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by aa-jv 1y ago
I helped start a pretty big ISP in 1994 (2nd biggest in America for a while), and it was a wild and woolly time. Our first week of operation, signing up users at a rate of 1000 - 2000 a day, I decided to check in on the servers I'd spe
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by aa-jv 1y ago
Well, its all over Youtube too - you just have to escape the bubble.
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by aa-jv 1y ago
This is a class which implements a 'defer' mechanism, similar to Go and Javascript constructs, which do the same thing - delay execution of the given block until the current block scope is exited. Its pretty clever, actually, and
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by aa-jv 1y ago
The fact you could not find that interview is very telling - it means you are living in a state-provided bubble of censorship which doesn't allow you access to adequate information to make a proper assessment: https://x.com&
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by aa-jv 1y ago
"People like you" - you lost me here. I'm asking out of interest, not because I'm a useful idiot for Russians, and I'm not challenging your position because someone might consider that "you are a bootlicker fo
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by aa-jv 1y ago
>No. I'm saying by the goals he set out before the war, he has failed. Fine, but what were those goals, where/when did he set them out and what is the current status? I'd like to study this issue myself - so any sources y
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by aa-jv 1y ago
>ex ante metrics So, based on potential future events, you've come to this conclusion. But I don't see any current evidence to support the claim. Can you clarify your position? You saw his interview on Croatia TV recently? Hi
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by aa-jv 1y ago
>delusions of grandeur How do you come to this conclusion - have you been studying Putins' speeches in the last 3 years, or analysed some of the policies that led to this conclusion? Did you see his recent interview on Croatian TV w
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by aa-jv 1y ago
War Games is literally about a hacker. Tron is literally about a hacker. Sneakers is about spooks wanting to be hackers and hackers wanting to be spooks. Sneakers is the point where the militarization of hackers became mainstream.
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by aa-jv 1y ago
We are in the mid-stages of all of this, now. Skype was at the forefront. Surveillance capitalism today doesn't produce the same returns now that it did in 2005/7 ... there are a lot more players and a lot more work to be done to
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by aa-jv 1y ago
What about it? Nobody is going to buy it for billions of dollars, as has happened to Skype. You can still do surveillance capitalism - its just not as valuable as it used to be ..
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by aa-jv 1y ago
Skype was an intelligence-gathering platform with very few equals. In the era that Skype was producing unicorn horns, surveillance capitalism was on a rocket ride. I doubt those same conditions would allow for multiple unicorn horns in the
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by aa-jv 1y ago
Hacker culture was quite mainstream in the 80's, already. This was a refactoring of it. War Games and Tron and other movies got there first. I think that's the reason I don't have the affinity for this movie that many do -
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by aa-jv 1y ago
> If anyone can start their own website and write stuff, without getting any kind of qualification or accreditation, and without following any editorial policy or maintaining any kind of journalistic integrity, and still get credited wit
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by aa-jv 1y ago
I never understood the love for this movie, it just seems lame to see all of these caricatures being created that reinforce hacker stereotypes - and not even in a good way.
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by aa-jv 1y ago
Means the Russians can't repurpose the washing machines to build drones.
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by aa-jv 1y ago
>Pokemon is it's own weird situation. Plus, there's that whole CIA thing.
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by aa-jv 1y ago
I had a small collection of favored LCD watches in the 80's, including the Scramble Fighter game mentioned in the article .. as well as a few other neat ones, including a DataBank and another Casio which featured 15 tunes/melodies
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by aa-jv 2y ago
The only thing that matters in all of this is the fact that there are still new things being developed for old computers. Like, delightful and whimsical things. Just look at this years 10LINEBASIC competition entries, for example, to see wh
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by aa-jv 2y ago
Checked the sheep dip?
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by aa-jv 2y ago
Its only a model.
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by aa-jv 2y ago
Misogyny in comedy is still real. Just saw SNL fully taking the piss out of an actress' teeth this weekend, in fact.
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by aa-jv 2y ago
He's NOT the Messiah, he's a VERY NAUGHTY BOY!
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by aa-jv 2y ago
I've heard this said .. admittedly, deep within the bowels of many a coffeeshop .. of marijuana. Basically, weed rewards us for its continued safe domestication. Try as I might, I cannot find a way to disprove this theory. The more I
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by aa-jv 2y ago
Your statistics are cherry-picked. The USA has demolished more sovereign states and continues to participate in mass murder, as it has done, since it illegally invaded Iraq on the basis of outright lies and murdered 5% of its population. h
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by aa-jv 2y ago
Minor correction in the article: The Oric-1 did ship with 16K RAM initially, but was widely available not long after in the 48K (really, 64K) configuration, and users could easily upgrade their 16K Oric-1's to the beefier RAM, and also
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by aa-jv 2y ago
>the US was helping considerably, and then got taken over by pro-Russian conspiracy theorists. This is such a nonsense conspiracy theory. Anything "non-American" isn't by default pro-Russian, ffs. Come on people, this non
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by aa-jv 2y ago
Search seems to be quite broken, alas. None of the search terms I used actually showed up in any of the results given.
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by aa-jv 2y ago
I have looked at the numbers, almost every day since March 2003. Have you? You seem to want to finish this argument without actually looking at any statistics. "Ignorant troll"? The veracity of your vitriol belies cowardice. You
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by aa-jv 2y ago
There is nothing to compare to - the USA is by far the biggest committer of war crimes and crimes against humanity, by a wide margin.

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