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by uabstraction 8y ago
When all you've got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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by uabstraction 8y ago
So let's say I build a nuclear plant. I make a lot of money from this nuclear plant, and I'm providing a useful and arguably essential service to my community. Now, it turns out my nuclear plant is emitting toxic radiation and poi
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by uabstraction 8y ago
> Deplatforming is a dangerous step for a free society, especially when so much power is accumulated in a few platforms I disagree here. Communities like Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc, have grown to such enormous scales, that their even
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by uabstraction 8y ago
Eh. The irony of an anonymous person defending a company which forbids anonymity is not lost on me :)
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by uabstraction 8y ago
Yes. In its simplest form, radio jamming is just tramsmitting junk on the same frequency as the target. If you want to jam a couple kids using channel 10 on their FRS radios, all you need to do is put your own radio on that channel, ductt
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by uabstraction 8y ago
As far as decentralization and curated platforms go, I think the former is practically a prerequisite for the latter. It all boils down to moderation. Moderation is what makes the difference between a productive debate and a room full of
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by uabstraction 8y ago
The Times provides the information necessary to do just this right on their tips page, including instructions for PGP, WhatsApp, Signal, and SecureDrop. One would hope that serious whistleblowers would heed these instructions.
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by uabstraction 8y ago
Not with this Congress.
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by uabstraction 8y ago
Let them move abroad then. If they want to work on the tools to prop up a dictatorship, they can go live in one.
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by uabstraction 8y ago
Good. Ethical standards are worthless unless they are practiced. The tech industry needs a shit-ton more people like you.
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by uabstraction 9y ago
Never underestimate the amateur radio community. They hunt down radio pirates, emitters of interference, and hidden beacons for FUN! With the right antenna and a halfway decent receiver, it is not too difficult to hunt down the source of
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by uabstraction 9y ago
"Unsafe at any feed"
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by uabstraction 9y ago
Mastodon surely isn't the first decentralized social network to come about, but it seems to be the first one that I would refer to as a success. This style of federation is the future of the web - and the only alternative to the corpor
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by uabstraction 9y ago
It follows a clear pattern of behavior which has been escalating for years. If this wasn't a boneheaded mistake, it was an attack. Or it was "just a prank, bro!"
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by uabstraction 9y ago
I'll go right ahead and call you a conspiracy theorist. If you think The US intelligence community would go out of their way to stir up a panic like this just because CoIntelPro was a thing 50 years ago, with no other evidence or reaso
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by uabstraction 9y ago
Meh. This is the same administration which politicized the NFL, and continues to politicize climate science and basic reality itself. Anything you say or do that comes remotely close to holding them accountable will be decried as a politica
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by uabstraction 9y ago
I don't know about you, but I want to get as far away from the whole Android ecosystem as possible. I don't want "Linux-based." I want fully fledged GNU/Linux in my pocket. I want to take advantage of GNOME/K
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by uabstraction 9y ago
If it hasn't worked, why has no one forked the kernel and left Linus in the dust? Manufacturers ought to support their products for their full lifecycle instead of behaving like e-waste factories. If they're not happy about unsta
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by uabstraction 9y ago
What we really need is some hardcore trustbusting. The Media companies must be split off from advertisers, which must be split off from ISPs, which must be split off from the software companies, which must be split off from the hardware ve
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by uabstraction 9y ago
The great thing about ham radio is that if you don't like what you're hearing, you can just keep spinning the dial. In my experience (NYC metro area), I hear very little politics on the ham bands. There are also CW and digital m
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by uabstraction 9y ago
You may break the rules in situations threatening life or property (there is an exemption for this), but why send potentally inexperienced technicians INTO a disaster area to drown out potential calls for help when you can send generals or
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by uabstraction 9y ago
> there's a part of me that suspect the Equifax hack has the NSA This is ridiculous. It makes no sense why the NSA or any other members of the US Intelligence Community would cause this sort of reputational damage and nationwide ou
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by uabstraction 9y ago
Awesome. It's hard to imagine that only a couple years ago we had dark skies everywhere. As an off and on hobby astronomer I'm very happy to see this trend of dark sky consciousness and preservation.
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by uabstraction 9y ago
You have to forgive him. Shilling Kremlin talking points in a second language is not as easy as it looks.
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by uabstraction 9y ago
Worth noting also, with the default settings, Emacs tells you what your position is in the buffer in the mode line (Top, Bot, All, or a percent), so the scroll bar is redundant as a visual indicator.
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by uabstraction 9y ago
> My challenge to a community that includes "hacker" in its name is to consider picking up the radio hobby. You hit the nail on the head here. I've been fooling around with computer programming for over a decade now (sinc
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by uabstraction 9y ago
Oh please. Social media was exploited and abused like never before during this election cycle. All the major social networks have become a breeding ground for extremism, geopolitical propaganda, and misinformation. The public has every ri
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by uabstraction 9y ago
In a lot of ways you're right, but I still find myself memorized by some of the work that has been done in the 64kb PC demo scene. With such a low executable size limit, intimate technical knowledge and creativity becomes very importa
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by uabstraction 9y ago
Maybe we didn't have the cash sitting around to build up the ISS in the immediate aftermath of the worst financial crisis since the great depression.
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by uabstraction 9y ago
Yeah, I suppose for combat training, there's nothing better than joining the actual military or reserves. Many of the habits acquired playing airsoft will probably get you killed in reality (like taking cover behind a 1/4" b

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