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by firefax 4mo ago
One thing I learned as a globe trotting cypherpunk: always respect sky law.
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by firefax 4mo ago
I consider myself a lifelong student... I'm finding it's accelerating the disconnect between those who actually study things until they understand and those who learn how to please metrics and have total disregard for an objective
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Human Flesh Search Engine(en.wikipedia.org)
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by firefax 4mo ago
Normally I wouldn't ask this, but having seen the effects of Alzheimer's I must ask: is there any evidence that taking creatine will harm my brain? Let's be real: I take a lot of edibles. I smoke sometimes on a hike. Every
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by firefax 4mo ago
ah, makes sense, thank you.
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by firefax 4mo ago
why is it named this? i'm guessing "fart" means something different in your language :-)
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by firefax 4mo ago
>They just end up rewarded after doing shady tricks more often. Whereas in any other country being too devious too often is fatal. The market is adjusting apparently given the Mangione case and the Kimberly-Clark distribution center fire
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by firefax 4mo ago
>Please don't use an obituary to make a nationalistic swipe on HN. I'm American. Please don't tone police me, especially if you're going to call me something I'm most certainly not, especially since eighteen othe
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by firefax 4mo ago
>This is a bit out of date. I haven't been there in over a decade, so I believe you.
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by firefax 4mo ago
I find it weird that the same set that gatekept me from CS in the twenty aughts because I wasn't a hardcore C coder and quant now can't even write so much as a bash script while feeling entitled to pontificate. My code is shit but
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by firefax 4mo ago
Rejecting the NSA pre-Snowden to design privacy enhancing technologies. Actually, in a fiscal sense this hasn't worked out well... but at least I can sleep at night.
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by firefax 4mo ago
>Maybe they're a foreign intelligence cutout masquerading as a burned researcher. Whoever silently downvoted this, I'd love to hear why you so strongly disagree with my assessment.
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by firefax 4mo ago
That now that they've joined NATO, it's safe to share with them. A "neutral" country might abuse them.
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by firefax 5mo ago
Also, as a practical matter, maybe do as someone says if they have this many zero days sitting around? While they may have violated various TOS, it's my understanding that dropping a zero day like one would drop the mic at the end of a
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by firefax 5mo ago
>Why would Nightmare-Eclipse not report them if they are not ? Maybe they're a foreign intelligence cutout masquerading as a burned researcher.
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by firefax 5mo ago
Were you somehow able to intuit that parent is Finnish? I'm intrigued by your post -- I used to tell people send things like this to CERT/CC... but it's been so long since I dabbled in that world that my contacts have departe
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by firefax 5mo ago
I ate a lot 7/11 onigiri as a poor grad student exploring Tokyo on a long layover once... they're truly wonderful little stores. (They also are one of the few places you can use an ATM, very useful given how cash based Japan is) H
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by firefax 6mo ago
But to "chill dissent", you must be capable of tracking it down before it hangs you from a gas station. I don't think you're fully grasping how sudden and forceful change could come if just small number of folks decided
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by firefax 6mo ago
I had a friend point out their patient portal didn't even use HTTPS pre-Amazon buyout. They apparently got super hostile and tried to stop refilling his prescriptions unless he saw a specialist to be evaluated for paranoid schitzophren
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by firefax 6mo ago
If laws are ambiguous, governments run the risk folks will conclude they'll get in trouble no matter how diligently they try to suss out the spirit of said laws. When combined with a comical inability to secure government systems, it&#
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by firefax 6mo ago
>There’s been a decent amount of studies to suggest it can actually Then cite them
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by firefax 6mo ago
>Interesting that you named your HN account after a famous homophobe. that guy is no longer with the project and does brave now iirc (it's super interesting to us that two different people took such a wild leap btw)
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by firefax 6mo ago
The issue is not the age you come online, it's what happens when you do. Delaying from 13 (COPPA) to 16 won't change a thing. When I was a kid, I was obsessed with Home Alone -- I thought if I had one of those talkboys, I could ge
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by firefax 6mo ago
Foucault was, but if we misunderstand on purpose, the sky is the limit.
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by firefax 6mo ago
pets is a good conference. i also like anonbib as a central repo for interesting work. https://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/topic.html
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by firefax 6mo ago
I'd lump Mozilla into the bucket since it's a nonprofit and open source, it's hard to come up with an objective list of what makes an org "good" so sometimes it's been useful to fall back on the fact that at le
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by firefax 6mo ago
It used to be called Panoptoclik (sp?), a reference to Foucault's theory of the panopticon. Focault's extracurriculars are well documented and not everything is an "incident" -- it's a thread on fingerprinting. Peop
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by firefax 6mo ago
we did it fellas -- linux on the desktop
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by firefax 6mo ago
i always feel like telling an LLM "make no mistakes" gives me the literary voice of hans gruber with his pistol pointed at that banker. (unfortunately, just like in the film it does not seem to have the intended effect)
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by firefax 6mo ago
The OP's link is timing out over Tor for me, but the Wayback[1] version loaded without issue. Also, does anyone know of any researchers in the academic world focusing on this issue? We are aware that EFF has a project that used to be n

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