mr_spothawk

For folks who are going to try this... you need to give your body at least 4 days to stop stinking.

Excellent.

Is it going to get you in trouble if anybody finds out?

I thought we were supposed to decolonize our libraries?

vibes, puppydog... vibes indeed.

it's important to know that Dat & SSB are such a security hole. the thing about SSB in particular, though... is it's main value prop:

  this tool can be used on a sailboat with no web access

our worldwide, global, ungated internet may be the thing that leaves us quite soon.

postal mail was also subject to intrusive surveillance for as long as written words have been delivered by humans. submitting them to the internet, and expecting that we should somehow be blessed with total freedom from prying eyes may have been the mistake.

more networks could be the answer. distributed social groups. decentralized governance.

more countries could be the answer... if we want to abandon the central authorities and the power they concentrate.

it's clear from this point in history nothing will be the same again. but staying connected to the global net comes with obvious trade-offs for personal security.

another gem from the documentation:

"" The parameters on a chunked request will contain at least the following information. Consider a sample file with named "NSA_PRISM.ppt" with a total file size of about 15 MB and a configured chunk size of 2 MB for the following example:

""

""" I've grown tired of continuously defending my inactivity and decisions against trolls on Twitter, the issue tracker, and elsewhere. It's draining and I don't have the patience or energy to deal with it any longer. These same people expect to impose their short-sighted and non-generalized values and goals on a project for which they have contributed nothing and are not willing to maintain. The sense of entitlement from a small but vocal minority that do not understand FOSS and refuse to understand it is very much a concern, and I'm simply not interested in shrugging that off anymore. """

Eh... i don't have a pirate radio because i'm lazy, not because i'm afraid.

> It doesn't need to be a law passed by Congress.

Then why should I (or anybody) be expected to follow it?

And before you say "modern regulations" I'll point out that my position generally is that regulations instead of law are how we've gotten so deranged in the first place.

Also, the money is fucked.

so, he waited for the 12 months to finish so he could keep whatever equity & then bailed.

good for him, 4.0, expensive school, facebook pedigree... this guy is going places.

deleting your social network on their platform helps encourage them to fail.

was thinking maybe it was content targetted at a non-us audience. could see deploying bots in open disinfo op, tho.

> Could we please not waste a second of thought on the relatively minor issue of broken store windows until we sort the issue of cops indiscriminately killing black people?

Seconds of thought aren't wasted. Stay in the present. It's only an emergency if you make it one.

If you can do so without doxxing yourself, I'd appreciate to have a city to associate with these types of stories.

Thanks.

needs a better interface, but it's my fav candidate for immediate backup if it were necessary.

i think datprotocol.org looks promising for folks who are interested in rehosting the data

imagine being able to turn your boss over to authorities and trusting that you wouldn't be retaliated against.

> * "In God We Trust" only became the US motto in 1956, presumably because of the "Red Scare"

stay home, stay safe.

the mask is for their protection, put it on while you're working

Thank you for saying this.

"""An order of magnitude is an approximation of the logarithm of a value relative to some contextually understood reference value, usually ten, interpreted as the base of the logarithm and the representative of values of magnitude one."""

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=order+of+magnitude

> This article appears to be an attempt to paint the Sweden model in a negative light rather than honestly compare it to alternatives.

you're absolutely correct... it reads like thought-control. i often wonder how frequently HN is subject to coordinated information operations, and how frequently they're asked to share information about browsing habits

> they aren't intrinsically valuable

perhaps not, but materials in space can be assembled to functional components in space. functional components beget more things happening in space.

> remove the dependence on them

cool. you can beam electricity from space, too...

this is what i was thinking

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=caravan+waggon&t=brave&iar=images&...

we drove a dodge caravan around the country a number of times while i was a kid.

would you be willing to put up a few screenshare videos describing your workflow?

can you recommend any ways for me (a low-mid developer trying to improve my skills with e.g. tmux & mosh) to get access to the brains of mature/retiring expert level engineers? mostly i'm interested in learning these sorts of productivity patterns.

unfortunately, i don't work closely with any developers. i took a job a couple years ago in order to apprentice under a linux guru, but unfortunately he left the company 2 days before i started. i was fortunate to learn a lot from the remaining team before the company shuttered 8 months later.

if you happen to remember the headline title on that, i'd be interested to read about why Emacs isn't attracting new users.

in the last year i know two new developers who have written their own emacs configs.

for those of us who are working to improve our ability to use org & lisp+emacs this is incredibly helpful.

> It seems that there has been a general trend towards a constant churning of output in order to keep up the dopamine hits for users.

my first thought when reading this was "yeah, that's because users don't know how to RSS". it's not that i know how to RSS that well, but i do have friends who use RSS in the style of masters. my favorite strategy that i have heard of, and what i will try to replicate in a few months, is: rss subscription >> local mail service >> inbound mail folders filled with articles from my RSS feed.

i've been practicing my own ability to use "the computer" in a way that makes me feel like a master... and we'll see if i ever get there. surely though, we are all missing out on the oldschool internet that was swallowed by the walled gardens.

but it seems that we're headed for a renaissance

> Broadband access is not nearly as ubiquitous outside major cities as people believe.

Neither as ubiquitous nor as necessary, i think.

VPN?