mburns

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by mburns 3y ago
Not really, a transient ipfs node works just fine. There are stable nodes to bootstrap a new node into the network. More initialization that if you were using http, sure, but it isn’t as against the grain as you suggest. https://
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by mburns 3y ago
They have a 3d render if you scroll halfway down.
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by mburns 3y ago
For more context, here is the official guide to request removing content from the Archive, which anyone can request for their own social media account. “… indicate … the time period during which you had control of the site or relevant user
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by mburns 3y ago
What familial connections? https://www.logicallyfacts.com/en/fact-check/false-taylor-lo...
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by mburns 3y ago
Terraform providers weren’t relicensed under the BSL.
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by mburns 3y ago
Not OP, but Brendan Gregg has written a lot about performance and benchmarking. * https://www.brendangregg.com/activebenchmarking.html * https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2018-06-30/benchmarking-ch
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by mburns 3y ago
> No, unlike with Substack, you don't get access to articles through Buttondown, the payment is just a donation. Because that is how he set it up because that is how he explicitly wants it. If he wanted to charge for access, he coul
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by mburns 3y ago
Substack doesn’t solve that problem any more than Buttondown (which accepts paid subscriptions) already does. Go subscribe and pay him money. Be the change you want to see in the world. > the problem may get worse If you didn’t subscribe
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by mburns 3y ago
This full-length (albeit short) article is him announcing he’s leaving The Atlantic. So… problem solved?
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by mburns 3y ago
Linen might be a good fit. https://github.com/Linen-dev/linen.dev https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31494908
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by mburns 3y ago
It goes into a blind trust or an index fund. https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/349...
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by mburns 3y ago
She spoke truth to power. With the benefit of hindsight, how is there any doubt she was on the right side of history for bringing attention to the issue?
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by mburns 3y ago
looking at his (recent) comment history, I can’t imagine this is the one in particular that got him shadow banned.
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by mburns 3y ago
Saidit has a (mostly) compatible API by running a fork from when Reddit was still open source. It isn't a drop-in replacement but most of the core API endpoints are the same. Things like modmail, live threads, collections are exclusive
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by mburns 3y ago
Sounds like that is in the cards: >This will offer us more control over the forum's configuration and allow us to provide an experimental onion service for our users accessing the platform via the Tor network.
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by mburns 3y ago
> Everyone is at most 7 connections away That is not strictly true, but the world is certainly smaller than we tend to think. However, detractors argue that Milgram's experiment did not demonstrate such a link, and the "s
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by mburns 3y ago
> For organizations providing grants, I don't think Mozilla even does that? https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/what-we-fund/
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by mburns 3y ago
New York doesn’t have any coal plants. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/nyregion/coal-energy-ny.h...
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by mburns 3y ago
The original Steamboat Willie enters the Public Domain come January 1, 2024. It seems unlikely Congress extends copyrights in the next 8 months. https://observer.com/2023/02/so-mickey-mouse-is-about-to-ent... Thin
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by mburns 4y ago
context: https://techcrunch.com/2015/06/17/no-its-samsung-not-swiftke...
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by mburns 4y ago
There was a time when Ron Paul was Reddit’s favorite politician. https://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2007/11/ron-p...
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by mburns 4y ago
~25% of House Dems crossed the aisle to vote on a Republican amendment to the ACA to ban federal funding of abortion[1]. While that specific amendment failed in the Senate, it still forced a handshake deal that Obama would issue an EO to th
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by mburns 4y ago
Texas v. White established that states cannot unilaterally leave. Would the federal government carpet bomb a state that tried? No. But there are other means to exert force and stop secession. Besides, the U.S. Government has no reason to ev
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by mburns 4y ago
The 'Six Californias'[0] proposal would be a net-positive for Democrats. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Californias
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by mburns 4y ago
Secession is unconstitutional. Splitting up an existing state is consitutional.
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by mburns 5y ago
The NSA didn’t fund Tor, though. Tor was initially funded by the Naval Research Lab (which is broadly similar to DARPA), and from a quick google, has received funding grants from the NSF and Department of State.
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by mburns 5y ago
It was developed by House House, Panic was the publisher.
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by mburns 5y ago
FWIW, Signal can send SMS to a regular number on Android. https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007321171-Ca...
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by mburns 5y ago
What kind of teeth do you imagine would be required?
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by mburns 5y ago
CollapseOS is a z80-based forth that is targeted at bootstrapping computing from scavengable components in old electronics. https://collapseos.org/

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