Thoreandan

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by Thoreandan 2y ago
> the infamous OKcupid study Not sure which of these you meant, but here's links for those who haven't read them: The one blog post that got removed when match-dot-com (InterActiveCorp) bought OKC in 2011-Feb: https:/&#x2
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by Thoreandan 2y ago
Hear hear. Poor article going out the door for publication with zero editorial checking.
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by Thoreandan 2y ago
Related: Ange Albertini, the creator of the .PDF/.ZIP/ELF reference diagrams (github/corkami) has started posting overview videos on his YT channel (@corkami-albertini) including creating .PDF+.PNG+.ZIP chimera files. The .PD
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by Thoreandan 2y ago
Thanks for the post! Is your blog intentionally blocked from Internet Archive's Wayback Machine?
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by Thoreandan 2y ago
From one of the paper's authors elsewhere in this thread: https://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(24)01091-2
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by Thoreandan 2y ago
Archive link - https://web.archive.org/web/20241202230304/https://wiki.arch...
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by Thoreandan 2y ago
This gives this 2020 post about Queensryche's "Empire" a different perspective. https://livinglifefearless.co/2020/features/queensryches-emp...
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by Thoreandan 2y ago
Relevant Penny Arcade comic responding to the proposal that micropayments will save comic artists - https://pennyarcade.fandom.com/wiki/June_22,_2001
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by Thoreandan 2y ago
I'm pretty nervous that neither Wayback Machine nor archive-dot-today appear to be able to snapshot Bluesky posts. Between this and paywalls, I'm not aware of an alternative user-accessible check against edited / deleted pos
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by Thoreandan 2y ago
Kinda feels like an unfinished project?
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by Thoreandan 2y ago
The summary says "SDK relicensed from proprietary to GPLv3", the linked commit puts the Bitwarden license into LICENSE_SDK.txt, not GPLv3. Am I missing something?
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by Thoreandan 2y ago
Carriers send tethered traffic out different networks than they do for traffic from the mobile device. Fun side effects: Apps on your phone which, when you're on wi-fi, can connect to other apps on the same wi-fi, can't. Terrible
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by Thoreandan 2y ago
Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/743/
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by Thoreandan 2y ago
Non-PDF link w/ abstract: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1275 MIFARE Classic: exposing the static encrypted nonce variant Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2024/1275 author: Philippe Teuwen
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by Thoreandan 2y ago
> Does this mean that CockroachDB is no longer open source? > CockroachDB will remain source available under a new license. While the new license is a proprietary enterprise license, the source code will still be available for viewing
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by Thoreandan 2y ago
Nice vid. If you didn't know the early history of PGP, the OG user's guide served as a great introductory read to the core concepts of encryption / PKI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#E
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by Thoreandan 2y ago
Q: "...Why did you decide to put this easter egg in? Are there more things like this, or is Motif to be blamed for the general bloat in Netscape?" A: "Yes, there are a bunch of easter eggs in Mozilla; so? By and large they&#x
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by Thoreandan 2y ago
Just checked and amusingly I'd forgotten that boot/root predated LILO, I must've first seen LILO when I installed Softlanding Linux. Since I didn't have any networking on my home machine, Linux was basically a "Look
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by Thoreandan 2y ago
Reminder, for context, since news stations that should know better are parroting the narrative that he published unredacted stuff as soon as he got it, instead of What Actually Happened: https://web.archive.org/web/2011
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by Thoreandan 2y ago
Isn't https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORDIC used a lot?
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by Thoreandan 2y ago
Has anyone had success using things like the rsync or bgp feeds from Spamhaus to drop this traffic?
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by Thoreandan 2y ago
Related, found after I saw him opining on 'activists moving goalposts': (2004) https://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_problem_with_john_ti... (2011) https://slate.com/human-interest/2011
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by Thoreandan 2y ago
I found the Lipsum quotes used fascinating, so I looked them up: Lucky Is He Who Can Accept His Broken Sword From Fate The Conqueror, With A Manly And A Humble Heart. —William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis https:/&#x
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by Thoreandan 2y ago
Fun fact: The "Family Tutor" computer on page 20 being closed out for $169 ($488 in 2024) is a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SV-328 - the design template for the MSX, on which Konami launched Bomberman, Metal
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by Thoreandan 2y ago
“According to the labels, these tapes should have interviews with Bill Gates, Timothy Leary, Douglas Adams, Bill Atkinson (creator of MacPaint), Steven Levy (journalist), Jack Tramiel (Atari), John Reese (Tronix), Joel Berez (Infocom), and
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by Thoreandan 2y ago
YouTube translated subtitles available. Turkish Rational DOS https://www.singlix.com/ https://github.com/turkishrational/trdos
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Custom x86 DOS implementation, playing audio files and PC demos. (Turkish) [video](youtube.com)
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by Thoreandan 2y ago
Related (2005): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_Is_Too_Damn_High_Party
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by Thoreandan 2y ago
Interesting, if hard-to-understand. It would be nice to see ELi5 explanations for items like this akin to Monty's 'A Digital Media Primer for Geeks' ( https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/#:~:text=
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by Thoreandan 2y ago
So ubiquitous, it was even on the Playstation 2. :^) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yabasic#PlayStation_2 https://www.theregister.com/2000/11/07/sony_adds_basic_to_pl...

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