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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • I’m gonna take this opportunity to also point out that a lot of major banks’ online banking portals are actual dogwater. I have a credit union account and it is almost hilarious to me how well made their online portal is because it actually loads fast and doesn’t throw errors every 5 seconds probably because they hired a qualified dev to make it with a solid HTML/CSS base and not a bloated JS framework hell PWA.

    Unlike a certain penny colored bank site that can’t even handle my auto filled password and complains I need to enter the already filled input box.


  • Saw the title and I already knew IPv6 was still gonna be “not enough adoption” lol.

    The overly aggressive lockdown from NAT is not entirely misplaced though. Windows is already notorious for default hosting an atrocious level of protocols that are anywhere between “I can get your NetNTLMv2 hash for free” to “gg ez RCE as SYSTEM user”.

    Linux and Unix were also not magically protected either, like every FTP server implementation has had several RCE vulns and it was so bad that Linus himself pointed out how easy it was to abuse buffer overflow vulns even after the addition of NX mem protection with return to libc, several years before ASLR finally landed in Linux and Windows.

    Seriously, the early 2000s was the wild west of vulns because everything was still written in C++ so you could just waltz into any binary, find some stack/heap overflow, and you’re on your way to an RCE.

    NAT (and firewall) most definitely did prevent millions of users from getting rekt by a metric ton of malware that operated on the ability to connect to those services.




  • I had a buddy who went into the army in HS and it was around the time some doofuses suggested arming teachers with guns.

    He already thought the idea was braindead stupid so we decided to look up cops as a comparison to civilians in terms of accuracy.

    We couldn’t find civilian data but the cops in our state had a whopping 21% accuracy of actually hitting their target (in real situations) with some areas as low as 11%.

    He doubled down on disqualifying police as a real occupation after that lol.







  • Yes, they come from the same mine in Pakistan. They process it into lamps, animal licks, rock salt, fine salt, etc from the same source.

    Just clean the surface with a wet cloth to ensure there’s no residual dust/debris and you can shave away. It probably won’t yield even size grains, but you can use it for whatever you like.

    it’s more for a joke example though, much easier to just buy the salt.

    That all being said, the ones from Pakistan are not usually coated in anything after raw production, so if its from an unknown source, you might want to check if the seller maybe added some spray on agent to protect the salt, although I really don’t see any reason why they would do that.

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    And don’t buy any pink salt that says “made in India”. That money essentially funds some PMLN crooks who thought it would be funny to kneecap Pakistan’s agriculture export market by banning sales to any broker except themselves, of which they heavily undersell to India who then makes profit and shares it back only with them.

    EDIT: For everyone saying “not food grade”, the only difference is that it wasn’t quality tested for ingestion. That doesn’t mean the salt isn’t edible, it’s just not tested for that purpose. The mined salt rocks are the same for everything, only difference is size to be sold to each factory. I checked and apparently some sellers do coat the lamps with a protective gel for shipping purposes, so you would want to wash that off first.




  • Really depends on the director and how they adapt it.

    Despite Hollywood’s horrendous reputation around recycled IPs, their adaptations of foreign media have actually turned out quite good for several films, although arguably nothing compares to the original.

    The Departed was a remake of Infernal Affairs and there are still mile long threads to this day arguing about which one you should watch.

    tbf though I wouldn’t keep my hopes too high because there is a ocean full of poor adaptations and sequels, regardless of the quality of the original media or even when reusing the exact same film team.