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1. 3181.▲
   by nonrandomstring 4y ago

   And there's no innovation without that ability to push boundaries, feel on the edge, and occasionally screw things up. Who dares, wins. All pioneers are 'imposters', out of time and place, or alone behind enemy lines, until t
2. 3182.▲
   by nonrandomstring 4y ago

   > Personally the war I fight now, the one I imaging to be "winnable enough" is about personal data So you're a fighter. {{brotherly hugs}} Your comment yesterday was bugging me. Today I feel happier. Yes, things are ble
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   by nonrandomstring 4y ago

   Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). That's the result we got the last time we took the rendered down products of a system and fed it back to itself. As a systems theoretical comment, connecting the output back to the input is a gen
4. 3184.▲
   by nonrandomstring 4y ago

   > foreseeing tomorrow Or maybe, imagining tomorrow in your worst fears. There is an important difference between prophecy, which may be right or wrong, but is generally welcome, and defeatist doomsaying or catastrophising ("the war
5. 3185.▲
   by nonrandomstring 4y ago

   I'm a sceptical falliblist. At least I think I am.
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   by nonrandomstring 4y ago

   > Would be really curious to hear your thoughts on the censorship of underground zines. The really interesting ones were before my time, in the 60s. I first heard of electronic zines through university Unix systems in the 1980s. AFAIK
7. 3187.▲
   by nonrandomstring 4y ago

   That was also the first thing on my mind. And I almost lost respect for Sir Tim for giving tacit assent. I would like to hear more from people connected with W3C over the years as to why it ran into the long grass. Some commentators have ev
8. 3188.▲
   by nonrandomstring 4y ago

   I was reading about Oz magazine recently and wondering about the different ways that "authorities" deal with underground publications. Original hacker zines, Phrack, 2600 and the like were born within a very liberal and wild inter
9. 3189.▲
   by nonrandomstring 4y ago

   If you host a site on your own bare VPS and only use server-side analytics then one could argue that's "not violating privacy". The client browser is volunteering up UA and other network information. You may have the most et
10. 3190.▲
    by nonrandomstring 4y ago

    For work I use dwm (a fully suckless setup) with some custom hacking to add a few features on the top bar. Generally I hate "window managers", which seem pointless and slow down my computer and my workflow. If you're reaching
11. 3191.▲
    by nonrandomstring 4y ago

    Thank you both replies.
12. 3192.▲
    by nonrandomstring 4y ago

    A very useful database. But maybe not quite what I'm looking for. Where would one find a simpler search facility that deals with raw ingredients rather than packaged products? Where can I ask: "potatoes boiled" and get a rund
13. 3193.▲
    by nonrandomstring 4y ago

    Thanks for your reply dcow, which I won't be able to do justice to, although I look forward to an email. Oddly, I am responding to someone in another thread who considers the digital rights and privacy movement as "insignificant&q
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    by nonrandomstring 4y ago

    > Take a look at China... Let me stop you there. This is not China. So are you finished with wailing whataboutism?
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    by nonrandomstring 4y ago

    One of my brothers is a diabetic and was involved in a project to give insulin to US Americans. I thought it was a joke at first. They were sending some kind of Red Cross style Medical Aid Packages in the ordinary mail. I think the point wa
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    by nonrandomstring 4y ago

    > * You're broke in 1990 -> why didnt you get a degree? > * you're broke in 2000 with a degree -> why didnt you get a STEM degree? > * you're broke in 2010 with a STEM degree -> why didnt you get a comps
17. 3197.▲
    by nonrandomstring 4y ago

    > Curious what you'd consider an objective harm. To dodge the risk of opening a can-o-worms I don't have time for on a Monday morning I'll just say watch for the chapter "Harms" in Ethics for Hackers when it&#x27
18. 3198.▲
    by nonrandomstring 4y ago

    > privacy is not about individuals as single human being but about society Yes indeed, an important point. Privacy makes little sense on a desert island, even though a solitary castaway has lots of it. (I'm not even sure it makes ve
19. 3199.▲
    by nonrandomstring 4y ago

    Rohan makes a valiant and useful attempt to expand the over-simplified notion of digital privacy. Anything that throws more light on this area is welcome. However I feel that some of the distinctions are incomplete or need highlighting more
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    by nonrandomstring 4y ago

    > This article suggests that the written word is a crutch for thought I got that too. And yes, also ironic for the author (a writer of some kind) to be advancing a seemingly anti-literary agenda.
21. 3201.▲
    by nonrandomstring 4y ago

    Nice riff on Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death". The focus is really on the danger of over-reliance on one faculty. But I suppose the same could be said for an aural-only world of radio and podcasts. I disagreed that vide
22. 3202.▲
    by nonrandomstring 4y ago

    > the thing I'm _not_ thinking about Yes, interesting point. I think that's a good thing to investigate. Thanks for the thoughts,
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    by nonrandomstring 4y ago

    Much of this seems familiar from mindfulness and CBT style approaches to rumination and catastrophising. However, I do have a problem with the word "just" and its possibly dangerous consequences. The opposite tendency is minimisat
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    by nonrandomstring 4y ago

    > I had a similar journey. I’m even writing a book on it. I'd be interested to hear more. Do ping me if you have time. > While there’s a number of titles talking about internet or tech addiction, all we're doing is pointin
25. 3205.▲
    by nonrandomstring 4y ago

    I am hoping to address that, as best I can. One must remember that ethics is philosophy that has only so much traction where it touches necessity and survival.
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    by nonrandomstring 4y ago

    In all considerations of these arguments Incident RQ-170 2011 [1] should remain foremost. It is to military systems engineering what the Tacoma Bridge [2] is to civil engineering and the Therac-25 [3] is to software engineering. Axiomatical
27. 3207.▲
    by nonrandomstring 4y ago

    > Apparently, he hates being edited (most writers don't like it). I've grown to love it. It was a long road. Once you start disciplined writing an editor becomes like a personal trainer who helps you be your best. Until I lear
28. 3208.▲
    by nonrandomstring 4y ago

    > I've been pleasantly surprised at just how resilient the high-street has been. In the past year, we've had a new bakery, a new arts and craft shop, a new cafe, and the farmer's market is going from strength to stre
29. 3209.▲
    by nonrandomstring 4y ago

    Some factors rapidly changing in UK cities are - Empty offices since the pandemic - Disappearance of the high-street due to Amazon - New "In-between" builds Most British cities still have empty or skeleton-crewed office buildings.
30. 3210.▲
    by nonrandomstring 4y ago

    One thing maybe missing from the many good comments here is a separation of digital currencies from crypto coins. We would do well to start separating the mechanism that stores value from the mechanism of exchange. That's why I think s