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by notadev 5y ago
Why do people keep referring to “red states” when discussing lack of vaccination and not demographics? It appears that lower income, as well as predominantly black and brown people are leading the numbers of non-vaccinated people. Even NPR
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by notadev 5y ago
“But here’s who’s on the list: Three sitting presidents, France’s Emmanuel Macron, Iraq’s Barham Salih and South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa. Three current prime ministers, Pakistan’s Imran Khan, Egypt’s Mostafa Madbouly and Morocco’s Saad-Edd
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by notadev 5y ago
Unrelated but the logo reminded me of some Internet culture. Way back in the AOL days where phishing was coined, hackers referred to phished accounts as <><. The little programs that spammed "I'm from AOL what is your pas
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by notadev 5y ago
These articles only ever seem to be from the perspective of other affluent people who resent newcomers encroaching in their own "slice of heaven". They rarely mention what happens in our less affluent communities. I grew up in Nor
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by notadev 5y ago
There's not a big US base. I used to be stationed there. There is a logistics command, CTF-73, and more recently (past decade) some LCS rotational crews call Sembawang/Chagi Naval Base home. Singapore owns the wharf where the logi
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by notadev 5y ago
This system that Israel uses to intercept rockets is called Iron Dome. Fun-fact: Israel helped Singapore set up a similar defense system due to the potential threat of surrounding nations, notably Malaysia.
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by notadev 6y ago
Most, if not all, of the anti-Columbus talk I've seen is from Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States". If I recall, that book's source was the writings of a Columbus critic of the time (a monk I
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by notadev 6y ago
Perhaps he wasn't "canceled", but he was repeatedly slandered and bullied by these "dumb people" who have outsized power due to the current state of identity politics that grants them a certain amount of power in mo
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by notadev 6y ago
I sometimes go out of my way to hide my identity from sites/services I sign up with. Easiest way to get doxxed is for someone to ask one of their polticially-aligned buddies working at a site to pull up your info.
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by notadev 6y ago
They probably copied the drive way before she ever realized she was under surveillance.
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by notadev 6y ago
The FBI probably had a copy of the drive prior to her ever realizing she was under investigation. They have some pretty advanced physical access methods, even having cans of spray able dust to ensure nothing looks disturbed.
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by notadev 6y ago
I bet they just acquire Crayta to have their own Roblox-like game with more realism.
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by notadev 6y ago
The point is they're refuting your claim of intent.
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by notadev 6y ago
The mechanisms used in the earlier era - law, common sense, etc., have gone out of the window now that anyone can weaponize a social media mob into harassing targets into submission.
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by notadev 6y ago
What is a nazi? I might say it's someone who was a member of the Nazi party in Germany during the early 20th century. You might say it's "groups that goals are to harm others" Someone else might say it's anyone who
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by notadev 6y ago
Intellipedia was a great way to kill time if you were on watch in a SCIF with no unclassified network access. They used to allow blogging as well, so I had a classified blog where I went over different IT-related issues I came across while
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by notadev 6y ago
Why'd the programmer quit his job? He couldn't get arrays.
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by notadev 6y ago
The US military granting R&R leave to Thailand, for servicemembers serving in Vietnam during the war, is the reason why Thailand has such a thriving sex tourism industry today. Also, military members outed as homosexual (when it was ill
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by notadev 6y ago
The Armed Forces Network (AFN) broadcasts American media to overseas troops, so long as they agree not to show commercials. Programs still have commercial breaks, so all of the commercials are PSAs developed for/by the military, hence
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by notadev 6y ago
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article...
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by notadev 6y ago
I have MFA enabled, so I authenticate with user/pass, then a OTP from an authenticator app, then an SMS code is sent.
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by notadev 6y ago
It's weird seeing Epik being referred to as the alt-right's favorite host. I use them as a registrar for completely benign personal domains. I did so because they offered Whois privacy by default. That was it. It's weird that
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by notadev 6y ago
Dogpile.com Lenshell.com
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by notadev 6y ago
Microsoft OneNote has pretty good OCR of documents and full-text search.
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by notadev 6y ago
>Google sought to downplay the significance of the move by noting the company conducted “tens of thousands of experiments in Google Search” every year. Assuming it's not just simple A/B testing, I'd be interested in a list
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by notadev 6y ago
Perhaps it would have been considered xenophobic?
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by notadev 6y ago
This has already been weaponized by subs like /r/AgainstHateSubs and other vigilante-like subs. Their tactics usually involve posting in those subreddits from sockpuppet accounts, using hateful or threatening messages. The few tim
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by notadev 6y ago
I wonder if Twitter will be nuking any info from their site, with their policy against posting hacked information and whatnot.
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by notadev 6y ago
The verification, according to their ToS, was only required if the user wanted to take part in their monetization program. Their ToS states that US law requires them to gather certain PII for auditing purposes. A regular user didn't ne
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by notadev 6y ago
Kind of unrelated to the point of your post -- what does it mean when any discussion about current events/politics requires every poster to affirm they do not support a particular political candidate. I don't have an answer myself

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