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Reflections on Trusting Trust – Computerphile(youtube.com)
1 points by pdkl95 6y ago|0 comments
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by pdkl95 6y ago
The NSA calls this type of power asymmetry "NOBUS" ("nobody but us"). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOBUS https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2017/05/why_the
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by pdkl95 6y ago
Man's Lawyer: OK. Let's see. We're talking about a standard one night arrangement, right? Woman: I guess. Yeah. Man's Lawyer: So we'll say a dinner, complete sexual encounter
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by pdkl95 6y ago
Using find: find . -name '*meta*' If you want to use the matching files on a command line (requires "shopt -s globstar") some_command **/*meta* The double star expands to any number of directories. Y
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by pdkl95 6y ago
WARNING: The source for this script is very strange; it looks like the output of a minifier/obfuscator, or otherwise machine generated. The entire script uses single character variable names, and most expressions have all optional whit
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by pdkl95 6y ago
They wouldn't sell browsing histories; that data is a valuable asset. They would follow the model used by most "AI" products: an "AI"/"smart" service that launders candidates' history data in
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0.25 Unit Fungible Token(kmikeym.myshopify.com)
5 points by pdkl95 6y ago|0 comments
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by pdkl95 6y ago
I recommend reading this article, which includes leaked documents from GCHQ's Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG). https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/
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by pdkl95 6y ago
I ported it to aalib. Instead of a 7 character linear ramp, the aalib version renders to a larger framebuffer, dithers it down to the closes matching characters. https://gist.github.com/pdkl95/094cc065ab0215e121da29a63e
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by pdkl95 6y ago
Hiding every URL behind a proxy seemed like the obvious response ~5 years ago[1] when the popularity of DNS filters like the pi-hole was rapidly rising. The proxy could even increase the obfuscation by rewriting URLs and filenames so every
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The Addictive Cost of Predatory Videogame Monetization(youtube.com)
3 points by pdkl95 6y ago|0 comments
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by pdkl95 6y ago
> For this to happen, the store and load must be endowed with release and acquire semantics respectively. To that end, we have the "store-release" and "load-acquire" operations. I suppose release and acquire semantics
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by pdkl95 6y ago
On the 3rd hand, a major aspect of the 'engineering' part of being a 'software engineer' is learning how to choose which side of various tradeoffs is appropriate for a project. Should we perform the expensive computation
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by pdkl95 6y ago
edit: minor bugfix in example code A couple recommendations that make bash a much saner and avoid entire classes of problems: First, whenever you are expanding a list of args, use "$@"! That exact four character sequence expands
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Sounds of the Mandelbrot Set(youtube.com)
2 points by pdkl95 6y ago|0 comments
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I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility (2007)(qntm.org)
401 points by pdkl95 6y ago|158 comments
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by pdkl95 6y ago
I strongly recommend everyone watch Raph Koster's talk "Still Logged In: What AR and VR Can Learn from MMOs"[1] about the ethical issues involved in VR/AR... and how VR/AR can be used as a weapon. [1] https:/&
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by pdkl95 6y ago
> Obfuscation may be our best digital weapon. From Dan Geer's portentous talk "Cybersecurity as Realpolitik" [1][2]: >> Privacy used to be proportional to that which it is impossible to observe or that which can be
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by pdkl95 6y ago
Simply playing a song "in the background" without any critique, educational purpose, or other transformative fair use is almost certainly an performance of the original work. If the cop doesn't have an appropriate license,
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by pdkl95 6y ago
> In the past 12 months, Google search interest for “black owned businesses” has skyrocketed 600% based on Google Trends data comparing January-December 2019 to January-December 2020. Across the country, people have been looking for “bla
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by pdkl95 6y ago
> As an EMT I frequently transported people to hospitals (or from hospitals to psychiatric facilities) following their arrest. > I saw no evidence of its abuse. Unless your EMT services is responsible for 100% of the patients that ent
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I Got My First Copyright Strike I'm Pissed [Rick Beato](youtube.com)
2 points by pdkl95 6y ago|0 comments
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by pdkl95 6y ago
> We also aligned our incentives with the success of everyone involved. Great! In the interest of preserving that alignment into the future, it might be helpful to lock in important aspects of the business model by limiting your future d
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by pdkl95 6y ago
No. Luddites were not against technology! Quoting again from my previous [1]: > the Luddites themselves “were totally fine with machines" ... “They just wanted machines that made high-quality goods [...] and they wanted these mach
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by pdkl95 6y ago
Luddites were opposed to advances in the textile industry that were taking their jobs . They were an early, imperfect attempt at forming a labor union . Making textiles was a job that require a lot of investment (apprenticeship) in learni
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by pdkl95 6y ago
I'm just trying to help your "obliterated ... by a wayward mouse action" problem. As I said at the end of the post, the actual behavior of some X Window System features are poorly explained and not obvious. The unexplained di
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by pdkl95 6y ago
> copy it into my paste buffer Selecting text never copies anything. Selections are just metadata that points back to the X client app that "owns" the selection and presumably also has the selected data. Selecting text simply
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by pdkl95 6y ago
> How do you select text in your virtual terminal with the keyboard? with xsel(1x) or xclip(1) https://github.com/kfish/xsel https://github.com/astrand/xclip
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by pdkl95 6y ago
Does macOS respect SA_RESTART? [1] Apple's manpage[2] for sigaction is confusing... Regardless, doesn't anybody at Apple use postgres? Breaking Postgres should be hard to miss. [1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/online
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by pdkl95 6y ago
These tech monopolies were built on adversarial interoperability ! IBM made their "PC", but a lot of Silicon Valley's growth in the 80s and 90s happened because businesses had the freedom to innovate adversarially , creat

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