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Not just him, but all the people in his cultural sphere. I've been to a Banksy exhibition, and it also had videos of "critics" commenting on his work. The overtone was how inspirin…

Yeah, I don't understand why it has to be agile XOR waterfall. Agile development simply doesn't work in projects that have so many externally imposed constraints that there is bare…

Why would someone go to a place in an actual conflict zone that is under attack by actual drones right now to flee from hypothetical drones in a hypothetical conflict?

The primary goal of these efforts is to control communication and the flow of ideas. Information is a control mechanism, since we act on what we believe. In history we had four med…

Maybe this is the first step towards the Big Beautiful Bailout when the AI bubble inevitably pops.

1. Ask questions, and write down the answers in a way that you will find them again. Anki and spaced repetition is useful to learn the terminology or any info that isn't intuitive.…

Yup, same for DuckDuckGo.

> In literate programming you do not write the code then present it to a human reader. You describe your goal, assess various ideas and justify the chosen plan (and oftentimes chan…

Pretty impressive!

Yeah. This is the curse on any legacy software that doesn't enforce strict separation of logic and UI. Any larger change to the UI requires an awful lot of manpower that open sourc…

> a hobby that already raises eyebrows Sounds very interesting, but may I ask how this actually works as a hobby? Is it purely theoretical like analyzing and modeling, or do you bu…

There is no incentive to implement such a feature. Bots and paid social media workers drive engagement. Also social media sites are designed to avoid any triggers that make users c…

A good place to start is OSINT (open source intelligence) for your city/municipality because it requires little commitment, is scoped with regards to complexity and amount of infor…

Thanks for the link. This is a great analysis of Microsoft's open source strategy.

> AI enables precision influence at unprecedented scale and speed. IMO this is the most important idea from the paper, not polarization. Information is control, and every new mediu…

Apparently X11 has a security extension [1]. There was a discussion some months ago [2]. Xenocara (X on OpenBSD) improves security by dropping privileges and using features like pl…

This "joke" is neither funny nor original as it comes up on social media everytime someone mentions Russia as a threat to Europe. Oh, look at that. A fresh account just to make thi…

Adding to that from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(organization) : > Thorn works with a group of technology partners who serve the organization as members of the Technology T…

Thank you for the recommendation! I was looking for compiler texts that take a more practical approach.

Well, it's impossible to know if Eichmann really thought about the ethics of his job. With regards to his trial, it didn't matter anyway. Every captured Nazi official claimed they …

The legislation simply says if you collect more data about your users than necessary, you must inform them and they must consent. This has nothing to do with cookies or any other t…

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I don't agree with two of the four given reasons for the rewrite. > Modern codebase: Easier to maintain and evolve compared to 30-year-old C code. It's not a modern codebase, but a…

From the second link: > The privacy considerations for digital credentials are not static. They will evolve over time as the ecosystem matures, and may be informed by the behavior …

There is no law that says you must put everything into one file. You can divide your config into logical modules like editing, UI, settings for specific languages or modes etc. Put…