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by af78 11d ago
> Continuing to read things on it, even through Nitter, is in the interests of Twitter/X Yet Twitter/X sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Nitter folks, which seems to contradict the idea that they think people reading conten
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by af78 3mo ago
With interceptors that cost the defender $100k/unit and shaheds that cost the attacker $10k/unit, over time the attacker can bankrupt the defender if the target is something the defender cannot afford to lose. Sometimes it takes s
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by af78 4mo ago
One I can think of is simplicity. No need to worry about what the type of the string should be (size_t?) or where it should be stored. Just pass around a pointer. Pointers fit the size of a CPU register most of the time. Though in my opinio
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by af78 7mo ago
Time to add 2FA...
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by af78 8mo ago
Surprisingly Jia Tan has not offered to help yet.
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by af78 8mo ago
CYCLADES ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CYCLADES ) was influential in the design of important Internet concepts like the OSI model and TCP.
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by af78 8mo ago
I think he writes 'compensate' ( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/compensate , meaning no. 3) as a translation of 'compenser' ( https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/compenser ). There&#x27
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Rethinking European Digital Sovereignty(systemicconstraints.substack.com)
7 points by af78 8mo ago|0 comments
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by af78 9mo ago
True, however the penalty depends on the amount by which the threshold was crossed; in the country I live in at least.
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by af78 9mo ago
A rate of 10 000 (ten thousand) RPM is mentioned in the video for certain bacteria. My background is in mechanical engineering, does RPM stand for revolutions per minute here? Sounds unbelievably fast for biochemical processes.
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by af78 9mo ago
Taxation is only part of the picture. Quoting from https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/13/uncle-sucker/ : In the EU, they've had the GDPR – a big, muscular privacy law – for nine years, and all it's
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by af78 9mo ago
European leaders are far from blameless. I fully agree European countries should have weaned themselves from Russian gas and ramped up military spending much sooner. Meanwhile for a long time the US retained control of NATO military structu
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by af78 9mo ago
I am now convinced that Russian complaints about supposed US influence campaigns, “NATO expansion” etc. were never sincere. Russia has conducted info-ops in the West forever, during the Cold War and after. If there's an expansionist po
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by af78 9mo ago
> Are you suggesting that the Russians were using __ The Guardian __ as part of an influence campaign....in 2004? Definitely! Because they did the exact same thing in France, where I lived at that time, and probably other countries. I re
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by af78 9mo ago
The linked article is long on opinion, short on facts. The content does not support the headline. This is likely part of a Russian influence campaign (they did not start yesterday), aimed at de-legitimizing the protest movement and denying
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by af78 10mo ago
I had a similar experience of writing machine code for Z80-based computers (Amstrad CPC) in the 90's, as a teenager. I didn't have an assembler so I manually converted mnemonics to hex. I still remember a few opcodes: CD for CALL,
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by af78 11mo ago
That's how I would define kouign-amann.
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by af78 11mo ago
In a dictatorship, running against the leader involves more personal risk than in a country that is already democratic. Also, democracies tend to be more peaceful than dictatorships; my understanding is that efforts to transition from dicta
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by af78 11mo ago
One attempt I know of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan_man-in-the-middle_a... There might be others.
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One to two Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day(earthsky.org)
263 points by af78 1y ago|332 comments
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by af78 1y ago
Ukraine was left out of NATO. When Russia first invaded in 2014, European leaders looked the other way. Claims that there plans for Ukraine to join NATO and that Russia felt threatened and was forced to attack are just lies to attempt to ju
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by af78 1y ago
Russia is the aggressor in this war; if it stopped its aggression and withdrew from Ukraine, the war would stop. So the responsibility for deescalating falls squarely on Russia. Russia has no intention to stop; on the contrary it is ramping
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by af78 1y ago
I have heard this move characterized as "horizontal escalation". Putin is stuck in Ukraine (hasn't taken anything strategically significant, controls less territory than 3 years ago). So he tries to widen the confrontation ge
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by af78 1y ago
I found that surprising when I learned about it. Grass did not exist yet at the time of the dinosaurs. In good documentaries, artistic representations of dinosaurs may show them among ferns and trees, that did exist. But if I see grass I wi
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by af78 1y ago
Like calling for hotels housing asylum seekers to be set on fire? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3v5926yeqro
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by af78 1y ago
I share your pessimism. Le Pen's far-right National Rally (RN) has had ties with the Kremlin for a long time. That alone should have discredited this party a long time ago, but no, it is ranking as high as ever, even after russia'
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by af78 1y ago
As it's the first time I read about mixing wine with cremated remains I thought it was not a widespread funerary practice. So it looked to me like a request the person may have made before dying. But yeah, just a guess.
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by af78 1y ago
My first thought was: what does it taste like? But: > The vessel contained five liters of wine mixed with the cremains of the deceased and a gold ring at the bottom. Interesting that someone wished to spend the afterlife in wine.
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by af78 1y ago
I think it depends on the underlying filesystem. Unicode (UTF-16) is first-class on NTFS. But Windows still supports FAT, I guess, where multiple 8-bit encodings are possible: the so-called "OEM" code pages (437, 850 etc.) or &quo
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by af78 1y ago
The distinction is academical. As I wrote, freedom of speech is not absolute in the USA either, think copyright law or gag orders etc. And arguing about this day after Colbert's show is cancelled...

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