Check out the Nand2Tetris course on Coursera for building your own Java too.

Sending fake emails with Telnet before Gmail existed.

&TOTSE:

Q: What is TOTSE all about, anyway?

A: A lot of people have some weird idea that this web site is a Bad Place, a place for hackers, software pirates, and anarchists. The reason that they think this is that there are informational text files on here about hacking, piracy, and anarchy.
However, there are also text files on here that discuss politics; democratic, right wing, left wing, libertarian, communist, and everything in between, but this is not a political web site.
There are files on here that discuss Jesus Christ, Muhammed, Buddha, Crowley, John Smith, and “Bob”, but this is not a religious web site.
There are files full of short stories, science fiction, humorous articles, and great works of literature, but this is not a literary web site.
There are files with information on rocketry, radio broadcasting, chemistry, electronics, genetics, and computers, but this is not a technical web site.
This web site is about INFORMATION. All sorts and all viewpoints. Some of the information you will agree with, some you will find shocking, and some you will probably disagree with violently. That is the whole point. In this society we go to schools where there is one right answer: The Teacher’s. There is one acceptable version of events: The Television’s. There is only one acceptable occupation: The pursuit of money. There is only one political choice to make: The Status Quo.
On this web site you are expected to make decisions all by yourself. You get to decide who and what to agree with, and why. You get to hear new viewpoints that you may have never heard before. On this web site people exist without age, without skin color, without gender, without clothes, without nationality, without any of the visual cues we usually use to discredit or ignore people who are unlike ourselves. All of these things are stripped away and the ideas themselves are laid bare.
You will change. You will transform. You will learn. You will disagree.
You will enjoy it.

It’s a shame now the modern internet has switched from anonymity to identity politics, from freedom to cancel culture.

And images in general.

It’s funny cause it led to a whole type of meme (where the bottom of the image is shockingly different) that never works anymore.

The US is literally a world away with huge resources of their own.

It’s North Africa and Arabia that are going to bear the brunt of it, and Europe too to a lesser extent (they at least have more access to the Atlantic).

Cooked rice won’t last 3 days?

There’s just a lot of people, and few slots. It was rough before and then Covid came and broke it completely.

I think it’s a lot of Americans who don’t understand how it is in other countries, as it’s easier and cheaper in the US (I think some states don’t even have a practical test?).

Like even in Spain it is common for people to go and do it in a small town as in the main cities the failure rate is awful and you have to wait ~6 months between attempts. It’s not exactly outright bribery, but obviously in the small towns they kinda depend on that.

Learning to drive has nothing to do with the driving test though.

It’s a monopolistic scam as they know they can deny a lot of people who have no option but to pay again.

If you can get away with it then do it for sure - the driving tests are mostly a scam anyway, where they fail you to try to make more money.

“Radicalises” how?

Just because they disagree with you?

It’s one of the few free forums, especially that is so large.

Just look at the Twitter files and Reveddit - they’re far worse if you don’t parrot the line of the US State Department.

Have you used TikTok? - it’s the only mainstream platform with freedom of speech and mostly free discussion.

Reddit was far, far worse with all the bots, shadow-banning, deleted comments, etc.

Only on Runescape, it taught me enough for life.

My ex-gf was almost victim to one of the Nintedo Switch selling sites when there was a shortage. They constantly changed domains and had it really professional looking, but buying anything from scalpers is risky especially when it looks too good to be true like that.

I’d just use https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_value_available.html for an estimate of value / price, and then build a spreadsheet with the same results for good candidate components but the prices in your market.

For memory, hard drive and power supply just check you meet your requirements and check reviews (and buy an established brand).

I think the hardest decision right now is deciding between DDR4 and DDR5, as that’ll affect your motherboard options too.

But there is no universally best option as the prices and availability vary massively by market (and even moreso if you include second-hand too!). Even asking others isn’t that helpful if they aren’t in the same market as you.

Remember to always buy electrical tape, extra thermal paste and cleaning alcohol too. The anti-static band is worth it if you are somewhere dry / with a lot of static shocks, but most components have better protection these days. And always read the motherboard and case manuals first, so you don’t make it way harder for yourself to connect the front USB ports, etc. later on.

What is the CCCP? You mean Communist Party of China?

I live in Europe, even with more parties it’s still a matter of “least bad” usually - like here in Sweden I find it really hard to find a party that is anti-religion, anti-monarchy and pro-science and education but also not lenient on violent gang crime and open borders. I also disagree greatly with the current unfair rent control system and the high income taxes (with no property, land or inheritance taxes), but there is literally no party that covers even just those 3-4 issues in the same way (and there are like 5 or 6 viable parties!).

I think the bigger issue with Biden is that there’s just no change at all - no attempt to solve the biggest day-to-day issues of heatlhcare, housing and education. And from the point of view of Europe, Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act has been terrible, directly subsidising industry to move to the US, right when Europe is struggling with the Russian gas crisis and the pipelines were bombed, etc.

It doesn’t matter though. We vote for the least bad option every 4-5 years and call that “democracy”.

But if that were really true why ever release them at all? Why not go the full China approach with capital punishment and organ donation?

I think it’s just a legacy from older laws, especially against gangs in smaller communities, etc.

https://annas-archive.org/ - a search mirror for Library Genesis, SciHub, etc.

Just unsubscribe / block those communities and posters.

I do it for all political content.