Remember kids, don't ever plug something in to your computer that you don't trust or are unsure about. Picking up flashdrive off the street and plugging them in is one of the easiest ways to get malware installed on your computer.
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That's why I take mine in to work to plug in.
to a coworker's laptop.
Gotta test it on the expendable company network before you take it home.
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Theres also usb drives that are designed to short circuit your computer. Frying the motherboard.
USB Killers are expensive though. No one's intentionally ditching those for randos to find
Are they? I thought they were basically just a few capacitors hooked up wrong to a USB port.
Expensive is relative. You can find a sketchy USB Killer on AliExpress for like $6.
Maybe expensive as a single throwaway device, but not very expensive to cause pure chaos to a bunch of random people.
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one of the easiest ways to get malware installed on your computer
Only if you are the child of an Iran nuclear engineer. (cough stuxnet cough. )
If not, visiting .ru porn sites is much more likely to lead to infection.
visiting .ru porn sites is much more likely to lead to infection.
I did that once. Now it burns when IP.
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It’s also the easiest way to distribute malware
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Let's hope these don't carry Linux ISOs, which would be a very problematic drug to deal with.
I carried a USB stick with a Linux ISO once and my object in life has been to dethrone God and destroy capitalism ever since.
I agree with your purposes. Good luck, fellow lemmer.
And folks this is what happens when your first disto is Red Star OS
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I always just hand out slips of paper with the BlueRay encryption key 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
Isn't that HD-DVD?
Mint?.... MINT? We're a RED HAT household Mister! You have some explaining to do!
I might be dumb but how many books would 64gbs mean
I'd say roughly 1,000 to 100,000, depending on format.
Edit: Raw ASCII (7-bit) could give you up to ~half a million.
Edit 2: According to Randall Munroe (to lazy to find the source), you could theoretically store one ~~word~~ letter per bit. That would give us up to ~~ten~~ two million books.
Edit 2: According to Randall Munroe (to lazy to find the source), you could theoretically store one word letter per bit. That would give us up to ten two million books.
I don't see how that is possible, I think it is be one letter per byte.
Bit only represents one state 1 or 0, or true or false. It is too little information to store a letter.
Here ya go:
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One letter per bit? You'd need some crazy effective compression algorithm for that, because a bit is 1 or 0. Did you mean byte?
UTF-8 and ASCII are normally already 1 character per byte. With great file compression, you could probably reach 2 characters per byte, or one every 4 bits. One character every bit is probably impossible. Maybe with some sort of AI file compression, using an AI's knowledge of the English language to predict the message.
Edit: Wow, apparently that already exists, and it can achieve even higher of a compression ratio, almost 10:1! (with 1gb of UTF-8 (8 bit) text from Wikipedia) bellard.org/nncp/
If an average book has 70k 5 character words, this could compress it to around 303 kb, meaning you could fit 1.6 million books in 64 gb.
You can get a 2tb ssd for around $70. With this compression scheme you could fit 52 million books on it.
I'm not sure if I've interpreted the speed data right, but It looks like it would take around a minute to decode each book on a 3090. It would take about a year to encode all of the books on the 2tb ssd if you used 50 a100s (~$9000 each). You could also use 100 3090s to achieve around the same speed (~$1000 each)
52 million books is around the number of books written in the past 20 years, worldwide. All stored for $70 (+$100k of graphics cards)
There's something comical about the low low price of $70 (+$100k of graphics cards) still leaving out the year of time it will take.
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Not dumb to ask
More than have been banned, I think.
Have a couple old pirated e-textbooks as .pdf files on my PC from uni, several hundred pages with color images, and they are mostly under 50MB, averaging about 30MB. 1GB is a little over a thousand MB (1024) so 1 would maybe hold a bit under 50 or so each? So times 64 that, a hell of a lot. Several thousand total, at least, as size varies.
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a shitload. 64000 if it were simple text only stuff with 1MB per book, 640 if it were 100MB chonkers full of images
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It’s so depressing how this meme is gonna get turned into a real thing by the right claiming it’s real
But this is unironically good
Mein Kandy!!
I would be very interested in the list of banned books, and how it would be curated.
For 64gb, you might have to extend the years to be: banned books ever, and then break down that list by reason. Just to fill space you'd end up including dubious books, and you'd need to be clear on where/who/why a book got banned.
A book being 'banned' from a pre-school for being 'not age appropriate' by some pointless helicopter parent wouldn't count unless the book was actually age appropriate.
Then you would need a category of 'banned by author banned'(or similar). Books that were considered age appropriate at the time, but now definitely aren't. I'm thinking here of the recent removal/editing of Dr Seuss books to remove problematic racial stereotype. Not necessarily banned in their original form, perhaps, but still censored (perhaps, rightly so for the target age).
64GB is a lot of books. You would end up even including 'The tale of (Darth) Pelagius'
(Pelagius was considered a heretic in the early years of the church, and his writings were banned)
As long as they're not books on kinky sex that you share with kids because you're pure evil, I support you.
My mother was a women's studies major and we literally had an entire bookshelf of material about sex and sexuality growing up. It's weird how I had literally no interest in it prior to a certain biological epoch, at which point it became an extremely useful tool for independent learning.
Weird how now I am a well adjusted adult who has a healthy relationship with my own sexuality as well as my partners' and I haven't ever raped anyone even a little bit!
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Bomb the publishers! War on books now!
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