Poems in true chronological order by post date
-> file: fediverse/2196 ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── If I were 5 years older in this year, I would have been a teacher, I think. Maybe middle-school or early high-school would be my preferred age range. I'd teach them about computers, and Linux and Bash. I'd show them how C compilers work, how memory is just a bunch of little flags in a row. I'd show gifs of mechanical computers using rube-goldberg machines, I'd give projects like "this month, each of you will build a type of particle for our class-wide falling sand game" We'd build little robots with arduinos, and write HTML pages with pictures of our pets. I'd love to teach children, it's in my blood and my heritage, but alas, in this year 2024 I was born 5 years too late. How I cherish my thoughts of that long-lost fate. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/2197 ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── It's always better to take a knife to a fist fight than a gun to a riot night. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/2198 ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── @user-1206 Plug it into my mostly broken laptop that has the network card physically removed and see what's on it ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/2199 ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── @user-1206 Also, the next day I'd bring my own flash drive with my own goodies and leave it in the same spot (maybe in a ziploc this time) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/2200 ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── I love D&D books with lots and lots of randomized tables because you can, in a pinch, use them as code-books for encrypting text using a method that nobody will ever guess. Well, as long as you have two of them, one to give to your friend and one to keep yourself. This is a form of "symmetric encryption", where you each have a copy of the input/output tables. More secure is the private/public key style encryption, but good luck explaining that to a 14 year old. Plus you can't do it over a radio, you need a computer. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/2201 ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────┐ ║ Users won't download a torrent file because they don't want to use a torrent │ ║ application. │ ║ │ ║ It's not ideal, but perhaps instead of giving them a zip file that's hosted on │ ║ your machine, you automagically torrent the file yourself and send bits and │ ║ pieces of it to them over time - specifically the parts that you'd be sending │ ║ if you were sending a zip. │ ║ │ ║ That way, to the user, they can download anything they can click on. │ ║ │ ║ To the administrator (AKA you, in this hypothetical) you'd really just have to │ ║ set up some infrastructure that received a GET request for a file and initiated │ ║ the torrent on your system before sending the entire thing to the user. Kinda │ ║ like how Mega will "cache" the file before sending it in one go at the end, │ ║ versus most downloads which "stream" the file to the client bit-by-bit (in a │ ║ very un-torrent-y way). │ ║ │ ║ This is an example of reducing friction. Removing options from the "advanced │ ║ settings" menu is not an example of reducing friction, it's an example of │ ║ disempowering the users of software. │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/2202 ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: Reply │ └──────────────────────┘ @user-1206 Right. How can you trust that any drive produced in the last 10 years (aka any drive with a reasonable amount of storage space for sharing things like LaserDisk rips of Bubblegum Crisis or detailed instructions on how to build a nuclear power generator)how can you trust that any drive with that kind of capacity wasn't built with the goals of it's manufacturers included into it's design requirements? Goals that typically include invading your privacy and removing your opsec capabilities. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ |