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6·13 hours agoThere’s an infamous incident in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, near the end of World War II.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_world_wonders
The world wonders" is a phrase which rose to notoriety following[a] its use during World War II when it appeared as part of a decoded message sent by Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet, to Admiral William Halsey Jr. at the height of the Battle of Leyte Gulf on October 25, 1944.[2] The words, intended to be without meaning, were added as security padding in an encrypted message to hinder Japanese attempts at cryptanalysis, but were mistakenly included in the decoded text given to Halsey. Halsey interpreted the phrase as a harsh and sarcastic rebuke, and as a consequence dropped his futile pursuit of a decoy Japanese carrier task force, and, belatedly, reversed some of his ships in a fruitless effort to aid United States forces in the Battle off Samar.[3]
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When Nimitz, at CINCPAC headquarters in Hawaii, saw Kinkaid’s plea for help he sent a message to Halsey, simply asking for the current location of Task Force 34, which due to a previous misunderstanding, was unclear:[7]
Where is, repeat, where is Task Force Thirty Four?
With the addition of metadata including routing and classification information, as well as the padding at the head and tail, the entire plaintext message to be encoded and transmitted to Halsey was:
TURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERS[9]
U.S. Navy procedure called for the padding to be added to the start and end of the message, which were vulnerable to cryptanalysis due to the use of common phrases and words (such as “Yours sincerely”) in those sections.[10] The words chosen for padding should have been obviously irrelevant to the actual message, but Nimitz’s enciphering clerk used a phrase that “[just] popped into my head”.[11] Historians note similarity to Lord Tennyson’s poem “The Charge of the Light Brigade” about the eponymous battle, which was also fought on October 25[12] (of 1854), as the poem twice contains the phrase “All the world wonder’d”.
While decrypting and transcribing the message, Halsey’s radio officer properly removed the leading phrase, but the trailing phrase looked appropriate and he seems to have thought it was intended and so left it in before passing it on to Halsey,[2] who read it as:
Where is, repeat, where is Task Force Thirty Four? The world wonders.
The structure tagging (the 'RR’s) should have made clear that the phrase was in fact padding. In all the ships and stations that received the message, only the decoder on Halsey’s flagship, USS New Jersey, failed to delete both padding phrases.[13]
The message (and its trailing padding) became infamous, and created some ill feeling, since it appeared to be a harsh criticism by Nimitz of Halsey’s decision to pursue the decoy carriers and leave the landings uncovered. “I was stunned as if I had been struck in the face”, Halsey later recalled. “The paper rattled in my hands, I snatched off my cap, threw it on the deck, and shouted something I am ashamed to remember”, letting out an anguished sob.[14] Rear Admiral Robert Carney, Halsey’s chief of staff (who had argued strongly in favor of pursuing the carriers), witnessed Halsey’s emotional outburst and reportedly grabbed him by the shoulders and shook him, shouting, “Stop it! What the hell’s the matter with you? Pull yourself together!” In Halsey’s recollection, he called it an “infernally plausible” message, saying “I was so mad I couldn’t talk. It was utterly impossible for me to believe that Chester Nimitz had sent me such an insult. He hadn’t, of course, but I didn’t know the truth for several weeks.”[15] Recognizing his failure, Halsey ordered his fleet south, however the chase north had exhausted the fuel of his light escorts and more time was wasted refueling while Taffy 3 (Task Unit 77.4.3, commanded by Rear Admiral Clifton Sprague) was fighting for its life. Halsey returned to Samar with his two fastest battleships, three light cruisers and eight destroyers, but he arrived too late to have any impact on the battle.[16]
2·14 hours agoAlso, part of the point of Tor is to let various types of traffic reside in the noise.
It’s like…say the only encrypted emails being sent contained stuff that one’s government didn’t like. It’d kind of stand out.
rpmanddpkgare also programs that are used for a number of local operations.
Honestly, the real problem is that ragebait works. Like, if that’s what people decide to engage with on social media, then that’s what’s going to show up, whether it’s skimmed highly-scoring Reddit content or not.
You could try to produce “no-ragebait” communities.
You could try to introduce a recommendation algorithm that uses heuristics to try to identify ragebait and let users who don’t want it filter it out or simply recommend based on their voting.
2·14 hours ago…and Motorola is owned by Lenovo
Huh, you’re right. I had not realized that had happened.
It looks like it’s just their phone division, Motorola Mobility.
whistles
They make a $2,600 smartphone?
Halfway to the point of being able to just leave them up year-round!
Hmm. Could be.
searches
A spokesperson for Blu On The Hudson sent CBS News New York the following statement:
"We at Blu on the Hudson are aware of the recent video circulating on social media, and we are deeply saddened by what occurred. We sincerely apologize to the guest and to everyone who was hurt or offended by this incident which took place on June 20, 2026. Treating every guest with dignity, respect, and care is fundamental to who we are as a company.
