I am curious what Americans think is the cause of the uniquely high percentage of their population, that are in prison.

As an Aussie I don't have the insider insight to understand what drives that.

I did not know Opera is Chinese. Wow. We really don't have a lot of choices do we.

which I guess is why I keep using Firefox because the alternative, Chromium being the only show in town, is too awful to think about.

Any particular bugs in Firefox bothering you? I've not stopped using it since the start. Then when Google removed don't be evil I was less tempted to switch to Chrome. In my day job I use both, because Chrome had profiles before Firefox, but I'm not surfing the web at work.

Sure there are some websites where the odd bit doesn't work, but that is rare in my experience. And I expect due to their coding it wrong (by accident) rather than a Firefox bug.

After Trump's recent grovelling to Xi, there are three possible situations re invasion of Taiwan
- no change to likelihood
- less likely
- more iikely

I know which of those seems the favourite.

Going to be hard for the US to stop export of chips to China if they are made in a China owned Taiwan

Good point - reminds me I have a couple of case fans that are meant to be super quiet and have dimples on the blades, presumably to that end.

I'm no aerodynamics engineer but a relationship between reduced drag, and quietness, seems reasonable.

They would be insane to give up their position and reputation. That sort of regard should be hallowed. I hope they know what they are doing.,

I use Keepass as my core, because I started with it a decade before Bitwarden was invented.

If you have a server you can FTP to, Keepass is the absolute bees knees. Perfect sync, and item-level granularity. That is, two devices can update different entries, then both sync, and the sync always works.

Add a toolbar button to do the sync, which is only really feasible for techies, and happy days. Your kdbx file "in the cloud" is hidden behind a password for your FTP server that can be crazy long because you never type it.

For all the relative and friends I look after, it is Bitwarden all the way.

I expect there are videos of Victorian bushfire firestorms online. Watching them is not the same as being in one, but you'll gain a little understanding.

Bizarrely, no, it's mostly Victoria, the southern-most mainland state, and south of Sydney.

I guess it's the cooler climate giving a different forest structure, among many other factors. Mind you, Melbourne had another temperature record the other day.

Aboriginals used to burn off to keep things under control, but westerners put a stop to that.

Do you honestly believe that? That no embers will distribute more than 1.5 metres?

And "That's all you need to do"? Have you never seen a firestorm? Fires jumping long gaps driven by ferocious winds?

ffmpeg -i bigfile.mkv -c copy -to 1:00:00 part1.mkv

ffmpeg -i bigfile.mkv -c copy -ss 1:00:00 part2.mkv

plus mkclean if your TV is fussy like mine

I use greek gods for my hostnames, but my challenge is to find the short names because I'm too lazy to type long names.

I was going to suggest a Polymarket on when the Iris scan database was hacked into. I didn't realise that it's not even necessary to hack into it - just fake it - and I am only shocked that I didn't think of your student's project, already.

Apropos of nothing, I worked at a place where they manually censored all incoming emails and blocked all websites apart from a tiny whitelist. It took 6 months to get our dev software & database provider whitelisted. Anyway we had a lass working with us who knew about jpeg format and steganography. We wanted her to figure how to smuggle stuff hidden in jpegs. We knew it was possible, just too lazy. And she could have done, probably easily, but refused on ethical principles. She went on to work at RSA. Smart girt.

> Verify what is said,

Finding out information that only exists inside a company, particularly a private company not listed on the stock market, is extraordinarly difficult. The walls are closed. How should we go about verifying what is said?

Thank heavens the US government is not killing its citizens.

If I take your comment, run a s/China/USA/g over it, then it is still absoutely right.