No, you underoverestimate the internet speeds in some parts of Germany. I get maybe 11 Mbit/s on a good day, about 5-6 Mbit/s average, and less if anyone else in the house is using it. And yes, that’s Mbit not MByte.
According to Wikipedia, the slowest Blu-Ray speed is 36 Mbit/s, so about six times my average download speed. And Blu-Rays can go up to 576 Mbit/s.
Technetium really should be purple. The isotope that you’d be most likely to get some of (used for nuclear medicine) has a half-life of about 6 hours, and is appropriately radioactive.
I have a bunch of webcomics:
Well, in English, UTC is an acronym for Coordinated Universal Time, and in French its Temps Universel Coordonné.
Now you may have noticed that neither of those actually makes UTC. This comes from a previous naming pattern for universal time (UT1, UT2, …) (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time ).
Well, if its unbreakable, then its either snake oil, or some variation on the one-time-pad (really depends on your definition of unbreakable).
But having read the article, this is definetly snake oil.
I parse that sentence as
Traitors (traitors to Trump/MAGA/…) of the Deep State (who belong to/are part of/work for the Deep State) will see the gallows.
But then again … I think your interpretation is equally plausible.
I have a number of things running in the background after booting, so here’s some numbers for you:
In addition to that, there’s always a number of systems services, most of which use a negligible amount of memory, but here’s some I’m just picking out because I recognize what they do:
Of course, these are just a snapshot of the systems state, and can only really give you a very rough idea of how much memory something might use at one point in time.
If you want to make your board game more complicated (probably not, but I like the idea, so I’m just throwing it in here), you could use it as an opportunity to teach virtual memory, segmentation, paging and internal vs external fragmentation. Maybe players get certain processes with memory requirements and have to fit them into their own main memory, and whoever can fit the most processes wins, or whoever cannot allocate memory for a new process looses. (I’m just writing down what’s coming out of my head, I don’t want to hijack your game idea, sorry.)
Yes, TinyCore-Core comes without a GUI (like the commenter above said, headless). When they say 28 MB RAM, that might even be overestimating it a bit. All of TinyCore-Core fits into just 17 MB. Of course that goes up if you need to install things, and I don’t know if it comes with an ssh-Server out-of-the-box. So for a proper server setup, 28 MB sounds pretty reasonable.
It blows my mind, that there is an entire Linux Distro, that fits into a modern processor’s cache. Who needs RAM anyways? (unfortunately, because of how cache works, we can’t actually use it without RAM)
If you run your services off of a homelab rack that dims the lights whenever you power it on
If you are in this situation, then you definetly should get some more power, or at least a UPS to make sure you don’t trip a breaker.
That sounds pretty plausible, but I’m not sure.
The windows are only very slightly off center, inconsistent, and even the ones above the clock are as well (although the clock mechanism could extend both up and down).
But I also don’t have any better explanation.
What exactly makes this stand out as AI to you, and not just cosplay?
I can’t really find any of the telltale signs of AI. The books on the shelf all look fine, the mirror on the left edge looks perfect and I can’t find anything immediately noticeable on the costume.
If this is AI, I think it’s probably just the face, maybe the whole person, but certainly not the whole picture. But maybe I missed something, please let me know.
Depending on the language, there might exist an automated tool for generating those kinds of diagrams from code.
You may want to look into amateur radio (or you might not, it needs a licence after all).
I don’t really have any recommendations for you, but I would suggest you crosspost this to [email protected]
Nope, David Revoy does a lot of comics in this art style, and the Avian Intelligence parrot has been a recurring character in the last few.
I can also really recommend his comic series Pepper & Carrot, it has some very cool worldbuilding.
Great write up.
As an amateur radio enthusiast, I’d like to add a bit of info to the radio related tips:
Depending on how it works, a radio jammer will almost definetly make you more identifiable and not less. Think of it a bit like being in a dark room. You can sorta see other people (or their silhouettes), but if someone turns on a torch, then you can definetly see the torch. (And any jammer with enough power to “blind” a wifi router at any more than a few meters away only works at 2.4 GHz, or is probably illegal.)
(or “locating recievers”) This is physically impossible.
Now locate a radio transmitter is easy. Ham radio clubs often do regular “fox hunts” where teams try to find a hidden transmitter as fast as possible.
However, most digital devices are transmitting and recieving at the same time, for wifi or bluetooth. Even if you’re just downloading something, you are still transmitting (I think that’s probably what you meant).
This might be common knowledge here, I think I’ve seen a post about it before. When wifi/bluetooth are on, your phone actively searches for nearby networks/devices to connect to. It specifically looks for known networks/devices, and fingerprinting your phone based on which networks/devices it knows is incredibly easy.
So, when you aren’t using it, turn wifi/bluetooth off.
Walking funny usually doesn’t work.
(sorry, no sources here, I’m in a bit of a hurry)
It isn’t the first time someone built a heavily trapped, walled and patrolled border of that size.
Take a look at the Inner German Border. It was over 1300 km (approx. 810 mi) long, and was (average) about 5.5 km wide (a bit more than 3 miles).
From 1974 to 1979, 4956 people attempted to cross it, and only 229 (4.6%) actually made it.
There is no faster plan.
The only alternative would be internet over 4G, which is supposed to be faster, but the mobile connection at home is so unreliable, it wouldn’t be worth the added cost.
I live a couple of houses down a driveway, so laying a new cable is too expensive to justify for just a few houses. This means I get to live with a cable that’s half a century old, and me and my neighbours (and others) are excluded from the recent local fiber internet initiative. Some neighbours just use Starlink, but my hatred of Elon and the sheer stupidity of using satelite internet in central Europe are stopping me.
And, while I do live in a small village, I also have friends in Düsseldorf and in Berlin with even worse internet connections.
I’d love to just switch to a faster plan. But mobile just doesn’t work here, and I’m not giving money to Elon, so … there is no faster plan.