[-] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago

A decade ago Tom Scott was recorded for Computerphile with this hilarious an enlightening cautionary tale. Never, ever, write your own calendar code.

https://youtu.be/-5wpm-gesOY

[-] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

That layer will also include, worldwide, levels of radioisotopes that do not occur naturally. The same way that there is an Iridium layer on the soils of 65MYA showing the asteroids that killed the dinosaurs, the current sediments being laid down have traces of plutonium and other materials that will exist until the sun becomes a red giant and swallow the Earth.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

It's a... Saguowlo cactus! πŸ˜†πŸ˜†πŸ˜†

...I'll see myself out.

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[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

And I've already seen comments that it's not available in the official Reddit app. Shocking (/s if that wasn't obvious.)

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Here's how TOR works. It's amazing.

https://youtu.be/QRYzre4bf7I?si=gY1e4tORIoxwuRTx

And here's how Onion hidden services work...

https://youtu.be/lVcbq_a5N9I?si=PuJwHP0rEPKFkCBb

TOR lets journalists do their job safely from dangerous places, lets whistle-blowers report things we should know, and lets people in oppressive regimes see the rest of the Internet that their government blocks. It's an amazing tool.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Darknet Diaries.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

It's the budget for the earthbound scientists who will be handling the geology side of the mission. The astronauts can't know everything -- this is their expert ground team for one part of the mission.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Steak jokes are a medium rarely well-done.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

One wonders when His Royal Doucheness is going to invoke Prima Nocta.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Just for a bit of perspective -- Scary hacks like this happen all the time in the for-profit corporate world, too. They just don't tell us about it. It will continue to happen as technology constantly grows and evolves.

Praise to the Admins and Devs who play this constant game of whack-a-mole!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Forget what? πŸ˜‰

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Former RIF user here; Connect is very comfy to use. Almost no learning curve save for learning how the fediverse works and even that's been made easy.

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