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sometimes i use macvim so i can move quickly to that program in particular and do other stuff in the terminal, since i use it for general distraction free writing

technically macvim is not vi, but i guess both are considered outdated in an age where if you tell your iphone not to sync to the cloud it erases days on notes on nazis.

(the whole point of privacy was autonomy, not shoving things up to an unencrypted cloud to get a bullshit warrant served on it and tim cook has forgotten what the world was like when storage was scarce)

This is a war, it's time to let military intelligence talk to whichever reporter they picked up at the start of their tour in a bar to feed the good leads and maybe wait a day or two for things that can wait.

With rust there's no buffer overflows, how will folks buy supercars to crash in the desert after escaping "flyover country"

(In all seriousness, people were obsessed with it at Mozilla but also just kept hazing me I was "just" a UX researcher -- do you know of a good primer who knows the basics of languages like Python, bash, and QBASIC but struggles with compiled languages like C/C++?)

compiled languages may be not fun since you have more delays than the sighted.

what did old school phreaks use when learning to program? (i was late the the game in the late 90s, and people always assumed i was older except when it was a context they'd pay me fairly for my intellect -- then it's nothing but precarious, low paying nonprofits or piecemeal consulting designed to keep me in their orbit)

there is a library for the blind in 412, but they also block tor so i have to hope what pops up in duckduckgo is accurate:

https://duckduckgogg42xjoc72x3sjasowoarfbgcmvfimaftt6twagswz...

>Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped >412-687-2440 >Toll Free Phone Number: 1-800-242-0586

if they give you shit say that it's greg and you're using your one phone call, they'll help you if you don't start asking a bunch of kinsey crap, if they don't suffer a narcicistic meltdown from having to do more than show someone the braile forms for welfare.

(i have to be careful not to hammer resources intended for the visually handicapped when using tor -- my no javascript lifestyle means i often seek out things designed for a screen reader, and i've seen them get overwhelmed in ways i haven't seen since the 2000s)

in general, interpreted languages are easier to keep a mental model of, because they have been iterated on to the point you can write out code that looks like psudocode, it's why i like python

the hackers who trained me were big into perl, which has a lot of issues but the whole there's over 9000 ways to do things -- there's a big library of existing perl code, and since there's more than one way to do things and those people fucking love one liners you'll spend less time dealing with "whitespace" which, as a blind person, i'm gonna guess is a very hard thing to grok, harder than public key encryption, recursion, or the idea that we don't need john taylor gatto to tell us what hellen keller got up to.

I worked for a major K Street NGO. I was removed for refusing to weaken web standards.

I took a pause from all assistance to civil society during Trump, to make folks think and reflect about the consequences of their decisions.

(As I like to joke at open mic: your post Columbine models are broken, I don't need to be a weatherman to know which way the Solar Winds blow, and it is my inaction that will be the death of you.)

Pretty much, I've seen how you're retaliated against. I spent down on a Bellingcat cert, but that's useless -- doesn't matter what I find in public view, folks don't listen.

>If I was grading this; I'd give you a "D" and tell you to try again, with focus this time.

Thanks for that feedback,

>You want a job in politics, is that it?

Consulting.

(Or a delete button tbh -- keep regretting my posts on the internet.)

for those of us who began forming memories as the berlin wall fell, it's been quite a ride -- it seemed, for this brief moment that we'd all kind of live in arcologies with solar powered desalination or something and instead... [tabs over to Al Jazeera] yikes!! russia are JERKs.

strive to be the ghost in the machine if you want to be a hacker.

And now, I must hand off this nym to the new owner.

Goodbye!

I once (after making my whole thing for over fifteen years that I won't speak to the FBI because they beat my townsfolk and local journalists during the G20) walked into an FBI field office, handed them a stack of what are called CCR numbers, and described a series of serious issues with my local police department. The woman's eyes went wide and she promised to open a civil rights investigation, then they ghosted me like I was a bad tinder date (which, to be fair... I can be, but we're at work now dear, so do your job or don't DARE interfere with mine.)

