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I also find some difficulty in reading the next word because of the animation obscuring it; this has my net wpm at 61, but my monkeytype average wpm is ~120

Then you have to answer for yourself if/why you believe Elon would/wouldn't lie about having an alt account to attempt controlling a narrative or keep a troll running longer than i…

Is anyone else like me? A little socializing goes a really long way for me. I don't hate it, it's not exhausting, I can do it well, and I'm generally seen as a fun person to talk w…

It really is amazing how things have come full circle from the point where chrome positioned itself as a "Libre" alternative to the IE near-monopoly There was a point between IE an…

i'm reminded of a story from around 2012? about an aerial surveillance program where they recorded a bird's-eye view of the city [1?] they used the footage to solve some cartel mur…

I'd point back to at least 2000 and the Supreme Court stopping the count in Florida, but maybe back to when we sabotaged the Iran hostage deal so Carter couldn't have a win

I recently started getting "targeted" bitcoin extortion emails that have your home address (or what they scraped from public records) and a picture of Google Street view, but they'…

I have this same setup and this conversation happens often, you get used to it happening and navigating it. ON only one occasion in ~20 years, someone refused to do business with m…

Locked iPhone owned by law enforcement target will accept remote firmware push from trusted device?

some endpoint protection services will block anything not signed by a trusted signature or that doesn't match an allow-list of known-good file hashes

I thought branches happened when a wavefunction 'collapsed' -- i.e. for every possible value of the wavefunction, you get a branch with a unique answer for 'value of the wavefuncti…

"slam any key to continue"

to hear Lenny Susskind say it, "light moves at the speed of light"

I'm reminded of [1] a recent Palantir promotional video [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEM5qz__HOU

The way I've understood it is that everything which can 'move' in spacetime has to have a momentum vector with constant magnitude C (when expressed in the right units, C = 1) The f…

most people now will say something about the commit timestamps indicating this is an Eastern European actor, but it seems like any sufficiently dedicated intelligence service could…

I think it's better to look at it like the old AOL client? I've used Opera on and off for ~20 years, and in that time I've seen it strive to be more like a "Web OS"

seconding this, it failed to correctly identify an AI image which had the DALL-E watermark clearly visible what plans are there to guard against people intentionally poisoning your…

I just lied about both things it wanted and it was fine with that, so it seems a little silly to make it a requirement

seems like a sophisticated theft ring would have access to the keys for the most common guards like this, reminds me of the TSA key debacle[1] [1]: https://github.com/Xyl2k/TSA-Tra…

one notable exception to this is the grappler archetype, where their 'close proximity command grab' is a massive tool which you always need to respect the mere presence of the grap…

> once you are competent you know everything that opponent can do This reads a little like saying "you are competent at chess when you know all the moves the pieces can make" In Ch…