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I’m torn; I understand where @rop_g’s sentiment comes from, but I can’t practically agree regarding @signalapp
Basically: if Signal want to get to the first HundredMillion users, then they have to have mass-appeal – which means: Emojis, Stickers, Videos, and maybe Stories/Fleets/Reels. Back in the days of USENET we fought the same battles, practically invented (?) emoticons and embraced “readers” (not “browsers”) which gave us programmatic “.sig” files – because we…
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This morning I will mostly be making cheesecake
https://thehappyfoodie.co.uk/recipes/nigella-lawsons-basque-burnt-cheesecake
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How to become a Super #Privacy Activist (Unrolled)
How to become a Super #Privacy Activist, pt 1: Find a small coding issue that you can be very angry about; pick on an imperfect user-experience bug or missed opportunity & frame it as intentionally being in breach of a vague aspect of some critical legislation. Launch a crusade. How to become a Super #Privacy…
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Important thread from Alexis Ohanian; the market institutions which used to assume imperfect knowledge and individual action, are facing new challenges from free and open, ad-hoc or decentralised communities
This echoes the same problem as – a few years ago – the London Metropolitan Police attempting to identify “ringleaders” of “Critical Mass” rides; when you’re dealing with emergent phenomena of the internet (e.g. Memes) then they don’t really exist. Prediction: we are going to see a lot more of this in the next few…
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[Person] designed and built a water tank quick-access funnel to make it way easier to fill the [espresso machine] reservoir
This is awesome and beautiful. I don’t need it, but it’s still awesome and beautiful.
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Reddit: If life is a simulation, and none of it’s real, why care about anything?
Atheist Astronomer, here. The planet is going to be burned in a few billion years when the sun expands, and at some point the galaxy will diffuse to the point of dispersion (assuming that the impending collision with the Andromeda galaxy doesn’t trash it first). As such, I made peace a long time ago with…
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The attached is a nice explanation of the “sudo” bug, but somehow I feel that it would be better coming from @XKCD
The Qualys Research Team has discovered a heap overflow vulnerability in sudo, a near-ubiquitous utility available on major Unix-like operating systems. Any unprivileged user can gain root privileges on a vulnerable host using a default sudo configuration by exploiting this vulnerability… https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-research/2021/01/26/cve-2021-3156-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-sudo-baron-samedit
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#Coffee: #JamesHoffman video on RDT / Ross Droplet Technique for #Espresso, with bonus idea: spritzing the puck /cc @jimseven
Quoth the holy James (it’s all good, but the novel bit is towards the end) For a tiny sum I purchased a box of 6+ spritzer bottles from Amazon about 2 years ago, and have been giving away the spares ever since; the Ross Droplet Technique does work amazingly well but you’re at risk of…