manonthewall

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by manonthewall 3y ago
Most of the niche stuff I see on there is from psychos, conspiracists, and obvious propaganda bots. I do use it to follow more mainstream stuff, hobby stuff, coders, but it's fun to click on the firehouse feed Musk thinks I want to see
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by manonthewall 3y ago
I love stack overflow, however I also hate it. I have asked some, I thought very reasonable question on there, and they got shot down and removed. The elitism, in this day & age of nearly infinite search and data storage capabilities ma
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by manonthewall 3y ago
I suspect Hamas aren't stupid and probably used old fashioned methods of getting plans around for this like messengers and paper and pencil. Gaza is a pretty small place and easy to slip into the crowd.
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by manonthewall 3y ago
I can fully see them eventually making it illegal and enforcing a new encrypted protocol to which they have the keys for. Obviously, such a setup would leak, but the people who make these rules think they are flawless and omniscient and thi
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by manonthewall 3y ago
How does this compare to equivalent human guesses at predicting earthquakes?
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by manonthewall 3y ago
There is definitely a correlation between being psychopathic and CEO. I don't know if either is a direct result of the other or if it's a third quality, but the statistical correlation is certainly there and has been known for a w
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by manonthewall 3y ago
everyone I know still say twitter, tweets and tweeting.
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by manonthewall 3y ago
HN is full of a lot of what I call "unnecessary pedanticism". It's not really worth worrying about as the article title was cut short because of title size limits. It was a reasonable take on what to do in that circumstance.
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by manonthewall 3y ago
passkeys are orthogonal to this
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by manonthewall 3y ago
Sounds like it's time that academia form a crypto equivalent of NIST amongst universities so they can put out transparent versions of new cryptographic algorithms that can be traced back to their birth so that other cryptographers can
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by manonthewall 3y ago
yeah I pay a few bucks a month for protonmail and have never regretted it.
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by manonthewall 3y ago
And if they stay private they can make a tidy profit without the pressure of "growth tech stock" shadowing their existence. I suspect they have an exit plan to get bought off by google if they grow enough though. Imagine "Go
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by manonthewall 3y ago
It's unlikely they can make a profit doing that. Servers, devs, etc cost money. This way they keep the audience smaller and can make money as well. It's a business, so you do what you gotta do.
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by manonthewall 3y ago
there are browser plugins that do this as well :) . uBlackList for one
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by manonthewall 3y ago
Do they provide "personalized results" like google claims? That would seem to imply they -must- attach searches to your account, wouldn't it?
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by manonthewall 3y ago
2) They look different, great is in the eye of the beholder tho. I would still buy one if they were priced reasonably AND they've been out for a while. I never buy a 1st edition of any car. every car needs a while to work out the gotch
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by manonthewall 3y ago
Wired messes up from time to time, but in general I find them great compared to most tech news sites.
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by manonthewall 3y ago
conent-o-matic works there
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by manonthewall 3y ago
There is so much to be said for KISS, especially when you have to do an interface for "everyone" and not just a bunch of tech-savvy STEM people
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by manonthewall 3y ago
You should check the arm version. On my macbook m2 air macos complains that the file is broken when I try to run it; x86_64 version runs fine.
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by manonthewall 3y ago
brew version seems to be an older version, lots of command line options failed to work. after downloading from the web page: the macos arm download is corrupted I think, x86 works fine, currently watching the orc "thing" angrily s
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by manonthewall 3y ago
It's all far too conspiratorial for me. Just show me the math as to why it's broken, I don't need a conspiratorial mind map drawing speculative lines between various topics. Do an appendix or two for that.
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by manonthewall 3y ago
I don't understand why it is so radical though. Even when I was a bored kid I could pick up a stick and whittle out a face not to far from what was in the article with a decently sharp knife and some time. Doesn't seem like a huge
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by manonthewall 3y ago
have you ever owned and been inseparable from a pet? you absolutely can interpret their moods and you can find papers on it if you like, they do have expressions and body language. It may not be the same as humans necessarily but it is ther
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by manonthewall 3y ago
I don't know if they -easily- lived up to 70, but it was possible to live to that age for sure :) . death rate of "at birth" and early years was far far higher than now. they certainly lived longer than 30-35 that I hear slun
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by manonthewall 3y ago
Then I think you'll have to use pgp or some other mechanism one layer up. E-mail ain't the way to do it, it's not built into the current protocol as it stands.
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by manonthewall 3y ago
I have some bad news,the US, China, and India are not going to turn on a dime like the more optimistic green energy revolution people hope. We have time to plant plenty of trees before we turn the corner. It's just the way of things.
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by manonthewall 3y ago
Sure but it can just as easily be passed again.
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by manonthewall 3y ago
"gold bars" "new jersey" -"menendez" robberies. ?
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by manonthewall 3y ago
why wouldn't you put them in safety deposit boxes? I know there are issues with that but seems safer than under your mattress when it's know that thieves are breaking in and stealing them.

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