groet

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[–] groet 57 points 1 year ago

Ah yes the good old torment nexus from the hit novel "dont build the torment nexus"

[–] groet 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Activism can never ever ever ever ever achieve anything if it doest cause discomfort. A demonstration that doesn't block roads or disrupt services is just invisible. And causing damage to a landmark is disruptive and discomforting.

There is also the point that oil companies will just shoot you if you were to vandalise their office.

[–] groet 84 points 1 year ago (3 children)

here is how to opt out.

Proceeds to never say how to opt out

[–] groet 8 points 1 year ago (8 children)
[–] groet 9 points 1 year ago

If your train is canceled, your ticket is automatically valid for all other trains going in the same direction (doesnt have to be the same route, as long as it will reasonably take you to your destination) for the whole day.

Depending on how mutch later the next connection arrives, you can get all/parts of your ticket price back.

[–] groet 3 points 1 year ago

I feel cheated by a certain micro country. I got the challenge with one wrong country. The country is almost entirely covered by the (thick) line as it is drawn on the map, but the actuall 1 dimensional line doesn't pass through it...

[–] groet 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

... They can littetally not walk "freely". If they show interest in the wrong person they are stoned and burned exactly the same. Gay/Lesbians can also escape prosecution, they just have to hide who they are. Same as the BI person. Bi means beeing attracted to male and female and they have to surpress and hide that attraction or face persecution. That is not free.

A straight person how is persecuted for being attracted to anyone not called John/Jane isnt free just because there is someone they are allowed to be attracted to legally.

[–] groet 3 points 1 year ago

Damn commie Nazis!

[–] groet 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Isn't that kinda somewhat true though? The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was a pact to split Poland and also a non aggression pact so Hitler could focus on the western front and Stalin had time to build up an army and economy. The pact was broken by Hitler invading the USSR. They were never allied but they had a pact which Germany broke.

[–] groet 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Deleting a file does not overwrite the data. It just marks that area of the drive as "free". Using forensic tools (or simply dd) you can read data from "empty" parts of the drive. To be save you have to overwrite each file. You can try tools like shred to scramble the data of a file before deleting it, but as they say themselfes, unfortunately your filesystem might not actually let you do that (scroll to the CAUTION section).

You can use dd to write bytes to arbitrary places of the drive, but again, the filesystem might lie to you where a file is actually located. The ONLY way to be entirely sure is to wipe the whole drive. And if your IT does not do that before handing a system to a new employee, then they are not doing their job correctly.

Not legal advice: just tell them you installed a few viruses (while the system was not connected to the company network of course) and they should nuke the system before handing it to anybody else.

(You can also wipe the drive yourself by booting from a stick and overwriting the entire drive)

[–] groet 10 points 1 year ago (7 children)

How is software without a CPU useful? Its literally a list of instructions for a CPU.

Also a CPU can still calculate stuff if you just send electrical signals to the right connections. Software is just a way for the CPU to keep going and do more calculations with the results.

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