he got the code, he speaks more about the Israeli ties. The CEO for TeleMessage is former IDF.

https://micahflee.com/tm-sgnl-the-obscure-unofficial-signal-app-mike-waltz-uses-to-text-with-trump-officials/

I haven’t spent a lot of time looking into TeleMessage, but what I did find at a quick glance is that several of the executives on the teams page list Israeli universities in their bios, and the CEO, Guy Levit, says that, “From 1996 until 1999, Guy served as the head of the planning and development of one of the IDF’s Intelligence elite technical units.”

Preach!

I make my ramen with coconut. It taste like everything I’ve eaten and which came before it.

This guy doesn’t know the one about the pizza guy making him on with everything and then not giving him back and change. So he is angry cuz he didn’t get the anti joke.

Except instead of hiking their adventurer backpacks up and setting off into the dense jungle in front of them, it’s clicking a “forgot password” link and opening a tab with their email while they wait for the new password to log in to zoom or something.

He is grinding out a plan. In fact I heard he is grinding in his sleep.

nightmare nightmare nightmare!

Sounds less like a robot and more like a puppet.

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Silicon is not a rock so saying that silica is not rare is irrelevant to the “rare rock” line.

Silica is indeed refined but the rocks that they refine to get the pure silica are indeed rare rocks. They only really refine the pure silicate that already start with super low impurities. relatively speaking. And the low trace elements impurities is what makes them rare.

I’ve never seen someone else play D&D without being absolutely baffled at what kind of rules they use.

Come to think of it, it’s not that rare to play a game like Settlers of Catan or even Uno with new people and also find that they have been following completely made up rules without realizing it.

It is similar to how when you say the word “poop” your mouth does the same motions that your butthole does when you poop.

And when you yell “explosive diarrhea” your mouth does the same…

“Cloacal Kiss” yeah I’m no scientist but I think the analogy holds true.

The podcast Sixteenth Minute just covered this in their most recent two episodes and interviewed the person who made it.