However, even if that strategy is somehow successful, again, and Biden does manage to get reelected, the Democrats MUST nominate a better candidate in 2028.

The Constitution mandates a maximum of two terms for a President. If he wins, he can't run again. He can technically additionally serve up to half of a term without "using up" one of his terms if he's vice-president and the serving President dies.

The two-term limit was originally purely a convention that had been set by George Washington, who was getting on in years, wasn't many years away from his death, really wanted to retire to his plantation (as in, he didn't even want to serve a second term, and was only convinced to do so by politicians arguing that without him, there might not be sufficient unity), and was also extremely popular and would have been re-elected again.

That convention held until FDR broke it and ran for four terms. In response to that, the Twenty-second Amendment was passed, prohibiting anyone from having more than two terms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

and the U.S. is considering not re-installing it unless aid begins flowing out into the population again, several U.S. officials said Friday.

Honestly, this was a ludicrously cost-ineffective way to transport aid. We built the thing remotely, floated it in, and it was only there for a few weeks before a storm caused damage and grounded multiple ships. We repair it. Then the UN decided that they weren't going to use it for delivery because one of their warehouses had been hit (just dump it on the beach at Rafah, guys, has to be better than not bringing it in).

I mean, if you want to play a game made by volunteers, that's where Team Fortress came from.

There originally was the Quake-based Team Fortress mod.

There was Weapons Factory for Quake II, which was similar.

The TF team was hired by Valve to do the confusingly-named Team Fortress Classic for Valve's Half-Life, itself based on Quake II.

And Valve did Team Fortress 2.

Only HR, IT, and management are believed to be unaffected by the cuts, which reportedly would see the developer's title, 2016's Disney Magic Kingdoms, transferred to Gameloft's studio in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Kharkiv? Damn. I mean, Kharkiv is an active war zone. As in "I read regular news reports about fighting there".

This was today:

https://kyivindependent.com/russia-attacks-kharkiv-with-fab-500-bomb-for-first-time-injuring-4/

Russia attacks Kharkiv with FAB-500 gliding bomb for first time, injuring 4

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And it's not just casually using the term to refer to Kharkiv Oblast, either. The studio is in the city, slightly on the Russia side.

10 Nezalezhnosti Ave, BC Kvartal, 61022 Kharkiv, Ukraine

EDIT: They aren't in the district that was bombed above, but they're one block away from said district.

I haven't used it recently, but last time I did, I used MO2 with vanilla WINE, just setting my WINE prefix to the Skyrim Proton prefix. WINE and Proton would convert the registry in the WINE prefix back and forth each time one launched. I haven't used SteamTinkerLaunch.

Prior to that, I used Wrye Bash, which was a mess to get working in Linux -- but could run natively, at least at one point, with some prodding. I've also run it under WINE. It took a lot of massaging. I don't recommend that route unless you can program, know Python and are willing to get your hands dirty.

And I also had a stint where I wrote my own scripts to reconstruct the modded environment from scratch.

My most-recent attempt for Bethesda modding was in Starfield, with a much-simpler CLI mod manager, this. I have gotten some mods working but not others; don't know if it's a case-folding issue. Will need more experimentation. It doesn't have the conflict-diagnosis tools that Wrye Bash does, or I assume MO2 probably does (though I haven't run into). I don't think it supports Skyrim, Fallout 4, or Fallout 76; that probably matters at least insofar as mod managers for those need to merge leveled lists. My (brief) impression is that the Starfield modding community is heading down the direction of avoiding needing the mod manager to do that, having a mod that merges that stuff dynamically at game runtime.

the performance is not great.

Uh. The performance of MO2 or Skyrim?

MO2...I don't recall, it might not have been snappy, but I don't recall it being especially unusable. Certainly not at the level that I wouldn't use the software. I was using a reasonably high-end system, but I don't think that it's particularly resource-intensive. I was running off SSD, and maybe some of the stuff might have been I/O intensive.

Skyrim was fine from a performance standpoint. I mean, you can obviously kill performance with the right mods, but I assume that you mean "modding at all".

EDIT: If you put a lot of mods into Skyrim, like, hundreds, it can take a while to launch. IIRC, one problem -- not Linux-specific -- there is that loose files aggravate launch performance issues. My understanding is that, where possible, use mods that merge files into a .BSA rather than loose files. A number of mods have multiple versions; pick the .BSA one.

EDIT2: Skyrim, Fallout 4, and the Fallout 76 versions of Bethesda's engine don't really take much advantage of multiple cores the way the way the Starfield version does. I get buttery-smooth performance in Starfield; Fallout 76 invariably is a bit jerky when loading resources in a new cell. I don't get a pretty consistent framerate at 165 Hz in Fallout 76 the way I can in Starfield. But I don't know if that's what you're running into, without specifics of the performance issues. And that's not gonna be a Linux-specific issue or anything that can realistically be resolved short of forward-porting the Skyrim, Fallout 4, and Fallout 76 games to the Starfield engine.

Most of California has a Mediterranean climate where the summers are dry and the winter is when the rain comes.

Would be better if some holiday around February or so, at the end of the winter, was when the "big fireworks holiday" was.

