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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
The last people I am ever going to trust about matters of security is US BigTech. Consortium or not. This idea has no legs. We absolutely need an international cyber threat intelligence network, with many checks, balances and oversights. If
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
Amidst all the inhumane political calamity TFA hits on the most interesting sounding discussion on the limits of rational perception, relation of computabilty and knowability. That's a talk I'd like to see.
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
Good point. Yes I think I miss that of Slashdot too. There's such a thing as a healthy amount of banter, and the good stuff (not overly sardonic) takes the edge off the doom imho.
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
Yes. It's consistently very well filtered. This article is fairly typical, if you have the patience for such thorough long-form analysis.
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
I'm not familiar with Reddit, but assume it descended into total clownery. Hence the rules "don't comment that this place is starting to get like Reddit" I guess.
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
Mine started 5/6, but the more recent books are made for kids. The earlier newspaper cartoons are not. Same with TV, the later Japanese/Dutch produced TV series is lovely. The earlier TV series (there are several) are dark as th
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
That's insightful though I wasn't pitching that so much as humour being just part of life and removing/excluding it distorts discourse. I've heard many fascinating accounts of how sensitivity to humour indicates the &quo
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
True, but do you (HN readers) look on transgression only with nostalgia? What would be usefully transgressive today? Much subversive humour is Socratic in just asking (pointing out) hard questions. In that vein, TBH I find it hard to square
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
I like your ideas and suspect we're far more on the same page than not. Nonetheless I compare what we call "capitalism" to chameleon music artists like David Bowie (no disrespect intended to that wonderful artist), who change
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
All of that. A couple more thoughts. As a project it brings together energy to a task/configuration: namely that of making sure all those disparate command-line tools or bits of lib code are brought together for the specific purpose
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
I see the problem not as VC money, but the ridiculous idea of the optimised one-size mass-marketable product. The myth of "what people want" (which is art entirely pulled out of the air of marketing, public opinion, focus groups i
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How can we help America?(cybershow.uk)
3 points by nonrandomstring 1y ago|3 comments
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
Hey you seem rattled by that. I'm just humorously, and therefore much more kindly pointing out something that could sound cruel if put plainly; that you have a naive and distorted understanding of human relations and offer really, real
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
We're talking about two views of "capitalism". I think you're talking about the kind in textbooks on economics and Marxism etc. I'm talking about the lawless, insane festival of destruction and human misery we see t
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Rossfest: Celebrating the Life of Prof. Ross Anderson(cybershow.uk)
3 points by nonrandomstring 1y ago|0 comments
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
Bad guys change their IP addresses and make up domain names a lot. No shit. You need a name for that? Whose in charge here?
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
> capitalism was never reviewed or updated according to new science about anthropology, sociology, and economics? If taking a human-science view, then one interesting take on capitalism is that it isn't a thing at all. It's
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
"Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short". That was the life Thomas Hobbes argued against in 1651 [0] and to which US America has such a nostalgia for. [0] https://philosophy.tamucc.edu/texts/hobbes-leviatha
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
Recently I've encountered a growing, serious group of people (particularly in smaller business) who are seeking out, restoring and using pre-2000 hardware for security reasons . Of course it starts as a joke; "Oh I wish I just ha
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
Roger Penrose was right.
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
Getting famous and having a cult following isn't always the best thing for an author. Not for their works. Rand wrote one good book [0]. Actually really got to me. Probably not one you think of. "We The Living", a pretty ble
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
> wants it nnormalized A psychological device of "blutkit" (blood cement). For example; young Nazi SS officers were recruited via a ritual attrocity like participation in a massacre. After that "we're all in this toge
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
The Amazon rainforest has evolved for at least 55 million years. It is likely home to millions of compounds of potential medicinal value. In just 50 years 100 million hectares, 390 billion individual trees 16,000 visible species and (estima
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
Most simply this all boils down to two entirely incompatible models of a university. One institution produces thinkers who can innovate and lead. The other is a training camp that produces docile workers for the oligarchs. Regardless of all
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
Didn't rachelbytheebay post recently that her blog was being swamped? I've heard that from a few self-hosting bloggers now. And Wikipedia has recently said more than half of traffic is noe bots. ARe you claiming this isn't a
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
Absolutely, yes! A protocol should not be tied to client details. Where did "User Agent" strings even come from?
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
The subject is deadly serious, and I only wish I could amplify it more. The abdication of reason and responsibility to machines is desperately dumb and no good will come of it. Maybe what I'm getting at is this [0] poem of Taylor Mali.
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
> blame here are solely the ones employing these fingerprinting techniques, Sure. And it's a tragedy. But when you look at the bot situation and the sheer magnitude of resource abuse out there, you have to see it from the other side
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
> This isn’t a rant against AI. I use it daily It is, but it adds disingenuous apologetic. Not wishing to pick on this particular author, or even this particular topic, but it follows a clear pattern that you can find everywhere in tech
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by nonrandomstring 1y ago
An "accelerating situation". Jay Forrester [0] spoke about system dynamics and how, if you focus on rate of change (at different orders) you see distinct linear or non-linear situations. If systems are linear, then if they go wron

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