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2017-04-13 at 5:02 PM UTC in who here plays video games on ps4 steam or xbox live. looking to make some friends.All of the above, except the part about wanting friendsThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-04-12 at 10:57 PM UTC in What relatively obscure topics fascinate you?nothing obscure about any of themThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-04-12 at 7:49 PM UTC in What relatively obscure topics fascinate you?Personally, I am very interested in
theoretical physics . That sounds faggy and pseudointellectual as shit but it's true. Lately I've been delving into the concept of Gauge Symmetry. Shit is tough but you can try to begin grasping it, it's pretty interesting:
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2017-04-12 at 10:57 AM UTC in Stuff you remember from Totse/ZokletThat's shit everyone remembers. That's like remembering Molotov Everything; no shit idiot, that was like the Coldplay of Totse memes.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-04-10 at 2:05 AM UTC in Reverse DNS lookup.DNS lookup maps FQDNs to IP addresses, reverse lookup just does the reverse, it reports the FQDNs that point to an IP addresses. Because domains work sorta like pointers, multiple FDQNs can point to the same IP address these lookups aren't symmetric, lookup produces on IP while reverse lookup can produce zero or more domains.
The place I assume it would be relevant to email systems is in terms of verifying the authenticity of a message. In SMTP the sender of a message is self-reported, it's part of the data sent. You could initiate an SMTP session with, say, yahoo and assert you're sending an email from trump@whitehouse.gov and that's valid within the confines of SMTP. Of course this isn't really desirable, so the first line check against this kind of fraud is to verify that the actor initiating an SMTP session is doing so from an address that is pointed to by that domain. You can kind of "derive" authority to send messages from given senders from DNS ownership, which is pretty reasonable.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-04-10 at 2:03 AM UTC in Reverse DNS lookup.reverse DNS refers to a PTR record.
normally when you want to visit a website, you request www.blackonblackcrime.com, your request hits a DNS server and you get the IP address to connect to back.
PTR records work the opposite way - you send an IP address to the DNS server and it responds with the domain that IP address has registered to it.
in relation to email, typically it's a feature used to avoid forgery. when you send an email, the sending mailserver is included in the header data. the receiving mailserver will usually first check the MX record (ie. if you're sending from soph@niggasin.space, it will check the MX record for niggasin.space to make sure that the server's IP address is in the list - that it's allowed to send mail on the domain's behalf), then the PTR record (will query the mailserver's IP address to make sure it's actually registered to the niggasin.space domain).
there's a lot of other stuff you need to know if you're deploying mailservers but that's the most basic reasoningThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-04-08 at 12:10 PM UTC in Conflict Shitpile
Originally posted by Sophie Dying in a nuclear blast would be pretty badass all things considered. It will be the most glorious explosion to behold. I just hope i die quickly instead of radiation poisoning.
The bomb is Atom. And thus, we are Atom awaiting the day in which each of us gives birth to a trillion new lives.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-04-07 at 2:03 AM UTC in Conflict Shitpile
Originally posted by aldra SYRIA - US HAS FIRED 59 CRUISE MISSILES AT A SYRIAN AIRBASE
https://www.rt.com/news/383782-us-strikes-syria-tomahawaks/
And here i was sitting thinking Trump was the non-interventionist guy. Guess the state's gonna' state. Anarchism when.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-04-06 at 3:34 PM UTC in The secret to forming a successful dictatorship of the proletariatThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-04-06 at 9 AM UTC in Conflict ShitpileI would fight over some good hash oilThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-04-05 at 7:18 AM UTC in Conflict Shitpile
Originally posted by Discount Whore I'm not entirely convinced everybody claiming SAA isn't just a shill.
US foreign policy in relation to Syria has fallen apart. Their goal from the beginning was to depose Assad and put a US-friendly dictator in his place, largely to give some semblance of legitimacy to their plans of forcing their gas pipeline through the country. Breaking one of Iran's strongest allies in the region (one of the reasons for smashing Iraq too) was another reason.
The details of why they've failed so hard aren't really important here, but their current play (likely the last thing they can try short of all-out war) is to convince the Syrian Kurds in the north to secede from Syria, giving them a puppet state that will allow them to build their pipeline and have a military presence. This seems to me like wishful thinking, considering the Kurdish militias are working with the SAA and have handed over huge swathes of land they cleared of Jihadists. Declaring an independent state would also put them at the mercy of Erdogan and his Kurd murderboner without the protection of the SAA.
So now it's a race to Raqqa, the last real ISIS stronghold. The US means to take it before the SAA/Russia so that they can use their proxies (mostly Iraqi Kurds led by Barzai) to try to declare an independent state to the north. The corporate media is jumping at any chance to demonise Russia and the SAA, and in this case you only need to look at the rhetoric the neocons are spewing to see that they intend to use the 'chemical weapons bogeyman' to justify much larger military deployment to the US public.
PS. it's no coincidence that this has been pushed into the spotlight so soon after the US declared that they've officially abandoned their 'Assad must go' mantra.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-03-23 at 2:03 AM UTC in Conflict ShitpileI'm just going to dump stuff I find interesting in here - it'll just be bits and pieces, things that are either unconfirmed, amusing or I just don't feel like writing a lot about.
Mood music:
YEMEN - this is from last week, but it hasn't made the news here at all and I've heard similar of the US. Saudi gunships obliterated a refugee vessel from Yemen en route to Somalia that was pre-registered with the Red Cross.
YEMEN - Houthis have changed up their tactics and intensified SRBM missile attacks against Saudi bases. They've apparently been attaching explosives to <$500 consumer drones and smashing them into Patriot radar arrays to blind them, then using the ensuing chaos to drop Tochka/SCARABs in unmolested.
