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> On several occasions between late March and early May 2020, before Twilio’s public earnings announcement, Sure, Lagudu and Chotu Pulagam used internal chat channels to discuss in…

Read the books they want to ban. Thanks for the heads up.

>HTTrack for any wiki I found useful. On the Internet Archive you can also find many .warc files which are website backups that can be used for offline viewing.

I agree and I don't care if it's RT or ISIS or China or the Westboro Baptist Church. But the past two years have made it clear that all those lofty, lapidary ideals upon which our …

Awesome, thanks for the heads up.

HN employs algorithms to automatically downrank sensitive political topics (flamewar detector).

1000+ or so. I often visit thrift shops where books are extremely cheap and you find things you didn't know you were looking for. The nice thing about (older) books is that they co…

The bottom line is that when you need to redact text, use black bars covering the whole text. Never use anything else. That actually may not be enough if you're applying the black …

The COVID interviews are with highly credentialed professionals, and are quite reasonable, honest and nuanced, far more so than the insane corporate media 24/7 propaganda machine t…

I'm clueless as to what this is supposed to do.

These restrictions on speech seem well-intentioned but are of course another step in locking down the narrative. The government said the bill would not prohibit "misinformation" as…

https://boards.4chan.org/t/thread/1047940

GPT-NeoX-20B will be publicly downloadable from The Eye on the 9th of February. The Eye as in the-eye.eu? That site has been down for a long time.

Brave is the new Mozilla. Mozilla is a husk. Brave launched a new search engine (which works great. try it!), have built-in Tor support, Wayback Machine support, experiment with ne…

Developing a modern feature-rich browser is a gargantuan task and you need many skilled (expensive) developers to work on it; easily millions of USD yearly in salaries alone. Some …

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In other festive COVID news from Canada: >Canada's Justin Trudeau on the unvaccinated: >“They don’t believe in science/progress and are very often misogynistic and racist....This l…

The trifecta government-media-big business now have optimally aligned incentives to not relinquish this historical golden goose of power and money. Add to that the cultural compone…

A lot of comments are optimistic about COVID-related measures relaxing, and I'm confidently predicting that in 2022 they will be proven wrong again.

Every morning before I open my first beer I read 3 spoopy greentexts of the shapeshifter variety.

I used to follow Balaji on Twitter, he frequently had original and eloquent perspectives on things, but his incessant web3 evangelism turned me off.

Soft White Underbelly Interviews with addicts, homeless, prostitutes, pimps, murderers, gang members and other interesting folk on Skid Row, LA. I've heard some really mesmerizing,…

The real conspiracy theory is believing that a company demanding that you will indefinitely have experimental medication injected into your veins as a scheme to ward off people who…