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Cake day: December 3rd, 2025

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  • Just in case, there’s no “safe” place to get shot.

    A gunshot injury to the leg is always a medical emergency and can be fatal in as little as five minutes if the bullet hits a major artery, causing traumatic blood loss.

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    An injury to the aorta, femoral or carotid artery can be especially dangerous because these are the main blood vessels responsible for pulling oxygen-rich blood from the heart to the rest of the body. The brachial artery (which runs through the arms) is another major concern. If one of these arteries is punctured, the trauma can result in an immediate blood pressure drop and extremely rapid blood loss.

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    Bleeding can quickly become life-threatening. The average time to bleed out is only 2 to 5 minutes.

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    Yes, a taser may also cause lethal cases, unfortunately…

    Although all in-custody deaths after ECD shocks are not likely a direct result of the shock, a number probably are. Taser International addressed that probability by revising their warnings from “aim at target: center of mass or legs” and “aiming at open front of unzipped jacket” before September 2009 to “when possible, avoiding chest shots…” after that date. More recently, they noted that “heart rate, rhythm, capture” can occur and that “capture” and “cardiac arrest” can contribute to arrest-related death in physiologically or metabolically compromised persons.

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    I’ve been in USA for 2 month only accumulated, mostly residing in Europe and Asia, and from my experience, in common civilian life, it’s rare to see an actual lethal weapon being aimed at someone in public unless it’s at zones/movements of Bank or foreign politics, including presidential, ambassadorial, ministerial, mayoral, or consular general residences. In other words, a taser-like solution is much more frequent in civilian life from my experience.


  • To understand why the requirements keep escalating, follow the arms race. Cheats started in user space, so anti-cheat moved into the kernel to see them. Cheats followed into the kernel, and then below it into hypervisors - so anti-cheat added hypervisor detection and began demanding a verified boot chain. Every time the cheat drops a layer deeper, the anti-cheat has to demand more privilege and more hardware trust to keep watching. That is what TPM 2.0, Secure Boot, remote attestation, IOMMU enforcement, and now forced firmware updates actually are: anti-cheat chasing cheats further down the stack.

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    Wonderful day!

    I’ve been into the subject a few times already, and just in case, if interested, the TPM is a specific module with its own API in modern motherboards that has inside a key pair known as Endorsement Key (EK) which is a permanent unique identifier burned into the hardware. It’s used to create signed EK certificates.

    To clarify, similar to the asynchronous cryptographic we may see in the general TLS certificates in HTTP traffic ( “green” lock), the TPM , as mentioned, has API to create public keys from its private key inside.

    The private key is burned-in by the manufacturer inside the module, which is also normally protected from physical damage to be self-destruct, by its standard requirements.

    Systems like Denuvo may create and encrypt their own data using the public key, and send it to the TPM to decrypt, verify, and therefore identify the hardware on their servers as an identity.

    The Endorsement Key (EK) is an asymmetric key pair consisting of a public and private key stored in a Shielded Location on the TPM.
    The public part of the EK can be read from the TPM while the private part MUST never be exposed.
    The public key of the EK is included in the EK certificate…
    However, the EK provided by the manufacturer MUST be defined as a non-duplicable key.

    Source: Credential_Profile_EK_V2.0_R14_published.pdf

    Though, I believe, the TPM specifications were actually designed by Trusted Computing Group with privacy in mind to prevent the EK from being used as a “global tracking ID”, some vendors or organizations may use it for undefined reason, and hence please do consider the opportunities your operating system and motherboard provide.

    Also, if interested in experimenting, and haven’t yet, in Linux, TPM is accessed via character devices (created by the Kernel module), and normally support different operations to read/write to, and located at /dev/tpm*, though these devices’ permissions are set to root only in all the Kernels I’ve seen yet. There are CLI software packages as tpm2-tools for the protocol.





  • Ineffably lovely…

    There’s coziness, wonder, and peace… I see and feel… and the green color chosen, on the monitor I see it, looks charming…
    Thank you… heartfelt… for the miracles you do… dear Artist…

    Though, just to clarify… considering this Community, it’s challenging to see anything “digital” in the purely physical Artwork, authentic effort and experience, the actual work of love… you shared…

    Hold on tight…
    And we’ll take this chance together…
    Put your hand… here in mine…
    And we’ll fall into forever… forever…

    ~ Fall into Forever - Castle





  • To have it fair, there are peaceful online video-games, or Artworks, too, I believe, and I’ve been contributing and participating in one ineffably magnificent miracle… The Elder Scrolls Online… since 2016…
    I have already more than 240,000 screenshots and hundreds of video recorded for all the years, or more…
    Currently, I’m also maintaining a few add-ons at ESOUI (to dim or hide certain GUI elements only).

    Yet, indeed, usually, a single-player Artworks allow you to actually hear more, see more, notice more… to actually listen to the Universe adventured… where no fear exists to be suddenly disconnected or interrupted…


    Once this city pulsed with energy. It was dirty and dangerous, but alive and wonderful. Now it’s something else. The changes came slowly at first. Most didn’t notice, or didn’t care. They chose a comfortable life. Some didn’t.

    ~ Mirror’s Edge

    Order. Purpose. Direction. No more than that. It’s your lot that means to confound with this nonsense talk of freedom. Time was, the Assassins professed a far more sensible goal, that of peace.

    ~ Assassin’s Creed

    It’s true that our organization stretches back to the Order of the Assassins, or Hashishim, but not in the way you might imagine. The order hasn’t so much lasted as been continually revived… It’s the Idea that has lasted. The System. Or the Desire, every thinking person’s desire to give the world some decent organization.

    ~ Deus Ex

    There are no choices, nothing but a straight line. The illusion comes afterwards, when you ask “why me?” and “what if?”. When you look back, see the branches, like a pruned Bonsai tree, or a forked lightning. If you had done something differently, it wouldn’t be you, it would be someone else looking back, asking a different set of questions.

    ~ Max Payne 2


    Source: Personal screenshot backups of The Elder Scrolls Online



  • If your comment is for my comments here about missing countries, then I am not sure why:

    - 1. Someone believes that no one here reads footers;
    - 2. How contacting and adding a single or more magnificent countries will make it better;

    Since, again someone’s country won’t be listed nor they may have any knowledge or possibiltyto add one.

    If so, you probably haven’t read anything written in comments. There should be no countries at all, but a single door for everyone. This is not a club but a movement, an idea, or… am I mistaken?



  • Apologies, but it’s never been a good place to start for me, unfortunately, sorry.

    There’s literally a single country I own an apartment at, as a paying taxes resident, is only listed there.
    Yet, two other countries I am an official resident at, too, are not even listed, with no door at all.
    And not to mention the whole dear Baltics, nor some crucial countries of Africa nor East…

    It’s relatively sorrowful the place is locked down for just these “established” miraculously magnificent countries and no other people may even participate. This doesn’t look welcoming nor anarchy-like bust just, sorry, nazi… and just inappropriate.

    Here’s a question raises whether what you stand against or for in the first place.