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How do you suppose that glass was made, Watson?

Lies and deception - one on the right was clearly made in a mold and never had a proper skin in the first place.

More black bars than New Orleans…

And only if the fetus ain’t miscegenated…

I’m sorry, I’m not sure what your point is - yes it was a broadly impractical thing to do, that’s not in dispute.

I’m not entirely sure on the difference here, valve is selling them directly and by all the reporting we’ve seen, there aren’t going to be hardware restrictions on any of the models.

That’s a tradition with gaming systems, see the Navy’s playstation supercomputer!

In a broad sense sure, and that’s a great reason to use a VPN (especially if you listen to VPN ads on youtube)!

It really isn’t a good reason in this example, though. At least, not as an explanation for setting your location to be outside of the US. Use of a VPN is identifiable (unless you set it up yourself, which isn’t anonymous) so it will make no difference where you’re located if the authoritarian government you’re supporting gets replaced with an even more authoritarian one that decides to prosecute people being mean to them online, and it can only serve to incriminate you if the data ever gets leaked (like what happened here).

Generally this is true, but within the scope of this hypothetical it doesn’t really change that this fundementally doesn’t make sense.

No the troll kingdom has been at war with the lizard cabal for centuries, I’m very careful to never confuse the two groups.

Seriously though I don’t think you’re trolling, I just think this question is kinda dumb. While there are reasons to use a VPN yes, you have yet to present a reason for why a huge number of legit US-based maga-influencer VPN users would want to set their location to something other than the US instead of just using a US node, which would be both faster and less suspicious.

It’s just silly to think they’d be doing that, there legitimately isn’t a reason to pay money to do a less convincing job (unless this is a false flag)

It’s also possible that this is all being orchestrated by the lizard cabal (prove me wrong, I dare you) but hopefully we can agree that our time is going to be much better spent discussing things that are actually likely instead of what the lizard pope might be planning next.

An unironic use of “just asking questions”, dang.

And so is tweeting about a fire while in a crowded theater, but defamation/libel are famously hard to even show standing for, let alone prosecute. And they (oversimplifying) generally do not apply to speech critical of a public figure, which is why we can say things like “Stephen miller is a collective of sentient bugs stuffed into a skin suit made from stitched-together horse foreskins that’s embezzling millions of dollars that he then spends on underage sheep and recreational bidets” without worrying about legal repercussions.

Commercial VPN services aren’t particularly cheap.

Hold you accountable for what? Nothing being done here is remotely illegal. I shill hard for my political beliefs and Warl0k3 isn’t my real name, how is what they’re doing (if they were really from the US) any different?

As for a foreign group using VPNs, why bother? This information hasn’t ever been reported before, and any investigation into it is both unlikely under the current administration and has the resources to blow thru any cheap VPN you might be using for large scale commerical work like this. And even if that happens, nothing will happen to you. So why spend the money?

But why use a VPN to appear from outside the country? Why not just use a VPN node within the US, so it’s not obviously russian but still obscures your location? For that matter MAGA, who they’re supporting, currently is in power and in the US there’s nothing illegal about posting vile political rhetoric online. So there’s no reason to not simply make up usernames and create a bunch of twitter accounts. You’d save a great deal of money and make yourself appear a great deal more credible if you just made yourself appear as though you were in the US, not in countries known for having whole industries centered around online astroturfing services.

As in, could they be using VPNs so they appear to be from outside the US, but actually aren’t?

… I mean I guess? But that seems like an expensive way to make yourself less credible.

The FBI said the information came from a “sensitive source with excellent access” and introduced the report as a warning about “extremist actors targeting law enforcement officers and federal facilities”.

Remember kids, look into securing your phone & only add people to your group chats that you have good reason to trust.

I wasn’t really referring to this post with that question - though it is relevant that leaving even an effectively unconstrained field like one that allows for the shrek script to be submitted would have seen me fired (if it had somehow passed QC, field sizes are one of the first things checked).

I was more curious about how different our experiences seem to be: you seem to imply a background where you’re expected to take the requirements as gospel with what you write based solely off that unless you’re personally invested, whereas in my experience engaging critically with the project is the single most important aspect of the development process, and not questioning potentially unwanted behavior leaves you open to firing (or criminal neglect if you’re dealing with medical PII, criminal records, etc…)

I’m quite genuinely interested in the different approach to development philosophy you present here.

Sincere question, are you not expected to clarify questionable business rules? I’ve never worked somewhere that leaving such an obvious issue like “unrestricted fields in a public-facing application” without getting it explicitly stated that that’s intended functionality wouldn’t have gotten me fired instantly.

Yeah, sleepy and wasn’t thinking about file sizes. That 1Gb limit (or, the Tsql 65,536 * [something] limit) was what I was referring to, but rather obviously the plaintext script for the movie is a just a little tiny bit smaller than that (51kb).

It’s still a good deal larger than what in my experience can be fit into a receipt printer, but I can forgive their phrasing even if it was only a small part of the whole script. And aside from that, it does look to be a pretty modern device so it’s very possible that the stupid stupid 20kb file size limit that was so common has since been expanded (Last time I had to deal with a receipt printer the file was streamed over a serial connection into the printer cache before being run off G-code style. Incredibly charming piece of tech…)