After all the time and money that was spent guarding all of that data the US just gave it all away.

I never see anyone framing it for what it was: a cyber attack. After all the damned money spent on guarding all the stuff they got access to, all it took was them just coming and taking it. And I still only see unverified internet comments that they may have gotten into classified places. Was that what all the history of the Cold War and all the planning for large scale cyber events amounted to?

What was that about a KGB grandkid?

Despite this being the perfect spot for one, I’m not a fan of ternary operators but syntax isn’t supposed to matter…

Since we’re going for unpopular opinions or hills to die on: if syntax didn’t matter we’d all be using Ada.

x = "I disagree."
y = false
puts x unless y

I miss it when writing python.

wat

Someone who was 55 in 1996 lived through an era where you could start a new life by moving a part of the way across a state in the US and nobody would think to research, or it wasn’t uncommon for people to have two whole families that never knew about each other (bigamy). Who cares about security cameras because nobody has time to look through all the footage? Who cares what you got up to in your 20s¹ when you’ve got a family and a job in town?

Then storage got cheap enough to store it all, and computers got fast enough to look through it all (but there’s still no time to figure out who egged your car over a weekend). All those old people don’t have to live in the world they built, either, AND the world is built so it can’t be undone. All that data will always have value to someone, and storage is only ever going to get cheaper in the long term.

[1] Old busybodies need to get off their high horse judging people. Data miners are already working their way backwards looking for something of value, and if you spent a nine month summer in Europe sometime in the late 50s then it’ll eventually come it if someone bothers to look.

It’s the perfect place. Sometimes I even see comments I might’ve written myself before.

It doesn’t work until reddit gets to that specific person’s make/break feature and breaks it.

Reddit? The Lemmy alternative?

I won’t go there, but someone go into that thread and try saying something good about Lemmy and see if it sticks.

WD40 evaporates?

A lot of compressed canned things are something suspended in a solvent, and when let out of the container the solvent evaporates leaving behind whatever stuff was dissolved in it. I can’t speak if it’s the solvent or something in the WD-40 that has the effect the previous poster is talking about.