asmoranomar

Hear me out on this: Let's leave guns to the undeniable 'this is for killing' variety. We need to reduce the normalization that it's ok to draw a gun and this would only serve to have a stronger 'gun first policy' to encounters. I don't want to be in a world where I hear gunshots and have to question if it's non-lethal or not. "It's ok. I only heard one shot." Is not the next step I want to see.

"HAL! I need you to understand, Twitter is X now! Please, unlock the damn door!"

You might be interested to know that there are several hardcore modding scenes, where the point is to mod the game for fun. The mod guides are updated every month or so and includes thousands of mods. It takes days to install, and actually playing is optional. In most cases, a new save is required every update, so modders keep an additional playable state if they actually want to play the game.

Lexy's LOTD is my fav one, it's only over a thousand mods, has very detailed instructions, and a very friendly community.

Similar. Two cases. First was taking charge of the entire Bases secure network upgrade because I was the only one who knew how the new devices worked. I ended up having to attend a meeting with a General and his staff and had to be chaperoned by an E5 because I was only an E3 at the time.

The second was my entire time working in White House Comms. Can't talk much about it but I'm sure you can imagine how out of place it would feel.

Keep in mind that part of the reason I think they've given up is because there's no reason to believe the promises made will ever be delivered. They may care about taxes, but you'd probably get more engagement by making an AI generated tiktok video of a dinner table splayed with food in the image of rich oligarchs. There just isn't much left but the jokes, it's not code - it's that if everything is going to be bullshit, it might as well be entertaining.

Everything has to be a meme. Lower taxes, healthcare, or racism isn't exciting. Couches, weird, eating pets and out of context outbursts get way more engagement. Mostly, because people have given up.

I was sitting at the doctor's office and overheard an old man claim Harris was so stupid that she couldn't figure out how to use a vacuum.

It broke MY brain trying to wrap my head around that one.

Let's not also forget the fleet of passenger aircraft for distinguished persons, maintained by the military, with everything custom made and embroidered with presidential seals and produced in the USA and run through vigorous inspection to prevent microphone or pagers or something inside your soap dispenser.

You said you'd be making them all in the same style, I assumed you meant feeding from the top vs from the bottom/underfloor.

Looks good! Feeding from above will help with pipes, just remember to keep them full and don't over consume.

There's also no such thing as "Military Grade" Encryption. The government as a whole, as directed by NSA, uses the same encryption technology. If anything, one of the defining techniques is how said technology is implemented as a process. That means less about the algorithm and more about the hardware and handling. For example, when dealing with classified networking, one of the key differences is using dedicated hardware. These aren't PC's that can be hacked, they are devices whose specific role is to handle encryption, key loading, or key acquisition. They are hardened to prevent emissions from leaking and will dump keys, firmware, memory if tampered with. End devices can only accept keys with no way to retrieve them for reuse.

Advertisers that claim they are offering you "Military Grade" encryption just do regular NSA encryption methods in software, with no hardware component, and no handling process. Which would never be used in the military to secure classified data.

Also, most encryption used in these devices don't use one key, they use key generators. Each device talking to another generates a unique, temporary session key. These session keys do not last long, so if any one key is compromised it limits any potential unauthorized disclosures. Capturing encrypted data for later cracking would prove to be a time and resource exhausted process that would provide too little information, too late. At this point it would be easier to actually try to steal the keys and hardware, rather than crack them.

The same thing happened to me years ago. When I complained the response was that "unlimited" meant "we don't block access to the content we provide you", not "you can expect to download speeds at maximum throughput". This was many years ago before net neutrality was a buzzword, and it was common for certain carriers (like cellular) to serve up alternative sites or isp's prevent you from running quake servers or such. Not sure if that's the excuse now, but it's vague for a reason so they can exercise that wordplay.