Came here to day something like this but, as usual, I

But different doesn’t mean random. An attacker could test every possibility for that pixel rather quickly. Even faster if you know a bunch of the pixels are, for example, a shade of gray.

I found an explanation where they bring up the issues I brought up as well as some others.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/lavarand-in-production-the-nitty-gritty-technical-details/

They give an example with one red value for a single pixel. They don’t address my point that there are a lot of pixels like that one, maybe not all would be 50/50 like their example but a lot of pixels would have a much narrower range of values than randomness.

But they answer my second point about a hacker putting something in front of the camera with known values and that answer sort of takes care of everything. It boils down to, it doesn’t matter because the lava lamp wall output is mixed with other sources that an attacker doesn’t have access to.

I’m sure they’re smarter than me but my novice cryptographer brain doesn’t understand this.

Isn’t the string of numbers representing each pixel rather limited Aren’t all those sections of the image that have lava lamps limited to values somewhere in the reddish/blueish spectrum? Isn’t the gray background very non-random?

Apparently the camera is accessible in the lobby. They say people walking in front of the camera adds randomness. If I go there and hold a photo in front of the camera which I know the values of, doesn’t that compromise everything?

To be fair their site says they take the lava lamp output and combine it with entropy from two servers and probably do a lot of other stuff before actually getting random numbers. But I don’t get how the lava lamps photo setup is even close to being random

tried and failed to add image, so here a link: https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/lava-lamp-encryption/

Ah darn. Well I’m sure you find some locally. Good luck!

PM me if you’re in the US I’ll send some

I have this one, it’s probably the most minimal https://a.co/d/1BycXW3

I love wireless charging. I don’t know how it would be a gimmick, except that it’s slower than using a cord (but I think the next generation is supposed to be really fast). They make DIY wireless chargers that you can wire up and put in things. I have two that I mounted under the little tray on top of my dash. I put my wireless charging earbuds case in the tray and it automatically charges while I’m driving. I have a flashlight that can charge there too. The tray is too small for a phone or else a phone could charge there. I’ve been thinking about putting one inside my nightstand at home https://a.co/d/gdghAWp

I also like magnetic phone holders with wireless charging. I made mine out of a different type of mount and charger but it’s something like the link. I have one mounted to my dash where I can see the phone if I need nav or something, it holds it firmly and charges as I’m driving. Also mounted one on my desk next to the computer. https://a.co/d/7pauuzO

I was on a highway doing around 60 when the car in front of me suddenly spun around in a 360 and stopped. Luckily they were some distance in front and there was no other traffic. When I passed, it was a teenage boy in the passenger and his grandmother driving. She was yelling at him and reaching down between them trying to do something. I think he had pulled the e-brake just to see what would happen.

I used nothing but Slack for about 15 years. Other distros gave me.problems, hell, I compiled Gentoo from source but was never even successful at installing some of the newbie distros like Ubuntu, but Slack was always simple and rock solid. I wasn’t the best at resolving dependencies, I’d just build and install anything it said I needed. I think I’ve had more than one version of Python or Perl installed at a time, but it never mattered. Every few years I’d wipe everything and reinstall.

And when you go to war they’re obligated to go too, possibly even in your place

Check your ballcock.

(It’s a real part inside the toilet but probably isn’t the issue, I just wanted to say ballcock)

If the owner improves the home and the appraisal goes up, wouldn’t rent go up?

The renter pays extra and receives part ownership. So the owner receives this extra money and… just has to keep the money on hand in case the renter leaves years down the road?

The whole thing is a legal nightmare. Owners would just sell. And who would buy? Corporate landlords who have lawyers who can cut through all this confusion.

I switched in the late 90s to attract women. I still think it’s going to work someday.

It’s not open source but Rain Alarm draws a circle around you on the map and alerts you if weather radar detects any precipitation entering that circle. I don’t know if that’s what you want but it’s what I want in a rain notification and it’s the only app I’m aware of that does it.

Thanks! I downloaded it and it can change icons to images and swipes work fine. I just need to figure out how to do folders. It only says “folders in app drawer” in the description, I need folders to open with a tap or swipe on a home screen icon. I still have a copy of Folder Organizer although it’s been abandoned for years. I could get them to work with that if nothing else.

I may be kinda weird. My phone has looked the same for probably 10 years or more. The home screen is a wallpaper but otherwise blank. My name is at the bottom in the dock area, six letters, like M Y N A M E. When I tap a letter it opens a certain app or folder of apps. When I swipe up it opens others. For example, tap the M and it opens the camera, swipe up and it opens a folder of photo apps. Same for all six letters. I have one other page with active widgets for info I can take in visually like weather radar, news ticker, etc but on my main page, with those 6 taps and swipes I can open anything in a couple seconds max, one handed, probably with my eyes closed for oft-used apps.

The letters of my name are 6 different images, I just typed my name in a nice looking font, took a snapshot of each letter and made the background transparent. So to set it up I drag the camera app to the dock then change it’s icon to the M.gif I have saved on my sdcard, then set a swipe action to open the photo apps folder. Really simple… as long as the launcher has those options.

Since I read this post I’ve been looking at other launchers. I could find no way to get rid of the search bar in the dock with one launcher, another one didn’t even have a dock, it had a vertical A-Z on the side so you could open a list of apps alphabetically. Lawnchair won’t let me choose my own images for the icons in the dock, I can only select system icons or an icon pack.

I’ll keep looking, and maybe I can make my 6 gif into an icon pack to use with Lawnchair or something. But without those options I will have to start using my phone in a completely different way than I have been using it for over 10 years.

Ok I think I get where you’re coming from. It’s membership in the nation group that makes it genocide. But that would make almost all war genocide. We could think that but it kinda takes away all meaning. If all war is genocide then no war is genocide.

It also ignores the second part of the definition, “with the aim of destroying that nation or group.” That is a basic Google/dictionary definition and it’s not bad but the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defined it as “…acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such.”

First, there has to be intent. Second, “as such” means destroying the group so much that it is no longer a group.

US law isn’t applicable but it is a little more clear.

USC 1091 defines genocide as “…specific intent to destroy, in whole or in substantial part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group as such.”

USC 1093 defines the term “substantial part” to mean: “a part of a group of such numerical significance that the destruction or loss of that part would cause the destruction of the group as a viable entity within the nation of which such group is a part.”

I believe they’re both saying “destroy the group so hard it is no longer a viable group.”

If nation group is the gauge, the question is: During WWII, did the US intend to destroy Germans so thoroughly that there was no longer a Germany? Did the US intend to destroy Iraqis so thoroughly that there ceased to be an entity called Iraq?

No to both of those.

Ba’athists aren’t a nation or ethnic group either.

No not really. Just because we can put the enemy into a group doesn’t make it genocide. Every war is fought against an enemy we can put into a group. The Germans in WWII were Christians. We weren’t committing genocide against Christians.