🎶 Where do they come from?
🎶 Where do they go?
🎶 Where are the 'raffes?
🎶 We might never know…

Didn’t have much of an aim beyond trying to cook it up from scratch as a personal research project. That includes the protocol, since I’m handling priv/pub keypairs in a creative way to facilitate both encryption and user identity verification.

I did start a projects aiming to be a more decentralized/federated discord more akin to how IRC was back in the day. Time to revisit it, it seems.

They’ll have a “retina” scan of a brown-eyed cyclops.

“Defeated” might be overstating it, but Pakistan generally overperformed compared to expectations with a smaller airforce, as they have a significant advantage in AWACS capabilities (Saab 340, I think?), whereas India is more limited, in the form of a few IL76 and some homebrewed systems in the works.

In this age of BVR capabilities and standoff munitions, airborne radar and intelligence is key to operational success, and Pakistan knows this, whereas India has taken more of a brute force approach to modern aerial warfare, something that was obsolete 40 years ago, if not before.

My knee-jerk reaction is to answer “Like shit”. Mostly stemming from the fact that I don’t have a proper workshop. However, what I do have:

• A “printer room” in the basement. When we were remodeling the bathroom upstairs, this ancient dungeonesque bathroom in the basement was used temporarily. It had a bathtub, a washing machine, and misc other things you’d associate with a bathroom. (Note: Not toilet. That’s a different room). When the upstairs bathroom was completed, the basement one was no longer needed. The bathtub ended up cut in half as I needed to test my new angle grinder, and other than that it was mostly left as is until I figured I could temporarily keep my printer there. Temporary became permanent, and the old unused washing machine is now a “printer pedestal”. One of the first things I printed was a cover for the drain, and then I put in a huge dehumidifier so that the room is nice and dry, despite its original function.
• A halway with a large storage furniture. Its height happened to be the perfect height for standing up kind of work, so I’ve annexed the top, which now holds a PSU, a soldering iron, a bunch of things I’m working on, and a 5x5 gridfinity storage shelf with drawers. A substantial amount of Digikeys overseas revenue is in that hallway.

Either I make them myself, or I grab something from printables.com

Sometimes I use a downloaded model as a starting point and I modify it to suit my needs.

After distro hopping for decades, I’ve ended up just running Mint for almost all desktop use cases. This includes gaming via steam.

FTL. Runs on “any” PC, easy to learn and understand, and it’s generally a great game suitable for all ages.

Possible, but highly unlikely.
For starters, if that many were killed, I think it’d be really hard to keep a lid on it these days.

Secondly, I’ve done a lot of reading on the atrocities of WW2, and two immediate constraints come to mind:

• Bodies. While possible, disposing of that many bodies without anyone noticing will be really hard.
• The gas chambers of ww2 were only planned during the Wannsee conference in 1942, long after the holocaust actually started. The gas chambers were built because the original plan was not sustainable: People killing other people at an industrial scale. No matter how vile a person is, the human mind was not built to deal with having to mow down swathes of humans with a gun. Even the worst SS troops largely couldn’t deal with killing that many defenseless people, even if they were convinced it was “for the greater good”. The amount of SS troops who ended up unable to continue due to the mental after effects is staggering.

Circular dependency issue

Looking at this pic makes me conclude I made the right fashion choices (or lack thereof) along the way. Jeans and T-Shirt all the way, even during my black metal phase.

Although during that time I did dye my (long) hair Black No. 1. Which is kinda funny, as someone claimed back then that I looked like a younger Pete Steele (Of Type O Negative fame, who’s most famous song is Black No. 1, in case you didn’t know).

So what am I wearing now? Yeah, you guessed wrong. My jeans are in the washer, so I’m currently sporting t-shirt and half a track suit. My hair is getting pretty long again, but dying it is just too much hazzle.

4-5 months, depending on body shape and clothing style

Looks interesting. Without a native linux build I’d have to pass, though.

Well it’s not fucking blank anymore then, is it??

Nrk.no, for the most part. It’s in norwegian, though. You can probably shove it through a translator.

Free, reasonably neutral, covers everything from local, domestic, and global news

I’d wonder WTF he was doing in Europe.

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Labour. They’re the kind of boring I want in politics, and they’re the ones closest aligned with parts of my conglomerated ideology. Plus while I was initially sceptical of the ability of Støre to lead, he has turned out alright.

I’d be a bit perplexed as to why the election was held a year early, though.

Use a car with heavier rear end than the cop car front end.