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Summary: 1. takes unlicensed peptides, because the insurance declined to pay for what the doctor prescribed. 2. «“people generally don't try to quantify tail risks.” Among the peop…

If you work in the AI industry, it’s time to preserve the engineering innovations you built -- before the risk of a bursting bubble skyrockets. - Did you build libraries to efficie…

On Hyphanet (the original Freenet) there’s been working group chat via a Hyphanet-backed IRC server for over a decade (the server is named FLIP, the first working version was relea…

There was no public debate, but he did start to talk to devs 18 months before, and the devs told him quite clearly that they strongly object to repurposing the name. And that repur…

yes, it chunks files, and aggregates multiple chunks per packet, and pads packets it sends around, so size analysis by the ISP cannot trace the path.

There actually are: among the darknets, Hyphanet is the only one that has a main use for "deviant data resistant to censorship": Example publication: https://journals.sagepub.com/d…

Last I checked the Koch Brothers weren’t Israeli. Do read up on them. Oversimplified narratives are bullshit.

From the preface: Why this book? Providing a concise start, a no-frills, opinionated intro to programming from first define to deploying an application on just 64 pages. What is Sc…

Freenet / Hyphanet 0.7.5 build 1503 is now available. This is a shared release announcement for 1502 and 1503. 1502 fixed an inserter tracing vulnerability and added several featur…

It’s beautiful how in the end he writes how this actually helps him. My experience is that whenever I skip organizing my tasks with org-mode, I lose focus and time. An example: Whi…

From recent release notes:¹ > Chrome removed Theora support in 2024 and Firefox followed suit in version 130 (which broke brasilian banking OTPs: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_…

According to the Benchmarks Game, SBCL is roughly as fast as Node. https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

You don’t let your kids jailbreak their Switch. Because it’s a damn online system, so any leaked info and Nintendo can brick the Switch. And their game states are far too valuable …

Correction: that is used to prevent spam.

I nowadays mostly use a simple static website plus minimal Javascript, but I still have PHP sites. It still works. And PHP today is at least factor 3 faster than PHP was back then …

Don’t you have a virtual server? I’m pretty sure that my managed webserver runs on some virtual machine somewhere on a bigger server, and when it is not doing stuff, other tasks ar…

Yes, these problems shouldn’t exist. But they do. One of the big strength of the Web is the commitment of Mozilla „do not break the web“. But this is hitting its limits, because th…