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alxon Laniakea Supercluster

and what could they deduce from the void they have in front of them?

alxon proofInAToot

they have their own instances: https://botsin.space/about/more

alxon Fisher Price Chatter Telephone with Bluetooth

My custom phone shell in 2004: https://flickr.com/photos/alx/1491266/in/photolist-8Diu-4j1o...

alxon A Hole in the Head: A History of Trepanation

Some pictures of this scroll are viewable in Hamilton's Pharmacopeia S03E06 Ultra LSD episode:

- https://youtu.be/7N4VoqeuK3s?t=433

- https://youtu.be/7N4VoqeuK3s?t=987

There are also more details and NSFW pictures about Feilding trepanation in this episode.

alxon The Rise and Fall of Minitel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_Niel

> In 1987 at 19, while dropping out from school, he successfully created then sold his first company, a Minitel (a French forerunner of the internet) service company. This minitel-site provided sex oriented chat services.

I suppose some backup of these services still exists today, I'd really like to see them published some day on https://archive.org/

alxon My Journey into Fractals

If you want to explore 3d fractals, I really recommend you to test this VR experience:

https://nshelton.github.io/vr/fractals/2017/12/30/RTA.html

alxon Understanding Ethereum Smart Contracts

http://decypher.tv/series/ethereum-development

alxon VR

Thanks for your project description, I've got a similar issue with aframe which is too low-level for me.

I'll have a look at your framework for new VR prototypes.

alxon Show HN: Fiddle.md – a collaborative writing tool by Swipe

@ggordan : is it using etherpad api for backend ?

alxon Gift of the Moon, Bane of the Spanish: The Story of Yerba Mate

In Germany, you should give a try to Flora Power, another mate-based soft drink :

http://flora-power.de/

It's more difficult to find than Club Mate (it's a local brew from Hamburg). Depending on your taste, it contains much less sugar than Club Mate and feels more 'herbal', I prefer this.

alxon Death Is Optional: A Conversation with Yuval Noah Harari and Daniel Kahneman

Somehting similar in video :

Humans Need Not Apply - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

alxon Adam Curtis: Bitter Lake

Also available on youtube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXcpDO8_3qU

alxon “I can't stop comparing everything to Black Mirror”

which of his books would you recommend ?

alxon Ask HN: How do you manage/organize information and knowledge in your life?

Previous discussion : "Designing a Personal Knowledgebase" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8270759

alxon HFT in my backyard – II

This is the secret radio tower which the government used to intercept thousands of trunk phone lines running through Britain to the Republic of Ireland.

http://www.lamont.me.uk/capenhurst/original.html

alxon Facebook emotion manipulation study: an explanation

GCHQ, NSA ‘infiltrate’ social media to spread disinformation, with slide concerning psychology aspect of social network, including facebook :

http://inserbia.info/today/2014/04/gchq-nsa-infiltrate-socia...

The Intercept article concerning JTRIG actions on social networks :

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipula...

This study would fit pretty well in documenting possible manipulations.

alxon Facebook emotion manipulation study: an explanation

Does someone remember the name of the NSA program concerning psychological manipulation on social networks ?

alxon We Need To Talk About Depression

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnfOOoTOrDE

28c3: Geeks and depression panel

alxon Alexander Shulgin has died

"The Shulgin Rating Scale is a simple scale for reporting the subjective effect of psychoactive substances at a given dosage, and at a given time. The system was developed for research purposes by the American biochemist Alexander Shulgin and detailed in his book PiHKAL"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shulgin_Rating_Scale

PLUS FOUR (++++) [...] If a drug (or technique or process) were ever to be discovered which would consistently produce a plus four experience in all human beings, it is conceivable that it would signal the ultimate evolution, and perhaps the end, of the human experiment.

alxon Free software for freedom, surveillance and you [video]

Helpful utilities and documentation for Free Software live audio/video streaming

https://github.com/ioerror/freenote/

alxon Show HN: Custom Nginx Indexer

http://larsjung.de/h5ai/ h5ai makes browsing directories on HTTP web servers more pleasant. Directory listings get styled in a modern way and browsing through the directories is enhanced by different views, a breadcrumb and a tree overview.

alxon The annual meeting of the hacker scene: Chaos Communication Congress

Important info in this post : "The keynote of the 30C3 will be held in the evening of the 27th of December by the journalist Glenn Greenwald. "

alxon Thoughts on Undercover Communication

The Grugq - OPSEC: Because Jail is for wuftpd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XaYdCdwiWU

alxon FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests owner

naspter-like moment in internet history

alxon Measuring heart rate with a smartphone camera

website is down, is there a mirror?

alxon I'm 2 years into development of my sandbox game, Moonman

Moonman v0.4 in video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lna75hti3jM

alxon John Carmack joins Oculus as CTO

Oculus is not HD yet in its dev version, if you want HD (like Carmack prototype on this page), you should try Open Dive: http://www.durovis.com/index.html

alxon Chuck Feeney: The Billionaire Who Is Trying To Go Broke

A relevant anagram can be found in his name...

alxon SIM Cards Have Finally Been Hacked, and the Flaw Could Affect Millions of Phones

He'll be presenting the same subject at OHM on 03/08/2013 too: https://program.ohm2013.org/event/169.html

alxon NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program

Yes, found this interesting too, some P (9,0?) are missing or someone is having fun, PA like 'P Apple' ?