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1,244karma·643submissions·October 21, 2024
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Out of curiosity the use of this API normally logged in MacOS? This is interesting work... thanks for sharing.
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One thing I learned as a globe trotting cypherpunk: always respect sky law.
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I consider myself a lifelong student... I'm finding it's accelerating the disconnect between those who actually study things until they understand and those who learn how to please metrics a…
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Normally I wouldn't ask this, but having seen the effects of Alzheimer's I must ask: is there any evidence that taking creatine will harm my brain? Let's be real: I take a lot of edib…
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ah, makes sense, thank you.
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why is it named this? i'm guessing "fart" means something different in your language :-)
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>They just end up rewarded after doing shady tricks more often. Whereas in any other country being too devious too often is fatal. The market is adjusting apparently given the Mangione case and the…
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>Please don't use an obituary to make a nationalistic swipe on HN. I'm American. Please don't tone police me, especially if you're going to call me something I'm most certa…
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>This is a bit out of date. I haven't been there in over a decade, so I believe you.
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I find it weird that the same set that gatekept me from CS in the twenty aughts because I wasn't a hardcore C coder and quant now can't even write so much as a bash script while feeling enti…
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Rejecting the NSA pre-Snowden to design privacy enhancing technologies. Actually, in a fiscal sense this hasn't worked out well... but at least I can sleep at night.
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>Maybe they're a foreign intelligence cutout masquerading as a burned researcher. Whoever silently downvoted this, I'd love to hear why you so strongly disagree with my assessment.
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That now that they've joined NATO, it's safe to share with them. A "neutral" country might abuse them.
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Also, as a practical matter, maybe do as someone says if they have this many zero days sitting around? While they may have violated various TOS, it's my understanding that dropping a zero day lik…
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>Why would Nightmare-Eclipse not report them if they are not ? Maybe they're a foreign intelligence cutout masquerading as a burned researcher.
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Were you somehow able to intuit that parent is Finnish? I'm intrigued by your post -- I used to tell people send things like this to CERT/CC... but it's been so long since I dabbled in …
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I ate a lot 7/11 onigiri as a poor grad student exploring Tokyo on a long layover once... they're truly wonderful little stores. (They also are one of the few places you can use an ATM, very…
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But to "chill dissent", you must be capable of tracking it down before it hangs you from a gas station. I don't think you're fully grasping how sudden and forceful change could com…
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I had a friend point out their patient portal didn't even use HTTPS pre-Amazon buyout. They apparently got super hostile and tried to stop refilling his prescriptions unless he saw a specialist t…
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If laws are ambiguous, governments run the risk folks will conclude they'll get in trouble no matter how diligently they try to suss out the spirit of said laws. When combined with a comical inab…
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>There’s been a decent amount of studies to suggest it can actually Then cite them
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>Interesting that you named your HN account after a famous homophobe. that guy is no longer with the project and does brave now iirc (it's super interesting to us that two different people too…
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The issue is not the age you come online, it's what happens when you do. Delaying from 13 (COPPA) to 16 won't change a thing. When I was a kid, I was obsessed with Home Alone -- I thought if…
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Foucault was, but if we misunderstand on purpose, the sky is the limit.
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pets is a good conference. i also like anonbib as a central repo for interesting work. https://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/topic.html …
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I'd lump Mozilla into the bucket since it's a nonprofit and open source, it's hard to come up with an objective list of what makes an org "good" so sometimes it's been us…
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It used to be called Panoptoclik (sp?), a reference to Foucault's theory of the panopticon. Focault's extracurriculars are well documented and not everything is an "incident" -- it…