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This is incredible. Podcasts are what kept me on Spotify and now I can finally switch!

At rhat point it's time to stock up on improvised explosives because you'd be fighting an authoritarian tyrant in a civil war.

That's called save scumming

Basically any kind of encryption. It was considered munition by the US government and fell under that category of export control.

This is a propaganda op [0], all that's being done is keeping up a facade. [0]: https://www.rferl.org/a/gutterman-week-in-russia-mariupol-uk...

Banning math worked so great in the 90's with the cryptomunitions legislation.

Several of the farmers protesting at the Polish botder are borderline state actors on Russian behalf, with connections to government officials being proven. Make of that what you w…

Block any crawler that doesn't come from known ranges that you whitelist.

It's even default on MacOS

That's because of ML use.

How much energy is spent, and how much pollution is caused by traditional finance?

BREIN is run by lawyers, not IT professionals, and it shows.

What alternate universe? I saw goatse as a child and turned out fine.

Goatse is a right of passage and when my chuldren will inevitably stumble upon it one day I will be there to talk to them about it if they feel a need to. At the end of the day it'…

Not just ecommerce, basically anything that relies on confidentiality or data integrity.

It could be as simple as a microbe that eats an elementary molecule in our bodies that is so foreign our immune system can't spot it. No need to target us directly.

Could it have been a Mammoth Wasp?[1] I've seen one in the Netherlands 2 years ago. Very distinctive pattern on the abdomen. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoth_wasp

FIFA, Mario Kart, Pokémon? Mainstream is a lot more than just shooters...

Those companies sell advertisements, but keep the raw data to themselves. After all, that's in their business interest. This article talks about vendors directly selling the data i…

This is the first time I hear about this. Do you have a source for it?

I'll offer a contrast. For me 10 minutes wasn't enough because it made me feel like I lived at work. Now that I travel 45 mins the increased physical distance results in mental dis…