The ~/.ssh/known_hosts file only contains public keys. I mean, maybe someone doesn’t want to hand out the list of hosts that they talk to, but exposing it doesn’t expose the private keys, which are what you really need to keep secret.
Those are in ~/.ssh/id_rsa or the like, depending upon key type.
wordfreq is not just concerned with formal printed words. It collected more conversational language usage from two sources in particular: Twitter and Reddit.
Now Twitter is gone anyway, its public APIs have shut down,
Reddit also stopped providing public data archives, and now they sell their archives at a price that only OpenAI will pay.
There’s still the Fediverse.
I mean, that doesn’t solve the LLM pollution problem, but…
I don’t much like scary games myself, but here’s someone asking /r/HorrorGaming what their scariest games are:
EDIT: And yet somehow, despite not liking scary games, I’ve wound up owning some of these, like Darkwood, the Amnesia games, Clive Barker’s Undying – which I wouldn’t call that scary – Doom 3, Lone Survivor, Outlast, and Subnautica.
I’ve also played Clock Tower, which was on there.
That characteristic sound you hear associated with falling bombs in movies and such was originally a noisemaker on World War II German dive bombers and bombs intended to intimidate soldiers on the receiving end.
https://www.slashgear.com/1370552/stuka-siren-ju-87-noise-explained/
As well as saving the Stuka from early retirement, it is thought that Ernst Udet also suggested its most famous feature — the siren (some sources say that this was an intervention by Hitler himself). The sirens were fitted to the legs of the plane’s fixed undercarriage. They were driven by propellers that spun in the airflow, and could be activated and deactivated from the cockpit.
The psychological effect of the siren was best explained French general Edouard Ruby, who reportedly said that on hearing the terrifying wail, his infantrymen “cowered in the trenches, dazed by the crash of bombs and the shriek of the dive bombers.” But many Stuka pilots also didn’t like them. The sound was just as audible in the cockpit of the Stuka as it was to forces on the ground, and the bulky sirens added weight and reduced the speed of the already slow bomber. Reportedly, some squadrons fitted simple air whistles to the Stuka’s bombs instead, creating the famous “falling bomb whistle” that Hollywood still insists that all ordnance makes as it plummets to earth.
Both the Stuka’s terrifying wail and the falling bomb whistle became so famous that they have since become standard stock sound effects in movies, used whenever any airplane dives at high speed or any bomb is dropped. But, unless you’re old enough to have been on the battlefields of Europe in the very earliest days of WWII, these are sounds that you’ll only ever hear in movies now.
Stuka dive sound:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQzv-8pJSqY
Falling bomb whistle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlsHYKkmHoI
Maybe one could do the same thing with grenades.
105mm howitzer sticking out of the thing, largest aircraft-mounted gun.
Initial variant, AC-130A, was codenamed “Surprise Package”.
Probably largest rear door of any combat aircraft.
That is an aircraft asking for a personification with a crotch bulge.
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Do you have any examples of shumups that you like and any you dislike? That might help give a better idea of what you like.
I mean, if you just want “good shmups”, it’s easy to go to Steam, search for games with the “Shoot 'em Up” tag, and sort by user reviews.
But if you’re looking for something in particular, a list like that might help.
And that’s even before potential for things like microphone permissions for a device that’s on a warship.
Anyone that has access to starlink can track their vessel.
Regarding tracking – and I don’t know if that’s the main concern here – it won’t just be the Starlink transport itself. My guess is that they’re more worried about having devices connected to the Internet.
Let’s say that I have a smartphone. I download an app because it’s got a fun game attached. It comes up with some dialog about permissions when I installed it, which I promptly accept and forget about. This includes location permission. A month later, I get deployed, and I put my phone on the Wifi network that the nice ship IT person has set up that we all chipped in for. Yay!
So now, every now and then, maybe that app is phoning home and reporting my location using the GPS sensors in the phone. Now, maybe that game company is on the up-and-up. Maybe they’re selling data to some data broker. Maybe they’re in a country subject to legal requirements to turn over data to the government on demand. Maybe they’re securing their own systems to a level sufficient to keep out nation-state level intelligence agencies, and maybe they aren’t.
