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There is also very little societal norms promoting traditional culture (literature, music, theater, cinema, not to mention other arts). In school, children and teens are often bein…

I really like the points this post makes about different categories of literacy, but I always let out an enormous sigh every single time I read an article or blog post that rewrite…

Jamming can be defeated quite funnily, by digging a pit and putting the antenna at the bottom of it.

One of the memos, about Altman, begins with a list headed “Sam exhibits a consistent pattern of . . .” The first item is “Lying.” [New Yorker, 2026]

No one ever leaves the kgb

007: Die Another Day has it as a main plot point.

I have two observations to make here. 1. It seems that most of the evil here is concentrated among the liberal right and liberal left. Both far right AfD types and the left are aga…

> My iPhone is ready to use in under 1/2 second, while my laptop always takes at least a few seconds to wake up, and then there's a bunch of stuff going on that distracts me. The i…

Yeah I think you're right. My ESL is pushing through, I guess.

Knowledge often does not produce competence, especially in the applicable market. I work on the system administration side of things, and I have encountered many output-competent d…

I think there are two distinct type of "touristy" experience. 1. Culturally important experiences lean towards the prescriptive side. You enter, you are observing or being challeng…

It really looks like they are trying hard to scale a system that is simply explained away by a simpler model... From TFA: The switching behavior they see could just be an electron …

Why would it not be? Microslop doesn't need to make such a backdoor, but it's still a lot more convenient to make one generic backdoor than many signed ones.

The likes of them are Christian in the same way the third reich was. Adopting the dogmatic mechanisms of control while discarding everything standing in their way towards achieving…

This may be the most important war that us consumers have to win this century. Most of our liberties will depend on it in the future, not in some spiritual or principled way, but i…

They can clone NFC tags, if the phone hardware, drivers and software permits. It really depends on how smart the chip inside the smartphone is and how locked down its drivers are. …

This resonated with me especially since the 9-5 maxxing of modern society constantly discriminates against working members of society. My post office is open so sparingly that I ha…

Linux+LUKS enables FIDO2, which uses sha256, meets the requirements of "never leaves the device" and keeps it on a separate device, on a separate secure element.

I will still hold the decision to link the biggest possible target on every server against the biggest, most privileged daemon on every server, as not very smart indeed.

OpenBSD exposes pledge() and unveil(), which allow programs to only access things they declare they need. So, even if the running SSH process gets exploited, it can't do anything t…

"Nothing to see here, please disperse" But for real now, people asking health-related questions is a huge trigger for AI safety measures. Does it only care about the vaccine part, …

Bluetooth has, especially with the adoption of the BLE standard, wholly transformed from this PAN link you only turned on to take fone calls, transfer a file or attach a modem to y…

I really enjoy how the fast-tracked improvement of open source design software like KiCad, OpenSCAD and FreeCAD have enabled people to share products of their work in a way that do…