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Hallelujah, finally some reasonable coverage regarding section 230
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/what-is-section-230-and-why-do-so-many-lawmakers-want-to-repeal-it/
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Analysing the FLIR-One camera pics, finding heat leaks that need to be plugged
The very bright spot is the boiler vent; the hot water tank is against the wall vertically above it, which rather skews the perception.
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Via @stoya, a really interesting and pretty accurate explainer on how porn image classifiers work, and how people can explore, learn to work with & around them.
So I found this resource via Stoya’s instagram story: video 1: https://www.instagram.com/p/CIzsJlugi0y/ video 2: https://www.instagram.com/p/CI4blRIgHDf/ overall opsec guide for sex workers: https://www.instagram.com/madame_mammaries/guide/the-swers-guide-to-instagrams-new-tos-update/17882585107886830/ …be aware that the links go to Instagram and contain some racy material – which is germane to the matter under discussion; but rarely have I seen such a well-grounded discussion of the…
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How to get a job in Cybersecurity
read software manuals looking for places where it says “do not do [X]” do as many variations of [X] as you possibly can, until you find something interesting or get bored. How to get a job in Security Engineering Learn how to write code and build/deploy systems in such a way that there is no…
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That feeling when you want to import your old blogposts from Medium to WordPress, and end up building a new server…
It started quite innocently, with overhauling this blog and moving it to a new domain – goodbye pagerank, meh – and I thought: What if Medium.COM goes the same way as some Storify or some link shorteners, and I lose all my essays? It turns out that Medium have a “Download Your Information” feature –…
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How to use rsync on a Mac / macOS to sync files with a locally mounted FAT32 disk, and deal sensibly with Unicode characters, umlauts, accents, etc.
So, there’s a lot of discussion of the above problem; you are on a Mac, and you are trying to “rsync” files from a source to a destination, and it complains about umlauts, complex quote characters, or other Unicode. If you are like me, you’ll waste time trying to work out what encodings and codepages…
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Installing a mkcert certificate into Tor Browser
This Site / Other Alec Muffett Test Onions If you want to install the certificate for this site’s onion address FOR THE PURPOSES OF TESTING, the certificate may be downloaded from this page – I strongly recommend disabling or removing the certificate after testing is completed, for security reasons. Installation part 1 open about:config click…
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Dark Web vs: Deep Web – 2018 edition
There’s a lot of confusion out there re: dark web vs: deep web — and it’s not going to get any better; I feel that the only way for humanity to move forward on this matter is for both terms to die, or at least diffuse until they are meaningless in much the same way…