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New comment by rngfnby in "21,864 Yugoslavian .yu domains"

rngfnby — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:22:05 +0000

Legally Russia is the internationally recognized successor state. Russia even paid off the whole Soviet debt, but in exchange inherited all of the USSR's legal privileges (right to have nukes under NPT, right to the spot on the Sec Council, right to observer state in Danube, etc)

New comment by rngfnby in "Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance"

rngfnby — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 02:13:26 +0000

In East Germany typewriters were fingerprinted so police knew exactly who to look for.

Just solving crimes.

New comment by rngfnby in "What makes Intel Optane stand out (2023)"

rngfnby — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:22:52 +0000

This.

Optane died because Intel wanted to kill AMD and ARM with it. Killed Intel and a great technology along with it.

New comment by rngfnby in "Pentagon expands oversight of Stars and Stripes, limits content"

rngfnby — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:20:17 +0000

Whatever it was, I noticed it was Stripes, and respected their honesty despite being a military paper. Stripes has always been anove average in its honesty.

Point is, this war is a shitshow.

New comment by rngfnby in "Pentagon expands oversight of Stars and Stripes, limits content"

rngfnby — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 13:52:18 +0000

About a week ago Stars and Stripes had an article that strongly implied that the war with Iran had already had far more casualties than the (at the time) three KIA.

I think it was about increased blood donations in Germany.

New comment by rngfnby in "Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine"

rngfnby — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:30:00 +0000

But sales taxes are significantly lower and easily lowered or even avoided by driving a half hour.

No one does this, because they're low enough to begin with.

New comment by rngfnby in "Exploring the ocean with Raspberry Pi–powered marine robots"

rngfnby — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:47:41 +0000

Coat the whole vessel in a couple mm of sylgard-184 and it'll last a century (or until it's beached).

New comment by rngfnby in "Most of the US economy is in a recession"

rngfnby — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:55:57 +0000

Producers have already been announcing force majure to legally stop production.

Qatar gas being the big one for LNG. It'll takes them two weeks to restart four to get to full production. So a tight LNG market has 20% of the world production out for three weeks.

New comment by rngfnby in "Most of the US economy is in a recession"

rngfnby — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 23:39:16 +0000

My understanding is that, until the hits on Tehrans oil storage sites yesterday, the oil infrastructure has been spared. Nothing that isn't easy to repair.

Ie the price increase we've seen so far os mostly pricing the closing of the staits and the risk of reduced production production is halted due to running out of storage (ie akin to a cpu "pipeline stall".

But Iran got hit badly yesterday, with tar raining on the capital. If Iran retaliates against infrastructure...

New comment by rngfnby in "A basket of new fruit varieties is coming your way"

rngfnby — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 23:16:54 +0000

Label the fruit as a gmo and the market for them collapses. Which is why we're not allowed to have clear stickers at the store.

New comment by rngfnby in "TSA leaves passenger needing surgery after illegally forcing her through scanner"

rngfnby — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:09:36 +0000

Hmm next time they go for a feel I'll tell them not to sexually harass me loud enough for the whole line to hear.

They feed on folks wanting to avoid embarrassment, not wanting to miss their flights, etc.

New comment by rngfnby in "TSA leaves passenger needing surgery after illegally forcing her through scanner"

rngfnby — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:05:35 +0000

" I shouldn’t be strip searched for the crime of showing up to the airport."

People have forgotten that the TSA got caught lying about the machines not taking pictures (its just a cartoon!) and their employees laughing at people's bodies.

If the TSA wants to disrobe me they're going to have to do it the honest, old fashioned way. Not some sterilized make believe.

New comment by rngfnby in "TSA leaves passenger needing surgery after illegally forcing her through scanner"

rngfnby — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:03:36 +0000

Whistling loudly helps too.

New comment by rngfnby in "TSA leaves passenger needing surgery after illegally forcing her through scanner"

rngfnby — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:03:11 +0000

We're not weirdos. The weirdos are the cattle walking into a microwave oven.

They ask me "would you like a private screening?"

Hell no! I need witnesses.

New comment by rngfnby in "TSA leaves passenger needing surgery after illegally forcing her through scanner"

rngfnby — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:00:00 +0000

Atlanta TSA are the absolute worst. I've lived in Atlanta for a while and used ATL quite a bit. They're easily the most aggressive, arrogant, stupid, obnoxious and self-righteous of all the TSA Ive used.

Ive even had an altercation with them that ended up having to file a complaint (never heard back) and got to speak to a manager only because I started, loudly, whistling the anthem.

New comment by rngfnby in "Data has weight but only on SSDs"

rngfnby — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:22:23 +0000

"All data changes mass of the medium"

The first line

New comment by rngfnby in "MacBook Neo"

rngfnby — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 04:22:06 +0000

This is interesting. Our current family [1] Mac Pro is from 2015 and its time to replace it, but I'm loath to spend 1000 on a laptop

[1] computer to do personal things i don't want my employer to spy on

New comment by rngfnby in "Data has weight but only on SSDs"

rngfnby — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 01:31:00 +0000

All data changes mass of the medium:

Every data storage media requires some work be done to it.

E=m^2

All data storage media has mass.

QED

New comment by rngfnby in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

rngfnby — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 04:43:07 +0000

I guess you're too young to remember Lenovo buying IBM's PC business and folks complaining about security since they were Chinese?

New comment by rngfnby in "What our DNA reveals about the sex life of Neanderthals"

rngfnby — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 02:29:54 +0000

Well, ya. Of course it was rape. And in retaliation we genocided them, hence the lack of Y and mRNA.