Does he ever offer any reasoning behind these veteos?

I haven't followed this issue, but if I were governor of a state that had a major beach tourism industry, I probably wouldn't be out trying to increase the profile of any pollution issues.

Well, I've called for it on here. Now this'll put it to the test -- we'll see how Californian students perform before-and-after the introduction of the classes and relative to states that don't make it part of their core curriculum.

I hope this works.

Skimming their material, looks like it also deals with countering some sales tactics and the like, like companies aiming to exploit fear-of-missing-out to sell product.

I don’t see why they wouldn’t, or couldn’t do this

There are only 52 organizations that Firefox trusts to act as CAs. An ISP isn't normally going to be on there.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA/Included_Certificates

https://ccadb.my.salesforce-sites.com/mozilla/CACertificatesInFirefoxReport

If whatever cert is presented by a remote website doesn't have a certificate signed by one of those 52 organizations, your browser is going to throw up a warning page instead of showing content. KT Corporation, the ISP in question, isn't one of those organizations.

They can go create a CA if they want, but it doesn't do them any good unless it's trusted by Firefox (or whatever browser people use, but I'm using Firefox, and I expect that basically the same CAs will be trusted by any browser, so...)

If ISP routers are anything like the west that means they control the DNS servers and the ones on router cannot be changed, and likely it blocks 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8 and so on, as Virgin Media does (along with blocking secure DNS) in the UK for example, which definitely opens up a massive attack vector for an ISP to spin up its own website with a verified cert and malware and have the DNS resolve to that when users try to access it to either download the software needed to access this Grid System or if it’s a web portal - the portal itself.

Browser page integrity -- if you're using https -- doesn't rely on DNS responses.

If I go to "foobar.com", there has to be a valid cert for "foobar.com". My ISP can't get a valid cert for foobar.com unless it has a way to insert its own CA into my browser's list of trusted CAs (which is what some business IT departments do so that they cans snoop on traffic, but an ISP probably won't be able to do, since they don't have access to your computer) or has access to a trusted CA's key, as per above.

They can make your browser go to the wrong IP address, but they can't make that IP address present information over https that your browser believes to belong to a valid site.

I don't really care that much about tarantulas, but IIRC from some videos on tarantula-handling, tarantulas are big and heavy enough that unlike some smaller spiders which have a terminal velocity that isn't going to hurt then -- they can fall as far as they want -- tarantulas can't really handle being dropped very well. So throwing a tarantula probably is kind of a dick move from the tarantula's standpoint.

kagis

https://spidersplanet.com/what-happens-if-you-drop-a-tarantula

Unfortunately, dropping a tarantula poses serious risks to the spider, with potential consequences influenced by factors such as fall height, landing surface, tarantula species, and the spider’s health and age.

The higher the fall, the greater the impact force, making even a small drop potentially fatal.

A solid landing surface, like concrete, increases the likelihood of severe injuries compared to softer surfaces.

Different tarantula species exhibit varying affecting levels and their ability to survive a fall. Young or molting tarantulas with soft exoskeletons are more vulnerable.

If a big tarantula falls, it can go really fast, and its belly might break open, causing internal damage and, in the worst case, death.

That is why heavier spiders usually stay on the ground, while lighter ones prefer living in trees to avoid serious injuries from falls.

Potential consequences of dropping a tarantula include:

Abdominal Rupture: The gravest consequence, often resulting in fatality. The tarantula’s soft abdomen houses its internal organs, and a rupture can lead to organ spillage and death.

Internal Injuries: Even without abdominal rupture, the tarantula may experience internal injuries, such as bleeding or organ damage due to the impact.

Broken Limbs: The fragile legs of a tarantula can easily break upon landing on a hard surface.

And that's aside from what a (large, powerful) human who suddenly gets a large spider thrown at them is likely to do to the spider in instinctual self-defense.

Tarantulas aren't native to Minnesota, so this was probably someone's pet. I don't have a lot of affection for large spiders, but to someone, that was probably kind of like a dog or cat.

I don't really understand the attack vector the ISP is using, unless it's exploiting some kind of flaw in higher-level software than BitTorrent itself.

A torrent should be identified uniquely by a hash in a magnet URL.

When a BitTorrent user obtains a hash, as long as it's from an https webpage, the ISP shouldn't be able to spoof the hash. You'd have to either get your own key added to a browser's keystore or have access to one of the trusted CA's keys for that.

Once you have the hash, you should be able to find and validate the Merkle hash tree from the DHT. Unless you've broken SHA and can generate collisions -- which an ISP isn't going to -- you shouldn't be able to feed a user a bogus hash tree from the DHT.

Once you have the hash tree, you shouldn't be able to feed a user any complete chunks that are bogus unless you've broken the hash function in BitTorrent's tree (which I think is also SHA). You can feed them up to one byte short of a chunk, try and sandbag a download, but once they get all the data, they should be able to reject a chunk that doesn't hash to the expected value in the tree.

I don't see how you can reasonably attack the BitTorrent protocol, ISP or no, to try and inject malware. Maybe some higher level protocol or software package.