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My latest Linux-convincing story

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You think linux doesn't have a firewall? I'm fairly certain every distribution has one installed and enabled by default.

The real reason linux worked so well in this situation was the local admin rights that came from being a rogue, unmanaged device on the network. I'm sure they could have made windows work if all the group policies weren't being enforced.

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PGP key discovery for Email - WKD

I tried setting this up a few years ago without success. Prompted by your post I took another look and I think I was trying to serve my key from a mishmash of the direct and advanced URIs (although I don't remember there being an advanced and direct method when I first tried this) and I had a TXT record setup in DNS as well for some reason. Might have been following a draft RFC? Whatever I was trying, it didn't work for me then.

No one I know other than a couple of services I have accounts with use pgp so it is of little use to me right now. But I am glad it is now working and I don't need to rely on any 3rd party keyservers. So thanks for the prompt and the write-up.

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Arsene Wenger proposes change to offside rule

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Using an extreme example I think they mean a striker shouldn't be able to run straight to the opposition goal line when play starts and hang around there all match just waiting to pounce and/or disrupting the goal keeper. This is called goal-hanging and was very much a thing until the offside rule was brought in to stop it.

I doubt anyone would want to penalise displays of superior athleticism, that would be completely antithetical to sport in general.

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Tesla Full-Self Driving Veers Off Road, Hits Tree, and Flips Car for No Obvious Reason (No Serious Injuries, but Scary)

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Wonder no more. Someone did this on YouTube using cardboard boxes, Tesla drove straight through them. Skip to around the 15 minute mark to watch it drive through the "wall" without even touching the brakes.

Edit: thought the person you were replying to said it thought a wall was a tunnel, not the other way round. Still funny to watch it breeze through a wall with a tunnel painted on it though.

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Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought

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Calling someone a fascist for that is obviously a bit OTT but you've ignored the "do weird shit" part of the response so it wasn't literally what you said. Taking the full response into account you can easily interpret it as "I don't bother with mental maths but use a calculator instead, anyone who isn't like me is weird as shit"

That is a bit thought police-y

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