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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Where can I buy this book? I'll get one now, even if I never read it.
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Good question. I'd also like to hear more detail (budget, time, people and skills) on real cases. When I had research students I set a few of them doing studies on migration, degoogling, data "repatriation" (ick!) and all the
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
That's a lot of words to describe technofascism. I'm still regularly surprised how far behind mainstream/media/public understanding is on issues that we take for granted as hackers. However, the Atlantic hints at one fre
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
> Has anyone ever seen Facebook as idealistic? During the "Arab Spring" [0], a lot of people thought Facebook was the dogs bollocks and that the sun shone out of Mark Zuckerberg's arse. [0] https://en.wikipedia.
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Well we've used pigeons fr missile guidance before [0], and for messaging [1], so birds have a firm place in the military including having their own special units [2] More generally, the history of warfare is all about taking the enemy
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UK backtracks NCSC encryption advice(cybershow.uk)
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
> against the basic human (animal?) instinct to take the path of least resistance. Fitness. Nobody takes a run because they're needing to waste a half hour. Okay, some people just have energy and time to burn, and some like to co
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
And that too. Company towns are usually built around a resource like a mine or something, whereas city states arise at natural confluences. A company setup has only one show in town and whoever controls that is boss. Building out in the des
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Hopefully I'm not nitpicking, "propaganda" in general form can be to any purpose; rallying/unity, sapping morale, creating a scapegoat... A lovely word for what your describing is "discombobulation" - sowing se
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
I really like the idea of a well designed, and open, scalable home power solution with grid integration. My thought for you; battery technology is going to keep changing, so design-in that variability for the long term. Ideally one should b
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
> what regulations they want to be free from? All those except their own. The old concept of the city state or polis [0] helps somewhat in understanding this model of granularity. From my ignorant reading of classics, they're basica
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
> So I think that's the real reason these systems never took off: "everything works together" too often becomes "everything breaks together." Beautifully put.
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Why bother? Let Bill Hicks explain..... You know I've noticed a certain anti-intellectualism going around this country ever since around 1980, coincidentally enough. I was in Nashville, Tennessee last weekend and after the show
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Malicious updates and vendor malware are super hot topics now. Out and out vandalism of private property obviously breaches every flavour of "computer misuse" law. There probably hasn't been a massive class-action against com
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
I totally love this early principle [0] for RAM by literally writing in electrons on a 2D surface and then reading them back using the electron gun. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_tube
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
> only Russia would have the motive to link or frame Ukraine to the hack. Or Musk/US Gov. What actual evidence is there that the alleged "attack" on Twitter really took place? Now the Internet Observatory and much of US
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
It's amazing to be the one saying it! I'm generally reflective and reluctant to take up slogans. But once the jackboots started proudly and openly signalling it on the world stage, it got a bit difficult to keep pretending other
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Great example, and I'm old enough to have also wondered why those "nc" pins on valves and ICs clearly did do something . As you frame it, it's "What the eye doesn't see the heart doesn't grieve". Def
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
FTR that's not what I'm suggesting. Good communities are worth protecting and preserving. But that means looking out for threats to a community and defending the members. Clearly moderators (of all US-based forums) are facing a ha
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Storm in a teacup. But it raises an interesting question. Why are these HCI commands "undocumented"? A phrase I hear around security nowadays is "Shadow API" [0, 1] A shadow API is an undocumented one, and it tends to se
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
I agree with much of that. Corporate "identity" and "ethics" is a nonsense - mostly conjured up by types who like to hide their malfeasance in a crowd. But there is such a thing as group psychology [0]. And many fascina
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Yes, most spineless. Community is shared interests worth standing up for together all the same, so it's not always a watering-hole around money. But I get your drift.
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
On the other hand, institutions from science and technology, wireless communications, radio and phonograph, made all of these recordings possible. Just sayin. So nil-nil at half-time for the argument against "bare" institutions? O
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
> What makes you think that all of a sudden they would pivot from chasing profits to defending those users, You're putting YC into the same box as Meta? I'm probably very naive, but I think it's necessary to defend your u
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
History shows city states go to war with each other and within themselves far more readily than nation states. Presumably shining technofascist utopias will not be needing the US Army or Judiciary as they'll have their own robot militi
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
> All responses are confidential No, they'll be on Surveymonkey INC, headquartered in San Mateo US With the greatest of respect, I cannot fathom how you're contemplating building compliance assistive software while blindsided b
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
They pick their sides for profitable expedience. I expect they would betray those sides just as fast for profitable expedience. US, EU, it's all one big world, and business never prospers in the long-run under the heel of a boot.
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Paul Graham wrote some very fine LISP books IIRC, and that's absolutely all I know about him. We may have had some cordial exchanges here on HN. To the extent Mr Graham is influential on this forum I'm sure he understands the peri
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Breakups are painful. A great battle is afoot on the "data sovereignty" ground, for sure. It's over a year since I spoke at Cloud Native Media [0] on the urgent need to extricate sensitive processes and data from US American
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
If even half of this is true, I wonder what the future of HN is? THis forum is backed by Ycombinator, a US based "investment" company. Do they have plans to relocate to friendlier climes?

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