Are you sure you can’t make a high entropy memorable password?

My scheme pulls four words at random from a large corpus

No homo, but the H is for homo

Evolution isn’t aimed. A T-Rex needs to be good enough to hunt enough food.

Our ancient ancestors smashed the skulls of animals killed by African predators to eat the brains, smashed bones to eat the marrow.

Later as our ancestors became bigger and stronger they hunted and needed to communicate with each other to effectively track and take down an animal. Maybe they needed twenty words. Chickens have three words (or cluck patterns)

At the same time women collected stuff and needed to share how to identify this from that with younger women. They might have needed a hundred words.

Then those who could talk better were more attractive to the other sex than those who couldn’t (even now being well spoken is attractive) then a few millions of years later we’re making stone knives, hammers, axes; then ten minutes later aeroplanes and machine guns

In short: we had it hard enough we needed to share information. We later found communication sexy. T-Rex had no such trouble. We seem to be the only animal that solved “scavenging is dangerous” and “hunting is hard” with talking to each other rather than by getting bigger and getting claws or vicious teeth

I understand we selected for tall by fighting humans

I just found this: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-19/canada-snuck-past-trump-buy-jorn-defence-radar/105069292

TLDR: Australia wanted to sell our Jindalee over-the-horizon radar (JORN) to the US, then Trump happened, so now we’re selling it to Canada

TLDW: the graphics card market sucks, prices don’t relate to quality, base models are fiction, you should wait to upgrade if you can

Also it’s a different table depending on where you are

The giant breweries everywhere make low flavour beer as their aim is to make a product that won’t offend anyone. That sort of beer is also cheap so it’s more popular than more complex beers for both reasons (inoffensive and cheap)

I expect Newfoundland also Labrador, serving the beer drinkers in half a million people population, is higher quality than Molson-Coors, but even if they increased production it would be hard to keep the quality or meet the price of their competitor

Though in Australia we have regional beer and the giant east coast beers haven’t squashed the smaller breweries in South Australia or Tasmania – and South Australia and Tasmania produce better beers than Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria

IT worker in system analysis and design in the public service in Canberra, Australia.

There’s no official policy though many of my co workers believe a lunch time drink is not allowed. I have often enjoyed a couple of glasses of wine or a beer at lunch, have never made a secret of it, and have never been told off or warned by anyone above me

KeePass doesn’t rely on any third party, and if you choose to use a third party file storage to hold your password vault, it’s encrypted

My workplace has finally gone to passphrases and 1 year password life, which is nice as it’s a password I often need to type, so I’d rather 20 easy to type and memorise chars than 16 random

It doesn’t fit with the fairytale. Father bear found everything too much, mumma bear found everything too little, baby bear found everything perfect

Australia has been running over the horizon radar for decades, I think Australia’s role in this is providing expertise

From over-the-horizon radar on Wikipedia

Another early shortwave OTH system was built in Australia in the early 1960s. This consisted of several antennas positioned four wavelengths apart, allowing the system to use phase-shift beamforming to steer the direction of sensitivity and adjust it to cover Singapore, Calcutta, and the UK. This system consumed 25 miles (40 km) of electrical cable in the antenna array.[7]

Note that the UK is approximately antipodal to Australia

Australia’s current OTH radars covers South East Asia, use half the transmit power of US OTH radar, and have longer range

That would be the other pole.

I hope this brings Canada and Australia closer together, but I think it’s just because Australia has been running an over the horizon radar for decades (since the 1960s), and so we have experts on the technology

Edit: I just found this: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-19/canada-snuck-past-trump-buy-jorn-defence-radar/105069292

TLDR: Australia wanted to sell our Jindalee over-the-horizon radar (JORN) to the US, then Trump happened, so now we’re selling it to Canada

10C* charging isn’t all that exceptional

But also charging a Tesla on a road trip takes ~15 minutes each couple of hundred kilometres, that’s often not enough time to get a coffee and use a toilet; it’s never long enough to get a meal.

On a thousand kilometre trip recently for a lunch break my partner would find a place to get lunch and order for themself and me while I waited in the car for it to become charged enough. I would generally get to the lunch place before food was served

Faster isn’t much use until it’s fast like filling a petrol tank

*10 times capacity – Charging rate 10 times faster in kilowatts than the battery capacity in kilowatt-hours

Since pixel phones started using one volume button + power for reboot and the other volume button + power for screenshot, I have so many random, useless screenshots

I monthly go into the gallery and delete all the screenshots to keep on top of them

Brake, not break

holding the bag

And not doing shit that tanks the stock price and sales.

Ok, so list the ones I can buy today

“it’s a bit limited for an operating system”

As a kid I often got to lick the Mixmaster beaters when Mum was making biscuits or a cake.