Pat @Pat@qoto.org

This video is a portion of the presser this morning (May 23, 2022) with Japanese PM Fumio Kishida and Biden.

#Japan #US #Biden #China #Taiwan #defense #mil #Asia #Pacific

Biden said US would get involved militarily to defend Taiwan if China attacks.

Has anyone ever owned a Chinese-made flashlight that lasted for more than a month before breaking?

@freemo @trinsec

Probably not. Also most plastics block UV, so less of an issue. It will be interesting to see if your skin tans in that area.

@lupyuen

I think ringing in the ears is more noticable when it's quiet, so it makes sense that people would have it more when they are lying in bed trying to sleep. So the correlation to sleep may be incidental and due that third variable, reduced noise level.

@trinsec @freemo

I hope that clear part doesn't act like a magnifying glass.

@trinsec @lucifargundam

I think “plinking” may be a parochial term. It means to causally set up tin cans or other small objects on rocks, tree stumps or whatever and then shoot at them to knock them down. So “plinking 55-gallon drums” implies that the gun must be very powerful in order to knock those large “cans” down.

#cypto #hash #encyption #sha256
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Who put a B00B in my hash?

https://qoto.org/@Pat/108340302865001715

@trinsec @sturgman

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“Salted” is not the title of the poem, it’s just an indicator for the salt. The title of the poem is “Pat Wrote a Poem”, which is shown in plaintext in the original toot, as well as being encrypted as part of the ciphertext. “Salted” is placed in there by the encryption utility as a header and just indicates the salt at the beginning which, as can be seen with a hexdump, is 07e3420c7230b00b. (That bit of info may be useful, but not in an obvious way.)

I want to clarify that the hashing of the password is a separate process from the encryption algorithm, but common utilities do this automatically by default or as instructed. I know of no known implementations of SDES that can also hash a password, (because it’s simple to just create a 10-bit key directly). The tool I used to encrypt this example created a random salt, hashed the supplied password, and derived the key and initial vector before encrypting. The hash digest algorithm used was sha256. (I don’t think that last bit of info will be useful to you.)

Also, SDES uses a 10-bit key, which means there are only 1024 possible keys and a brute-force attack could find the key very quickly, this why I said that SDES was too simple, and why I didn’t use that cipher.

@trinsec

>"And is the 2nd one really a 'sporting rifle'? O.o"

It is if the "sport" is plinking 55-gallon drums. 😂

@lucifargundam

This one’s way above my pay grade, so I’m really not sure. However, if it comes to choosing between Turkey or Sweden & Finland, that’s a no brainer. Two well developed, long-standing democracies versus a country with a lousy human rights record, teetering on becoming a dictatorship.

Also, going forward for the rest of this century, the Arctic will become much more strategically significant as the polar ice melts away, freeing up resources and navigation. Meanwhile Turkey’s geographic importance will wane as oil and gas goes away and pipeline routes and tanker navigation become less important.

#racism

@2ck @yes

If nanachi wants to learn about optics, just look in the mirror.

In case any of you are ignorant about Jean-Pierre’s education and career qualifications:

- New York Institute of Technology (BS)
- Columbia University (MPA)
- Lecturer, Columbia University School of International Public Affairs
- Southeast regional political director for Obama Presidential campaign
- Regional political director for the White House Office of Political Affairs, Obama administration
- National Deputy Battleground States Director for President Obama's 2012 re-election campaign
- Deputy campaign manager for the Martin O'Malley 2016 presidential campaign.
- MoveOn senior advisor and national spokesperson for the 2016 presidential election.
- Political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC.
- Senior advisor to the Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign.
- Chief of Staff for Kamala Harris as vice presidential nominee
- Principal Deputy Press Secretary, Biden Administration
- White House Press Secretary
- Center for Community and Corporate Ethics
- Karine Jean-Pierre is fluent in English, French, and Haitian Creole

#WH #USpol #press #media #blm #KarineJeanPierre #Biden #Harris #USA #Psaki

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Congratulation to Karine Jean-Pierre on her promotion to White House Press Secretary.

Jean-Pierre is the first black woman and the first openly gay person to serve as White House Press Secretary.

Image: Karine Jean-Pierre at her first press briefing as White House Press Secretary; public domain image

#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #alien #sea #space #firstcontact #nuclear #submarine #split #atom #future #film #movie #icbm #Manhattan #Project

Retro SciFi of the Week…

The Atomic Submarine (1954)

Released in the same year that the first nuclear submarine was commissioned, this film has many of the classic features of 50’s science fiction – theremin music, corny dialogue, miniature model FX – but it’s also original within the genre with its unique subject matter and plot.

The film predicted underwater ICBM launches and submerged transit of the North Pole years before they would actually be achieved, and lots of other technical tidbits. It also predicted widespread use of merchant nuclear subs for trans-arctic commerce, which never happened.

It took less than two years for the US to construct the first nuclear sub, the USS Nautilus, which occurred just ten years after the first sustained nuclear chain reaction had been achieved. Ten years after the USS Nautilus was commissioned the US had a fleet of 26 nuclear subs. Today, with 70 years of experience building nuclear submarines, it takes the US more than 10 years to build a single nuclear sub.

Dear Pat,

Thank you for applying for the Sr. Engineer position. I must say your resume really had all of us rolling on the floor. I mean, we were in tears. How on Earth do you think you’d even come close to qualifying for this position? I mean, you couldn’t be a pimple on an engineer’s ass.

Needless to say, we used your resume to blot up coffee spills in the lunch room.

Good luck – you’ll need it.

Regards,

Lillian Gish
Systems Director
Amalgamated Mediocre Engineering

@peterdrake

There has always been a natural oscillation between centralized vs. decentralized throughout the history of computing. First it was centralized with large, clunky tube-driving machines. Then terminals began to become more sophisticated pushing things toward decentralization. Eventually those terminals became PCs with standalone applications. Then came networks and the rise of servers, moving back toward centralization again. Now economic, rather than technological drivers are pushing centralization to the extreme.

I think the drivers going forward will be AI, robots and security. With most communication happening between machines rather than people, UI/UX will be deemphasized and AI and machine learning will predominate. Security and political blowback will act as limiters to centralization – people and machines will want to maintain autonomy and security. And teaching how to connect to the hardware will become more important.

#MyFavoriteMartian #spy #smile #MrsBrown

#nato #Turkey #democracy #autocracy #geopolitics #international #Ukraine #Russia #UN

Should Turkey be kicked out of NATO?

@lucifargundam

Sometimes companies have a specific protocol for intra-company moves. Usually the current manager needs to be in the loop, as well as the new manager.

Aso, comany politics play an out-sized role in these situations.