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For a long time now, I've been kinda self-experimenting on inducing these kinds of states in myself, without resorting to hardware or hard/scary drugs. It all started with my reali…

FWIW, not every major site on the Internet is out to spy on you. The Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia, et al) bends over backwards to explicitly avoid harvesting and hoarding long-t…

Just to meta-meta this conversation and the article in new and confusing ways, Wikimedia also hosts a map server, using OSM's data, @ https://maps.wikimedia.org/ :)

The injection is currently for non-HTTPS only, but I can easily see this situation evolving for the worse as HTTPS becomes increasingly the default. What will happen is someone at …

Wikimedia Foundation | Traffic Security Engineer | SFO or REMOTE | Full-Time | https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/FAQ The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that…

There's really no way to design a maintenance-free house. A typical house has a lot of parts slowly failing all the time, meaning you will eventually need expensive repairs on vari…

While the average quality of life in the western world is still currently higher than the global average, there have been recent data points in the US that globalization has drug c…

To go a little further, I suspect with CP cases like banks the real underlying problem is more fundamental. You can't realistically, under the laws of physics, have a hard notion o…

SE/QA/Prod/Mobile - No piece of software can see such broad use by millions without constantly evolving to meet the ever-changing needs of users, the ever-changing blend of user ag…