SYRIA - SDF crossed the Euphrates and took Tabqa. Erdogan is going to lose his fucking mind.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-03-18 at 12:09 AM UTC in S-200 launch reported just now near the GolanThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-03-17 at 11:26 AM UTC in S-200 launch reported just now near the GolanYou're doing some dope citizen journalism aldra, you should make a blog.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-03-03 at 2 AM UTC in DIY Acid WashI've acid-washed one of my knives in the past but it didn't turn out as well as I'd liked - I assume the acid I mixed wasn't quite potent enough, so the blade came out a bit dull. I was somewhat disappointed and hadn't tried again since.
That was up until I saw the detailed patterns you can get with PCB transfer film - examples:
so I decided to give it a try again.
First thing to do is get some transfer film - it's fairly expensive, so if you want to nigger-rig it some people have been able to use glossy photo paper. I suspect that if you go this route, you'll need to use different temperature settings when transferring the pattern to the metal.
The idea behind transfer paper is you print a design on it, then you press it face down on your metal surface (blade in this case), and use heat and pressure to transfer the ink from the paper to the metal. Then, when it's exposed to acid, the ink resists it - metal not covered by ink is corroded, metal covered by ink is left untarnished.
I didn't take photos of the transfer paper because I printed it ages ago, but the brand is Press n Peel Blue and it'll look like this once printed:
The difficult part is getting the patterns to transfer evenly - you need both heat (I found about 150 degrees celsius to be ideal) and constant, even pressure. I've tried this in the past with an iron, a vice and blowtorch, even a convection oven but never had much luck. This time around, I built the DANGERWAND.
It's basically just a hair-straightener mounted on a vice so I can use it as a heat press. Works well, but is actually pretty dangerous - I had to tape over the circuit on the top, touching it gives a very nasty shock.
I would've actually used this as the pattern, but being a total fucking mongolroy I applied the pattern upside down. Clean off the pattern with acetone, re-press, this is the result:
NOTE: I intentionally faded the pattern to the right to avoid a hard cutoff. I also used nail polish to paint parts of the blade that I didn't want to be exposed to the acid, ie. the ring around where the pivot goes, because if you corrode the parts that make contact with other components, you will fuck up the tolerances and best case, the knife will be loose and off-centre, worst case it won't open or lock up properly.
Next up is the acid dip. I used 6% sodium hydroxide and hardware-store grade hydrochloric acid in a ratio of 2.5:1 in an OAK milk bottle with the top cut off. If youre going to do this, you MUST use either a GLASS or HDPE plastic container. The acid is strong enough that it'll rapidly corrode and weaken a metal container, and most other plastics will melt in a matter of minutes. No photos, I was afraid that I'd acid-damage my phone.
Basically I mixed the acid, put a cabletie through the hole in the blade and hung it off a metal bar on the lip of the container - that way the blade was suspended in acid. It only took like 5 minutes for it to seriously corrode, then I took it out and washed it and rubbed a bit of making soda across it to ensure the acid was totally neutralised. After washing, I used a small amount of acetone to remove the nail polish and the resist pattern that I'd applied to the metal - this is the end result:
After putting it all back together:
I don't intend on doing this again anytime soon, the acid is VERY messy and releases a lot of unpleasant fumes, plus it's annoying to dispose of. Generally you've got to slowly add a base (bicarbonate/baking soda) until it's neutralised, then it's safe to flush.
PS. the knife in question is a Spyderco Manix.
----wat is going on here, formatting's messed up
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2017-02-07 at 4:12 AM UTC in The mind is a meat radio.
Originally posted by Open Your Mind A radio doesn't just randomly work the way we expect it to - it works the way we expect it to because nature is deterministic and predictable, we have studied it and learned about it and built devices like radios based on our understanding of the deterministic way reality works. If the world is not deterministic, things should happen randomly for no reason. That isn't how the world appears to be, so if determinism is an illusion why is the mind a meat radio? Why and how does the world appear to be deterministic if it is as an illusion as you claim?
wrong, the universe is PROBABILISTIC. it's undecided what it's going to do next. some things are just more reliable than other things. we don't really understand anything, fundamentally; we create nuclear power plants and space ships and radios and computers using rule-of-thumb engineering tricks that were established through trial and error.
your question is null. 'how can x work if the universe isn't perfect clockwork' applies to everything. radios don't require a deterministic universe. free will isn't even negated by a deterministic universe. and in fact, the universe could be deterministic while humans or life is non-deterministic. and if you look and think hard enough, you come up with the same answer that so called scientists have for why gravity works or why the speed of light is so and so.
"that's just how it fucking is"The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-01-19 at 8:04 AM UTC in Waiting 2 whole days to destroy leftistsI need to call the park ranger to go and move the "risk of edginess" roadside meters to "edginess imminent" so drivers can be awareThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2015-07-02 at 12:22 PM UTC in Rocklin is on suicide watchi have a 9 inch IQThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2015-06-25 at 1:10 AM UTC in Rocklin is on suicide watch
Those lame cunts fang and Rocklin turned out to be CrackerJack badge polishing traitors in the end, banning everyone's accounts just because they were too butt-hurt to take the flack for the site's closing. Hope they get all the karma that's coming to them.
LOL fuck off spectralThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2015-06-24 at 9:13 PM UTC in Rocklin is on suicide watchI have 0 post an 27 Thanks over there now which makes me the best user of all time according to the post/thanks ratio law.
Eat dicks, Rocklin. I win.
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