Random Rants 91 - Semiprimal Rage

[Grendeldef]

I think Kyriakos might have stolen both those degrees from us as we're at -2 C now. 0 C obviously is the default position. The rant part is the unjustified heist. -2 C itself is quite fine especially when sun is shining.

 

[Samson]

The rant part is the unjustified heist. -2 C itself is quite fine especially when sun is shining.

There is not such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing.

 

[Kyriakos]

No, sorry, anything below 15 is terrible for me

 

[Grendeldef]

That makes me thinking that you'll be continuing with these thieving endeavours

 

[Kyriakos]

It's not like there is anything to steal from Finland; you are literally including arctic circle territories

 

[Grendeldef]

Hence I'm quite annoyed you touching our degrees. I'd be happy or even pleased if you could limit your actions at times which we're left with 20 or so. Doing these covert operations while we've 25 or more will get you full pardon and this will be moved to Raves.

 

[Kyriakos]

It wasn't me. R16 is the one with the weather-warfare tech.

 

[r16]

absolutely not . But kinda interesting that 25 creates trouble in places .

 

[Grendeldef]

Trouble is a strong word but more of inconvenience as there's no need for temperatures between 25-70 C. I'd be very happy if outside temps from 25 C & up could be saved and be used on some colder days. Might take a while to achieve that, though.

 

[Takhisis]

covert operations while we've 25 or more

What's this, the earth became tidally locked to the sun and there was sunshine in Finland for 25 years straight?

 

[Grendeldef]

Highly unlikely. We'll be lucky to see the Sun in 25 consecutive years.

 

[danjuno]

I got through my first unit math okay-ish, but now the second unit has basically stonewalled me.

 

[choxorn]

The hack that released (among other things) Nvidia's code-signing certificates is obviously bad but the most frustrating thing I find about it is all the information I find on it makes it very unclear as to what, if anything, I should be doing about it, but certainly makes the problem sound scary and only ever describes potential solutions as "well it's really complicated to do something about this and it might cause other problems if you try"

Like, okay, but, like, that's not very reassuring, is there any kind of simpler thing an average user like me should be doing to avoid downloading malware with a fake Nvidia certificate, how concerned should I actually be about this?

 

[Samson]

The hack that released (among other things) Nvidia's code-signing certificates is obviously bad but the most frustrating thing I find about it is all the information I find on it makes it very unclear as to what, if anything, I should be doing about it, but certainly makes the problem sound scary and only ever describes potential solutions as "well it's really complicated to do something about this and it might cause other problems if you try"

Like, okay, but, like, that's not very reassuring, is there any kind of simpler thing an average user like me should be doing to avoid downloading malware with a fake Nvidia certificate, how concerned should I actually be about this?

This is a core problem with the security system we have set up. We are good at doing the downstream validation, but we have not found a good way of establishing trust in the first place.

It is one thing with software, and at least we have the option to only use open source software which requires much less trust. The "powers that be" seem intent on removing that protection, and leaving us with nothing. Financial services seem to me even worse, they do not even try to validate their identity like Nvidia is at least trying to.

 

[Kyriakos]

Supposedly the weather will become better by next weak, that is (hopefully) close to mid tens.
I hate the cold

 

[MaryKB]

Supposedly the weather will become better by next weak, that is (hopefully) close to mid tens.
I hate the cold

2°C/35°F is not cold, lol.

 

[Kyriakos]

For me it is. It actually snowed here today, but only for an hour

 

[MaryKB]

I sentence you to spend a winter in Michigan where you can enjoy 0°F for a bit

 

[Grendeldef]

For me it is. It actually snowed here today, but only for an hour

So how was the skiing? Or did you settle for snowman and/or snowcastle building? Sadly an hour probably doesn't give enough material for proper megastructures but it could be enough for covering the view in white(ish) veil.

 

[Kyriakos]

While this city rarely has below -10 Celsius, other cities more to the north in the country have winters of -20.