Acab - Blog Posts

while the modern "vigilante" is often considered feral, the notion that they can't be fully domesticated is not true. vigilantes used to be extremely useful farm and village pets, completing various errands ('adventures') and carrying out justice for the peasants. with the implementation of the modern justice system they were replaced by the much lower quality "cop" breed of law enforcers (a popularized mixed breed of palace guards and the common European goon). before their breeding was explicitly outlawed, the vigilante was a carefully maintained and highly standardized class of hero, so with the vast documentation of their breed standards there have been numerous studies able to replicate the breed and implement it back into living alongside human families with great success

Self-defense? He’s 6 years old ffs…I can’t

“ The odds of guessing a four-digit passcode are 1 in 10,000, and tools have been used to crack iPhone codes in the past. Apple says the chances of someone having a similar enough fingerprint to unlock a person’s phone is 1 in 50,000, and a similar enough random face tricking Face ID is 1 in 1,000,000 “

that’s a really funny way of framing it, to make it look like passcodes are weak. you know what’s twice as good as the odds given for fingerprints? a 5 digit passcode! what’s equal to the odds given for Face ID? a 6 digit passcode! every time you add a digit, you multply those odds by 10.

and that’s assuming simple numeric passcodes. the odds of guessing a 4 digit, case-sensitive, alphanumeric passcode would be a 1 in 14.7 million. 5 digits is over 1 in 916 million, 6 digit is 1 in 56.8 billion. if you throw in 32 common symbols, we get 1 in 78 million, 1 in 7.3 billion, and 1 in 689 billion. those numbers climb pretty quickly the more digits you add.

i know these aren’t the only issues with passcodes (like 24% of americans using a variation of just 8 common passcodes), but if you’re trying to push people to biometrics i guess you wouldn’t really care for that nuance anyway

waking to the reality that the police are the biggest organized group of serial killers in the United States will really make you so numb and bored of true crime

"I'm gonna call the cops!" ❌️

Boring

Overused

Supporting a shitty system

"I'm gonna call a biker gang on you!" ✅️

Funny

Unique

Not supporting the system