This is exactly what you should be doing. Matching speed with traffic is always the safest option. If you’re going slower than everyone else, you’re creating a hazard, almost as much as if you’re weaving through traffic.

By guessing the correct password, which is where this brute force dictionary comes in. A database, or other encrypted file, has no means of preventing repeat guesses, so you can take as many bites at the apple as you want. With high end GPU clusters you can attempt thousands of guesses per second. If you restrict your guesses to likely answers only (which is the point of the password list) you can break through in a pretty reasonable amount of time, assuming a vaguely common password was used. Of course, if the database or file is encrypted with something like a random and sufficiently long alphanumeric password or similar, that’s a whole different story, and your odds of getting in go down significantly.

There are other attacks of course, but those get significantly more complicated and rely on there being some sort of flaw in the encryption scheme to exploit, or you managing to find the password by some other means (sniff it out of memory while the system is live, social engineering, etc).

Correct. This is a brute force dictionary. It’s a very powerful tool, but it’s applications are severely limited. Any well designed system has protection from brute force attacks. It’s mostly useful for stuff like cracking encrypted databases, which would be a situation where the target is entirely under your control. You can’t just break into someone’s Gmail with it.

Where are people getting the idea that it even has anything to do with the attack helicopter meme? Because both things reference flying military hardware? Because as far as I can see that’s literally the only “connection”.

The “aerosexual” thing is because people on NCD constantly post extremely horny art of anthropomorphic fighter planes. This has nothing to do with identifying as anything. They don’t want to be fighter planes, they want to fuck fighter planes, because if you’re not a weirdo who’s horny as hell for military hardware then what are you even doing on NCD? And the joke is, to be clear, entirely self deprecating. It’s “haha, we’re a really weird and fucked up community aren’t we guys?”

No, they want rights. They just want them to be exclusive to them.

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” - Frank Wilhoit

Patriotism is wanting your country to be the best it can be.

Nationalism is believing that your country is already the best it can be, and that any dissenting voice is your enemy.

Happy Canada Day. Let’s all keep working to make this nation a better place, for all of us.

The Conservatives only want wealthy people to be able to defend their rights.

Sorry but when you said “some people”, you didn’t explicitly specify the gender of the people you were referring to, so now I am confused and terrified. In future please use “some male people” or “some female people” to avoid inflicting your gender ideology on me.

Buy it, use it, break it, fix it…

“Survivor bias” also applies here.

It is a simple, statistical fact that votes for Biden reduce Trump’s chances of winning. So you can either choose to impede Trump’s chances of winning, or choose not to.

Explain to me, if you can, how refusing to take an action that reduces a fascist’s chance of assuming power is, functionally, any different from assisting them.

And do you understand that under the current American electoral system, any action other than voting for Biden will directly assist Trump in getting into power?

They just told you. You have two realistic options (sorry, third parties are a fantasy under the current American electoral system). One of those options will permit and even tepidly support genocide in Palestine, the other will actively and eagerly encourage it. You pick the lesser of those two evils, and then you fight like hell against them until you get the results you’re actually looking for.

One of the smartest things I’ve ever heard about Western liberal democracy is this; “Voting is when you get to choose your opponent.” You’re not endorsing a platform, you’re arranging the battlefield.

At the end of the day, Trump will be somewhat worse for the people of Palestine than Biden will, and much, much worse for everyone in America. It might feel icky voting for Biden, but if you truly care about the lives of the people in Gaza, it is the best choice you can make under the options available to you.

Will Trump getting into power make things better for people in Palestine?

Yep. And this, right here, is a perfect example of “things that should go without saying still need to be said.”

People should know that bondage and sado-masochism are not the same thing, and yet so many don’t.

It should go without saying, but unfortunately there’s a lot in the kink space that should go without saying, but still has to be said, over and and over, because a lot of people come into the scene via entry points like 50 Shades that are almost antithetical to the idea of safe consensual kink.

Also, fair warning, the “padding” on most padded cuffs won’t do shit to stop them from digging in. Fabric compresses against metal, with the result that you still have an unyielding and relatively small point of contact. A good safe bondage knot will spread the point of restraint across several inches of skin, so the pressure at any one point is minimal.

Shibari You Can Use has some excellent guides to safe restraint, if you want to learn more.

Only if your sub is cool with it, but they need to know going in that either option is likely to chafe and dig into the sensitive skin around their wrists, possibly even causing bleeding depending on how much they strain against them. Definitely not recommended for a first time if you don’t know what your own responses to stimuli are likely to be.

Much better to use a soft hemp rope, around a quarter inch thick or more, and make sure you’re binding with safe knots. You can’t just go in with any old naval knot or whatever; there are specific bindings that are safe for use on people; look them up. Always check your bindings to ensure a safe amount of slack (you should be able to easily slide a finger around any part of the wrist or ankle for proper circulation) and always make sure you have a set of EMT clothing shears handy in case something goes wrong. No, kitchen scissors are not good enough; EMT shears have serration, and specially shaped blades, in order to cut through heavy fabric or bindings easily.

Also please don’t use duct tape, there’s literally no way to have it bind but also have sufficient slack. You will impede circulation. Just a terrible idea.

1.1.1.1 gang represent.

They’re presumably going to be doing this live. If someone manages to hack into the component that feeds text in…

Quantity of recalls combined with the quantity of quality control issues, combined with the price-tag.

For that kind of money, you generally expect something that went through some road testing. And it’s not like these are issues that took years to develop. Stuff like the problems with the foot pedals should have come up during their testing… Assuming they did any.