"We want to provide some context regarding what happened, not as an excuse, but to explain how this unfortunate mistake occurred.
"Our standard operating procedure is to use table and seat numbers on tickets to identify where each dish should be delivered. In this instance, the word “wheelchair” was used as a reference to identify where a birthday dessert with a candle should be delivered. Unfortunately, that notation was misunderstood and was written on the plate itself. There was absolutely no malicious or disrespectful intent behind the notation. However, we fully understand how seeing that word written on a plate could be deeply hurtful and upsetting.
"Since the incident, we have reinforced with our team the importance of following proper ticketing and communication procedures and have taken steps to ensure that something like this does not happen again. We have also made an attempt to reach the guest directly to personally apologize, although we have not yet been able to connect with them.
"We understand that an apology cannot undo the hurt or frustration caused by this incident, but we sincerely hope it conveys how deeply sorry we are. Blu on the Hudson is proud to be a part of the Hudson County community, and we are committed to being a place where every guest feels welcomed, respected, and valued.
“We are deeply sorry for this occurrence, have learned from it, and are committed to doing better moving forward.”
If I had to make a bet, there’s some note about what dish is supposed to go to whom and the waiter let it merge into the note about what text was supposed to be there.
I believe, from long-ago reading, that you can pick a region. I don’t use it myself, though.
EDIT: Sounds like it.
https://forum.torproject.org/t/how-to-select-certain-country-for-exit-node/14080
How to select certain country for exit node?
You need to modify your torrc and use ExitNodes.
It allows the use of fingerprints (if you want to use a specific exit relay) or country codes, which is what you are looking for.
Note the following warning from the man page:
Note that if you list too few nodes here, or if you exclude too many exit nodes with ExcludeExitNodes, you can degrade functionality. For example, if none of the exits you list allows traffic on port 80 or 443, you won’t be able to browse the web.
Have you tried Tor?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_pollution_in_Delhi
Air pollution in Delhi, the capital of India, was found to be one of the most lethal of any city in the world in an August 2022 study of 7,000 world cities by the US-based Health Effects Institute.[2] Air pollution in India is estimated to kill about 2 million people every year. India has the world’s highest death rate from chronic respiratory diseases and asthma according to the World Health Organization.[3] In Delhi, poor air quality has irreversibly damaged the lungs of 2.2 million children.
On 25 November 2019, the Supreme Court of India expressed their sentiments on the pollution in Delhi, saying “Delhi has become worse than narak (hell)”.[4] Supreme Court Justice Arun Mishra remarked that it is “better to get explosives, (and) kill everyone.”[5]
During the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in India, the air quality in Delhi significantly improved.[6][7]
India’s Ministry of Earth Sciences published a research paper in October 2018 attributing almost 41% of air pollution to vehicular emissions, 21.5% to dust and 18% to industrial emissions.[8]
If the largest single factor is vehicle emissions, I wonder how far people there typically go. Like, if it’s people who are only driving around the city, that might be a good candidate for EV use.
EDIT: Sounds like they’re already on it, just started some major push.
Delhi’s new EV Policy 2.0 introduces financial subsidies for electric vehicles starting July 1, 2026, and implements a phased ban on new petrol/CNG vehicle registrations (including petrol two-wheelers by April 1, 2028), though existing registered petrol vehicles can still be legally driven
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Delhi will stop registering new petrol and CNG three-wheelers from January 1, 2027. Registration of new petrol two-wheelers will also end from April 1, 2028.
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The ban applies only to new vehicle registrations. Existing petrol vehicles, or those bought before the 2028 deadline, can continue to be used legally until the end of their permitted lifespan.
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The term I use is “Debian family”, “Red Hat family”, etc.
Rpm is really more analogous to dpkg. Does the local work, doesn’t talk to repositories.
Apt to…not yum anymore. checks Dnf.
I’m not sure which one would properly call a “package manager”, the apt/dnf role or the rpm/dpkg role.
6·18 hours agoI’d kind of like to have a monitor with an ambient light sensor that has the ability to adjust display brightness the way smartphones and some other devices often do.
There are a few projects for Linux that let one run a daemon and some kind of attached ambient light sensor, but I’d prefer it to operate regardless of whether or not the OS is running, like in the BIOS and bootloader and such.
If it weren’t for the fact that the Internet is cheaper and readers aren’t as universally-deployed as they were wirh floppies, SD cards being mailed could have been kinda neat.
The era when companies sent out physical floppies, which could actually be usefully reused if you didn’t care about the content on them, was a lot better than the physical CD era.
It’s gonna be a premium for the folding feature or some other feature on that particular model — they list two other models that are considerably less expensive and have the same amount of RAM.