But my guess is that the Navy doesn’t want to deal with those possibilities.
I’m not sure how far I’d trust people to keep connected devices isolated to one of the official or pirate network.
I mean, the Navy can look into providing Starlink or a recreational net or a media server or something on the ship. I think that that’s legit. But I think it’s also fair that that’s gotta go through channels and have their information security people pound on it.
This is a warship. In the event of a conflict, China or whoever is going to be trying to kill the people on that ship and destroy the ship, no holds barred. Like, there are gonna be real resources put on exploiting any holes that can be found. She can’t just gamble with that.
We have, in the past, enjoyed major wins by compromising military naval communications in war. I’d rather not be on the receiving end of that.
And yeah, I totally get that that sucks if you’re stuck on an isolated ship, but that’s part of the job.
I’m okay, as an American citizen, with paying more to try to offset that. Like, in WW2, the Navy got the best meat cuts it could and stuff for subs to try make up for the fact that the submariners had rough living conditions. Maybe they can do something similar now. It said that one thing they wanted was sports scores…maybe the Navy can contract to get a dump of those broadcast, as I doubt that that’s much data. But what she did wasn’t the way to go about trying to provide a quality-of-life improvement for the ship.
I recall someone who build some automated system to measure input latency on gamepads, who gathered data for a bunch over different interfaces, which is a subset of that. They had some sort of automated testing system, moved the controls automatically with a microcontroller-driven system.
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Neither of them are what I’m remembering, but it looks like multiple people have built input latency databases.
https://rpubs.com/misteraddons/inputlatency
The second looks close to what you might want. Each controller has a page with a fair amount of information.
EDIT: I don’t think that this is what I was thinking of either, but looks like another microcontroller-based system to measure input latency:
https://github.com/maziac/lagmeter
EDIT2: Also not what I was thinking of, but yet another input latency measurement project:
https://epub.uni-regensburg.de/36811/1/ExtendedAbstractLatencyCHI2018.pdf
EDIT3: Also not what I was thinking of, but another:
DOD Exercises Option on Second Micro Nuclear Reactor Design
Sept. 13, 2023
As part of the Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) initiative Project Pele, the Department of Defense (DOD) has awarded a contract option to X-energy, LLC of Rockville, Maryland in order to develop an enhanced engineering design for a transportable micro nuclear reactor.
The DOD uses approximately 30 Terawatt-hours of electricity per year and more than 10 million gallons of fuel per day—levels that are only expected to increase due to anticipated electrification of the vehicle fleet and maturation of future energy-intensive capabilities. A safe, small, transportable nuclear reactor would address this growing demand with a resilient, carbon-free energy source that does not add to the DOD’s fuel needs, while supporting mission-critical operations in remote and austere environments.
Way ahead of you.
As that’s not a military use, and the deployment mechanism isn’t a tripwire trap, it’s not within the scope of the Chemical Weapons Convention, and not a war crime.
It might be domestic terrorism, depending upon whether there are plans for anyone to be nearby when it’s opened.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamsite
Adamsite or DM is an organic compound; technically, an arsenical diphenylaminechlorarsine, that can be used as a riot control agent. DM belongs to the group of chemical warfare agents known as vomiting agents or sneeze gases.
I think that we can probably consider this a vomiting agent, same sort of idea.
The CWC is comprehensive in the toxic chemicals it regulates.
- The definition of “toxic chemicals” under Article 2.2 includes chemicals that cause “temporary incapacitation”.
- Under the Convention, the use of such “toxic chemicals” would be forbidden unless employed for “purposes not prohibited” and as long as the “types and quantities” are consistent with such purposes.
- Among the “purposes not prohibited” is: “law enforcement including domestic riot control”.
I don’t think that use of a tripwire trap could reasonably be domestic riot control, so that’s probably in violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention.
