1827163
No user record in our sample, but 1827163 has activity below (stories or comments). Likely we have partial data — the full bulk-load will fill profiles in.
No user record in our sample, but 1827163 has activity below (stories or comments). Likely we have partial data — the full bulk-load will fill profiles in.
I think once you escape the system you don't find games or other distractions enjoyable anymore. When you're fully actualized and are capable of "going your own path", satisfaction then comes from making things and…
But we have things like the Raspberry Pi, which are very low cost and completely open to tinkering. Add a keyboard and clip-on display then you have a tiny but capable development machine, in a smartphone like…
Such as tracking you every moment of your waking life. How modern technology has become so evil, looking back. Nowadays every device we have is clearly spyware, from the point of view of 1999.
I had one running NetBSD together with a Cisco Aironet 350 PCMCIA WiFi card for wardriving purposes. With the driver for the WiFi card patched to enable monitor mode. Had two different antennas, a quarter wave dipole,…
This is why. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NorLTsOVFeE He wanted to use the Baofeng radios on license-free FRS frequencies and got so much shit for that. He very much sums up how I feel about it. As long as it's…
There's nothing illegal about installing powerline networking adapters. Doing that to protest the absolutely outrageous fines being dished out there. And that so many radio amateurs support this kind of punishment for…
Even better if some product came onto the market, that used wideband powerline communications for its functioning, and practically everyone's got one. I think some electric car chargers might do so in the future. That…
Of course they are, but fining someone $24,000 for behaving rudely, even repeatedly, on the radio is far far worse. And so many amateur radio enthusiasts support these absolutely draconian punishments, which is damaging…
Yes, and those drivers licenses are obviously because cars are dangerous machines that can cause severe harm to someone if they are driven improperly. And the legal system surrounding it has penalties which are usually…
Absolutely ridiculous. That makes me want nothing to do with the hobby, period. These hams are behaving like animals with a dominance hierarchy. With "newbs" and status in that hierarchy based on license class /…
From the article: “This is not what ought to happen in a free country.” What do you expect from a country that's been a police state for the last 23 years or so. With the introduction of the RIP Act in 2000, which…
And I guess that satellite feed was Cidera/SkyCache? I have fond memories stumbling across that while scanning transponders on the Sirius satellite at 5 degress East back then. No encryption whatsoever and it didn't…
Yes, the retaliation might be from other men seeing the complaint as frivolous. And in this hypersensitive society we live in now, that complaint may very well be frivolous.
It's more than just an opinion, it's costing people their careers and worse. The hypersensitivity of women can destroy mens lives over trifles in this day and age. With radical third wave feminists and their moral…
I stopped participating completely in any open source project that has a "code of conduct". To me, open source was all about freedom from such censorship and thought control. And I completely oppose rude and unpleasant…
So roughly 8 years after widespread introduction of these codes of conduct in open source and here we are seeing projects start to disintegrate.
https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/4421-the-authori... "The psyche of a fascist is “authoritarian” in the sense that it attaches itself to figures of strength and disdains those it deems weak. It tends toward…
But I strongly doubt it's illegal to cause thousands or even millions of computers to have random data in their browser caches, as long as no hacking takes place? Just by padding files with dynamically generated random…
I recommend filling up the empty space on hard drives and flash drives with random data from /dev/urandom. What is the government going to do, try and get you to decrypt that? On my computer I already have several…
Fascism always uses an excuse, it stokes widespread fear and panic, so that it can subject the population to authoritarian rule.
It might not require specialized hardware in the future as GPUs get more powerful and we have other techniques such as LoRA for fine-tuning the models. We might see a distributed training [1] effort harnessing thousands…
Yes, as a thought experiment, maybe we should prosecute those who purchase eggs, even free range ones, from so called 'ethical' farms, for animal abuse? Each hen lays 600 eggs in its lifespan [1]. For every hen there…
Hopefully it will be just like software piracy, there will be civil disobedience as well, and they will never truly be able to stamp it out. And it raises First Amendment issues as well. I think it's morally wrong to…
I had the same problem in the open plan office at a former employer. A vicious circle sparked by me getting upset from a family related issue, and amplified by the manager opposite. The more he would start interfering…
Assuming the article is true, then this is what you get when we are living in a de-facto Police State? The frog has boiled so slowly we didn't see it coming. I'd personally prefer living out in the sticks, growing my…