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by pdkl95 6y ago
> lazy policing From Susan Landau's 2016 testimony[1] before the House Judiciary Committee regarding Apple's encryption on the San Bernardino shooter's iphone: >> "Instead of embracing the communications and dev
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> Surely you’re joking. 100% serious. > Is this person a sex worker? He's a philosopher with an acting day job. Did you miss where I said "the video for interviews"? The video contains an interview with a sex worker and
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DZfUzxZ2VU Both the video for interviews and the bibliography links in the description.
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An Alternative to the American Way of Innovation (Andrew 'Bunnie' Huang)(youtube.com)
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Andrew "bunnie" Huang explains an alternative model of innovation in his talk An Alternative to the American way of Innovation [1]. The over-simplified summary is that instead of worrying about the losing the monopoly protection
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Bisqwit's discussion of dithering is outstanding . He presents a very impressive algorithm for arbitrary-palette dithering that is animation safe . > This paper introduces a patent-free positional (ordered) dithering algorithm t
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CIA vs. Wikileaks [video](media.ccc.de)
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Internet of Telemetry: I Know What You Did Last Lockdown (MQTT)(media.ccc.de)
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What the cyberoptimists got wrong – and what to do about it(media.ccc.de)
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The 2017 game Night In The Woods features this poem: "There's No Reception in Possum Springs" No reception here. I wave my black phone In the air like a flare like a prayer, but no reception. I read on th
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When their internal memo about "connecting people" was leaked to the public, some FB employees wanted to actively select for loyalty in their hiring process: > Leakers, please resign instead of sabotaging the company > How
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> Facts are still important to those seeking truth. What about the people that don't want to seek truth? > The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people w
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While copyright law's interaction with new technologies can be hard to predict, I strongly suspect that the level of "blocky-ness" doesn't matter. If an image was created from another image created by a different artist,
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgw8RLHv1j4 "Still Logged In: What AR and VR Can Learn from MMOs" Raph Koster (lead designer of Ultima Online) gave a very good talk about this problem and the broader topic of VR
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> A configuration change during this migration shifted the formatting behavior of a service option so that it incorrectly provided an invalid domain name, instead of the intended "gmail.com" domain name, to the Google SMTP inbo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance_P > Substance P (SP) [...] is a neuropeptide, acting as a neurotransmitter and as a neuromodulator. > Substance P is released from the terminals of specific sensory nerves.
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It has the vibe (aesthetics), like most modern "cyberpunk" works. The tech, hacking, drugs, and weird AI were mostly the setting for the main themes of corporate power and how technology enabled new forms of control/manip
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You only have to define the behavior: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_typing A journalist is someone that does journalism, just like a runner is someone that runs. The behavior "doing journalism" is simply
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25416881
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As many comments in this thread have mentioned, the crash seems to happen when when logged in; youtube and other services seem to work when don't send the session cookie. This suggests something very fundamental related to user account
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GINN: Geometric Illustrations for Neural Networks(bayeswatch.com)
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$ wget https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json $ grep ip_prefix ip-ranges.json | sed -re 's|.*(/[0-9]+).*|\1|' | sort | uniq -c 4 /11 16 /12 30 /13 82
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Hyperbolica devlog: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9DXIT3m6N4qJK9GKQB3...
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A few additions to these recommendations: > Show full help when -h and --help is passed It is also a good idea to support --version $ make --version GNU Make 4.1 Built for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Copyright (C) 1988-2014 Fre
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Projecting Space – Hyperbolica Devlog #4(youtube.com)
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Amazon reportedly has Pinkerton agents surveil workers who try to form unions(npr.org)
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> At the self-described “heart” of the company’s monitoring software is Monitor AI, a “powerful artificial intelligence engine” that collects facial detection data [...] to identify “patterns and anomalies associated with cheating.” >
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> Aren't there always a certain number of people who die from suicide? Japan has had a high number of suicides for a long time. A revealing anomaly in the anual statistics explains one of the reasons: for people under age 18, there
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Just put it in a script. #!/bin/sh # call this file 'smv' or whatever exec mv --no-clobber "$@" You only have to pay the 'annoying' cost once to add /some/util/script&#
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> alias mv='mv -i' While --interactive mode is certainly useful, a better option for this problem that I don't see mentioned often is the --no-clobber option: -n, --no-clobber do not overwrite an existi

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