It’s legalized banditry.

Notice how the guy’s legs don’t line up with the body?

Think buying an apartment on credit vs renting it. The apartment bought on credit you’ll eventually own, but not the rented one. So assuming you need an apartment, buying on credit can easily be the better decision.

I wonder if vampire brains freeze mentally once they’re turned

“Vampire: The Masquerade” has that as a downside of being a vampire. Vampires are less creative than humans, to the point that being turned into a vampire is said to hurt their talent worse than aging ever could. They also can’t properly adapt to new technology. Basically, vampirism comes with creative sterility.

Well, I was looking at the election results in the Soviet Union. Here’s the result from 1946:

Now, these numbers seem sort of odd. Like, it’s a very good result for Bloc of Communists and Non-partisans, but a result this good seems to be impossible in a free election. So I’m wondering, am I missing something?

Ah, Momo.

Ah, my little 📦 🧠! Last time we met, you wanted to show me proof that soviet union elections weren’t a complete farce. Got the numbers yet?

Are those successful leninist projects in the room right now?

The rules don’t do that though. They ban groups such as nazis and leninists. Which is based.

You should read more. Authoritarian doesn’t mean “When there’s rules”.

If you pay nothing, the payment provider actually paid, and they get the refund. If you paid double, then the merchant still only got paid once, and you get that share back.

I think I first saw this a decade ago.

Edit: And in that decade, not even a single post about those toilets being installed anywhere. Not one peep.

None of those are funny.

They buy it at a store.

No, it is not security through obscurity. It’s a message signature algorithm, which are used in cryptography all the time.

Yes it is. The scheme is that when you take a picture, the camera signs said picture. The key is stored somewhere in the camera. Hence the secrecy of the key hinges on the the attacker not knowing how the camera accesses the key. Once the attacker knows that, they can get the key from the camera. Therefore, security hinges on the secrecy of the camera design/protocol used by the camera to access the key, in addition to the secrecy of the key. Therefore, it is security by obscurity.

That’s security by obscurity. Given time, an attacker with physical access to the device will get every bit data from it. And yes, you could mark it as compromised, but then there’s nothing stopping the attacker from just buying another camera and stripping the key from that, too. Since they already know how. And yes, you could revoke all the keys from the entire model range, and come up with a different puzzle for the next camera, but the attacker will just crack that one too.

Hiding the key on the camera in such a way that the camera can access it, but nobody else can is impossible. We simply need to accept that a photograph or a video is no longer evidence.

The idea in your second paragraph is good though, and much easier to implement than your first one.

Frankly, that does not sound like 2 functional limbs. Now consider that it would be easier for your charity team to drive you around if there was less traffic. Meaning the more healthy people cycle, the less traffic there is (assuming there’s bike infrastructure, which is much cheaper than car infrastructure) the better you can get around. Alternatives to car driving even helps people who are actually dependent on the car.

Is your right arm or your left arm fucked up? If you have at least two functional limbs, there’s probably a way to make this work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handcycle

I think it is called the network effect. People are still using Twitter because the messages they want to see are being posted there, and those messages are being posted there because that’s where the audience is. So, basically, people are locked in.

This also means that any loss in user count has a double effect, as not only users are lost, but the utility of the service for the remaining users decreases. So, what I’m saying is, if Elon continues this way, at some point there will be a large exodus of users from Twitter, as each loss of users reduces the utility of Twitter further, triggering a chain reaction.

Of course, we can’t know when that happens, and since we’re both on Lemmy, we’ve already self-selected as people with little tolerance for enshittification.