Absentinsomniac

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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
Unless you get sound canceling headphones.
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
I've been planning to implement an alternate theme but haven't done it yet. Black on white is particularly irritating for people with astigmatism which appears to be a pretty big part of the population.
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Cox Is Liable for Pirating Subscribers, Ordered to Pay $25M(torrentfreak.com)
6 points by Absentinsomniac 11y ago|0 comments
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
Well, I don't want to give you the wrong idea. I'm not an authority here. (I'd be a little dumb commenting with this account if I were.) My activity was very minimal, to the point where I doubt law enforcement would find it w
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
I wonder if a trusted third party auditor agreed upon by both parties could work.
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
I can try to give a reply. You have to remember what SR was for. These were people who were not only using SR, but active in the community as well. They were mostly engaged in illegal activities, a good deal of whom were active offline as w
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
I still feel like there were lines most didn't want crossed, however.
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
I just updated and recompiled everything a few days ago. Bad timing. Kinda sucks that manual patching is a pain a lot of the time, but oh well, dependencies will do that I guess.
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
Don't forget the gigantic highway lobby and GM's role in funding the destruction of rail in cities across the country. Remarkably successful strategy. Eventually were convicted iirc, but it was too late.
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
This is pretty bad news for those who can't stay asleep. Sometimes I'll try to sleep for, say, 3 hours, then my alarm will wake me up and I'll decide to sleep longer. I guess I'll have to stop doing that. Kind of seems l
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
Exactly. Definitely not enough research taking a harm reduction approach. There's quite a bit of short term research on a lot of things that give some basic insights, but don't add additional variables that are useful even if addi
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
To be fair, though, given the non-excludable nature of digital goods, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to make it "stealing" in the first place. Pretty much by definition you can't really prevent access to it. Maybe
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
Reply depth reached I guess above, so I'll reply here. Thanks, definitely never knew that. In that case I'll get on it sooner rather than later!
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
I agree with this. We've gotten a bit of flack on blog.darknedgy.net for this, and we've been putting off making a light-background alternative theme. I'll get around to it eventually because people want it, but I prefer the
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
So essentially, the most beneficial course here is getting into healthy habits and pursuing loss prevention. I haven't seen much evidence at all that otherwise well nurished and healthy people can raise their actual intelligence, but t
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Evolutionary perspective on raising intelligence (2013) [pdf](udel.edu)
39 points by Absentinsomniac 11y ago|4 comments
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
I use dwm with gimp, it is a little bit of a pain but I'm pretty used to it at this point so for me it's usable. Granted I don't need to do anything in depth.
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
Seems like more research needs to go into preventing traffic confirmation attacks: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-security-advisory-relay... "A traffic confirmation attack is possible when the attacker contr
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
Pretty much why I prefer distributed markets like OpenBazaar.
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
Hopefully some kind of OpenBSD support comes along. Pretty much letsencrypt-nosudo until then. The standard letsencrypt program doesn't appear to work on Debian 7 due to outdated openssl and what not.
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
Most of this thing reads more like an argument for than against.
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
I agree with this analysis, while I agree with the thrust of the book, sometimes when trying to do in-depth research on some of the topics, it seemed to me as though some of the sources were a bit dubious and/or hard to come by. I stil
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
Presumably we have to make access to historic CS papers more readily available and research past implementations of concepts before diving in, and what not. This seems sensible. Probably very few programmers actually check the literature be
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
I used them a long, long time ago. Apparently my stuff is in this leak. Not really concerning given I don't use the same bank info and never reuse passwords, but still... They also booted me off of their service after my site started t
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
This was written in 1999, I wonder if his opinion on software engineering practices have changed. I've never worked in industry, but based on what I've read there are some pretty good processes that are supposed to have some empir
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
I noticed this yesterday. Browsing senate.gov and associated domains with https everywhere shows a lot of broken pages. It's fun to peek around on https://republicans.senate.gov and https://democrat.senate.gov b
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Only 15% of Congressional sites are HTTPS ready(sunlightfoundation.com)
3 points by Absentinsomniac 11y ago|1 comments
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
Usually folks say "LEO" for Law enforcement officer(s) afaik
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
I really, really wish I had enough time to sit around and explore stuff like this for weeks at a time. I haven't even played any games in over a year.
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
My only problem with that is that it stores stuff in different files, iirc, which you kind of have to name something recognizable. That is, the file names are exposed, which if you name them, for example, by which site they access, then pre

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