Now, that’s just a treaty, not customary international law, so it doesn’t bind states not party to the treaty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_Weapons_Convention
There are 193 states party to the treaty, but “Four UN states are not party: Egypt, Israel, North Korea and South Sudan.” For them, use would be acceptable.
https://www.amazon.com/Know-What-Means-Miss-Orleans/dp/B0000049XL/
Apparently that album has both a 1980 and 1987 version of the song available.
I feel like there’s room for a sort of giant montage here. Images like “German general discussing Kursk offensive”, “Wagner forces pushing towards Moscow”, “North Korea to Arm Russia”, Ukrainian forces rolling past some of those “Russia is here forever” billboards", etc.
https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-discord
It looks like there’s software to bridge it to Matrix. I have no idea whether that violates ToS. It does look like it’s getting development, though, so I can’t imagine that Discord has been cutting people off en masse for using it.
I get that.
Honestly, though I’m still a little puzzled as to why people initially got into Discord; I never did.
I can understand why people wanted to use some systems. Twitter does massive-scale real-time indexing. That was a huge feature, really changed what one could do on the platform.
Reddit provided a good syntax (Markdown), had a low barrier to entry (no email verification at a time when that was common), and third-party client access. It solved the spam problem that was killing Usenet and permitted for more-reasonable moderation.
There were a whole host of services that aimed to lower the complexity bar to get a web page and some content online associated with someone’s identity; it was clear that lack of technical knowledge and the technical knowledge required to get stuff up was a real limiting factor for many people.
But I just didn’t really get where Discord provided much of a win over stuff like IRC. I mean, I guess maybe it bundled a couple services into one, which maybe lowered the bar to use a bit. IRC really seemed pretty fine to me. Reddit bundling image-hosting seems to have lowered the bar, been something that people wanted. Maybe Discord doing images and file-hosting made it more-accessible.
I have no idea why a number of people who liked Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead used Discord rather than Reddit; it seemed like a dramatically-worse system if one was aiming to create material for others to look back at and refer to.
kagis
It’s just modern day IRC with video.
Ahaha, thanks. This is indeed an ELI60 response, although it doesn’t really explain how Discord suddenly got so popular. But if I couple this with /u/Healthy-Car-1860’s response, I’m kind of getting the picture.
Got popular because it spread through the entire gamer/twitch community like wildfire due to actually being a more complete package and easier to use than anything prior. Online gamers have been struggling with voip software forever (Roger Wilco, Teamspeak, Ventrilo, Skype, and many others).
Once it was rooted in the people who are on their computers app day every day it was bound to spread because the UX is incredibly easy compared to previous options for both chat and voip.
Maybe that’s it. I never had a lot of interest in VoIP, especially group VoIP. When I was playing online games much, people used keyboards to communicate, not mics. There was definitely a period where people needed the ability to collaborate in games and games didn’t always provide that functionality. I remember people complaining about Teamspeak and Ventrilo. I briefly poked at Mumble – nice to have an open-source option – but I just had no reason to want to do VoIP with groups of people.
But I suppose for a video game clan or something, that might be important functionality. And if it’s also a one-stop shop for some other things that you might want to do anyway, it maybe makes sense to just use that rather than multiple services.
descending speed between 15 m/s and 20 m/s
I’m assuming that they put larger parachutes on the thing before putting humans inside.
Also, the vehicle itself could easily land in a location from which it couldn’t be extracted (either because of a lack of suitable equipment or because of the location being virtually inaccessible). Several experiments were done in the 1970s in order to find a way to circumvent these limitations, including dropping the BMD with the two key crew members, the driver, and the gunner, seated inside the vehicle during the descent.
That, on the other hand, seems harder to resolve.
“On the down side, instead of losing a BMD in an inaccessible swamp, we’ve now lost a BMD containing several soldiers in an inaccessible swamp.”
“On the up side, our responsibility only covers air logistics and ends once we’ve delivered the hardware to the soldiers on the ground. Now it’s a ground forces problem.”
I believe it’s ICOM, not Baofeng.
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-820735
On that note, one review on eham.net from twelve years back for this radio is amusing:
https://www.eham.net/reviews/view-product?id=5046