They need to focus on believing victims and utilizing existing sources of investigation before they "express concern", especially considering some of their agents who obstructed on this issue literally ran up on Congress.

Conversely, I've seen folks the FBI claims they need these extraordinary measures for wander around conferences like Defcon, HOPE, and the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium with their laptop unlocked like the venue was a hipster coffee shop.

(Not gonna name the guy, but he used to tweet a lot about opsec for someone who gets pilled up and runs around the venue loudly saying the N word with his laptop FULLY unlocked.)

Anyways... they need to rely more on human methods and less on computer intrusion, like the FBI agent who gave me my card back when I was an angry young man posting Facebook zero days on my blogspot.

(Apparently it creates a bit of an international incident if you find a way to spoof your location on Facebook, get angry they declined to interview your for a summer internship, and spoof your location as with the protesters when you're not retaking discrete math over the summer, and apparently in 2009 the best the FBI had was a guy who knew what IRC was and would basically just... do undercover stuff but on the computer? Guy couldn't even get the powerpoint to work when he came to speak at CMU, which I have, to be clear... never, ever attended. I just show up in Newell Simon occasionally to grab a refreshing grass jelly drink, ask lewd questions to the roboceptionist, and look at whatever posters folks decided to put in public view.)

Anyways, I'm not clear why we are listening to an agency staffed by criminals who misunderstand on purpose anytime their job involves anything other than messing up on purpose, but I'm speaking from the perspective of a lower middle class Appalachian thrust into these crypto wars by forces beyond my control :-)

(Even today, many a "privacy" role seems to be "help my bitcoin company avoid the Treasury Department)

Good luck with your project.

(It’s still cool research just jogged my memory- iirc they had Mark Hamill telling you the benefits of closing the lid on the toilet before flushing.)

(Same for an sd slot.)

Especially paired with a form factor like the 6s for those who don’t want a phablet.

(If I wanted a sob story about how it’s hard to be a mom I’d install the Lifetime application… I’m on Tinder to smoke trees and get laid, and that should have been abundantly obvious from the copy in my profile, which I’ve since edited to be more… explicit.)

Don’t they hire John Callas in like 1997? ;-)

(Sorry, couldn’t resist a bit of good natured ribbing.)

Or they could sell us a rugged iPhone with a removable battery and SD card slot to extend storage but keep the proprietary OS to keep the music/movie ppl happy plus keep out malware not sent via FISA warrant, but if they did that Tim Cook might jump off the top of the donut apparently, so they keep going the way you describe.

Also I don’t have the data to support it but often if I get one vote it’s who I replied to so a flag and an upvote seemed odd.

I’ll lurk more and try to stay positive.

My first morning in Paris I was awoken to someone asking me to “hand them their thong” and finding out they meant a sandal not underwear when they got a bit peeved I replied “gonna have to at least take me to breakfast I don’t know where you’ve been.”

Once it became clear I wasn’t being stupid on purpose we had a laugh but dear lord… allegedly the same language but so much room for misinterpretation ;-)

Anyways TLDR: look into hostels or small hotels lest you lose your money and sleep outside lol

I’ve never actually been to Scotland just found it hilarious ppl would be kind of rude about them when on my end they always seemed pretty chill if you weren’t insulting them.

(I’ve been considering something similar to OP a while but Covid messed everything up, everything parent said tracks w what I’ve read.)

The type of person who stopped their reading on totalitarianism with the fall of the Nazis rather than the fall of the Berlin Wall tend to be unreliable narrators.

Emphasis added.

(I agree.)

Drat, know any good paths for someone who uses cannabis?

(I assume she meant fsb.ru, but please use cia.gov since the Russians are rude little shits.)

I strongly discourage you from getting anywhere near those sorts, they're the worst, they will take everything they can get out of you, ratfuck you for shits and giggles, then complain you seem radicalized and try to kill you with a robot.

(Also I'm not in the CIA, I'm just an angry bald man who's good at computers and geopolitics)