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by ikmckenz 2y ago
Per capita people drink drastically less alcohol than they did in the 80s, and Obesity rates have more than doubled in the period.
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by ikmckenz 2y ago
Also, from the same blog: Shortwave Trading | Part I | The West Chicago Tower Mystery https://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/2018/05/07/shortwave-tr... SHORTWAVE TRADING | PART II | FAQ AND OTHER CHICAGO AREA S
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by ikmckenz 2y ago
Suicide is pretty much the only thing bucking the downward trend. As kids stop having sex, doing drugs, smoking, etc. they are killing themselves.
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by ikmckenz 2y ago
This is a good article, and throughly debunks the proposed tradeoff between fighting corporate vs government surveillance. It seems to me that the people who concentrate primarily on corporate surveillance primarily want government solution
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by ikmckenz 2y ago
The US base on Diego Garcia is an exceptionally nasty bit of history: with the British murdering all the local islanders pet dogs - literally grabbing them from the arms of screaming children and telling them they were next - as part of an
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by ikmckenz 2y ago
The Wikipedia page for the “Seattle freeze” phenomenon mentions it applying to Vancouver[1], also Vancouver has long been known as “No Fun City” because of laws and cultural norms against partying[2]. 1 https://en.m.wikipedia.org
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by ikmckenz 2y ago
Photos of an NSA “upgrade” factory show Cisco router getting implant https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa...
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by ikmckenz 2y ago
Freedom of speech is a general conception of human rights, not any one particular law. Governments can choose to respect (or not!) those rights, but the idea applies to everyone.
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by ikmckenz 2y ago
Yeah, nah, all that is better than drinking water with lead in it from uranium glass.
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by ikmckenz 2y ago
What year was this? Signal has been blocked by the GFW for several years now. Here’s an article from 2021: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/encrypted-messaging-a...
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by ikmckenz 2y ago
I was under the impression that “ozempic face” was just an inaccurate shorthand for the buccal fat removal surgery that seems to be all the rage currently among the starlets
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by ikmckenz 2y ago
No, they didn’t. After corporate restructuring, parent company Alphabet uses a different cute slogan, while Google retains “don’t be evil” in their code of conduct.
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by ikmckenz 2y ago
Is the Technology Quarterly available as a physical magazine I could buy anywhere? It’s not obvious what the best way to buy individual issues is.
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by ikmckenz 2y ago
Ah yes, the civilized legal system where everyone is breaking the law all the time, so the law gets selectively enforced and used as a weapon on people the police don’t like. But the police are never ever assholes so there’s no problems?
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by ikmckenz 2y ago
From the CFTC: > Bitcoin is considered a commodity and is the underlying asset in bitcoin futures contracts… Bitcoin futures contracts — like other commodity futures contracts such as corn futures, market index futures, or gold futures —
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by ikmckenz 3y ago
Have you updated your packages with ‘pkg_add -u’?
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by ikmckenz 3y ago
Seems the backdoor relied on Debian and others patching their copies of openssh to support systemd notifications, and this would obviously not be the case on OpenBSD. To be sure the current ports version of xz is 5.4.5: https://c
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by ikmckenz 3y ago
> The above author seems to be primary contact for xz? They made themselves the primary contact for xz for Google oss-fuzz about one year ago: https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/commit/6403e93344476972e9...
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by ikmckenz 3y ago
Perhaps we’d have better written laws
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by ikmckenz 3y ago
So Erik Prince has an “encrypted phone” company with a proprietary messaging app, VPN, etc. First thought: “How could anyone possibly believe that this isn’t another FBI/Anom situation?” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by ikmckenz 3y ago
> Copyleaks is an AI-based text analysis company that began selling plagiarism-detection tools to businesses and schools long before ChatGPT's arrival. This is an advertorial from yet another garbage company that just says all text
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by ikmckenz 3y ago
As someone who worked for a trading firm that did some* crypto stuff, you absolutely could sell 2B Euros worth of BTC, in a matter of weeks (contingent on market conditions), without significantly impacting the price. *Some being trading vo
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by ikmckenz 3y ago
No, rivalrous has a specific meaning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivalry_(economics)
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by ikmckenz 3y ago
An ETF is a type of ETP
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by ikmckenz 3y ago
Pros: Secure-by-default, easy to understand your whole system, pledge and unveil are developer-friendly hardening mechanisms, all the answers to your questions are in the (very good) documentation Cons: all the answers to your questions are
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by ikmckenz 3y ago
Do you mean something like MirageOS? https://mirage.io/
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by ikmckenz 3y ago
Vanta Black isn’t a paint, it’s an achievement of materials science. It very much does look like a black hole in space in the real world. These “blackest black” paints are just clout chasing by some guy attempting to profit from the situati
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by ikmckenz 3y ago
What an incredible amount of private information to publicly spill on the internet. Some “friend”.
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by ikmckenz 3y ago
Because they still sell like hotcakes even with the crazy price tag.
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by ikmckenz 3y ago
Specifics are not public yet AFAIK, from their website: > More info about Veilid will be available- including technical deep-dives and source code- after the launch in August.

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