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by bawolff 3mo ago
> If an spam email came via SendGrid, Constant Spammer, or MailChump, are you going to be able to tell from the header signatures? Couldn't you always tell this from headers? At the very least the recieved headers are going to be a
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by bawolff 3mo ago
In theory, their reputation which is the basis for maintaining their subscriber base and hence $$$
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by bawolff 3mo ago
> But a lot of those books probably wouldn't exist if the author couldn't make some money from their work. I think that's at least a bit debatable. People thought that about (normal) libraries back in the day, but it ended
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by bawolff 3mo ago
I don't think anyone doubts that odin is a real programming language that you can make something in. The part that is doubtful is that it enjoys any level of popularity.
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by bawolff 3mo ago
Network effects are always hard, although i dont think you have to have all that from day 1.
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by bawolff 3mo ago
> I'm talking about a universe of developing systems programming languages Are you though? Like this seems like hobby project that hasn't really generated much discussion or interest in the broader programming language communit
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by bawolff 3mo ago
In general, it should be clear from the article if the subject is notable. Admins don't have to be an expert, they just have to read the article. Notable is not the same as popular.
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by bawolff 3mo ago
Its a good reminder that all wikipedia software is GPL, and the article content is CC-BY-SA. Anyone who thinks they can do better has the right to fork. Most of Wikipedia's rules are there for a reason, and i suspect people who fork wo
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by bawolff 3mo ago
> An anime community would complain that a very influential (but largely unknown and mostly lost) OVA from 1987 should have its own article. A Peruvian community could argue that one of its most celebrated local activists should have his
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by bawolff 3mo ago
Depends on how you define "lying". Misrepresenting what another contributor said? yeah you can be blocked. Disagreeing on what should be in an article? That won't get you blocked. Getting into an edit war about it might. Bein
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by bawolff 3mo ago
Everyone considers rust a c competitor. Its literally replacing c in the linux kernel.
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by bawolff 4mo ago
> edits others don't like, no matter what the veracity is. Wikipedia bans people for their behaviour, not for being right or wrong. So you are correct that veracity is irrelavent.
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by bawolff 4mo ago
> If you are familiar with Odin, one of the most popular "C competitor" languages, this might sound a little bit insane to say out loud Its hard to believe someone actually said this with a straight face. I tend to lean more in
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by bawolff 4mo ago
True but one would hope though that people dealing with national security would follow more than your average employee.
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by bawolff 4mo ago
That is kind of surprising given he is on the comittee investigating pegasus. I'd assume someone on the comittee would be paying much more attention to this than a normal person. I wonder what triggered him to suspect he was hacked the
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by bawolff 4mo ago
One interesting thing here, is they imply that both confidential personal medical information and confidential gov docs might have been compromised via the same phone. Does EU parliment not have a policy of seperating work and personal devi
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by bawolff 4mo ago
Ah yes, it is very plausible you just keep a partition of hundreds of gb of perfectly random data for no reason at all.
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by bawolff 4mo ago
I mean, isn't the threat model here that the attacker has stolen your device? That is about the only thing full disk encryption is good for.
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by bawolff 4mo ago
As a general rule, if you are doing something "educational", fair use gives you very wide leelay, especially in the united states.
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by bawolff 4mo ago
Publishing an excerpt of a book for the purpose of critical commentary is very much fair use.
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by bawolff 4mo ago
I said the age of the youngest person i could find who died of the vaccine was 22 (and hence not a child), not that there was 22 people. > falling to the ground Someone fainting at the sight of a needle (or the injection), is not somethi
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by bawolff 4mo ago
> the risk for healthy young people was minuscule Arguably so was the risk from the vaccine. About 17400 people under 20 died of covid. According to this paper https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8875435/
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by bawolff 4mo ago
> just like in the original trolley problem, the one who pulls the lever becomes responsible for the exchange. That is a conclusion you can have, but you're speaking like its the official correct conclusion, which isn't really
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by bawolff 4mo ago
> Imagine if you had lost a son or daughter due to this And imagine if you lost a son or daughter due to not doing this. You are making a choice either way. If the opposite choice was made there are different consequences. Its not like y
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by bawolff 4mo ago
> What if you believe (correctly) that a corrupt government intends to punish you exorbitantly beyond reason for possession of these zines? Well the belief is incorrect, since to date nobody was punished for possessing them, and there is
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by bawolff 4mo ago
Words can have multiple senses, and in context i agree with the person claiming you are using the word wrong, given the context.
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by bawolff 4mo ago
> We show that users especially gravitate toward fanfiction and erotica Why am i not surprised its primarily porn
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by bawolff 4mo ago
Because fiction is a different genere and historically at least AI was much worse at it. The big differences: - fiction tends to be longer, AI struggles with making a satisfying coherent plot structure after a certain length. - fiction tend
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by bawolff 4mo ago
That is incorrect. Entities apply to attributes. In HTML escaping & is kind of optional and the browser just tries to figure out what you mean, but if you are doing things properly you should use & in href attributes.
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by bawolff 4mo ago
Easily? Documents that could speak to the accused intentions, plans and motivations seem very pertinent to an investigation. They may or may not actually contain evidence, but they certainly seem related enough that police obtaining a searc

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