TWeaK

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[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Yup, I'm aware, and your username is particularly poignant. I always worried that my exams would be left on top of a stove and all my work would be erased. Thankfully that never happened, though.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

No, shouting fire in a theatre (when there is no fire) is explicitly not protected speech. Schenck v. United States and Brandenburg v. Ohio. At least, depending on the actual consequence - if people die rushing out the theatre and it is apparent you were lying, then you're not going to be protected.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Because the vape I'm talking about has a trick heatsink inside that it uses to heat air up to the desired temperature, without massively restricting airflow.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 37 points 2 years ago (1 children)

To be fair, it’s pretty smart to exploit the flaws in Microsoft to make malware.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Also, would this be the same group that hacked the Socchi Winter Olympics, soon after Russia was banned? The one that the US indicted and labelled as a "petulant child"?

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I dunno man, I have a few German vapes protected by patents that seem to work alright. Their first patent expired a few years ago, however patents for their portable vapes won't expire until 2035, but there's surely some scope to make something transformative before then.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 29 points 2 years ago (15 children)

Meanwhile if you load Baofeng software from a few years ago antivirus software today will ping out. It never used to ping out, such is the nature of zero days.

Meanwhile Israel has been selling weapons grade hacking technology for decades, they've been directly linked to the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi as well as the Mexican cartels.

Meanwhile Argentina happens to be the hub for zero day exploits, with a bunch of hackers inventing their own shit and selling directly to state actors or whoever will pay.


The only way you can remain secure is to regularly install a fresh OS. Change my mind.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I just fucking love liquorice. Whether or not it tastes like bank notes makes no difference.

It's when you take the morning rush to the office and smell a pang of bank notes that I start asking questions. That's not cologne, yet some people wear it as such.

Craig Charles does crack though, fair warning if you ever end up in a green room with him.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I dunno man, the whole point of using a Twizzler as a straw is that you eat it after....

Imagine if, instead of showing bling replacement teeth, rappers posed for photos with Twizzlers in their mouths. Craig Charles surely would have looked different.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Check yourself.

You can bring your own pen to vote in the UK, that's fine. However the utensil they provide is always a pencil, for the exact reason I gave.

I'm also in the UK, and I normally use Pilot Frixion pens.

Edit: Argos use pens. Pens are cheaper than pencils.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

I spend so much more than that to get to work :(

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

The problem is that US law is ridiculously and unnecessarily convoluted. There's Federal law, which is supposed to be comprehensive but intentionally has holes in it that State law is supposed to flesh out for themselves. However Federal law overrules state law, meaning that State law can only ever fit inside Federal law.

This leads to Federal law being lazily written, such that it covers a far wider breadth than it was ever intended. Meanwhile, when States try to write their own laws to fill in the gap, they get overruled by Federal law.

If you have a Federal legislative body - Congress, the people who are supposed to write laws - in perpetual turmoil, and a Supreme Court that is politically stacked, then you can easily invent case law to twist whatever legislation was written decades or centuries ago into whatever you desire.

And all of this glosses over the fact that US law is written in horrible language. I dread to think the fit that a modern grammatical spell checker would go through if you copy/pasted the law into it, with how the sentence structure is drawn on with commas and bullshit. If Clippy were still around, he would've been bent so far out of shape he could hack a Nintendo Switch. Yet, because it's at the Federal level, which is detracted further from the people, there isn't enough of a public incentive to have it written plainly so that everyone could understand it.

You don't get a vote on laws, you get a vote on "representatives" who vote on laws ~~on your behalf~~ based on their financial backers.

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