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by lapinot 8y ago
Yeah, i couldn't help but notice the first piece of code is an ugly "switch case". There's a python idiom for this, it's putting your functions in a dictionary and doing something like `cmds_dict.get(args.command, d
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by lapinot 8y ago
I guess this is called "diplomacy". Eg another word for ensuring control levers on strategical geopolitical targets. It's probably safe to say every G20 country is doing similar things in various parts of the world that is of
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by lapinot 8y ago
I think you misunderstood my point. I wasn't talking about non-dominant scientific opinion (which is probably because it isn't yet really clear, even tho this too is a slippery slope and "scientific consensus" can be e
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by lapinot 8y ago
Sure about my tone, maybe it wasn't the best to convey my analysis, but that's how i have fun during my lunch break, and i prefer high variance comments. Joke aside, sure it was specifically about online toxicity, but it didn&#x27
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by lapinot 8y ago
This is a problem about the propaganda architecture we have all around us, especially online but not only, which favors simplistic, cleaving and aggressive ideas and discourages critical thinking. These "people on both sides" are
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by lapinot 8y ago
You are blindly falling into a trap, just like this whole article. The article is using the so-called "online activists" to dismiss political opinion (not some , really the abstract idea of having social ideals) and once again de
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by lapinot 8y ago
sway comes with xwayland configured, which makes it zero-effort to run X-only software (eg software that doesn't use a wayland-enabled gui library like gtk3, qt5, sdl2...). The only pain will be if you have a hidpi screen, since xwayla
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by lapinot 8y ago
This. They are talking about "dystopia" and "utopia" which more or less mean "good"/"bad" society, it would be astonishing if any amoral (eg substantive) arguments could come out. Their conclusio
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by lapinot 8y ago
Simply something that looks like a widespread/legitimate encrypted stream format. Nowadays this mostly means that your traffic seems to be https (eg tls/tcp). If you want UDP transport maybe an option would be to masquerade some m
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by lapinot 8y ago
Related work; on the deniable side: shadowsocks, a proxy designed to look like https traffic, wireguard may fulfill the same kind of goal (using generic session protocols like the noise framework might help deniability); on the generic p2p
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by lapinot 8y ago
Just to clarify, HTTPS would not be of any use if the sole verification you make is technical (eg like letsencrypt which verifies that you indeed control the endpoint, vs say <commercial CA> that may verify IRL that you are the soci
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by lapinot 8y ago
Apart from this being increasingly false (wayland being the default display server for gnome since more than 2 years now), adoption rate is much more correlated to the importance of the component than with the quality of the tool, just look
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by lapinot 8y ago
I do have a sway crash every week or so, next time it happens i'll try to investigate. Nothing unbearable tho, the upside of running new software is seeing the edges getting softer (and sometimes helping with that process).
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by lapinot 8y ago
Besides the fact that this article is a clickbait, "killing URLs" is a actually something that is happening. I'm surprised nobody put this in relation with the fact that google has a search engine, something much more importa
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by lapinot 8y ago
This would be a solution if the problem was social media. The problem here is the intrusiveness of advertisement. Personally targeted advertisement exists on the non-social web, on the phone, in your mailbox, at your door. Group-targeted[#]
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by lapinot 8y ago
I'm not sure i understand your scenario: germany arguably has a more powerful economy than france, so DM would have a lower exchange rate towards euro than FF towards euro. So imho things in france would actually be cheaper (as seen
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by lapinot 8y ago
Exactly, this is not stated enough. We have to grow up with our relationship with political systems, authoritarianism even dictatorship: it happens because of some population dynamics which we may or may not be currently be participating in
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by lapinot 8y ago
> If one insists that all software must be free then all development needs to occur as free time hobby activity. I don't agree with this[1]. R&D in a competitive environment can probably me modeled by the prisoners dilemma, wher
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by lapinot 8y ago
I can assure you this hack looks casual: you do it in groups of two and it seems to anyone standing 2m away just as if one is leaning on the machine.
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by lapinot 8y ago
Much simpler hardware hacking: slightly bend the control panel and/or the door with a small lever (a coin might be sufficient). On some models, opening the door starts the "admin mode" where you can control each spire, do tes
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by lapinot 8y ago
Thats the sad state of (i guess) automatic pdf text extraction, consequence of research papers being exclusively in pdf, consequence of (la)tex coming from another age. I love and praise tex for what it allows to do, but my opinion is that
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by lapinot 8y ago
Keybase is shitty. They had the ambition to somehow build a new generation of keyservers, they built it using technology that could easily be a distributed protocol and then they made it a completely centralized and commercial bs crypto sta
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The urge for a collaborative, citizen fact-checking platform(medium.com)
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by lapinot 8y ago
This! For printers in particular, i'm struggling to find entry-level things with only physical buttons. Why the heck are (cheap) touchscreens everywhere?
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by lapinot 8y ago
Yeah, not sure. For the first point, actually i don't really care: eg the action i would like to take is simply to ignore the whole thread for myself (and thus in a sensible distributed system where people might make their policy depen
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by lapinot 8y ago
My analysis of abuse in social media: it's an unavoidable side-product of buzz mechanics. Buzz exists in social media because the ad-based company that invented it needed a slot-machine-like mechanism to keep users addicted (has alread
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by lapinot 8y ago
> is an effective way to lock up that carbon for a long time It is not. It may be locked up for a little while (~100 years) but we're talking about ridiculous amounts in comparison of the millions of years that make up for long-term
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by lapinot 8y ago
Yeah of course, like when you kill someone and make a baby the next day it cancels out and everybody is fine. We need to stop with this bs "carbon credit" and other "just plant trees" making dirty petrochemical industrie
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by lapinot 8y ago
The part you are referring has been introduced in 2008 and is very standard. It's a linear actuator (large version), ref: https://www.brickowl.com/catalog/lego-linear-actuator-10-15-... . It is indeed a very intere
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by lapinot 8y ago
Not sure if you are a specialist who is nitpicking or simply not well informed, but lego technic is pretty much well-defined (mostly as "every part present in a set branded as `LEGO Technic`"). See [1] for part lists. The afol com

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