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“On Fairy Stories” by JRR Tolkien [pdf](coolcalvary.files.wordpress.com)
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by chillycurve 3y ago
Dedicate a full day to the following: 1. Buy a domain that looks like a knock-off email provider (to avoid some scrutiny later). Something like emailco.biz, etc. 2. Setup simplelogin for that domain. 3. Go through all your existing accounts
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by chillycurve 3y ago
The local feed on Fosstodon has been a breath of fresh air in a world of algorithms and clickbait competing for my attention. Feels like a community from a bygone era (in a good way.)
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Hugo: The world’s fastest framework for building websites(github.com)
2 points by chillycurve 3y ago|1 comments
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by chillycurve 3y ago
A rocket failure on launch would not be the best PR!
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UCF Professor Richard Quinn accuses class of cheating (2010) [video](youtube.com)
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Why Don't We Shoot Nuclear Waste into Space? – Kurzgesagt [video](youtube.com)
2 points by chillycurve 3y ago|2 comments
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by chillycurve 3y ago
If you can't trust the other party, you have already lost.
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by chillycurve 3y ago
The small political portion of this post is almost irrelevant to the message.
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Switzerland Wants Children to Eat Less Chocolate, More Insects(wsj.com)
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Twitter backtracks, lets emergency and traffic alert accounts keep API access(theverge.com)
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International police just made a huge dark web bust(theverge.com)
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How to ask OpenAI for your personal data to be deleted or not used for training(techcrunch.com)
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Mastodon now has a simpler sign up process(techcrunch.com)
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity(anonymousplanet.org)
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by chillycurve 3y ago
You may not be denied entry BUT: - You can be substantially annoyed. - You can be significantly delayed. - Your possessions can be searched and potentially seized. https://www.eff.org/wp/digital-privacy-us-border-2017#w
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by chillycurve 3y ago
Depending on your threat model, if the hardware is sufficiently compromised, no amount of software gymnastics will keep you safe.
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by chillycurve 3y ago
For a better and more up-to-date list of alternatives, see https://www.privacyguides.org/en/
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Digital Security Tips to Prevent the Cops from Ruining Your Trip Abroad(theintercept.com)
65 points by chillycurve 3y ago|36 comments
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by chillycurve 3y ago
Excellent points. > It even hurts a pivotal scene in JW4 where a mid-boss dies by falling two stories directly onto his head - when I saw it in theaters, I could unfortunately sense the audience expecting the mid-boss to get back up like
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by chillycurve 3y ago
They do. John has to get creative to get those guys.
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by chillycurve 3y ago
Love that video! Linked to it in the footnotes because it partially inspired the post.
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by chillycurve 3y ago
They do eventually send helmeted foes that have to be creatively dispatched at the end of three and throughout 4.
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by chillycurve 3y ago
In the 2nd movie (and perhaps other places), he gets shot repeatedly with rifles. Even if the shots don't penetrate, the repeated impact alone would break ribs and leave him incapacitated.
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by chillycurve 3y ago
Of course, I didn't like this move either. The magic is that John is human, and they sully that notion by making him survive a 5-story fall.
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by chillycurve 3y ago
I think there is a difference between "realism" and "believability". Even the hardest fantasy and sci-fi needs to be believable, even if it is completely unrealistic. And by that I mean, it needs to follow a predictable
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“On Fairy Stories” by JRR Tolkien [pdf](coolcalvary.files.wordpress.com)
2 points by chillycurve 5y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Are there any up-and-coming web browsers that excite you?
3 points by chillycurve 5y ago|1 comments
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by chillycurve 5y ago
Database reads/writes are really hard (read: impossible) to predict unless you are already in production. Leading to thoughts like: "1 Billion reads!! I'll never use that much..." Once you cross the line, the overages ki
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by chillycurve 5y ago
This was very helpful, thanks. There are so many open source licenses these days. Concise explanations save a lot of headache.

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