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by firefax 1mo ago
this is why dropboxes at local election offices are of vital importance (and possibly, a militia, if things get bad enough.)
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Iran Is Using Foreign Criminals to Attack Its Critics Overseas(newyorker.com)
29 points by firefax 1mo ago|41 comments
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by firefax 1mo ago
live stream working over tor.
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by firefax 1mo ago
>going on for 1+ hour i thought twitter was the one that had to invent some kind of folksy "shit, the website went down" image?
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by firefax 1mo ago
ew paywall
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Assassination of Boris Nemtsov(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by firefax 1mo ago|1 comments
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by firefax 1mo ago
Thanks!
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by firefax 1mo ago
Any other faves?
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by firefax 1mo ago
I'm hoping that any aliens that may or may not exist respect my contextual integrity and don't dox my Twitter. But to be more serious: it is absolutely embarrassing we've gone from a world where a Russian and an American sit
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by firefax 1mo ago
We're presuming no merry pranksters. Isn't it possible, theoretically, to direct something at one not the other for precisely that reason, to make it SEEM far away?
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by firefax 1mo ago
Back when I was on Facebook it was often incorporated into people's art -- this was around the time Joy Division released a greatest hits album. I suspect many people went on a Wikipedia wander and came to the same inspiration after li
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by firefax 1mo ago
I am not clicking that link. What I will do is give you a genuine reply: I listened to a few tracks from their latest album, but when I posted this I had forgotten they had that album out. I'd actually completely forgotten I made this
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The Wow signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected on August 15, 1977(en.wikipedia.org)
93 points by firefax 1mo ago|28 comments
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by firefax 1mo ago
>On desktop there's always "Translate page" in the hamburger menu. Thanks, maybe I didn't look hard enough last time.
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by firefax 1mo ago
2600 magazine baby. (With cash, as always.)
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by firefax 1mo ago
Well, given that modern consoles are connected to the internet, a zero day embedded in the code could be a bad thing. Also I was more drawing attention to the meta level idea anyone who can put in an easter egg can put in a zero day. (Also,
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by firefax 1mo ago
No, I think the beauty of it is the ambiguity, but I think there's a culture here that is distinct and different from the creative nonfiction community, so I'll try to be more mindful of whether the site is blue or orange.
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by firefax 1mo ago
And why is it never like, a lovable German weirdo? Why is it always tankies?
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by firefax 1mo ago
I've been enjoying the Firefox translate, but for some reason sometimes it doesn't show the option to engage it, and I have to fall back to running things through duck.ai Too shy to file a formal bug or let the cloud know what I&#
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by firefax 1mo ago
It's easy to throw stones, but who among us hasn't lost a key missile scientist at some point or another?
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by firefax 1mo ago
Nononono no more of this shit I remember walking into some shitty congresscritter's office with a fucking years old one pager, with a few more citations written on the bottom in pen because I wasn't going to bother making it prett
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by firefax 1mo ago
i thought we were trying to do the sequel to slashdot, but much like other web forums i've been a part of i don't really read the front page
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by firefax 1mo ago
Now imagine it's not an easter egg, it's zero day.
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by firefax 1mo ago
I'm writing a poem, in German.
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Best AI solution to hunt for buffer overflows in open source apps?
1 points by firefax 1mo ago|0 comments
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How did a Usenet troll and encryption genius become a criminal mastermind?(magazine.atavist.com)
2 points by firefax 1mo ago|0 comments
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by firefax 1mo ago
>since Google basically owns them Google has been trying to kill them since they moved the Chrome team into the same building as the now defunct SF office. (Apparently they offered people a lot of money? There are some words I could use
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by firefax 1mo ago
You can have my ad blocker when you take it from my cold dead fingers. I will literally move to a shack in the woods rather than go back to late 90s level of bullshit advertising.
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by firefax 1mo ago
Thanks for adding this. I wonder if these deaths are linked to... I'm struggling for a word here. Extortion doesn't really capture it. I've heard discussion of "hurtcore" sites[1] in public venues. The reporting in
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by firefax 1mo ago
Only two points? I know we're not supposed to beg for karma, but if you know me that joke works on SO MANY levels.

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