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by rdevilla 7mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47538165 Such a common pattern, I'm tired of seeing it. "That's not what it's saying, tho
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
This implies that males who identify as women but do not undergo HRT are not women in the context of sports (and their gender in other contexts remains ill defined, especially in the absence of perverse incentive). This is a form of misgend
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
I am not sure, since this article uses sex and gender in senses that are entirely inverse to the common ones in 2026 . How do you define those terms? In particular, the 2026 senses are that sex is an immutable biological characteristic bas
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
> When I say "trans women are women" I mean that, ontologically, it is really true that trans women are a subcategory of the general class "women." I must now insist on pinning you to a particular philosophical positi
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
set -o vi
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
See also Dark Data from DEFCON 25: https://youtube.com/watch?v=yWqdTVQsnPg But it doesn't need to be marketed in such a sinister fashion. In 2012 when Google Maps informed me of delays along my usual commute, complete
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
They should just ask the Americans. If you are not a US citizen you have zero rights, and any old creep in Silicon Valley can riffle through your personal information with impunity. I realize I am just recapitulating the modus operandi of F
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
> The god El is commonly associated with Saturn and commonly referred to as Saturn El. This is demonstrably false; see Liber 777 cols. I, II, V, and VII. Saturn is assigned key scale 3 (col I) and is associated with the Name of God &quot
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
Thank you. I will add this to the list.
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
I still find this hard to believe without some actual example RRs and certbot configs, but this is HN, not serverfault.
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
Hence... "of the web." IRC is and always was a cesspool but at least they had heard of netiquette, and it was something you could choose to partake in - or not, for the lulz. Nobody said anything about being "calm and well be
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
Elitism and selectivity were actually features of the early Internet. High barriers to entry (tech savvy, literacy) ensured that there was a high signal to noise ratio, and thus you had, let's say, upper quartile participants concentra
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
Just remember that these capacities will never be used to exonerate - only crucify.
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
Facebook was the Eternal September of the Web. Netiquette died when it was made generally available, as did the culture that spawned it.
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
Because what you are actually doing is exchanging symbols, tokens, if you will, that may be redeemed in a future meatspace rendezvous for a good or service (e.g. a job, a parcel). These tokens are handshakes, contracts, video calls, etc. to
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
> I feel like they say one thing and do something else or they say one thing and the agenda or something else. [...] do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne,
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
GP comment is just vague distilled model AI slop.
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
> Sadly certbot doesn't do (or it didn't) CNAME redirects for ACME. Are you certain? Not at a real machine at the moment so hard for me to dig into the details but CNAMEing the challenge response to another domain is absolutely
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
This is the first time in my HN membership where I was excited to read about the dialectic, only to be disappointed upon finding out the article is about Rust. PBT is for sure the future - which is apparently now? 10 years ago when I was ta
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
laughs smugly in vimscript
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
It will only take one agent-led compromise to get some Claude-authored underhanded C into llvm or linux or something and then we will all finally need to reflect on trusting trust at last and forevermore.
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
> Don't kid yourself. If you use this junk, it's making you dumber and damaging your critical thinking skills, full-stop. This is delegation of core competency. This is a good way to frame the problem. Consider the offshoring (
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
This is great. I finally feel for the first time in my life that science has in fact gone too far. At this point living in the so-called "third world" to avoid digital-rape-as-a-service and the ever increasing pace of technology s
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
I hope someone takes those Meta glasses or an Oculus or Apple Vision or something and hooks it up to clearview or some other facial recognition service and agentically scrapes OSINT sources to doxx people on the street, in real time. One gl
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
Yes, and then people wonder why you are a gaping hole in the social media surveillance dragnet with your absence. It took 12 years for me to make my first comment on this account.
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
The west runs on blackmail. If they can't find any dirt on you, you're not getting into power, and that's a fact.
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
That tradition was carried into the modern era. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
Whatever you think the scale of surveillance is, I assure you it is 100x worse. North America is rooted. There is no recovery plan.
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
Good luck, man. Nobody cared in 2012, and even less people care now. The west is lost. 1984 is already here.
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
This is great. Journalists are impeding the preservation of the historical record by blocking archivist traffic while simultaneously manhunting those archivists who find ways around their authwalls. Soon the news and the historical facts wi

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