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@lmrocha @mike805 @freemo There were fully automatic weapons a century ago. The Thomson SMG and the first version of the BAR were in existence. The latter wasn't used in the first World War due to fears of it falling into German hands.

There were international conventions that came together to make rules about how people can be killed and how war can be waged. Apparently anything other than a full metal jacket bullet was outlawed. So there's something odd about this. Countries agreed to not use certain rounds but not killing people was out of the question.

Numerous governments from around the world signed an agreement that made using prohibited ammunition a crime but killing another human being was morally right with a full metal jacket round.

We have defeated Small Pox, Polio and Syphilis among other diseases. There is so much good that is done but people don't seek these positive things out as the morbid fascination with death and destruction generates more money and furthers political goals.

@thor I'm sure there's a hidden message in the film from that.

I finally got a new skateboard and put it all together. Like despite the rough patch in my life I feel happy.

@jeffcliff @kravietz @letsencrypt @PawelK I've heard good things about it but I haven't personally used it. It's not going to be absolutely secure because current hardware comes with the ability to intercept keys and many more cool things.

It's a good idea but the internet needs an upgrade too.

@PawelK @kravietz @piotrsikora There's a lot going on in this conversation. Sorry I had to sleep as I try to limit myself to two days now.

RISC-V, Sopine, FreeBSD, possible malware, MIPS and much more. I try to understand language but I believe I missed much.

I see English being used so I assume they can understand me to some degree. After being asked simple questions in Russian and being unable to answer with my tourist level of understanding or using the Chinese I was taught and being asked to stop because I essentially made a dick joke, I am fairly certain that I should refrain.

@thor NASA successfully tested a Rotary Detonation Rocket, it's not ready for use but it is getting closer to being ready.

There's a good critique of American news in Don Henley-Dirty Laundry. It's very accurate despite being old.

@thor England's English is rather odd. Some English people can speak intelligible English but others have some cursed dialect referred to as Cockney.

Can is short for canister. American English is from Shakespearean Era English and has preserved more of the old language. In the conversations I've had with people from England I noticed something unique. They tend to be verbose and dance around the information that could have been revealed with fewer words.

American English seems to include more words from different languages. The one thing that American English did was homogenize the different dialects of English so it would sound the same.

So Americans standardized English and borrowed words became common with the arrival of more Immigrants. We kept the language and it hasn't changed much since then. It's relatively simple for English and it was standardized before England's English. England's standard is referred to as RP or Received Pronunciation.

As for the rubbish bin, I will have to look that up. A bin is a container.
Rubbish might have come from Old French.
Trash might be Scandinavian.
Oddly they were introduced around the 1400s in English.

@thor It could have been nearly anything.

@thor They smell of fish?

@PawelK @mr_poindexter The days when hex editors and debuggers were enough to tackle problems.

@PawelK @mr_poindexter I would explore the Predicate as it includes an executable. Using the VM inside a capable VM could allow for some possible routes. The executable in the Predicate seems pretty solid but it might be vulnerable. If there is a VM that can stop clock cycles, it might be possible to change values in memory and swap back before the next instruction.

Stopping the clock and through the instruction as slowly as possible could bypass a check, change a value and replace it before the next check. This would normally not work as it has a count that would fail. Instead of loading it to memory, it could possibly be a link to a value using the second VM.

So I suppose a very advanced VM running the target VM. Using the clock to stop the instructions and feeding info in from the primary VM. It has to deal with encryption so it might not be possible or feasible.

It seems to be fairly resistant to tampering but this could work as nothing was altered. It gets fed information and the clock stops when it gets to something good. That could potentially be selectively swapped. With enough granular control over a CPU and memory, I could see it being possible.

There are a lot of potentially desirable outcomes but it's seemingly well protected against traditional methods. It could be easier to break the computer instead of the VM. This would seem to be the best way to do it as it is rather robust. Perhaps loading a region of memory before the instruction counter starts and have a pointer to it. It's a really cool exercise and the documentation was good.

@PawelK I'll survive this as I have been through much worse. It's just going to put everything else on hold until it's over. It's not criminal.

@PawelK It should be okay but it's very stressful.

@PawelK Yes it was. I can look into it after the current legal troubles are handled.