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sgibson5150 OP , to showerthoughts in Does Big Ben imply the existence of a Little Ben?

Is that what the kids call it these days? 🤭

sgibson5150 OP , (edited ) to showerthoughts in Does Big Ben imply the existence of a Little Ben?

To paraphrase Professor Farnsworth, “That would require tiny hadrons. Do you know how much those things cost? I’m not made of money.”

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sgibson5150 OP , to showerthoughts in Does Big Ben imply the existence of a Little Ben?

We are asking the tough questions today. I’m proud of us and I think we should take the rest of the day off.

sgibson5150 OP , to showerthoughts in Does Big Ben imply the existence of a Little Ben?

LMAO have an upvote. Happy Friday!

sgibson5150 OP , to showerthoughts in Does Big Ben imply the existence of a Little Ben?

GTFO! TIL.

sgibson5150 , to programmerhumor in The perfect way to round out your career

I’ve threatened more than once that I was going to quit and take up potato farming. Potatoes are good. 👍

sgibson5150 , to linux in Linux Mint 22 Will Include Preinstalled App for Matrix

Ah, far out. Thank you for the info. Maybe I’ll load up an IRC client and check them out!

sgibson5150 , to linux in Linux Mint 22 Will Include Preinstalled App for Matrix

I can’t remember exactly when I stopped installing mIRC when I built a new PC, but it’s been a while. Is DALnet still around?

sgibson5150 , to news in Biden left without an easy solution as campus protests heat up

Mossad has entered the chat.

sgibson5150 , to technology in Microsoft's latest Windows update breaks VPNs, and there's no fix

Mmm what?

WireGuard® is an extremely simple yet fast and modern VPN that utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography. It aims to be faster, simpler, leaner, and more useful than IPsec, while avoiding the massive headache. It intends…

sgibson5150 , to technology in Microsoft's latest Windows update breaks VPNs, and there's no fix

Doesn’t seem to have impacted Wireguard.

sgibson5150 , to mildlyinfuriating in The ad in the middle of this article about conspiracy theories

I can remember around 1999-2000 if you clicked the wrong thing in IE you’d get 50 popup windows with ads for porn. At least that’s behind us.

sgibson5150 , to programmerhumor in what u actually signed up for

Don’t stop I’m almost there. 😆

sgibson5150 , to programmerhumor in what u actually signed up for

I like the joke but I suspect the levels for “young programmer”, “adult programmer”, and “old programmer” would all look a lot like “programmer”. It’s true at least in my case. The occupation does seem to attract the more spicy-brained among us. 😆

sgibson5150 , to technology in An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good it’s scary

If I generate a key pair and use it to sign a file and distribute it and then I publish the public key somewhere like Facebook, any recipient of the file could be assured that the file originated from my Facebook account. A commercial certificate is not required to do this. As to whether the Facebook account holder is actually me is another problem, but hopefully major social media platforms require at least a photo ID.

Edit: Sorry, I said public certificate when I meant commercial certificate.

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