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by socket0 10mo ago
Imagine tech journalists in 2025 not knowing what a canary is...
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by socket0 3y ago
Absolutely. They're going for all the safe, boring choices, and depending on the business side of their industry to make money. You don't show a profit by making the next Children of Men, you show a profit by tweaking the Fast&amp
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by socket0 3y ago
And yet when I watch the flood of movies, television shows, novels, music, and fine art available to me, I have a really hard time finding anything unpredictable. Great skill is involved in creating them (sometimes), but for every one expe
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by socket0 4y ago
It might be this one? Secluded treasures & tax incentives - The freeport system https://youtu.be/5bIGd3jcrS4
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by socket0 4y ago
What bothers me most about the recommendations I get are the videos I have clearly watched. "You recently watched this clip, so we at YouTube think you should watch it again."
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by socket0 5y ago
Wordle is basically gambling, but like a lot of games of chance you can improve your odds using skill. A good vocabulary, good starter words, solid analytical skills. But peeking at the word list, players are often still left with three or
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by socket0 5y ago
If it's intentionally shielded from prying eyes, and possibly nefarious, it's the dark web. More often than not this would be on Tor, I2P, or similar, but that's not required. If it simply can't be easily indexed by sear
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by socket0 5y ago
One of my first websites used the single pixel GIF for layout, which still works. The website for a snowboarding magazine was intended to symbolise the curved slalom of descending a slope, and was a nightmare in absolute positioning: https
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Fairy Chess Piece(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by socket0 5y ago|0 comments
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by socket0 6y ago
Many phishing pages reside on compromised domains. Bob's Plumbing Supplies might wonder why their Wordpress site loaded with plug-ins has stopped working, ask someone to take a look, and see your IP address all over the logs.
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by socket0 8y ago
That's the whole point of this, by blocking Amazon, these countries would be taking down a large part of the Internet inside their borders. We're not talking Amazon your one stop shop for dildos and bobble heads, but AWS, which po
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by socket0 9y ago
I'm going to have to agree with Google here, in that this isn't an exploitable security vulnerability. Knowing that the mailboxes famous.celebrity@gmail.com or controversial.journalist@gmail.com exist doesn't bring me any clo
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by socket0 9y ago
Definitely. The problem is that consumers (especially small business) so often end up buying an overpriced and badly configured black box, when a decent expert would have been able to set up the same software properly.
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by socket0 9y ago
I find these kinds of stories infuriating (and just a bit frustrating). Charlatans repackage, rebrand, and repurpose FOSS, then sell them at an unrealistic markup to unsuspecting dupes. Anything from PABX or VoIP systems based on Asterisk,
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by socket0 9y ago
Indeed, the art of badly written headlines apparently takes up a whole chapter in the Ars Technica style guide. This should have been: "Google pushes fake news and hate-speech workshops (and YouTube) on UK teens". In addition, eve
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by socket0 10y ago
“Are they going to try and land anyway?” It's unlikely that the pilot simply took a gamble. Presumably ground crew took a look, either on the first go-round or during the second approach, and confirmed that the landing gear was down. I
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by socket0 10y ago
Even as late as 1995, I remember flying from South Africa to the UK (in the non-smoking section) while the guy behind me (in the smoking section) was smoking extremely smelly eastern European cigarettes. Quite an adventure when you're
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by socket0 10y ago
Presumably, regular customers also react to these free offers. You always get your pizza from A, but because it's free you try B. Perhaps B think their pizzas are better. Perhaps B just offer you free pizzas long enough to break your h
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by socket0 10y ago
If they're really interested, they'll probably just Google you. Or use something they purchased for tens of millions of dollars, that simply performs a Google search. If you're an older person, and have no online footprint, t
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by socket0 10y ago
That's likely to be a red flag and used against you. Remember, as a non-US citizen, border guards don't have to prove you're guilty of anything. Any suspicion, no matter how trivial or unreasonable, and you have to be able to
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by socket0 10y ago
Make mine deep-fried potato products, and I'm in. Although something nausiating to kill any appetite might be more productive.
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by socket0 10y ago
"The United States and Russia maintain roughly 1,800 of their nuclear weapons on high-alert status – ready to be launched within minutes of a warning."" Yes, we're doing much better now. Source: http://www.ica
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by socket0 10y ago
That statement itself means very little. I would argue the value is created where thousands of workers turn designs into millions of individual devices; Tim Cook might argue value is created where slapping an Apple logo on the device transf
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by socket0 10y ago
I think you've nailed it here. Viewed from the outside, Reddit is a very different place than when viewed from the inside. Outsiders tend to go to the default subs, which are the first subs you unsubscribe from when you choose to stay.
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by socket0 10y ago
gfaure probably meant something we now would consider completely unrelated. An owl hooted twice, and then the child died. So two hoots from a certain type of owl predicts a death in the house. As silly as this sounds to us today, there&#x27
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by socket0 10y ago
One clear problem with using A.D. (anno Domini) as measure for time elapsed, is that in 10,000 years Domini will no doubt be taken to mean either Bender Rodriguez or Donald Trump.
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by socket0 10y ago
On the plus side, perhaps I can now expect LinkedIn contact requests from a better class of tech savvy scammer...
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by socket0 10y ago
> Trust that the people doing it know what they are doing. Science does not require trust. The wonder of the scientific method is that any old nutty crank (given the ability to convince a small panel of his peers of the merits of his cra
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by socket0 10y ago
The end result of such a ban would be to punish legitimate users (those mentioned in the article, like tourists and the poor). It would do absolutely nothing against criminals who can persuade anyone desperate enough for money to buy a burn
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by socket0 10y ago
Courts (especially in the US) have been known to equate all kinds of things with speech, so it's not unthinkable to equate the symbolic act of NOT doing something with a form of speech. Not standing for the the national anthem or Pledg

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