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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
That's assuming the people don't vote for this because they want this. Many Americans have a hero complex. Their national mythology post World War II includes them being the "good guys" against the "bad guys."
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
This feels like the no-brainer industry to invest in right now. The datacenters are thirsty for energy, and the sun is free. In this gold rush, renewables are selling shovels.
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by shadowgovt 8mo ago
Some code is hard. Most business logic (in the sense of pushing data around databases) isn't. The value is in analysis and action, which the system enablrs, not the machine itself. Creating a high performance general purpose database i
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by shadowgovt 8mo ago
My favorite bit of SBCL trivia is the name: this is descended from Carnegie Mellon's build. Steel. Bank.
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by shadowgovt 8mo ago
Oh, that's nice-to-have. Good work, Mozilla. It would close the loop better if you could also use policy to switch off innerHTML in a given page, but definitely a step in the right direction for plain-JavaScript applications.
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by shadowgovt 8mo ago
How does that differ from the rest of orgmode.org? Is worg a wiki?
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by shadowgovt 8mo ago
Excellent. I look forward to other service providers responding by cutting traffic from the US. If the goal is to balkanize the internet, this administration has hit upon an excellent step.
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by shadowgovt 8mo ago
Reviewing docs is a lower bar than reviewing code because it's a lower bar than reviewing code. I have never even heard of a software company that acts otherwise (except IBM, and much of the world of Silicon Valley software engineering
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by shadowgovt 8mo ago
Pilots in a plane on autopilot are never out of the control authority of the plane (by which I mean: "ready to take over at a moment's notice"). Driverless AVs do drive without perpetual eyes-on oversight. The FAA would never
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by shadowgovt 8mo ago
Interestingly, the round-trip latency from the West Coast to continental Asia isn't nearly as long as I'd assumed (60ms to 250ms, depending on who's measuring). Not nearly fast enough for real-time highway remote operation IM
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by shadowgovt 8mo ago
After reading this blog post, going to grapheneos's site, and browsing a half-dozen or so pages that I thought might show me what it looked like... I cannot find a single image of it. GrapheneOS team, I'm begging you... Hire or
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by shadowgovt 8mo ago
Remember the old days when people paid for news? Ars is owned by Conde Nast, which had to let go of its HQ in 2024. I suspect they don't have a plan to replace a journalist like Benj if they axe him. And it's not like readers are
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by shadowgovt 8mo ago
Well, someone has to backfill Zoë Hitzig exiting.
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by shadowgovt 8mo ago
Who would have thought that after changing no laws to ban the behavior, firing nobody, and re-upping the post-9/11 laws consistently, that the process would continue? I, for one, am shocked... that anyone might be shocked about this.
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by shadowgovt 8mo ago
> You don't need to notify if you use cookies for required functionality like login sessions or remembering a functional setting Nobody wants to be the EU test case on precisely how "required functionality" is defined. Reg
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by shadowgovt 8mo ago
Actors in a theater. I have no reason to believe they were pretending to be upset because the were actually spies and knew what was going on before Snowden's reveals came out. They were as surprised as everyone else; the NSA wiretappin
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by shadowgovt 8mo ago
Because in practice it showed up for a period of time as a common thing in spam-senders. They were trying to maximize throughput and minimize software maintenance costs, so they leave out things that the spec says are optional. But that mak
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by shadowgovt 8mo ago
No, just over 6 million paying business customers. But hey, if you're in a business domain where categorically leaving 6 million potential clients-who-are-demonstrated-to-spend-on-things isn't an issue? One fewer thing to worry ab
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by shadowgovt 8mo ago
I'm just speculating, but probably because you're on an email provider that isn't a big enough target to worry about the persistent threat-actor model. Google is a big enough target to justify spending the resources on dedica
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by shadowgovt 8mo ago
if Google's choices are protecting users, they can't be in the wrong. That's the reality of a shared communications infrastructure regardless of what the docs say. When the docs disagree with the reality of threat-actor behav
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by shadowgovt 8mo ago
At scale, it's very hard to distinguish malicious intent from the simple consequence of being the largest operator in a space so any motion one makes makes waves. For what it's worth: having seen some of how the sausage is made,
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by shadowgovt 8mo ago
Most of the time, in my experience, when one encounters a situation like this in Internet tech (i.e. "why is this suggestion treated like a hard requirement?"), this is the answer: "because attackers found a way to exploit th
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by shadowgovt 8mo ago
If by "the movement," you mean Occupy Wall St., one of the things about it as an organization is that it didn't have a mechanism to exclude people really, if I understand correctly. So there was a pretty broad slice of politi
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by shadowgovt 8mo ago
Specifically. https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/123614 - reference page 68. "Questioned on Twitter about her beliefs, she replied: "Read Mencius Moldbug."" (Original source of that informati
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by shadowgovt 8mo ago
I know what you're referring to, but this one is well-documented. When Tunney and I were last in overlapping circles, she self-described as techno-fascist. It's pretty well-documented (though I apologize for assuming it was common
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by shadowgovt 8mo ago
jart... Oh, Justine Tunney. Is she still a techno-fascist or did that change at some point?
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by shadowgovt 8mo ago
Stefan-Boltzmann is about absolute, not relative temperature. When one does the math on the operating temperatures of regular computing equipment that we use on Earth, how much heat it generates per watt, and how fast it would need to sink
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by shadowgovt 8mo ago
Because race is a story we tell ourselves, it turns out to not be as hard as one might assume to bend the story to make ingroups and outgroups out of people that, to an outside observer, should have more in common than their interactions su
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by shadowgovt 8mo ago
There also seems to be the assumption that people of a particular race can't be racist against members of the same race. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is an old story by now, and "One of the good ones" an old meme.
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by shadowgovt 8mo ago
For what it's worth, that kind of lumping of drivers is more-or-less one of the metrics Waymo is using to self-evaluate. Perfect safety when multi-ton vehicles share space with sub-300-pound humans is impossible. But they ultimately se

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