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by rolandog 2y ago
To be fair, they did not say they were remembered correctly.
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The world was not ready for such religions then [0]: > There are several reasons why the worship of Baal and Asherah was such a problem for Israel. First, the worship of Baal and Asherah held the allure of illicit sex, since the religion
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by rolandog 2y ago
Seems to have been scrubbed.
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by rolandog 2y ago
It must be insulating to be so cagey. Does it hertz?
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by rolandog 2y ago
Wholeheartedly agree. I also feel like I'm sometimes reliving the King Neptune vs Spongebob meme equivalent of coding. No room for Think, Plan, Execute... Only throw spaghetti code at wall.
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by rolandog 2y ago
To be fair, that's standard treatment that has been unilaterally pushed by the US to other nations; their geopolitics can be a bit like Mean Girls: - "That country is NOT allowing our companies to exploit their citizens? Nobody g
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by rolandog 2y ago
Great idea! Also, we can vote with our Euros and kill two birds with one stone [0], [1]. [0]: https://www.goeuropean.org/product-details/unixhost-web-host... [1]: https://unixhost.pro/
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by rolandog 2y ago
Standardizing battery packs would probably help with the automation; like with USB-C.
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by rolandog 2y ago
Ahh, sorry, didn't see you had also mentioned this excellent essay. D'oh.
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Yes. I highly recommend watching this video [0] — "For-Profit (Creative) Software" by EndVertex — about how some essential programs price out regular people with their insane licensing models... In turn making people's skill
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by rolandog 2y ago
Great news! It's fascinating to read all the effort very dedicated and talented people put into improving the software we love and use. Kudo's to Daniel van Vugt and all the testers that pitched in time and effort.
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by rolandog 2y ago
> But hey, Grandma Martha can't read her Kindle version on the new Kobo her grandson got her without buying a new copy. Fantastic. To the business-people making the kind of decisions we hate, that sounds to them like: "So you&
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by rolandog 2y ago
Related HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43002511
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by rolandog 2y ago
Right. I think we're all in agreement about the end goal,... The "how we get there" is another story. I'm partial to aiming for perfection — when there's time for it — after having been the person paying down the t
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Haven't we learned that in the security and privacy domains that maxim requires its inversion? Especially with the passing of time! "Don't let temporary adequacy undermine lasting protection."
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> You will however be asked for ID before being allowed in a strip club, brothel or casino, or before being sold a DVD of some action movie. Yeah, but the bar bouncer doesn't keep a registry of a million different customers and prof
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by rolandog 2y ago
I think it's good to publicly express our disapproval. Because — as we have sadly seen recently — there will always be a small group of apologists defending villains or systematic oppressors: (It's worth also considering that the
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by rolandog 2y ago
Yeah, you'd be vulnerable to pepper shakers and divulging all your passwords in a sneeze.
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by rolandog 2y ago
As has been shown by what the US has done repeatedly to other countries — and what has now been done to them — you don't need much to derail a country's progress and have them spiral into regressive regimes...
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Before they got into power - "They're not that bad, they're just trolling people; they would never say racist things at me... They'll stop once they get into power." After getting into power: - "Oh... If only
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by rolandog 2y ago
Ahh, interesting... How would you structure your workflow to protect from potentially malicious PDFs? I had originally thought of setting up an inotifywait watcher that would look for downloaded PDFs to swap downloaded files (while leaving
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by rolandog 2y ago
Does anyone know if running PDFs through the following filter (as in [0]) prevent malicious actors? gs \ -dNOPAUSE \ -sDEVICE=pdfwrite \ -sOUTPUTFILE=clean.pdf \ -dBATCH \ dirty.pdf [0]: ht
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by rolandog 2y ago
My hypothesis is that they're now censoring things that seem "lefty".
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by rolandog 2y ago
Any new theory needs to match evidence for SARS-COV-2 being present in European wastewater during December 2019 [0] [1]. Maybe it leaked from the lab; maybe it was released? As far as I understand (but tbh, I have not kept up as much with
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by rolandog 2y ago
Bad guys can and will use any platform that preserves privacy... but the default unsecured policy of Telegram was a bigger concern to me and the dread of having to request all contacts to enable end-to-end encryption (the instant messaging
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The contradiction is more clear when comparing the abstract: > [...] Results: Multiple regression analyses revealed that individuals with higher AIS scores had higher daily potassium intake; potassium at dinner was especially crucial.
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by rolandog 2y ago
> at least one time, not only """cargo culting""" actually worked, it even did so for a logical reason ! Makes you wonder if one could land a job with a firm handshake.
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On the plus side, it might finally create an incentive for decluttering websites... given enough adoption.
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I'm no expert in this domain, but the larger issue at play here is that: 1. certain groups are arguing for assigning trust to a group to perform case-by-case censorship as a countermeasure to propaganda and disinformation, 2. other gro
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"We used to live peacefully, but that all changed when the fire ant nation attacked."

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