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Imagine I sell you something and you pay me in cash. The notes look authentic, but I later discover that they are conterfeits. It would be absurd to claim that your successful pass…

This one, by Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike, perhaps? https://moxie.org/2013/06/12/we-should-all-have-something-to...

I'm unreasonably fond of the numero symbol (№), although I've never quite settled on whether it should be followed immediately by the number or whether there should be a (non-break…

A fantastic feature, but unfortunately currently broken (as in over- rather than under-zealous) for prevention levels other than 'Low': https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=509990

This reminds me of a very interesting book called “Southern Thought and Other Essays on the Mediterranean” by Franco Cassano: https://academic.oup.com/fordham-scholarship-online/bo…

So do several countries, as listed here at https://www.etuc.org/en/pressrelease/climate-crisis-requires... : > Belgium: 29°C for light physical workload, 26°C for a moderately heav…

The fantastic Fall of Civilizations podcast also had an episode about it: https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/2019/01/21/episode-2-...

Coincidentally enough, frequent Atlantic contributor James Fallows wrote a rather scathing assessment of the Economist (albeit in the Post ) way back in 1991: https://www.theatlant…

Here's a recent blog post in a similar vein: https://benthams.substack.com/p/voting-self-interestedly-is-... Although your plane crash example falls afoul of the broken window fall…

I think back to this 2019 talk about software engineering by Jonathan Blow, entitled ”Preventing the Collapse of Civilization”, more and more often lately: https://www.youtube.com/…

Same here; I remember playing ARMA 3 during the early-2013 public alpha, which was an eye-opening look at how the gaming sausage is made in real time (and before Early Access was a…

Meyer has continued to mark anniversaries in the life Rebecca would have led, most recently a week ago on what would have been her eighteen birthday: https://meyerweb.com/eric/thou…

I can't recommend this 2019 talk about software engineering by Jonathan Blow, entitled ”Preventing the Collapse of Civilization”, enough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLk…

https://www.diabetes.org.uk/about-us/news-and-views/junk-foo... https://www.newfoodmagazine.com/government-bans-high-sugar-a... https://www.gov.uk/government/news/soft-drink-levy-e…

And for anything you really need to keep hidden, there's always cul portage.

NB: On looking into this, it appears to be one Lemkin relative (who claims to be working on behalf of the family) and a collection of Zionist organisations who take issue with the …

Given there's a lot of trans techies out there, and things will probably heat up sharply in the US following the Venezuela attack and Minneapolis ICE shooting, this seems like a wo…

> They were the first to be purged together with homosexuals, transvestites, handicapped, etc. Speaking of which: https://www.lemkininstitute.com/single-post/experts-warn-u-s...

> I always reflect on the energy generation statistics of the UK per capita Can you elaborate on this? From what I can tell, the UK's per-capita electricity generation has dropped …

Under current DoJ antitrust guidelines, there's nothing to stop a future administration from reviewing any anti-competitive actions ignored by the current one as part of an anti-co…

As does GrapheneOS with its Contact Scopes permission.

Ah my mistake, I linked to the docs for `pg_dump` (which has long had the `format` option) rather than `pg_dumpall` (which lacks it). Before Postgres 18 was released, the docs list…

I was expecting `pg_dumpall` to get the `--format` option in v18,[0] but at the moment the docs say it's still only available in the development branch.[1] Is anyone familiar with …

Estonia's system was an area of some fascination for me years ago, so here's what I can remember: After splitting from the Soviet Union, Estonia were basically starting from scratc…