Drafts have not won recent wars. Wars are not PVP.

The US has made an effort to maintain a highly trained and extremely specialized fighting force. It can take over a year of training in certain specialities before you even get to the last school house.

There's a focus on making advanced weapon systems easy to use through human factors analysis and that's slowly transitioning into killbots that do everything but pull the trigger and need a human in the loop to authorize the kill.

During WWII there was a massive increase in manufacturing which was beyond the enemies reach. If you got drafted to do anything it'd likely be work in a plant making drones or something logistical such as transporting drones.

Remember PhysX back when it was a separate
card Physics Processing Unit before they shoved it on the GPU before they even had multithreading? Yea it evolved. But the original implementation was not ideal.

Even a decade ago it usually meant ticking a box that you also allowed nonfree drivers.

Even Debian allowed you to download the specific nonfree driver you needed and add it (without Internet) at imaging so post install you could connect with wifi and not just Ethernet.

It's come a long way. But doesn't anyone else remember when windows did not have drivers and you'd constantly be confronted with "have disk"?

I mean, the amount of drivers for old hardware I still have saved... Because before win10 nothing would reliability always fetch the driver you need from the net...

ESU is a paid service for enterprise. They didn't even offer ESU for windows 7 home.

Windows 7 pro ESU per device cost $50 for 1 year, $100 for the next year, $200 for the final year.

Windows 7 enterprise was per device 1 year $25, second year $50, and 3rd year $100.

Micro$oft is not going to give win10 ESU away for free and they probably won't supported home edition.

You can however bypass the win11 hardware checks to upgrade unsupported devices.

Just do it manually.

You absolutely can set an alarm for a specific day in google clock version 7.6 from the play store.

After you set the alarm if you click on it you can give it a name such as "laundry" and set it for a specific day such as "Sunday"

I have alarms for workdays and alarms for times to take medicine.

You can set an alarm for a early wake up for a flight time a week ahead of time if you want. The assist is super basic to protect you from doing dumb shit, but you absolutely can do it manually.

They will trade in the Confidentiality and Integrity for just Availability.

When something like a hack finally drops the availability they will be forced to act.

They will never do a pentest tho.

Same story all over from government, small companies, all the way up to medical in big corporate hospitals and systems that could cause harm to human life.

Security is at most a checkbox somewhere that just gets checked regardless of the true state of the system. If it still works don't fix it.

The rules of war do not state it has to be used exclusively to commit attacks to be a legal target.

Rule 28. Medical units exclusively assigned to medical purposes must be respected and protected in all circumstances. They lose their protection if they are being used, outside their humanitarian function, to commit acts harmful to the enemy.

https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule28#:~:text=to%20medical%20units-,Rule%2028.,and%20protected%20in%20all%20circumstances.

the protection of medical units ceases when they are being used, outside their humanitarian function, to commit acts harmful to the enemy. This exception is provided for in the First and Fourth Geneva Conventions and in both Additional Protocols.[37] It is contained in numerous military manuals and military orders.[38] It is also supported by other practice.[39]

While the Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols do not define “acts harmful to the enemy”, they do indicate several types of acts which do not constitute “acts harmful to the enemy”, for example, when the personnel of the unit is armed, when the unit is guarded, when small arms and ammunition taken from the wounded and sick are found in the unit and when wounded and sick combatants or civilians are inside the unit.[40] According to the Commentary on the First Geneva Convention, examples of acts harmful to the enemy include the use of medical units to shelter able-bodied combatants, to store arms or munitions, as a military observation post or as a shield for military action.[41]

I refused an unlawful order once.

It helped that everyone enlisted immediately agreed, but it escalated up the chain of command very quickly after we asked for a written order until it was agreed that it was a miscommunication and never happened.

To be fair they could order you to do a lot and just hope you do the implied, even verbally said, but unwritten thing. But when I was in we had clear training about what was and wasn't unlawful to prevent abuse. If we had done it and had no proof we were really 100% officially ordered then it could have been pinned on us. Which is why my first response was, is that an order? Followed with citing the written order that said we could not do that thing and asking for a written order to do the thing. Just following orders works both ways.

US tax money pays for 7 separate programs and all that administration.

Medicare

Medicaid

Children's Health Insurance Program

Indian Health Service (IHS)

VA

Tricare

Then all the private insurances for federal employee

Then all the private insurances that corporations pay money to have even more administration.

So that's what 10 times the admin staff that a public program and private option would have?

Compared with Australia: Public (tax money) 1 program: Medicare Private several options such as: Bupas, Medibank, AHM.

