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The Kidnapping of the Lunik (1967)(cia.gov)
74 points by dexen 6y ago|35 comments
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by dexen 6y ago
You joke but there's a historical precedent - the story of Lunik[1], soviet spacecraft that was intercepted, examined, dismantled (!) and then put back together and moved forward, by CIA operatives. [1] https://www.cia.gov&#
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POOM – 8-Bit Doom Demake with Classic Tunes, Monsters and Guns(youtube.com)
1 points by dexen 6y ago|0 comments
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World's first DevOps accelerator card(twitter.com)
2 points by dexen 6y ago|0 comments
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by dexen 6y ago
"Do Things that Don't Scale"[1] - Paul Graham, July 2013 -- [1] http://paulgraham.com/ds.html
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by dexen 6y ago
I hear your security concerns. In case of Discord, there are three key causes for preferring the desktop version - and I don't see any easy workaround to them without adding explicit support to web standards: 1) custom audio codecs &am
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by dexen 6y ago
>people who wish to do civil society harm >a vanishingly small fraction >never socially potty-trained A facade of politeness & shaming, a reality of censorious rules. The encroach was slow, almost imperceptible, but here
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by dexen 6y ago
>And be ruined by shitty actors destroying the signal-to-noise ratio Moderation on the client side is a thing. It already is practiced on networks like Twitter and Mastodon. It was the historical model on Usenet too. At this point you&
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by dexen 6y ago
>w.r.t. your #4: Usenet also had epic flamewars as users failed to self-moderate and groups which suffered particularly from this were very hostile to new users. No different from the present day centrally moderated platforms - wheth
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by dexen 6y ago
>HackerNews could not exist in your proposed world Provably, definitively wrong. 1. HN relies on the "platform" choice to avoid responsibility for 3rd party posts. HN also relies on operators like dang moderating at the serve
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by dexen 6y ago
My pick - Daily Mail: a newspaper headquartered in London, UK - a 3rd party country, independent from the ongoing US election. Over 120 years long history of investigative journalism. Your pick - The Daily Beast: a 12 years old opinion we
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by dexen 6y ago
>Free market: censors things Literally the opposite of the case. Due to the power of Section 230, the online platforms are shielded from the normal liability, which gives them an inherent advantage. Section 230 distorts the market, mak
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by dexen 6y ago
I hear your objection. Here is a fair and balanced coverage of the document's provenance by a 3rd party, uninvolved, newspaper: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8841255/Man-Hunter-...
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by dexen 6y ago
Those weren't hacked or leaked. The story is much simpler, and the provenance of the files is not in question: By falsely claiming the records were hacked, rather than the legal property of the repair shop following payment default by
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by dexen 6y ago
My both attempts at PRNGs resulted in rather short cycles -- ones that were easily compressed several-times-fold by GZIP and similar algorithms. Thus I consider them to have been trivially reducible . Yes, a well designed PRNG algorithm an
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by dexen 6y ago
As somebody who gave two honest attempt at building a PRNG... no, not quite . Building complexity -- especially one that isn't trivally reducible -- is quite hard.
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by dexen 6y ago
It gets worse: https://archive.is/mlK3D Dean Baquet, the executive editor: >That criticism I firmly reject. The project fell fully within our standards as a news organization. In fact, 1619 - and especially the work of
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by dexen 6y ago
The NYT has undergone a rapid replacement of its staff as of recent. Expect to see 30 year-olds in the "senior" roles.
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by dexen 6y ago
For reference, the Guild's tweet [1] (since deleted): "It says a lot about an organization when it breaks it's own rules and goes after one of it's own. The act, like the article, reeks." The tweet was condemning an
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by dexen 6y ago
>futuristic Presumably through Vortex'[0] similarity to the Symbolics PN 365407[1][2] keyboard, with its very distinctive design that manages to capture at once both futurism and timelessness. Disregard the 2020's clunky cher
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by dexen 6y ago
It saddens me to see your correct answer being voted down. I get there's a moral condemnation of surge prices in certain circles. Nonetheless this condemnation, once legislated, have removed the very practical ability to purchase impor
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by dexen 6y ago
>And you are talking about "old" institutions ; new unions, for "new" kind of companies would not look the same. European here, let's talk personal experience. The americans have a very unhealthy situation wrt
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Reddit removes Aaron Swartz from founders list(youtube.com)
43 points by dexen 6y ago|13 comments
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by dexen 6y ago
I hear your points, and I too yearn for the "good old" internet of yore. The days when the 'weird side of the internet' was the main side. However, two observations: 1. removing the commercial interests doesn't sto
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by dexen 6y ago
jwz is right about Mozilla. Unsurprisingly, as he's actively keeping up to date with discussions, and doesn't shy away from expressing an unpopular opinion. Also, here's a link that hopefully handles the infamous 'egg&
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by dexen 6y ago
>aircraft spend a much larger proportion of their journeys operating at high power levels. Luckily the high power level is maintained at reliably high speed [0], ensuring airflow for cooling. Even better, aircraft by its very long-rang
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by dexen 6y ago
>Our first change, a collapsible sidebar, allows users to collapse the lengthy menu found on the left side of each page Through hiding, feature discoverability is hampered. >Our second change introduces a maximum line width I resi
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by dexen 6y ago
Nobody has ever needed to rollback. This is at the same the truest and the wrongest sentiment. True, because experience teaches that db rollbacks are exceedingly rare for production. The cost of maintaining them is larger than the costs
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Taser: History and Demonstration(youtube.com)
1 points by dexen 6y ago|0 comments
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by dexen 6y ago
I hear your objections, and I should have worded my idea better. The gist was, a bare messaging+microblogging platform is, by its own nature, morally neutral[1]. Of course if the operator starts doing editorial decisions - like algorithmi

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