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by snthd 7y ago
For public domain books there's https://standardebooks.org
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(2018) Neat to see hn grouping previous submissions across 3 different URLs ("past"). Canonical URLs FTW.
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Maybe the cache's upstream requests should be normalized with the same routine used to normalize the request into a key to lookup in the cache. Basically the problem stems from the cache implementation not being DRY.
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Is it feisable to make privilege escalation of this sort impossible, by shifting cryptographic verification to dedicated hardware?
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There should really be a "things you should know about SSH" article. Then an inventory of similar articles like the awesome-thing type lists. I'm guessing it already exists and I don't know what it's called? (Maybe
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browser.in-content.dark-mode
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https://theconversation.com/africa-has-an-air-pollution-prob... >In the first major attempt to estimate the health and economic costs of air pollution in Africa, an Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
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by snthd 7y ago
GNU Taler is a WIP for that. https://taler.net
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Are HP doing this in GDPR-covered territory? Possibly the requirement to download stuff is so they can geo-target?
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Organic farming is primarily about producing products better rather than producing better products.
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https://duckduckgo.com/?q=google+paywall+policy first result: https://support.google.com/news/publisher-center/answer/4054... >We‘ve removed the First Click Free requirement for publishers
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Spamgourmet Owner Has Disseminated Glioblastoma(bbs.spamgourmet.com)
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta... > The 1953 Iranian coup d'état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup d'état (Persian: کودتای ۲۸ مرداد‎), was the overthrow of the democra
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http://www.buckminster.info/Ideas/10-EndEnergyCoolingFree.ht...
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Why not both? Poor Doors are arguably a realisation of the cobra effect; It depends if the goals of "affordable housing" are about reducing inequality (like, systemically, not just finding somewhere to live) or not, and if poor do
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by snthd 7y ago
Is there a way of freezing a compromised machine, such that the contents of RAM are kept around for forensics, but the compromised system can't do any more damage to itself? SysRq? Intel ME?
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by snthd 7y ago
A recent interview: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/13/margaret-...
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Putting pigs in the shade: the radical farming system banking on trees(theguardian.com)
14 points by snthd 7y ago|1 comments
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Nothing wrong with reinventing potholes... https://www.indy100.com/article/this-man-is-painting-penises...
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Cargo ships are designed to float at a certain level in the water - if they're too empty they carry ballast instead. This causes it's own problems - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballast_water_discharge_and_th
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https://samplesfrommars.com/products/grooves-from-mars (Free midi groove templates "sampled" from drum machines) >It's no secret that every drum machine has its own vibe - whether analog or digital, t
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>Almond >The Open, Privacy-Preserving Virtual Assistant https://almond.stanford.edu/
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TFL uses so called PTALs to put a number on public transport accessibility. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Transport_Accessibility... On a map - https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/urban-planning-and
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I'd love to see names always included once in their native script. >Foreign Minister 河野太郎 (Kōno Tarō) said Tuesday he plans to ask overseas media outlets to write Japanese names with the family name first, as is customary in the co
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On a tangent, the BBC has a site to assist with "reminisce therapy" using material from BBC archives. https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2017-02-bbc-rem-arc-dementia-m... https://remarc.bbcrewind.c
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The Fishing Industry is the Greatest Threat to Our Oceans(theguardian.com)
8 points by snthd 7y ago|2 comments
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Hosting: I'm fairly sure many streaming solutions (HLS, MPEG-DASH?) work by having the client request chunks of content pre-rendered at specific bit rates. Ergo the actual chunks are static content. IPFS does static content and Cloudfl
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It seems to work with firefox - useful for saving battery when I'm not using it.
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How to temporarily freeze a process in Linux(superuser.com)
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https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/vestigal-design-is...

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