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turkishdelight

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turkishdelight··on That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus
I had a teacher in high school that married a Chinese woman, and when her parents came over they said "Your propaganda is so refreshing, you hardly even notice it."

It's always struck me how hamfisted the Chinese government sound in its communications.

turkishdelight··on The Poison Pill to End the MMR Is Tylenol
I mostly know Trump through news sites like AP and Reuters. I heard one of his speeches after a flight accident early in his term though and he was blaming retards and amputee midgets for the collisions.

Didn't see any mention of that in the news.

turkishdelight··on The Cracker Barrel Hype(rreality)
> Cracker Barrel was never a "general store". It was always a restaurant. A "general store" is not a restaurant. It's a small retail outlet that sells most of the things a farmer needs.

Yeah but how many restaurants sold real leather bullwhips to kids (in the 90s)?

turkishdelight··on Ask HN: How concerned should we be about USB security?
Thank you, I appreciate this.
turkishdelight··on Ask HN: How concerned should we be about USB security?
He had an Anker dongle IIRC (and I run Debian or Arch, depending). I think the BadBIOS episode infected me with that security researcher's (apparent) paranoia.
turkishdelight··on Are touchscreens in cars dangerous?
It isn't just the touch aspect, but also the "ruin your night vision" aspect. Most pedestrians don't carry lights around, or even wear light-colored clothing at night.
turkishdelight··on Ask HN: How concerned should we be about USB security?
I guess I'm primarily concerned with compromised firmware, not a special-made device. I'm not sure how realistic of a concern that is. Not that I'm a very interesting target, but I'd rather not have all my devices infected with malicious firmware. I figure that something like that would likely have state-level backing, and something that sophisticated could very easily get baked into brand new hardware at the fab without anybody knowing.
turkishdelight··on Git: Introduce Rust and announce it will become mandatory in the build system
SHA-256 will become the default hash.
turkishdelight··on U.S. already has the critical minerals it needs, according to new analysis
Plus the shit is dirty to extract. On the one a hand I'd rather export our environmental disaster, on the other hand I think we really need to eat our dog food -- but I'm not confident that any amount of dog folding will lead to much change.
turkishdelight··on U.S. already has the critical minerals it needs, according to new analysis
Actually...that sort of works.
turkishdelight··on Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?
Seems shady, NoScript is giving me an XSS warning <_<.