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by brightsize 11mo ago
The Straight White American Jesus podcast did a deep-dive on Thiel's thinking recently. It wasn't what I was expecting but then I hadn't previously been paying attention to him. Apparently he's all about tech-utopinism w
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Cyberthreats to railroads loom as industry and TSA grow an uneasy partnership(therecord.media)
2 points by brightsize 2y ago|1 comments
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by brightsize 2y ago
If the U.S. ever goes to war with a major adversary, one of the first waves of cyberattacks will likely target infrastructure that rarely comes up in discussions about digital threats: railroads.
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by brightsize 2y ago
> I wrote TSR's that snatched cycles off the timer interrupt We've all been there. How else could you get anything interesting done back in the day?
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by brightsize 2y ago
Having grown up in New England in the era, I remember "acid rain" being a big concern too. The polluters fought to keep anything from being done about the problem, but decades later some steps were actually taken by the US governm
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by brightsize 3y ago
And more tape drives. But Space:1999's moon base still had a huge number of Blinkenlights and related gear that I have to believe was under an expensive IBM support contract. I wonder if the company found a way to get out of the contra
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by brightsize 3y ago
Here you go. This is the second time in the past few years that cat was used to process bikers in the NW WA wilderness. The first time was fatal. I used to live about 15min from where this incident occurred. https://www.seattle
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by brightsize 3y ago
Not to suggest that the phenomena are necessarily related (though it wouldn't surprise me), there's also this: >Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is a fatal complication of epilepsy. It is defined as the sudden and un
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Full PGP Support in Skiff(skiff.com)
5 points by brightsize 3y ago|2 comments
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by brightsize 3y ago
>We’ve heard our users loud and clear - interoperable end to end encryption (E2EE) across email providers is critical for privacy and security online. We have taken this feedback to heart. We are proud to announce support for PGP encrypt
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by brightsize 3y ago
PBS Space Time just did an episode on this topic: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=vyEWLhOfLgQ
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by brightsize 3y ago
Use it again! Thunderbird has a built-in Usenet client and you can configure it to connect to any number of NNTP servers.
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by brightsize 3y ago
comp.lang.python is one of the busier (programming) groups as well.
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by brightsize 3y ago
*Hanford.
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by brightsize 3y ago
"Stop Time" - a 1967 memoir by Frank Conroy. [1] Next up, "Inequality In An Age of Decline" by Paul Blumberg (1980) [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop-Time [2] https://www.kirkusr
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by brightsize 3y ago
Spamgourmet ( https://www.spamgourmet.com , https://github.com/spamgourmet/spamgourmet ), free, has always worked well for me though these days I tend to just use the disposable addresses built in to Fastmail.
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by brightsize 3y ago
Re: hiking, your comment reminded me of this recent write-up in the Seattle Times. It's hard to imagine serious hikers hitting the trail in the PNW without at least one person in the party carrying the relevant Green Trails paper maps,
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by brightsize 3y ago
> Masons. Where these do exist, they've been gender integrated. Not true of the Regular Freemasons at any rate - "The attitude of most regular Anglo-American grand lodges remains that women Freemasons are not legitimate Masons&
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by brightsize 3y ago
Similar: I was a kid in S. VT in the 60s/70s and everyone using the phone system used five-digit dialing. You were assigned a 254-xxxx or 257-xxxx number, but when dialing you only had to use the last five #s, as the "25" pre
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by brightsize 3y ago
Eternal September, mentioned in the article, is good. Another that I know of is https://solani.org/ .
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by brightsize 3y ago
Have you had a look at Coconut? I don't know if it'll push all your buttons but whenever I hear someone who's reasonably content with Python but wants more FP goodies I always think of it. https://github.com/e
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by brightsize 3y ago
Thanks. I'm fortunate not to live in Medical Lake or nearby, where the most destructive fires (in terms of $damage$ anyway) are still ongoing. I know little about these air quality sites, how accurate they are, or if they are all measu
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by brightsize 3y ago
Sock it to us, BC. "OKANOGAN COUNTY, Wash. — The Crater Creek fire, that has burned an estimated 54,000 acres in British Columbia, has entered into Okanogan County." https://inx.lv/mi5t
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by brightsize 3y ago
I'm in Spokane, and on the PurpleAir website there are readings >500 all around, even in the city, which is not (yet) burning. The air outside is subjectively awful, the worst I can recall in 20 years living here. I'll be holin
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by brightsize 3y ago
Same for me, and I'm not using a VPN.
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by brightsize 3y ago
Your words about play, creativity and fun, and the maximization thereof, bring to mind a gem of an essay from Bob Black that I first encountered back in the days when 640K was enough for anyone. Dinosaur days. It's called "The Abo
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by brightsize 3y ago
Oh Pascal!, oh the nostalgia. I saved up the princely sum of $80-$100 back in TRS-80 Model III days to buy the Pascal 80 package, the New Classics version, which was basically a proto-IDE, and a pretty sweet one at the time. http:/&#x
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by brightsize 4y ago
My 1911, 3br/1ba in-city Spokane house cost me about $90K in 2003, currently appraised+taxed at around $300K as you say. I've no idea how ordinary people [that is, those w/o high incomes and/or high levels of wealth], an
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by brightsize 4y ago
+1 for UU. I'm not formally a member, but as far as churches go it's one of the few that I know of that atheist me might be able to tolerate. If you would prefer Xian, Jesus-y content with your (still quite-liberal) church, anothe
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by brightsize 4y ago
That was a wonderful comic slip-up and brought a smile to my face. TY for that! And now I'm wondering if I can go to a lawyer and get a "no-regurgitate" directive put in place. :-)

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