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by livueta 7y ago
It's not fully decentralized and more focused on reducing bandwidth load on the actual site than anonymity or resilience, but the sadpanda's H@H system is one example of such a thing: https://ehwiki.org/wiki/H
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by livueta 7y ago
Yeah, go for a walk down the Arakawa or Sumida embankments (not right now, I guess, given that was all recently underwater) and you'll find some semi-permanent camps in a good state of repair. Talked to some of the guys by one and appa
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Brian Krebs-themed carding site “BriansClub” hacked(krebsonsecurity.com)
6 points by livueta 7y ago|0 comments
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by livueta 7y ago
Yeah, no kidding. I did a fair amount of sysadmin and webdev stuff for my guilds, but in retrospect the interpersonal stuff was probably more valuable. Turns out that cajoling a geodistributed collection of high-strung egoists into cooperat
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by livueta 7y ago
An interesting counterexample is the many private trackers that do just fine off of crypto donations. Without naming names I'm personally aware (as in, I can go look at the donation status pages) of at least four that rake in $500+&#x2
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Sacklers Reject Demand To Surrender Personal Wealth To Settle Opioid Claims(npr.org)
4 points by livueta 7y ago|1 comments
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by livueta 7y ago
I assume a bigger justification for not running an append-only keyserver was this dumpster fire[1] in which the append-only nature of the SKS keyserver ecosystem was abused as a DOS vector. --- [1] https://news.ycombinator.com&#x
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by livueta 7y ago
> The basic trick of dealing with the kernel is becoming comfortable working in a large codebase most of which you don't understand, and figuring out how to find what you need. Honestly, git grep is one of the best tools here. That&
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by livueta 7y ago
Yeah. I used to commute by bike in Seattle but stopped after hamburgerizing my face trying to dodge a car coming out of a garage on the hill between 2nd and 3rd. I have plenty of coworkers with similar stories of accidents or near-misses th
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by livueta 7y ago
Some anecdata: I spend a decent amount of time in a small (~3k) town in the American west that's the largest place for about two hours in any direction. It has one grocery store. Prices and selection in this (non-chain) store are genui
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by livueta 7y ago
Argh, I got bit by a similar issue a while ago when I was expanding a zpool. The pool was originally created using 512b drives. After in-place subbing each lower capacity old drive for a new, bigger (and also 4k) drive and resilvering, I re
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by livueta 7y ago
I guess I understand why they didn't mention it in an article about a specific exhibit, but my absolute favorite example of this sort of thing is a, ah, highly imaginative rendition of the American Revolutionary War, complete with Ge
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by livueta 7y ago
If you ever end up in the backcountry, you might want to consider a used Iridium phone. They can be found in good condition for significantly less than a flagship smartphone and check all the boxes for emergency, phone-only devices: small,
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by livueta 7y ago
Good filtering has traditionally been one of the killer features of userscripts for enhancing imageboard experiences. Things like filtering by image hash, regular expressions and recursive filtering (also filter content that engages with fi
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by livueta 7y ago
> At this stage everyone who doesn't accept the seriousness of climate collapse is either a liar (self-interested billionaires who want to make a shitload of money from it) or is clinging to denialism as part of a neurotic identity
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by livueta 7y ago
If we're talking anime, I'd also nominate Dennou Coil - near-future, quite plausible examination of pervasive AR tech. Instead of the usual "prop for generic authoritarian hellscape" dynamic, you get a fairly balanced
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by livueta 7y ago
> it's incorrect to say that platforms' refusal to host certain content is circumventing freedom of speech. I think there's an argument to be made that this stance is incompatible with Marsh v. Alabama given the reach and
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by livueta 7y ago
> At least in the US, this is not possible without a change in the 1st Amendment. Hate speech is protected by the 1st Amendment. Right, which is why I'm personally mostly worried about service providers being wink-wink nudge-nudge d
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by livueta 7y ago
> That's essentially every news source that isn't purely propaganda with billionaires footing the bill for its dissemination. I guess if you're feeling optimistic an argument could be made that the public broadcasting se
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by livueta 7y ago
Does Wikipedia count as a big content website? n=1 and all that, but I think it's a decent example of how things that are actually useful do just fine[1] without ads. This might sound harsh, but if people are unwilling to pay for somet
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by livueta 7y ago
I'm pretty sure David Brin touches on it somewhere, but not to the extent of being the basis of an entire novel. Can't recall exactly where, sadly. At minimum, Revelation Space features it as a major plot-point and was published
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by livueta 7y ago
Another interesting treatment of "immortality" in fiction is the Chasm City/Glitter Band/Yellowstone society from Alastair Reynolds' novels. Rather than achieving true immortality through some one-off miracle pill a
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by livueta 7y ago
Moreso, given that it's a direct response to a previously-published op-ed arguing the opposite side: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/opinion/sunday/chris-hugh... I agree that this response i
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by livueta 7y ago
I'm not sure the GP is overstating things. For technical folks with technical reasons to be using Firefox: yeah, a mass exodus is unlikely purely because there aren't any good alternatives. What are you going to jump to? Chrome, a
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by livueta 7y ago
Yep. +1 frequency. It's not like I was running an old version of FF with XUL extensions or anything like that, either - latest version, addons properly signed, all added from Mozilla site. On top of that, attempts to re-add extensions
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by livueta 8y ago
Oh, sure, I didn't mean to critique this article in particular. I thought it was actually somewhat interesting and went off on some fun mental tangents around how the form of the creative medium can influence the message, the obvious e
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by livueta 8y ago
Social issues definitely seem like part of it now, but Kotaku was disliked in hardcore communities well before Gamergate or any of that other nonsense. My recollections of late-2000s Kotaku are similar to how I feel today about a lot of tec
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by livueta 8y ago
I'm still an XScreenSaver fan, mostly because I like having something visually interesting on my monitors when I lock my workstation to go afk at work. Many of the engineers I work with do the same. Makes me glad they're not dead
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by livueta 8y ago
It's a little disingenuous to not mention that they subsequently published a retraction and an apology: https://www.economist.com/open-future/2019/03/28/inside-the-... > Editor’s note (March 28th
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by livueta 8y ago
I think an interesting lens to view this issue through is that of Marsh vs Alabama : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama Money quote: > The State attempted to analogize the town's rights to the righ

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