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by nonrandomstring 5y ago
Nicely written, many points are easy to agree with, and a light touch too. I always disliked the title of Steve Krug's book (even if I appreciate some of the design sentiments) because it seems to lionise intellectual sloth. To me the
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by nonrandomstring 5y ago
Yes, except its not a 'pretence'. There are different values operating in Europe. Protecting companies that represent those values is a way of protecting the values themselves. We do indeed regard privacy differently than the US I
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by nonrandomstring 5y ago
@mtsr I totally agree. Fundamental changes in the nature of the corporation need to occur. How Articles of incorporation function as instruments to enable, but also _exclude_ future M&A is something I'm working on. This is curiousl
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by nonrandomstring 5y ago
@chris, I think DARPA and InQTel show a different way this works. If anything I applaud the US way of doing things - a pattern we totally failed to mirror in Britain after the 1960s Wilson govt, letting greats like ICL and Ferranti die earl
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by nonrandomstring 5y ago
Thank you. After I posted I realised my stupidity in not checking out your linked config file. Having fun with that now. Cheers for the additional nfo.
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by nonrandomstring 5y ago
Interesting. I had a similar experience. Different outcome. I _was_ the grad student who did a couple of military/medical projects in Ada back in the early 90s. Loved it. Tried to take a startup down the Ada route for a non-safety crit
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by nonrandomstring 5y ago
Perhaps I chose a poor title/headline for this. After 3 postings it's had zero traction. Yet I believe sustainable electronics design and ways we deal with e-waste is an enormously important subject. I thought an informative/
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by nonrandomstring 5y ago
Can you recommend a good set of docs and tutorials to set up mu4e? I still use emacs and a separate (mutt) MUA and copy and paste things between, I know it sounds awful... but hard to escape entrenched habits. What would you suggest as the
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by nonrandomstring 5y ago
"whether they like it or not" is the story. The transition from elective to non-consensual "for your own good security" no longer means more or less "security", it is a qualitative, fundamental change in what &
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by nonrandomstring 5y ago
I do, and I find it fascinating that HN is somewhat a victim of its own success in terms of churn. As a reader its disorienting to see things in the New pages and be unable to find them 5 minutes later. After reading HN for years I only cre
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by nonrandomstring 5y ago
> This is really a crisis of modernity. Indeed, one identified 60 years ago by philosophers like Marcuse and Derrida. "As the circle of human knowledge grows, so does the circumference of the shadows surrounding it. That is not an e
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by nonrandomstring 5y ago
Did anyone ever receive marsupial themed blank mini-notebooks as a gift from O'Reilly? I still have a bunch of them kicking about my study branded "Foyles Bookshop" from London. "Celebrating 25 Years of Animal Magnetism
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by nonrandomstring 5y ago
Such a silly premise if you pause for a second and think about practical threats. Suppose tomorrow a quantum computer is created that can crack any cryptography. Would all ciphertext at rest magically become decrypted? Would every communica
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by nonrandomstring 5y ago
It makes sense that European governments would love to see Facebook (and other US giants) exit. Splitting up big-tech is not a good answer to dominance or monopoly, as it adds more heads to the hydra. The answer is pour funding into EU star
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by nonrandomstring 5y ago
Good to see people starting to ask the right questions; (see Snowden: "Permanent Record", Farnell: "Digital Vegan", Anderson: "Security Engineering") - Security for who? Security from whom? Security to what end
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by nonrandomstring 5y ago
Carissa Véliz Privacy is Power: Why You Should Take Back Control Heather Burns Understanding Privacy
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Long-term care and use of digital devices(cheapskatesguide.org)
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by nonrandomstring 5y ago
I set my kid up with a Raspberry Pi 4, large key color lit keyboard, and monitor with HDMI loudspeakers. Then I wrote her own "OS" - it's a bunch of python and bash scripts that run things she wants. As she asks for more thin
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by nonrandomstring 5y ago
We've probably learned a great deal about air flow, architecture, ventilation and other ways to improve buildings for shared use. Perhaps new building regulations will come from the pandemic to help reduce the probability of future air
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Designing devices for long-term care and reuse(cheapskatesguide.org)
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by nonrandomstring 5y ago
Unbelievable energy. I saw a gig in 1988, when I was working as a sound and lighting engineer at a big UK venue. I don't like Meatloaf's music much. But of the many shows I worked, that one sticks in my mind. It was billed as 1 h