scrupulusalbion

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by scrupulusalbion 7y ago
Thanks for the recommendation! Here's a PDF version of it: https://mises.org/library/driver
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by scrupulusalbion 7y ago
>what happens when messaging with ciphertext becomes illegal Back in the late 90s, Ron Rivest proposed Chaffing and Winnowing [0]. In that scheme, no ciphertext is transmitted and therefore no encryption is involved; only plausible plai
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by scrupulusalbion 8y ago
>they were first treated as a single group of lock-step individuals by those looking to oppress them. Is it crazy that to respond, they respond as a group? I think it plays into the propaganda of the oppressive regime by not asserting in
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by scrupulusalbion 8y ago
>it seems pretty reasonable to assume all third-party elements on the web are hostile. The trouble is that a lot of good and bad JS/CSS/content is gotten from third-party sites. Some websites are simply useless unless your bro
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by scrupulusalbion 8y ago
I see two issues here: (1) Whether LE agencies are actually finding it more-and-more difficult to access devices that employ encryption. I think this is plausibly true, simply because there are more such devices being sold than ever before
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by scrupulusalbion 8y ago
>I’m finding that “social networks” should be a consequence of a product that solves a real problem, not that product’s raison d’etre. Facebook mainly solves one problem: How do I keep in communication with the many people I know IRL? T
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by scrupulusalbion 8y ago
I doubt this could ever be used to arbitrarily read minds. Even if you could do the measurements without the targer knowing, you would have to somehow correlate the target's real thoughts with those measurements. In the article, the
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by scrupulusalbion 8y ago
Can arithmetic be applyied to NaN a la i? (e.g. 5 + 2 * NaN = 5 + 2NaN)
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by scrupulusalbion 9y ago
Suppose this were an individual's own blog post: "I was a racist prior to the 70s. Here's some articles where I show clear racism from that time. In the 70s I had a change of heart. Here's some articles from the 2000s wh
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by scrupulusalbion 9y ago
This is an excellent article. From the Wiki article on the Dalai Lama[0]: >Since the time of the fifth Dalai Lama, his personage has always been a symbol of unification of the state of Tibet, where he has represented Buddhist values and
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by scrupulusalbion 9y ago
>Territorial Dispute will search files on the infected computer for file names and registry keys known to have been used by malware deployed by other nation-state hacking groups. This seems rather easy to defeat; it is analogous to secur
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by scrupulusalbion 9y ago
>Google is the weapon used by all the groups involved. This also shows that Google is a power-deficient gate-keeper, because they are buckling under pressure over search results. Somewhat OT: Wikipedia has a list of Swedish Jews[0], but
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by scrupulusalbion 10y ago
Honestly, having two computers has been the only way I can sanely function at work. We have to use Windows for at least one application. My solution has been to setup a second desktop (these are small towers), install Linux on it, and rem
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by scrupulusalbion 10y ago
Virtues are generally disregarded by those who seek instant gratification. Most of the times that I bring up the concept of virtue to my peers in age they seem either confused with the concept or contemptuous of it. They behave like virtue
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by scrupulusalbion 10y ago
> users are treated as both beta-testers and maintainters, and are expected to find and fix bugs themselves. FWIW, this is probably both an historical attitude and a population difference. If you and a colleague at a university just ma
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by scrupulusalbion 10y ago
> Recent Intel x86 processors implement a secret, powerful control mechanism... Recent is overflowingly unhelpful, considering AMT (a part of IME) popped up in ICH7 back in mid-2005 [0]. It is unfortunate that Doctorow is associated wit
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by scrupulusalbion 10y ago
I think the word serverless is being used from the perspective of whether you have to maintain it yourself. Its just outsourcing, but that is a bad word so let's make a better trendy word. Things like Bitcoin and Bittorrent would bett
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by scrupulusalbion 10y ago
> Meanwhile, public utility water outclasses bottled, Bottled water is often just tap water. Flint Michigan has undrinkable water as a result of decades of mismanagement from the entrenched local politicians. The water in my city makes m
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by scrupulusalbion 10y ago
Are you sure that this is an America/California/Silicon-Valley feature? That your own internal critical voice arose as a result of growing up with your father (a German) seems to indicate that you got it from either having an imm
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by scrupulusalbion 10y ago
This would mean that a floppy disc (hardware) and the filesystem used to arrange the bits thereon (software) are each a database. How is breaking down the distinction between database, filesystem, and storage medium helpful?
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by scrupulusalbion 10y ago
TL;DR: Build yourself a desktop with a non-vPro CPU and a non-Intel NIC. Check [0] for a list of such CPUs. The usual recommendation is to either get a pre-2009 AMD machine (which is what my present desktop is) or get a Sparc machine. My
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by scrupulusalbion 10y ago
I presume this [0] is the referenced paper. [0] = http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v520/n7549/abs/nature14...
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by scrupulusalbion 10y ago
Its nice to see this sort of explanation. I just wish this had come out earlier, like when Arch was in the process of switching over to Systemd. >Lack of confiurability. It was impossible to change the behaviour of initscripts in a way
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by scrupulusalbion 10y ago
>we just downloaded a spreadsheet with X questions If you don't mind me asking, from where did you get this spreadsheet?
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by scrupulusalbion 10y ago
Did they even have any sort of filter? If they at least blacklisted these words [0], then that seems like a reasonable enough effort on its own. However, these developers would have had to be living in a bubble to not know about trolls f
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by scrupulusalbion 10y ago
I thinks its important whether they are taking pictures of people in those situations. Tourist locations get plenty of photographs, but the people doing the visiting are properly the object of photography. I don't care about yet anot
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by scrupulusalbion 10y ago
> The unix principle works quite well for stuff like grep/find/awk but there is just now way you could make GIMP follow the unix principle. It seems that the unix principle is most relevant when compiling a C program takes too
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by scrupulusalbion 10y ago
> depending on the language itself Are there any languages or language families that you find easier to use? (inb4 COBOL is the easiest)
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by scrupulusalbion 10y ago
Perhaps a hybrid business model could be achieved by setting the hardware to talk to a central server of the user's choice. The server software would be open source and be manageable via a web interface, which is mobile-friendly. The
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by scrupulusalbion 10y ago
Do these toilets seriously not function without internet access? I guess I could see the toilet being essentially a sensor array with some networking hardware; the decision-making about your fecal content would then be done in a datacenter

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