DahGangalang @ DahGangalang @infosec.pub

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Oh so instead of white pawn takes black rook, you'd go white rook to g8.

This forces black king to f7. White rook takes black rook, putting black in check.

Black king can escape (which then has white rook takes black queen) or black queen takes white rook (with pawn taking queen and promoting).

Either way blood bath ensues, probably leaving white up some pieces for the exchange. Mkay, I think I see.

I don't know how to read real chess moves.

But black queen must take (new) white queen.

It then seems foolish for white queen to take black queen, since black king must take white queen.

With the board state, white might find it advantageous to exchange queens with his board state, but I think white pushing white queen forward to take the black pawn in front of it would be the better move.

Little of both as I understand it.

Privacy sandbox had some sketchy innovations that would let google track people (but would make third party tracking harder).

There was some legit good things they were pushing and cookies (as they existed at the start of the initiative) were very flawed in their implementation. Some things have become better kind of on their own.

Overall, we're probably best off that they started the initiative, inspired other privacy changes (outside privacy sandbox), and then ultimately gave in before "completing" the project.

It appears to be a widely circulated fan art, appearing on her page of the Fandom Wiki (though Tetsuya Nomura may be an official artist for FFX).

Point is that its accredited to an artist, so it would seem the missing teeth was intentional?

Oh, I thought this was going to be about the trading cards they implemented in steam. Those are so lame and cheap I wasn't bothered by this.

For any non-readers-of-articles, this is about a loot box mechanic added to counterstrike (which is fair criticism imho)

So Harry Turtledove's Worldwar series explores an invasion of Earth by small ish reptilian aliens.

My head canon for the aliens and they're differences in culture from humans is that they basically came from pre-meteor Earth and evolved from real velociraptors (which as I understand, were actually only about 3 ft/1 m tall, and were considered the most intelligent/pack forming dinos of their time).

Its an interesting series (if something of a bizarre premise).

Normally I'd recommend the audio books to hit it during commutes and such, but TBH, I don't really care for the narrators.

I do think they have Bill Nye as Death. He's credited as one of the narrators, but I couldn't quite pick out which character he "plays".

Just finished Color of Magic (from Discworld series).

Def some strong The Luggage vibes here.

So that says to me there was a worse economic downturn for farmers in mid 70's.

I know there was a bunch of junk with oil at the time. Is that what the downturn was about or was there something else happening at that time to beat on farmers specifically? Any history buffs with the inside scoop care to share?

I was ~8 years old when the search engine wars were going on. Even as close to the "pre-google" age as I was, I literally cannot conceive of existence without it nor fathom how difficult some (relatively basic) things must've been.

To be fair, the 3/4 fit elves account for 2/4 middle age dads.

Aren't 3 of the 4 "Elf Princes" still known to be incredibly fit?

I'm out of practice with my physics so apologies if this is a n00b question, but:

I'm unclear what (rho V) is and how you converted to that from mass (m). Further unclear what (rho A d) refers to.

Can you explain / link to an explainer on this?

I have a chip on my shoulder about the metric system as it appears in sci-fi writing.

It drives me nuts that in books like The Expanse (and I think the Bobiverse and Andy Wier's works) that the writer will call distances in "thousands/millions of kilometers".

Really feels more reasonable to just go full send and call them megameters and gigameters, but maybe that's just my American non-metric mind trying to force full use of a system in a way those born to it don't actually do.

Anyway, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

I think I'd depends on what you mean by secure.

So to give you an idea of how that'd work (at least my understanding of it):

• Your VPN will set up a virtual interface (naturally its associated with your physical network interface, but the virtual allows some cryptography magic) and sends all traffic out that "pipe". That pipe leads to (in this case) a Proton server. That pipe is encrypted from your device to that server.
• By default, ALL traffic is forced out that pipe.
• When you allow LAN connections, it'll basically setup a firewall rule that sends all traffic NOT bound for you local network (usually 192.168.0.0/24) through that encrypted pipe.
• all traffic bound for the local network will go through usual routes.

On the face of it and with a "normie" home network, this is probably okay.

However, if you (as an example) run a local DNS server (like Pi-Hole) its possible that your DNS traffic gets send through normal (and potentially non - encrypted means) channels to the DNS server and then forwarded out to the wider internet. This could allow an ISP to get an idea of what you're looking at with your VPN (since they'll be able to see that you're using a VPN, this is not a difficult thing to correlate)

So really the answer is it depends. I'd minimize risks by leaving LAN connections off, unless you really need it, but that's making a bunch of assumptions about your specific needs and threat model.

So the way I could see this working for her is have Bernie Sanders come and endorse her right out the gate (I doubt he'd be up for being her running mate, but it'd probably be an even better run if he accepted that).

Ol' boy had been VERY effective at breaking into right - leaning spaces and I could see him contributing to getting the historically Democrat (but not recently Democrat) voter out for AOC.

My real concern is the party leaders. I could see them trying to hold back resources and effectively pulling the same moves they pulled in Bernie to hold her down.

Man, someone needs to tell these guys that they can just resign. They don't need to implement laws that are sure to get them voted out next election, they can just quit any time they want.

Link for the lazy to bill's text:

Would have posted a guide to get to the switch, but couldn't find it on the Android app (though I've never seen an ad popup there).

If they can make it happen while making them engaging and compelling to work with, I'm down with this.

I'm not going to hold my breathe on it being a "fun" faction to work with, but I'm open to them attempting to do the thing.

Ah, that makes sense. Appreciate the follow up!