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1,244karma·642submissions·October 21, 2024
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Any other faves?
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I'm hoping that any aliens that may or may not exist respect my contextual integrity and don't dox my Twitter. But to be more serious: it is absolutely embarrassing we've gone from a wo…
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We're presuming no merry pranksters. Isn't it possible, theoretically, to direct something at one not the other for precisely that reason, to make it SEEM far away?
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Back when I was on Facebook it was often incorporated into people's art -- this was around the time Joy Division released a greatest hits album. I suspect many people went on a Wikipedia wander a…
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I am not clicking that link. What I will do is give you a genuine reply: I listened to a few tracks from their latest album, but when I posted this I had forgotten they had that album out. I'd ac…
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>On desktop there's always "Translate page" in the hamburger menu. Thanks, maybe I didn't look hard enough last time.
21h ago·view thread
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2600 magazine baby. (With cash, as always.)
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Well, given that modern consoles are connected to the internet, a zero day embedded in the code could be a bad thing. Also I was more drawing attention to the meta level idea anyone who can put in an …
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No, I think the beauty of it is the ambiguity, but I think there's a culture here that is distinct and different from the creative nonfiction community, so I'll try to be more mindful of whe…
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And why is it never like, a lovable German weirdo? Why is it always tankies?
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I've been enjoying the Firefox translate, but for some reason sometimes it doesn't show the option to engage it, and I have to fall back to running things through duck.ai Too shy to file a f…
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It's easy to throw stones, but who among us hasn't lost a key missile scientist at some point or another?
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Nononono no more of this shit I remember walking into some shitty congresscritter's office with a fucking years old one pager, with a few more citations written on the bottom in pen because I was…
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i thought we were trying to do the sequel to slashdot, but much like other web forums i've been a part of i don't really read the front page
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Now imagine it's not an easter egg, it's zero day.
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I'm writing a poem, in German.
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>since Google basically owns them Google has been trying to kill them since they moved the Chrome team into the same building as the now defunct SF office. (Apparently they offered people a lot of …
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You can have my ad blocker when you take it from my cold dead fingers. I will literally move to a shack in the woods rather than go back to late 90s level of bullshit advertising.
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Thanks for adding this. I wonder if these deaths are linked to... I'm struggling for a word here. Extortion doesn't really capture it. I've heard discussion of "hurtcore" site…
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Only two points? I know we're not supposed to beg for karma, but if you know me that joke works on SO MANY levels.
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The US military does a lot of blue team stuff -- there's been a cultural shift from the days of zero day hoarding that started around the time some analyst went buck wild with their exploits. (Le…
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I decided to go ahead and click through, since this looks like it's just an expired certificate. It's a really great piece of creative nonfiction that evoked all sorts of emotions, some of…
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Anyone have a non-paywalled source?
8d ago·view thread
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Just to clarify, do you "indeed" that links can't be stolen, or do you "indeed" the idea that we should all just adopt the ironic detached tone of the dirtbag left to discuss …
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