Germany also has both public and private.

A crazy part of talking about single payer in America is the hang up over buying out public health providers with tax payer funds.

That never happened in Australia. They simply let private healthcare exist but built new public hospitals that became teaching and training hospitals. By slowly expanding pubic healthcare, which started in Queensland, they simply provided an option for more people to access local public healthcare.

Everyone gets stuck on trying to quick fix all this overnight. If we look at Oz Medicare didn't cover all Australians until 1984. But Queensland became the first state in Australia to introduce free universal public hospital treatment in January 1946. By building public hospitals one by one, training staff, and providing better care Queensland changed the way Australians thought about public va private care.

It costs more to have more administrative staff in America. But we refuse to train new doctors or build hospitals based on the needs of the communities they should serve. Therefore we end up with hospitals that serve shareholders, not doctors, not patients. We provide care for dollars instead of people.

If you just did a format and didn't overwrite the whole disk you could use DMDE, ddrescue, photorec, or testdisk to restore the files.

Or even something nonfree like recuva.

But this is why you're supposed to do backups in 3s!

Bro,

I have been using Google before 2000

Had an early invite to Gmail. Got mobile search results over text message before smart phones.

Google maps didn't even launch until 2005.

Some of us went places and did things before Google+

I don't disagree that if I want to go somewhere I might search g maps.

But the search results are really shit lately.

I miss competition with several web spiders

Is this the same young voters that don't turn up to the elections anyway?

Overhead a young coworker, "they have to give you time off during your shift to go vote, right?"

Me, Yes, but the state law says you have to ask for that time off at least 1 day in advance.

"Oh well. Maybe next year..."

Me, Set a calendar notification for next year!

...

Yea l knew someone that gave remote access out to one of these scams. Couldn't be sure they didn't leave a reverse shell so we just formated the drive and reinstalled windblows.

Let's not pretend that ranked choiced voting in Oz didn't elect Tony Abbott, the prototype for Trump's one liners and spewing hate.

Every answer to whatever question: "Stap the boats"

Don't get me wrong. I'm all for it. But it's not some silver bullet that will make all the party candidates turn into Jesus.

They finally hit a stride right there at the end!

If they had 26 episodes then it would have evened out and there'd be more gems. It can't be easy write, get the episodes thru the board, get the actors to do it well, and still have good content after composing with executives and panels. But if they made more it'd be easier to overlook.

Yea, the grind is becoming impossible though. My old man worked a summer job and could afford university all year on that.

After joining the military for the GI Bill, finishing that commitment, I worked in IT to keep us afloat while my wife went to university.

I left at 5AM for work, worked as much OT as I could, after work instead of sitting in traffic or stuffing on the train like sardines I studied, did all my IT certs, and left work at 7pm. The weekends I worked a second job doing IT. All through university I worked IT on nights and weekends.

The grind you have to do to reach "middle" class is becoming: come from money to afford college, or go into debt for life for uni, or work nonstop always.

How can people take care of kids, family?

I've never had a negative experience contributing to open source.

I've also been to scrums where everyone is equal, and we have to be very PC, about explaining "processes" and "best practices" to people that break the build pipeline every single day. Eventually I just coded error handling and guard clauses into everything so no one could screw anything up by not following the documentation being a cowboy. That is a best practice, sure, but you'd be surprised by how people break things even after being warned not to do a very specific thing.

A cowboy that fixes things always 24/7 can be a maverick and talk shit.

But in todays PC world you can also be a cowboy that breaks everything always and spends weeks fixing something they themselves broke...

I wish I could say the things Linus said instead of just putting people on a performance improvement plan.

Sometimes being angry is appropriate. When I am I step back and try to figure out solution where the fuck up can't happen again and no one gets hurt.

I've seen people be VERY angry and even hands on working in jobs where fucking up can kill people.

I'd rather see anger than people dying. Did Linus go too far here? Probably, but there is a time and place for anger and being direct.

There's very few things I can only get at target. Or that are vastly cheaper at target.

Even if I can get it at target, if it's locked and I need to wait a long time for a worker, who keeps bitching on the radio that he needs to finish the shift and clock out.. I just kinda get the feeling that target isn't worth it.

They no longer stock unique things. They treat their stores with ALDI level of staff but keep things locked up.

Why not just shop at Wegmans, LIDL, IKEA, Trader Joe's, Meijer, or at least Fred Meyer/Kroger.

Fuck if I really need convenience the experience of picking shit up and just walking out of Amazon go is addictive compared to locked shelves and long lines.

Cry me a river.

In cut throat retail innovate or die.