@evilstevie when the US had a "joint landing exercise" with the Portuguese military, their landing craft, tanks and troops were stopped by the sandy beaches around Grândola (in Portugal, the name of the location was used in song as a symbol of the fight against the Dictatorship that ruled the country between 1933 and 1974, and that song was used as a code to start the Carnation Revolution). It was funny to watch the marines get stuck and needing sappers for a simple landing exercise. Go sand!
[Edit: Since people might not know, the Grândola vila/small town is purported as a Portuguese Communist Party stronghold, in Legislative elections no other party has won there yet, so the newspapers said "the Communist sands of Grândola stopped the Capitalist marines" and things like that]
https://www.dn.pt/arquivo/diario-de-noticias/areias-de-concelho-comunista-bloquearam-marines-dos-eua-4845055.html
@cstross
An innocent question from @wendinoakland ("Do they ever change colours?") to which the answer WAS "No, no they don't", but I just couldn't leave it.
On the plus side it pushed me into making something, so now I feel better as I wander off to do some chores.
You can now jailbreak your AMD CPU! 🔥We've just released a full microcode toolchain, with source code and tutorials. https://bughunters.google.com/blog/5424842357473280/zen-and-the-art-of-microcode-hacking
If anyone's running a #Styscraper leaderboard at their workplace, let me know & I may be able to send a tiny prize for the winner (UK only, while stocks last)
was not expecting to be writing a vulnerability report for Command & Conquer Generals: Zero Hour today but here we are
https://github.com/TheSuperHackers/GeneralsGameCode/issues/272
There needs to be MANY fronts in this moment. This could be one.
Start small. If not welcome in red districts, do so in adjacent ones and invite all comers. Build to larger town halls and rallies. The orange turd pays attention to rallies. Even the sellouts in the media do. #politics
Trump: "You're gambling with World War III."
History: "WWII started with a right-wing authoritarian leader allying himself with a Russian dictator and agreeing to mutually devour a country on Russia's borders. That's essentially identical to what Trump and Putin are attempting to do now. The way to stop WWII was to hold a dictator in check. The way to prevent WWIII is the same."
Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.