DicIfTEx

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by DicIfTEx 3y ago
Also https://g3rv4.com/2022/04/using-shamir-secret-sharing which includes a link to an easy-to-use SSS tool that can output shards as QR codes.
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by DicIfTEx 3y ago
Useful checklist: https://getyourshittogether.org/ Others in this thread have talked about safety deposit boxes and buried crates. I'd add that you can just give some trusted party a normal encrypted USB flash drive, a
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by DicIfTEx 3y ago
I remember learning the ‘Rule of Thirds’ in relation to schizophrenia prognoses: > According to this rule, one third of patients will have just a single psychotic episode during their lifetime; another third will experience different psy
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by DicIfTEx 3y ago
When I saw the title I thought it was this Flash archive, which was recently featured on Kottke.org: https://ooooooooo.ooo/static/browse/ Maybe we're in the midst of a Flash game renaissance.
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by DicIfTEx 3y ago
I remember seeing “Possible Girls” cited somewhere as an example of the pointlessness of contemporary academic philosophy, but for years I couldn't find it again. A very entertaining re-read, thanks for sharing.
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by DicIfTEx 3y ago
There used to be a site that listed everything that the Daily Mail (a low-quality British newspaper) had claimed could cause or prevent cancer (and often both): http://wordpress.mrreid.org/2009/09/07/kill-or
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by DicIfTEx 3y ago
Authoritarian socialism is one of two strands of the socialist movement. Vanguardist authoritarian socialism (i.e., Marxism–Leninism and its offspring) are a substrain of that wider current and, much like that xkcd strip about crazy straw
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by DicIfTEx 3y ago
When the EU replaced Italy's search & rescue-focussed Op Mare Nostrum in 2014 with it's border security-focussed Op Triton, deaths in the Mediterranean increased markedly, in some cases by as much as 1,600% between years.[0] T
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by DicIfTEx 3y ago
In the UK there was an MP who set up his own app, which was recently shut down but not before it saw a bump of activity following Musk's takeover of Twitter: https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-migration-matt-hanc
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by DicIfTEx 3y ago
Sounds like the Cash for Ash scandal, which took down the Northern Irish government: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_Heat_Incentive_sca...
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by DicIfTEx 3y ago
I always disliked diet sodas until I tried a keto diet for a couple months, which practically means fasting from sugar. Afterwards, the non-diet drinks taste way too sweet whilst the diet ones are fine. So it does seem like one can recalibr
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by DicIfTEx 3y ago
CC0[0] would be the obvious one; spicier and less legalese alternatives that nonetheless amount to about the same thing include the Unlicense[1] and the Do What the Fuck You Want Public License[2] [0] https://creativecommons.org&
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by DicIfTEx 3y ago
Not quite the library, but there was a show about the postal service cops (bankrolled by the USPS): https://yewtu.be/watch?v=OCjG78McFxQ
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by DicIfTEx 3y ago
The YouTube series Knowing Better had a very good episode about Butler and this essay too: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Lg-nUy2DalM
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by DicIfTEx 3y ago
Mark Fisher touched on this in his essay “The Slow Cancellation of the Future”, discussed by him here: https://archive.org/details/markfisher-theslowcancellationof...
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by DicIfTEx 3y ago
There's a Sopranos episode called “Remember When”, in which Tony gets mad at Paulie for living in the past: ‘Remember when is the lowest form of conversation’. Later, he talks to someone else about it, who points out that Paulie has
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by DicIfTEx 3y ago
I think they're referring to humans' ability to conduct persistence hunting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting
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by DicIfTEx 3y ago
There's also a famous clip from Werner Herzog's Encounters at the End of the World where a penguin does something similar,[0] and I've seen it theorised (possibly in the book Empire Antarctica , but I'm not certain) t
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by DicIfTEx 3y ago
British subjects are very rare, and have been since the '80s: https://www.gov.uk/types-of-british-nationality/british-subj...
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by DicIfTEx 3y ago
Unfortunately I killed my previous phone, which was capable of running /e/OS, in an area of the world where replacement options are limited. As a result, I've had to experience first-hand just how awful stock Android can be,
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by DicIfTEx 3y ago
I don't think you need counterexamples, because your base argument is faulty. Food full of formaldyhde only causes harm as the product of human usage, i.e. someone eating it, regulation aims to make it impossible for such a situation t
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by DicIfTEx 3y ago
This principle is known as Blackstone's ratio: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_ratio
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by DicIfTEx 3y ago
There are many extant indigeneous groups across Central and South America who still retain the use of their traditional languages, often alongside Spanish. Around Mexico/Guatemala these are often Mayan languages such as Tzotzil in the
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Freedom Ladder (FSF Campaign)(libreplanet.org)
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by DicIfTEx 3y ago
The health of the FSF is currently a hot topic courtesy of Drew DeVault's recent blog post[0]. I've seen a lot of commenters criticise the FSF's purist approach to tech (i.e. only recommending a handful of niche Linux distros
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by DicIfTEx 4y ago
A&A ( https://www.aa.net.uk/ ) are a UK ISP who market themselves towards technical users. It costs a small premium compared to other ISPs, but knowing that my support call was going straight to one of their engineers (an
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by DicIfTEx 4y ago
Do you mean that the EU mandates a generic email address (like ‘support@mycompany.com’) as distinct from whatever more personalised support address(es) they may push more publicly? Do you have a link to the regulation? I've not been ab
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by DicIfTEx 4y ago
I read this whole thing in Tucker Carlson's voice.
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by DicIfTEx 4y ago
> “The Fediverse” needs to end, and I don’t think anything should replace it. Speak instead about communities, and prioritize the strength of those communities. Speak about the way those communities interact, and don’t; the way they form
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by DicIfTEx 4y ago
We have CoTech in the UK, and they have a decent forum: https://www.coops.tech/

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