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Who Goes Nazi? By Dorothy Thompson (Harper’s, 1941)(web.archive.org)
3 points by greggarious 4y ago|4 comments
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by greggarious 4y ago
Have you traveled? It’s a bit of a clichè but backpacking Europe left me feeling a lot more confident. Deutsche Bahn has a great English language user interface and Hostelworld is great for avoiding having your Eurotrip going all Eli Roth.
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by greggarious 4y ago
I grew up watching that show, and can’t ever enjoy it like I used to. The 90s weren’t as great as they make them out on Portlandia. A lot of lower middle class kids turned to cable tv for escape when they felt like they had no allies. Thi
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by greggarious 4y ago
Maybe chatGPT should do an MFA in poetry next, it sounds like it’d do well on the GRE ;-)
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by greggarious 4y ago
No, I cannot picture someone from ACN failing to make a mistake. Malicious changes to the IT systems were done outside the FAA by messing directly with the elections of officials who run federal agencies like the FAA. Americans always look
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by greggarious 4y ago
Let’s put to bed the supposed dichotomy between the arts and sciences. All the skilled artists and/or writers I’ve met chose that path, rather than slid into it because they couldn’t grok a truth table.
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by greggarious 4y ago
>Circa-1994 Yahoo had as many entries for “Art > Erotica” as “Art > Architecture,” suggesting that the WWW was going to be a horny place more than a spatial one (yup). “Society” and “Culture” broke down into “People,” “Religion,” a
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Russian Apartment Bombings(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by greggarious 4y ago|0 comments
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by greggarious 4y ago
Neither infra nor algo are “acronyms”. Webster’s defines an acronym as “a word (such as NATO, radar, or laser ) formed from the initial letter or letters of each of the successive parts or major parts of a compound term”. It’s a huge pet p
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by greggarious 4y ago
You could try following what the robots dot txt says
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Operation Northwoods(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by greggarious 4y ago|0 comments
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by greggarious 4y ago
>Agencies like the FAA are notoriously risk adverse. Basically the motivations of most employees seems like, "if I mess up once, I get fired Weird, my impression was federal employment is the opposite: mess up as much as you want an
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by greggarious 4y ago
If they’re so risk averse, why are their systems failing so severely? It’s absolutely a corruption issue, in that the government prefers to pay 2-3x what they would to solve things internally to contractors who then perform a poor job and l
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by greggarious 4y ago
Actually a human put the drugs into the backpack then put the backpack on the bird.
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by greggarious 4y ago
Back before COVID someone griped to me the owners of a shop in Pittsburgh don’t like when folks sit there and “work” all day. I heard the same gripe when wifi first became ubiquitous back a decadeish ago when I embarked for Palo Alto intend
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Paul Le Roux(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by greggarious 4y ago|0 comments
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by greggarious 4y ago
Thanks for writing this up OP -- I appreciate you giving me this data. I'm interested in how the pivot to Mastadon will change things in the social networking space. I still remember griping years back during a bug report Facebook was
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by greggarious 4y ago
Full disclosure: I'm a security and privacy researcher who also holds an OSINT certificate[0], not librarian -- but I did do my bachelor's in information science before pivoting to the privacy research, so I know a little bi
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by greggarious 4y ago
Because many car dealerships in the United States of America do sell small things like tshirts, jackets, plushies etc. (There was a whole Seinfeld episode about someone who buys Porche memorabilia to pretend they have a fancy car and meet
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Drawing the Line: The Disturbing Secret Behind an Iconic Cartoon (2018)(buzzfeednews.com)
2 points by greggarious 4y ago|0 comments
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by greggarious 4y ago
The "cascading failure" GIF[1] from Wikipedia's entry of the same name[2]. (I'd love to see similar style animations of various crypto algorithms like MD5, AES, etc if anyone has the cycles.) [1] https://uploa
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by greggarious 4y ago
OP did you spill water on your keyboard? (Or turn the canned air upside down?)
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by greggarious 4y ago
>According to Chinese blogger 不是郑小康, the angry customers got inside the shop, vandalized it, damaged the electric Cyberquad ATV, and ‘stole various gifts and snacks’. Wait... the Tesla store sells snacks in China? In America car dealers
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by greggarious 4y ago
If you're going to flag something, do it silently, and do it yourself. (IMHO)
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by greggarious 4y ago
Add a seasonal reference and it could be a haiku? Nobody's looking for a sock puppeteer in today's wintry economic climate, My mask is off comrade[ 1 ] -- so please don't misunderstand on purpose :-) == [ 1 ] comrade (plura
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by greggarious 4y ago
They don't support TOTP, but they'll run you through a Google owned CAPTCHA. (I've noticed most people use the Google Authenticator, which I hope doesn't ping the mothership, but I haven't verified that's not t
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by greggarious 4y ago
I currently avoid VPNs, since it is my understanding using them can collapse all your Tor Browser circuits, ruining the utility of the tool. https://web.archive.org/web/20211120193211/https://matt.trau...
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by greggarious 4y ago
Hi Folks! I was not prompted to do a CAPTCHA logging in on the clearnet, but this may be my last batch of posts I do if that ever changes... for I will never consent to asking GOOG if I can post here. Let us set aside the myriad of issues w
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Peak Advertising (2013) [pdf](web.archive.org)
1 points by greggarious 4y ago|0 comments
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Heteronym(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by greggarious 4y ago|2 comments

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