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Then youll make it work.

Ha. Have you met me? I have, you might say somewhat frequently, and I don’t like the odds of that working out.

“But what if I don’t?” is the immediate counter-thought. I literally cannot stop myself from thinking this.

On the one hand, one of the Doctor’s aliases is Merlin*.

On the other, there’s a surprising amount of technobabble for pure magic.

And then there’s Arthur C. Clarke’s third law: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

* I subscribe to the notion that this is the Doctor’s true name.

Arithmetic / so-called pure maths up to pre-calculus and maybe a bit of early calculus. The rest just wouldn’t stick in my brain, so even if I could teach, I couldn’t teach that.

But seriously, I’m not sure I could teach anything. If I can’t herd the metaphorical cats in my brain, I’d stand no chance with a class full of students.

I happen to have first.middle.last@acertainfreehost that I use for government things. I wanted first.last, but there are a few of “me” out there and one of them beat me to it.

Which is partly to say that you might find that now you’ve posted your ideas here that someone has taken them all before you, so I hope you didn’t use your real name. And I still feel sorry for ol’ Dennis if you didn’t.

One alternative might be to get your own domain name. Plenty of hosting companies will do a domain and mail forwarding if not some tier of hosting for cheap. Many give a handful of accounts in the base price. (Though it should be noted that it’s a well-known money grab because it’s usually very simple to have <anything>@domain go to one mailbox for collection and sorting elsewhere. Storage management does not have to be at the mailbox level either.)

What’s your opinion of the word “neologologist” and are you proposing that these “most linguists” are in fact described by it? And what do you think their opinion of it would be? ;p

I envy these linguists’ ability to either not be irked by grammar errors at all or to be able to deal with their irritation when errors arise.

I’m about 50/50 on grammar errors. They bother me either way, but sometimes I feel the need to correct them and try to explain why.

Today I seem to have worded it in a way that’s rubbed people the wrong way. It has gone better. You win some, you lose some.

And yes I know I sound like an LLM. I used to not be able to communicate my ideas at all (flashback to not being able to string a 500 word essay together at school) but then I got a job working technical support and I had to figure out a way of getting my ideas and explanations across. And this is now how I communicate, for better or worse.

Unfortunately, LLMs learned how to communicate in a not dissimilar way. And so we sound alike.

*whose

“who’s” is “who is”[1] or “who has”[2], and it can be wrestled into a possessive if you make “who” all or part of a name[3], but it’s the wrong sort of possessive for this context. If you really want the possessive form, it ought to be phrased “which person’s”, which is mostly what “whose” means.

(An actual linguist would speak more about the genitive and how it works in English, but I’m not as capable.)

[1]: e.g. “Who’s there?” [2]: e.g. “Who’s let the cat out again?” [3]: e.g. “This is you-know-who’s box of tricks.”

Mostly no. Currently the only time I put it on is when I’m away from the computer for a length of time doing something quiet.

And I’d probably not even do so then if I had a tablet or smartphone to cue something up from the Internet instead.

(I’m basically stuck in the '90s here. Largely by choice, but money is a factor.)

Yes, you do still have to remember a handful of passwords, but remembering three or four is a much smaller burden than remembering upwards of 50 or 100. (This might seem excessive, but my password manager tells me I have at least that many.)

If that opens up brain space, make those three or four as long and complicated as possible.

String together things only you know and will always remember, but throw in a few random symbols to make the job harder if you accidentally let any of the regular facts and figures slip.

You might also be interested in something like https://www.passwordcard.org/.

Edit to be an unpaid shill for say I’m a happy user of Password Safe, too: https://www.pwsafe.org/

Too expensive. No government would use a cyborg when a bullet or even “re-education” will suffice.

I mean, I know the rich and powerful love AI, but not to that degree. They’d put the cyborgs in charge of firing the bullets and running the "school"s instead.

I’d like to believe that this means that these three pieces of software actually work and that someone in high office has decided that that is unacceptable.

Paranoid authoritarians really do not like ordinary people having access to secure communications and personal privacy. That might be an avenue they can use to organise and elect someone who isn’t a paranoid authoritarian, and that won’t do.

On the other hand, these pieces of software might already be compromised and this is all an elaborate double-bluff.

In which case it’s time for a few well placed communications over purportedly secure channels that would be guaranteed to generate an authoritarian response. Which they’ll then have to pretend they didn’t read until it’s too late.

I’m talking organising - horrors - peaceful protests. They really don’t like those. They have to use their brains, or someone else’s, in order to find a good excuse to stick the boot in.

I can’t imagine I’m the first to ever say this: Those who say they do not poop are full of it.

That’s the thing. Your memory only works one way. You’re incapable of perceiving time running in the opposite direction.

Every time you’ve pooped both in the past and the future*, it’s both going in and coming out, entirely dependent on the frame of reference.

*Yes, I did just refer to the future in the past tense. Because if time’s running backwards to how we perceive it, that’s actually the past.

The only way to win this game is not to poop. And good luck with that.

This may be a fleeting fancy, but at time of writing: «Merde»

Hello. As a former consumer of cheese, yes.

If it helps, think of it as a very unique form of cocoa-free chocolate, or better, a solid form of yoghurt.

(I developed a dairy intolerance a decade ago. I miss cheese.)

Neat. Don’t give them the ability to self-replicate and we’re golden.

Pipewire is newer and emulates PulseAudio so that it can be used as a drop-in replacement. There’s literally a command called pipewire-pulse related to this.

It makes me wonder if they really have both installed or are mistaking Pipewire’s emulation for an active PulseAudio installation, and so it’s just Pipewire that’s acting up.

I’d say reboot, but being in space might be one of those times where that’s a non-starter. In which case, they’re going to have to get their hands dirty unpicking system hooks and trying to reattach them all again as and when Pipewire’s working again, assuming it doesn’t do that automatically.

I never had a problem with either Pipewire or real PulseAudio back when that was current. I had motherboard sound physically pop, requiring the purchase of a separate sound card, but never a driver issue, so I can’t even imagine what might be going on.

NPC.

Oh. I have do the quiz?

It gave me “Multiclass”.

There’s a joke about inheritance in there somewhere. And the fact that no-one will want whatever I leave behind.

Can I choose NPC now?