DicIfTEx

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by DicIfTEx 1mo ago
Imagine I sell you something and you pay me in cash. The notes look authentic, but I later discover that they are conterfeits. It would be absurd to claim that your successful passing-off deception demonstrates that I don't value money
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by DicIfTEx 2mo ago
This one, by Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike, perhaps? https://moxie.org/2013/06/12/we-should-all-have-something-to...
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by DicIfTEx 2mo ago
I'm unreasonably fond of the numero symbol (№), although I've never quite settled on whether it should be followed immediately by the number or whether there should be a (non-breaking, potentially thin) space between them. Althoug
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by DicIfTEx 2mo ago
A fantastic feature, but unfortunately currently broken (as in over- rather than under-zealous) for prevention levels other than 'Low': https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=509990
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by DicIfTEx 2mo ago
This reminds me of a very interesting book called “Southern Thought and Other Essays on the Mediterranean” by Franco Cassano: https://academic.oup.com/fordham-scholarship-online/book/208... In short, he argues tha
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by DicIfTEx 2mo ago
So do several countries, as listed here at https://www.etuc.org/en/pressrelease/climate-crisis-requires... : > Belgium: 29°C for light physical workload, 26°C for a moderately heavy physical workload, 22°C at h
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by DicIfTEx 2mo ago
The fantastic Fall of Civilizations podcast also had an episode about it: https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/2019/01/21/episode-2-...
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by DicIfTEx 2mo ago
Coincidentally enough, frequent Atlantic contributor James Fallows wrote a rather scathing assessment of the Economist (albeit in the Post ) way back in 1991: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/199
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by DicIfTEx 3mo ago
Here's a recent blog post in a similar vein: https://benthams.substack.com/p/voting-self-interestedly-is-... Although your plane crash example falls afoul of the broken window fallacy: https://en.wikipe
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by DicIfTEx 3mo ago
I think back to this 2019 talk about software engineering by Jonathan Blow, entitled ”Preventing the Collapse of Civilization”, more and more often lately: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko
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by DicIfTEx 3mo ago
Same here; I remember playing ARMA 3 during the early-2013 public alpha, which was an eye-opening look at how the gaming sausage is made in real time (and before Early Access was as established a concept as it is now). I was rather disapp
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by DicIfTEx 3mo ago
Meyer has continued to mark anniversaries in the life Rebecca would have led, most recently a week ago on what would have been her eighteen birthday: https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2026/06/07/eig
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by DicIfTEx 5mo ago
I can't recommend this 2019 talk about software engineering by Jonathan Blow, entitled ”Preventing the Collapse of Civilization”, enough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko
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by DicIfTEx 5mo ago
https://www.diabetes.org.uk/about-us/news-and-views/junk-foo... https://www.newfoodmagazine.com/government-bans-high-sugar-a... https://www.gov.uk/government/news/soft-dr
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by DicIfTEx 8mo ago
And for anything you really need to keep hidden, there's always cul portage.
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by DicIfTEx 8mo ago
NB: On looking into this, it appears to be one Lemkin relative (who claims to be working on behalf of the family) and a collection of Zionist organisations who take issue with the Institute's accurate description of Israel's actio
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by DicIfTEx 8mo ago
Given there's a lot of trans techies out there, and things will probably heat up sharply in the US following the Venezuela attack and Minneapolis ICE shooting, this seems like a worthwhile warning to share here. See also this link for
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Experts Warn U.S. in Early Stages of Genocide Against Trans Americans(lemkininstitute.com)
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by DicIfTEx 8mo ago
> They were the first to be purged together with homosexuals, transvestites, handicapped, etc. Speaking of which: https://www.lemkininstitute.com/single-post/experts-warn-u-s...
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by DicIfTEx 9mo ago
> I always reflect on the energy generation statistics of the UK per capita Can you elaborate on this? From what I can tell, the UK's per-capita electricity generation has dropped steadily from a 2003 high[0] (4,069 kWh in 2024, 6,6
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by DicIfTEx 9mo ago
Under current DoJ antitrust guidelines, there's nothing to stop a future administration from reviewing any anti-competitive actions ignored by the current one as part of an anti-competitive series of actions: https://www.jus
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by DicIfTEx 10mo ago
As does GrapheneOS with its Contact Scopes permission.
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by DicIfTEx 11mo ago
Ah my mistake, I linked to the docs for `pg_dump` (which has long had the `format` option) rather than `pg_dumpall` (which lacks it). Before Postgres 18 was released, the docs listed `format` as an option for `pg_dumpall` in the upcoming ve
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by DicIfTEx 11mo ago
I was expecting `pg_dumpall` to get the `--format` option in v18,[0] but at the moment the docs say it's still only available in the development branch.[1] Is anyone familiar with Postgres development able to give an update on the stat
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by DicIfTEx 1y ago
Estonia's system was an area of some fascination for me years ago, so here's what I can remember: After splitting from the Soviet Union, Estonia were basically starting from scratch with their telecoms system. Finland offered them
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by DicIfTEx 1y ago
Just the other day, someone saw a pile of textbooks in my room and commented incredulously that I ‘still learn things from books?’ It was one of the most jarringly alien things I’ve ever heard, like being told that everyone has moved on fro
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by DicIfTEx 1y ago
There are still many details yet to come out, and the future is as ever unwritten, but I think a better historical analogue for the killing of Charlie Kirk is Horst Wessel, who Goebbels turned into a martyr for the NSDAP.
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by DicIfTEx 1y ago
Not so puzzling; see also this classic post from Moxie Marlinspike, founder of Signal: https://moxie.org/2013/06/12/we-should-all-have-something-to... > Over the past year, there have been a number of head
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by DicIfTEx 1y ago
Hannah Arendt considered this argument in her essay "Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship": > In the tumultuous discussion of moral issues which has been going on since the defeat of Nazi Germany, and the disclosure of th
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by DicIfTEx 1y ago
Pretty much. Here's an in-depth look at mortality patterns in pre-modern societies: https://acoup.blog/2025/07/18/collections-life-work-death-an... > One quirk to these model tables I want to note, be

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