tephra

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by tephra 3mo ago
There is a quote, I can't remember by whom, going something like "all translation is interpretation" (IIRC I heard it on a great courses course on the bible). To think that there is some sort of absolute truth of how somethin
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by tephra 6mo ago
I wonder how true this is, we have the same system in Sweden, that court judgement are not legally binding precedent for lower courts. But in practice lower courts will follow the rulings made by the high court. Is it not the same in Spain
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by tephra 7mo ago
Do you have any examples of this?
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by tephra 1y ago
I can highly recommend the radio documentary https://www.sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/vipeholmsanstalten-min-... it's horrifying (in Swedish of course but hopefully more understandable to a Dane than Danish [to my own
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by tephra 1y ago
I like Rust and have an ambition to learn it as well (I've had a few false starts...). One of my issues that I have is that every (slight exaggeration) library that I seem to come across is still at version 0.x.y. Take this library as
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by tephra 1y ago
IIRC CIRA who is the delegated ccTLD manager of .ca is not a government entity (this is quite common in the ccTLD space actually, a lot of ccTLD are being managed by foundations or non-profits).
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by tephra 2y ago
I think RDAP is going to be adopted by more and more ccTLDs as well. WHOIS is not a particularly well liked protocol (I was at an IETF meeting where ICANN did a presentation on the timeline and people were literally cheering for the demise
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by tephra 2y ago
There are a variety of ways! Some TLDs gives you open access to just query the DNS and do an AXFR (download the whole zone), for example the .se and .nu ccTLDs (which I happen to work for the foundation managing those): dig @zonedata.iis.se
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by tephra 2y ago
IIRC those were dropped by a second plane accompanying the Enola Gay.
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by tephra 2y ago
I have some insight into this domain (pun duly intended), I work for a foundation managing two ccTLDs. Once the ccTLD has been delegated to an entity it is very hard to get that back without the consent of all parties. Meaning unless the en
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by tephra 2y ago
I know two people that spend some of their time writing COBOL for a major bank. They do find that part of the job pretty boring, it is basically just writing down SQL queries in a COBOL file and then trying to get passed their 50 year old d
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by tephra 2y ago
If you want WHOIS with a better defined format we have a protocol for that! It's called RDAP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registration_Data_Access_Proto...
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by tephra 2y ago
The British Museum have somewhere on the order of 8 million objects. Having been collected since 1759 (and indeed before) in various state of being catalogued correctly at the time of collection. The collection has survived new buildings be
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by tephra 2y ago
They say quite clearly why in their privacy policy: https://proton.me/legal/privacy (section 2.5: IP Logging). > 2.5 IP logging: By default, we do not keep permanent IP logs in relation with your Account. However, I
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by tephra 2y ago
The problem for Ukraine was that they didn't have that much control over the weapons. The ability to launch them was only something Moscow could do (they might have been able to reverse engineer control and remove safeguards and the mi
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by tephra 2y ago
I think everyone working in this space (i.e spaced repetition learning, tools for thought etc) should read Andy Matuschak ( https://andymatuschak.org/ ). There is a lot to learn from his work.
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by tephra 3y ago
If you'd tried going to fnac.nl or say use curl for a http request you'd see that it is in fact correct. Ping does not a http request make as they said in the olden days.
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by tephra 3y ago
Those are all part of the DNS.
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by tephra 3y ago
While there are certainly complex and weird stuff in the DNS world. The basic of how the DNS works is really not that complicated.
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by tephra 3y ago
The DSA has already been passed and there are no "prohibited" services (the digital service coordinator can under some special circumstances request a limited suspension of service in a member state but not a permanent if I'm
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by tephra 3y ago
This is just wrong. In many EU countries the free speech protections are quite extensive (and some of us live in countries that have protected speech longer than the U.S have been around).
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by tephra 3y ago
Indeed you can. All Swedish unions will publish annual reports that include information on what they've done and what the money has been spent on. Here are all the reports for the largest union in Sweden for example: https:/&#x2F
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by tephra 3y ago
Microsoft also has financial incentives with their PhotoDNA software [0]. [0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/photodna
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by tephra 3y ago
I certainly didn't say that Wikipedia claims he is a loony conspiracy theorists (I am though implying that the scientific field of archaeology thinks that) and I didn't mock you, but if anything Graham Hancocks ideas (which are di
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by tephra 3y ago
It's of course cool to see these places. But do remember that Hancocks "theories" are, if we are being nice today, utter nonsensical pseudoscience. If you want some real archeology I recommend Milo from the miniminuteman YouT
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by tephra 3y ago
In some cases you can also use luminescence dating[0], which can tell you the last time a mineral was exposed to sunlight. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminescence_dating
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by tephra 3y ago
Yes https://proton.me/blog/security-audit
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by tephra 3y ago
No. Were do you think I did that? I'm just saying this is not the case of a U.S company being fined for breaking EU law (which many seem to think) but a EU company breaking EU law. And further that there are probably a lot of GDPR viol
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by tephra 3y ago
They could be (and probably are), but remember, this case is about a EU company (Meta Platforms Ireland Limited) breaking EU law and subsequently being punished for that, with fines proportional to the revenue of the parent company (a US co
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by tephra 3y ago
It's actually worse since the company that this opinion talks about is an _EU_ company (Meta platforms Ireland Limited). The fine is based on the global revenue but the company being targeted here, and the company that didn't foll

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