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by BryantD 8mo ago
As far as I know there is no link between, say, talk.bizarre and weird Twitter, but it's a sign that the same basic impulses are universal. I'm sure that in 1776, a few dedicated oddballs were creating snarky weird in-jokes on bro
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by BryantD 8mo ago
If you're a cinema person, I strongly recommend Agnes Varda's documentary on LA street art at the end of the 1970s, Mur Murs. (That's a pun: murals as an expression of the murmurs of the community.) It takes graffiti as an ex
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by BryantD 9mo ago
As always, claims like this should come with the WARN Act notice record. There's only been one notice in NYC in 2026 (visible at https://dol.ny.gov/warn-dashboard ) and it's not Vimeo or Bending Spoons. I don'
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by BryantD 9mo ago
Unsurprisingly, Tchaikovsky is a tabletop gamer and his first series, Shadows of the Apt, was derived from a game he GMed in college. And I agree, everything hes written has been worth reading.
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by BryantD 9mo ago
This isn’t completely the answer to what you want but skills do open a lot of doors here. Anything you can do on a command line can turn into a skill, after all.
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by BryantD 9mo ago
Yeah, it was like this (except not petabytes).
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by BryantD 9mo ago
Back in the day, if you loaded a page from the web archive that wasn’t in cache, it’d tell you to come back in a couple of minutes. If it was in cache, it was reasonably speedy. Cache in this case was the hard drives. If I recall correctly,
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by BryantD 9mo ago
They have come a very long way since the late 1990s when I was working there as a sysadmin and the data center was a couple of racks plus a tape robot in a back room of the Presidio office with an alarmingly slanted floor. The tape robot ve
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by BryantD 9mo ago
"No way" is an awfully strong statement. For example, people abandon personal material in storage units which are subsequently auctioned off fairly often. But I appreciate you iterating on this -- I understand your position and wh
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by BryantD 9mo ago
"particularly if you don't have knowledge of how the document was acquired."
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by BryantD 9mo ago
I would not say that Project Veritas acted illegally in this case, although I have absolutely no love for them and I think they have acted illegally and immorally in other cases. In the end the Justice Department did not bring charges. You
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by BryantD 9mo ago
O'Keefe had already returned it, as I recall.
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by BryantD 9mo ago
Sorry to be a pedant, but not exactly. They raided James O'Keefe's house to seize his cell phones as part of an investigation into potential conspiracy to traffic stolen goods (the diary) across state lines. Journalists (which is
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by BryantD 9mo ago
Perhaps I'm missing something but I'm fairly sure that if I was a billionaire and I was motivated to figure out a way to donate to Renee Good's family, I would be able to figure something out without the help of GoFundMe.
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by BryantD 10mo ago
I don't disagree with the underlying point, I just don't agree that the effects of this particular issue are all that minimal. Mockery only gets you so far when the moralizing fools are, say, serving as Speaker of the House. Proba
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by BryantD 10mo ago
Depends on how big the chilling effect is, no? For example, if a school librarian notices that a colleague in another district loses their job or worse, gets personal threats because of a specific book, they might well remove a book from sh
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by BryantD 10mo ago
To be completely fair, Russia did decide to make an exception in this case, although it took a couple of months (during which Bushby was detained) to get there. I am a little bit torn in this case. From our vantage point it's obvious t
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by BryantD 10mo ago
Oh, they absolutely are. As Leavitt promised at her first briefing, it’s been opened to: "independent journalists, podcasters, social media influencers, and content creators."
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by BryantD 11mo ago
The repository is part of https://github.com/historicalsource , which has code for a bunch of Infocom games, although at a quick glance most of them aren't open sourced. Still, very cool resource.
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by BryantD 11mo ago
I've been guessing that the problems existed prior to the Marriot deal; why would they give up their front door to a competitor otherwise? But I agree that it's got to be a wildly crazy story.
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by BryantD 11mo ago
There's a nuance here: a lot of times, it's people hearing "male privilege is a problem" and immediately being told that this means "you personally are at fault!" So it's very understandable that people b
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by BryantD 11mo ago
"We've observed and documented instances where judicial decisions seem to override the will of shareholders and boards of directors" Annnnnd so? We should expect that will happen; a judge's job is not to follow the lead
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by BryantD 11mo ago
The Netherlands has also cut back on intelligence sharing with the US: https://intelnews.org/2025/10/20/01-3416/
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by BryantD 11mo ago
I dug in a bit and did a little research. Criterion and Dropout, as mentioned, use Vimeo. So does Arrow's streaming service (cult films, mostly). From there on in it gets even more fringe: Taskmaster (the British game show) has a strea
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by BryantD 11mo ago
Yes, yes it is. And there was some sort of bug that pushed the top quality down to 720p last month.
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by BryantD 11mo ago
Yes, there are alternatives. Nonetheless, the niche streamers I'm thinking of would find it a moderate burden to move to a different provider and they're operating on slim margins as is.
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by BryantD 11mo ago
Vimeo is the really interesting case for me, because they are the white label hosting providers for a large number of niche streaming services -- Criterion Channel comes to mind, for example. Evernote failing is sad but lower on indirect ef
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by BryantD 11mo ago
Save you a potential click: the article is dated September 8th, 2025. The House didn't surprise us all by coming back into session to pass this bill.
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by BryantD 1y ago
Oh, we’ve long since seen that revenge: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scholarly_publishing_s... for many examples, including quite a few in the sciences. I have come to think of the Sokal hoax as an early w
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by BryantD 1y ago
Same here. I’ve been dedicating New Year’s Day to a long movie for a few years now —- Trenque Lauquen last year —- and the habit is working out quite well.

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