oxygen_crisis

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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
> Nothing in that catalogue provides evidence of the government having exotic technology It doesn't have to, it was a counter-example to that "decades behind the private sector on computing technology" thesis.
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
> All the people here claiming new types of drones and secret programs dating back decades have clearly never worked in defense. Most of the US military, the best funded in the world, is decades behind the private sector on computing tec
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
I might start naming my private key files ~/.ssh/keyname.PRIVATE after hearing that story...
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
If you can't write the code yourself, you're not a good judge of how competent it is. If you admire any code that simply works at all when you don't know how it should be done, then your admiration isn't a measurement wo
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
I'm actually enforcing encrypted DNS and blocking destination port 53 outbound on my firewall at home, that's why I couldn't re-run the script I was using to test the current availability and response times on all these. (It
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
I've got this list of public DNS servers I scraped together a while back. I used it for benchmarking and checking propagation/filtering but I haven't tested them for a while, can't say they're all still working.
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
I liked how SomethingAwful would let you pay to change other users' profile picture and/or title. People would routinely change other users' titles to a representative quote from one of their earlier posts so every one of the
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
> The way reddit's threads work with nested replies is also a vastly superior UX over the linear firehose approach of a conventional forum. I really liked how slashdot's threading defaulted to collapsing low-scoring replies do
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
This decision comes from the board of directors, not Huffman. Huffman's job here is to be the whipping boy for their decisions.
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
> To lose 95.8% of your site (judged by the 8467 out of 8838 subreddits gone dark) That's out of the 8838 that made a pledge to go dark. Those ~400 are just the ones that went "restricted" (read-only) instead of private, o
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
It's not just that he allowed them to exist, he created a special one-of-a-kind "Pimp Daddy" trophy to award to the moderator of r/jailbait and r/creepshots. https://old.reddit.com/r/TrophyWiki&
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
> Perhaps that it’s news? Is it? This looks like rumor-mongering based on a couple tweets. "Several users on Twitter" "A number of users have commented on the post reporting losses" There is one firsthand tweet from s
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
Forbes.com is more of a blog host than a news organization. They've got that "Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributers are there own" hover tip hidden on the byline of just about every article. I don't think their edito
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
There aren't enough of them, because the tool costs money, and 13-year-olds can't spend money on software as readily as adults.