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by danso 5y ago
Love this writeup, though I have to admit I'm slightly disappointed. From the headline I had expected to read how the author rigged his home security system to keep the doors locked. And to only unlock after his phone/fitbit logs
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‘America’s Army’, The Pentagon’s Video Game, Shuts Down After 20 Years(vice.com)
4 points by danso 5y ago|0 comments
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by danso 5y ago
The statement of facts is linked to from the press release, and describes generally how the Feds were able to trace the stolen funds (they found a file listing private keys, after gaining access to the suspect's cloud storage) https:&
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Two arrested for alleged conspiracy to launder $4.5B in stolen cryptocurrency(justice.gov)
266 points by danso 5y ago|4 comments
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by danso 5y ago
I know d3 and ggplot2, but Datawrapper is my goto when I want Excel-like convenience for bespoke, detailed viz. It’s completely free for individual use, and I’m happy to see that the charts and maps I made while teaching students about inte
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by danso 5y ago
Non-paywall: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/03/us/ghost-army-world-war-2...
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Ghost Army, a World War II Master of Deception, Finally Wins Recognition(nytimes.com)
1 points by danso 5y ago|1 comments
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by danso 5y ago
We live in a political and bureaucratic reality in which: 1. Immigration of any kind is highly scrutinized 2. Law enforcement suspicion can be aroused by something as trifling and absurd the fact that "Subversion" [0] sounds like
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by danso 5y ago
You paid all that money for legal services and no one told or implied to you that writing this specifically clickbait headline has significant potential downside?
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by danso 5y ago
As a software project, Star Citizen seems like a complete debacle — a project promising the basically impossible (tens of thousands of players on a single server/shard) and yet failing so far to deliver even the feasible-but-difficult
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Star Citizen will limit its roadmap, as players are getting upset over delays(eurogamer.net)
165 points by danso 5y ago|218 comments
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Despite decades of hacking attacks, companies leave sensitive data unprotected(propublica.org)
137 points by danso 5y ago|43 comments
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Peter Robbins, who voiced Charlie Brown in the 1960s, has died(npr.org)
1 points by danso 5y ago|0 comments
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by danso 5y ago
One of the criticisms against web3 and crypto is that it’s ultimately a high tech pyramid scheme, solving few problems that it didn’t create on it’s own. If that’s the case, then we should want and expect to see rising criticism and pushbac
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iBeer, the Underdog Beer App That Made Millions(melmagazine.com)
3 points by danso 5y ago|0 comments
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by danso 5y ago
Note: *.gov domains can be found at another U.S. federal repo maintained by Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA): https://github.com/cisagov/dotgov-data There doesn't appear to be an official g
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GSA/govt-URLs: Public U.S. government managed domains outside of .gov and .mil(github.com)
3 points by danso 5y ago|1 comments
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by danso 5y ago
According to the real time analytics [0], as of 1PM (central time), there are more visitors to COVIDtests.gov (754,000) than to all other federal government websites combined (1.33 million) [0] https://analytics.usa.gov
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by danso 5y ago
Not sure if USDS (U.S. Digital Services) team worked specifically on the covidtests.gov rollout, but USDS was largely borne out of the dev effort that rescued Healthcare.gov: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archi
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by danso 5y ago
I was definitely worried for the US Digital Services team when I heard President Biden promise a website that would within a few weeks handle test orders for millions of households. But using USPS infrastructure was definitely the obvious a
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by danso 5y ago
I think it’d be problematic for a buyer to take public actions in devaluing its target amid takeover talks. Not just for Activision — but it’d be impossible to see Microsoft’s denunciations as principled rather than profit-motivated
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Aftermath of Success: Stardew Valley, Darkest Dungeon, and Valheim(gameinformer.com)
2 points by danso 5y ago|0 comments
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FAA to change how some planes land in effort to cut emissions(abcnews.go.com)
1 points by danso 5y ago|2 comments
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David Simon Made Baltimore Detectives Famous. Now Their Cases Are Falling Apart(nymag.com)
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U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient(apnews.com)
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New York Times to Buy The Athletic for $550M(theinformation.com)
17 points by danso 5y ago|17 comments
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Classroom assignment on phishing resulted in students sending fabricated emails(twitter.com)
3 points by danso 5y ago|0 comments
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Longform is shutting down(longform.org)
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Yesterday the FBI signed its first public contract with Clearview AI(twitter.com)
241 points by danso 5y ago|138 comments
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by danso 5y ago
A story interesting because of what it reveals about the FDA and the medical bureaucracy. But there's also a small Silicon Valley-specific tie: > Within a few weeks, Bosch and her colleagues had a test that would detect coronavirus

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