lattrommi

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Threat plan.

Ask yourself the following:

What do you have that you want to protect?

Can be a person, place, thing, animal, mineral or vegetable.

A hierarchy of importance is good to develop.

    Is your wife more important than your cat? 

    Is your fireproof safe full of legal documents more important than your computer?

Who do you want to protect it from?

Threats 

    Consider:

        Actions taken by humans

        Acts of nature (acts of your god?)

        The passage of time

How likely is it that you will need to protect it?

Remember:

    Privacy is important

    Everything breaks down eventually, both man and machine, society and civilization

        Will a hurricane demolish your mountaintop resort? 

        Will a landslide destroy your yatch? 

        Will looters ransack your home during an insurrection?

    Historical weather and earthquake data is useful to know

How bad are the consequences if you fail?

What do you have to lose beyond possessions and people?

    Reputation, freedoms, integrity, etc.

How much trouble am you willing to go through to prevent these consequences?

Will you go through worse if you don't prepare?

Will you have the courage to act when the time comes?

How many security cameras are needed to track a single cat? What about a married cat?

After you feel you have answered these sufficiently, you can begin to prepare to protect yourself!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

The black lines used for borders could be that. I'm not saying it is, just that it might be close to the amount used by roads other than rural highways.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

If you are technically inclined, there's QGIS. It's a steep learning curve but it is capable of doing ANYTHING as far as maps are concerned. Okay, maybe not anything, I admit it's above my skill level to use effectively. You can import data sets with it, effectively it's more of a map aggregation and editing tool. It's far more capable than OSM and you can work offline once the data sets are imported.

There's also Marble, not the same thing as the other suggestion I see commented. It's got a version for QT and GTK and some appimages out there. It's not as polished. In fact, it's kind of like MS Encarta Atlas, just not really modern. It has a bit of the 'old internet' feel to it, if that makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Ah, makes sense. Mine does more of a Salvador Dali thing, like the stache is trying to join forces with my eyebrows.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is likely a regional thing but the one I went to, which was billed as LGBTQ friendly, had 20 participants, 1 bi woman, 1 bi man, 2 straight women and the rest was straight men.

It was not well organized, cost $20, used prompts that weren't relevant since the early 90's and overall was awkward and depressing. I hope yours fares better.

Pretty sure I was the only one on speed too. (Joking!)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes.

What I have difficulty with, is when some wayward knotted cluster I've inadvertently consumed, tries to jump ship the next day in the restroom, while having managed to braid itself on one end into my derrière hair, while the other side of it is still chilling somewhere up in my small intestine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I find a tiny pair of scissors to be very useful. I trim back only one part of my facial hair, the 'hitler mustache' area. It can be done quickly and easily and with care, few would notice there was anything trimmed at all. For me, it makes a world of difference when eating. I wont try to convince you further, I know Ii'm set in my ways, just wanting to say that there is an alternative to lip hair inhalation.

RE soups and stews: Leave it. Let it dry. You never know when you might need an emergency ration. Soak it in a bowl of water for a light snack or a mid-afternoon burst of energy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

but can you turn yourself on? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago
  • ignore the human
  • automated responses
  • bulleted haiku
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I am a jack of all trades, master of none. I'm a nobody, who likes to have fun. I'm easily distracted and lose focus a ton.

I am an amateur scientist, a cook, an author of unwritten books, I can't solve your problems but I'll still take a look.

I've been a toy soldier, a quick thinker, a recycling inventer and a useless tinker, who was once known as a legendary drinker.

I'm naturally shy but occasionally I'm bolder and i see beauty beyond the eye of the beholder as a student or mentor to both younger and older.

A person "who" cares, doesn't matter about "what", "when" I'm needed, "where" ever that may be, and sometimes "why". z.

I've walked a mile in your shoes and I ran so far away just to be the man who walked a 1000 miles to fall down at your door.

I never give up, never surrender, never gonna let you down, never gonna turn around, bright eyes, every now and then i fall apart.

A party of one, a party of five, a party of me, oh, ah, ah, ah, ah, staying alive, staying alive. As long as I know how to love I know I'll be alive, I will survive.

I want it all or maybe just a little bit off more than I can chew on that it's a piece of cake and eat it too rich for my blood is thicker than water you talking about?

Chances are, the odds are even, shirts versus skins. don't stop believin' that as far as I'm concerned, everybody wins or was kung fu fighting, thunderbolts and lightning, please.

Online I go by Lattrommi, the first and foremost, last but not least, mostly a man, still part beast, from the state of ohio in the united states of north america on this planet earth within the sol system somewhere along an arm of the milky way galaxy.

If you read all this, I hope you have a nice day.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The person asking the trivia question needed to know the answer, so they could determine who was correct.

Phones, as I understand them, average about 30 pings per second. That's 30 times per second the phone is checking for signal strength with the nearest tower, among other data.

They also work with any device that has wifi or bluetooth to help with location triangulation. So anyone at trivia that had their phone on them and powered, had their position noted as well as their proximity to others. If the location has smart TV's on the walls, those were picking up the pings as well. If they have internet available to customers, there's another point picking up the info.

It's already been shown that a few companies have listened to microphones. The data being extrapolated is so large, listening to the microphone would be counterproductive and redundant. There are devices everywhere, security cameras, billboards, inside each row of shelves at your grocery store, in every car that has a computer, lights at intersections, smart watches and other IOT devices, even appliances these days have wifi and bluetooth like refridgerators, coffee pots, robot vacuums, treadmills, i could go on.

It's scary that some company might be listening to your through your phones microphone but the real scary thing is that they don't need to. They knew people at that trivia game would be searching for that answer before the question was even asked, without needing to listen in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

yeah i need to find a better image hosting site. this might work https://imgur.com/a/uQCwjX9

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