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by mitxela 1mo ago
those can both be true at once though
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by mitxela 1mo ago
It's called the "hallway track" when you spend your time talking to people around, instead of going to one of the conference rooms to watch the talks at any conference.
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by mitxela 1mo ago
Did anyone tell you the story of the disastrous attempt to organise a gay trans furry orgy as a conference event at one CCC?
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by mitxela 1mo ago
I'm pretty sure you are making a straw man here. Bitcoin is disliked because it's hyper-capitalist and a huge waste of energy, not because it isn't the state.
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by mitxela 1mo ago
Do they sell out of tickets within, literally literally, three seconds? Hopefully this move to the bigger venue improves the situation.
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by mitxela 1mo ago
IIRC isn't part of the idea that there are multiple central banks, you can choose which one you want to use, and currencies are exchanged automatically when needed?
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by mitxela 1mo ago
It's the usual open source problem of building a protocol and neglecting the network that runs it... Imagine a perfectly coherent messaging protocol... what are the messages that are sent? Out of scope! Just use our protocol!
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by mitxela 1mo ago
That's for the likes of Edward Snowden though.
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by mitxela 1mo ago
I believe when you sign in at the door they don't give you any identifier, just a wristband identical to everyone else's. They are trying to prevent ticket scalping, however. I don't expect them to give any data to anyone bes
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by mitxela 1mo ago
It's often been a pun combining the technological and political, at least in recent years. Last year's motto was Power Cycles. The previous year was Illegal Instructions. The one before COVID was Resource Exhaustion and the one be
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by mitxela 1mo ago
This is still a thing.
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by mitxela 1mo ago
Would it be any different if the smoking area was "outside"?
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by mitxela 1mo ago
Assuming you get a ticket.
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by mitxela 1mo ago
So nobody should be allowed to talk about taking photos, if you aren't allowed to take photos in the surrounding week of the talk?
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by mitxela 1mo ago
Security cameras are illegal by default in Germany. Having one is a crime punishable by jail time, if you aren't careful to follow the rules.
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by mitxela 1mo ago
Ironically that is exactly the part of Germany that is the real danger.
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by mitxela 1mo ago
also Electromagnetic Field in the UK, and all the smaller camps
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by mitxela 1mo ago
It's actually 4 now.
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by mitxela 1mo ago
I think that portion of the Left party split off and made the BSW party. Russia also has huge interference in German politics since that controls wider European politics.
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by mitxela 1mo ago
FYI, cookie popups aren't required by law and the USA is the cause of global financial KYC. Hopefully the upcoming dedollarization fixes that.
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by mitxela 1mo ago
Everything you post on the internet is subject to Stasi-level surveillance. Nobody has a way to know the picture you take won't be posted on the internet.
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by mitxela 1mo ago
panopticon == free and open society?
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by mitxela 1mo ago
Berlin has many cameras that film the street, for example in front of the Deutsche Bundesbank.
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by mitxela 1mo ago
I have the right to live in a panopticon, but no right not to live in a panopticon, and the panopticon is essential to a free and open society??
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by mitxela 1mo ago
Last week they shut down a free email host of 25 years by saying it supported terrorist groups and therefore it was illegal for them to use banks.
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by mitxela 1mo ago
I assume no one actually does this when washing their car.
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by mitxela 1mo ago
Bankruptcy is great actually, you don't have to pay the money you owe but if you play your cards right you can still keep the benefits.
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by mitxela 1mo ago
Title is "Take it easy on the automatic retries" Microsoft breaks all Old New Thing links every few years so it's necessary to post the title so the right post can still be found.
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by mitxela 1mo ago
When did Google replace their CAPTCHA with Anubis? I've never seen Anubis on Google.
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by mitxela 1mo ago
This is a normal failure mode in American military facilities in the Middle East. Whoever designed an American military facility in the middle east and did not intend for it to withstand missile attacks was incompetent.

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