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If you are doing software engineering, Dave Snowden's Cynefin Framework is worth a look. Considers complexity as one quadrant to deal with when making decisions: https://en.wikiped…

I personally never liked the whole Nord ecosystem. I tried NordPass and encountered bug after bug and had to stop using it. The software seems kind of thrown together / shoddily ma…

And with Mullvad you can just make a one-time payment of EUR 5.00 if you need to use it for 30 days. No auto-renew crap / commitment to long subscriptions to deal with.

Would be interesting to see how may people inadvertently employ Dijkstra's Algorithm on their runs/walks https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/dijkstras-shortest-path-al...

> I remember seeing photos of some university - I can't remember where - that actually ripped up the old paths and paved over the desire paths, to great success. And when people do…

Well we assume any important Internet choke-point is used for surveillance. If I just started surveilling anything sent en clair my first stop would be Internet backbone connection…

And what percentage of these users regularly encounter censorship, Internet infra shutdowns, or even surveillance? Every other day there are news articles pointing out the woes of …

> Communicating the mapping of the code and the real world, as Naur describes, would have required us to document all these processes in meticulous detail. If we had tried to, I be…

Why specifically India? Multiple nations should be adopting digital currency. Europe for example is pushing for a digital Euro[0] [0] https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/html/digitaleur…

> Our world is defined by it, and yet we struggle to ever define it > German psychologist Gustav Fechner provided evidence that people prefer rectangles with sides in proportion to…

> My decidedly Holocaust-centric childhood failed to instill in me hostile emotions toward Nazis, or anti-Semites generally. Stockholm syndrome?[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

> High performance animation and interactivity Animations that jump out at you as you scroll always seem like a great idea, but are a misfeature to be avoided, since they distract …

> Could you explain why Signal users are more careful than email users? Sorry, I forgot to mention that phones are typically seen as more secure, and phones are the go-to operating…

Baking in automatic crypto to email is a lost cause, since email is not as straight-forward as let's say Signal, which only succeeds because it exists in a monoculture (iOS/Android…

> I think the cat is out of the bag on this one You mean that stock market manipulation is now in the hands of normies who don't wear a suit-and-tie and are not your typical busine…

There's also PPL going around registering the shortest handle they can find that is not yet taken by someone, and then selling them on the darknet as so called 'OG' accounts. You c…

I always wondered: how many of these tweets are just Justin Bieber fandom type posts, bots, spam, or other dross? Twitter is infamous for its bad signal to noise ratio. These resea…

I always wondered: how many of these tweets are just Justin Bieber fandom type posts, bots, spam, or other dross? Twitter is infamous for its bad signal to noise ratio. These resea…