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How would I know if I am a bot, or not? Was 莊子 right?

Possibly the worst when I converse.

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2025-01-02 00:33:39

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"Unique Visitors" is usually defined per a time period: daily, monthly, or session (generally 30 minutes).
Without further details, if I had to guess, I'd say monthly, but I'm just a random stranger on the Internet, what do I know?

2025-01-02 00:16:02

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https://youtu.be/fbU1zYzD-Tw

2024-12-07 16:33:53

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Also, zapote blanco. All 3 are pretty amazing when frozen—basically ice cream.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_sapote

2024-11-11 00:53:02

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Maurice!

2024-10-13 18:32:45

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I've been trying to think of 90s tech that I miss… GOPHER, maybe? I really don't miss CDs, DVDs, any of that crap, though once I got out of the US it was obvious that those were the catalysts for incredible sneakernet file sharing networks and economies.
Anyhow, I remembered the first mobile phone I could type on (for SSH, of course), but that's 2004. Still miss having a gadget with a proper handheld physical keyboard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_6800_series

2024-10-13 18:24:05

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Reminds me of my REX from the mid-90s! A great gadget form factor!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REX_5000

2024-10-13 17:52:05

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Correction:
The Carnival Against Capital/J18 took place 6 months before the Seattle WTO Ministerial in Nov. 1999. Indymedia began there, as far as I know. But Seattle was a giant catalyst and inspiration.
I remember the flyers (remember flyers?), "Anarchists invite you to Seattle!" in Fall 1999.

2024-09-18 17:26:28

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better to be a loose cannon than a lose canon

2024-09-07 22:56:16

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There's precedent!
https://youtu.be/sjGc98Q_ReM

2024-07-05 14:14:32

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Too soon to use Nu for bitcoin yet — I see no bitcoin integration in their Mexican mobile app yet. Hopefully their devs are working on it and it will be available soon.
They do however offer 14.5% APY on MXN holdings — 15% if you lock it up for 4 weeks. I guess Nu get a lot of yield from their 99.9% APR on their credit card (not a misprint: 99.9% APR! sheesh! And I thought 20% was bad!), and share a fraction of it in exchange for collateralizing their business. Credit costs in Latin America are crazy. I guess the banks justify it by high default rates, but there appears to be a fair amount of egregious usury happening, usury which has long been outlawed in developed economies.

2024-06-30 00:58:24

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Rambling further:
Bitso doesn't appear to support the Lightning network (yet). I hope they get with it! It's really not practical to transfer BTC amounts below 2000 MXN without Lightning, in my opinion. So the UX flow would have to be accumulating greater amounts, then xfer to Bitso via an on-chain BTC TX, then withdrawing in pesos. No bueno. If that changes, or I'm wrong about this, I'll follow up with another post.
Nu, on the other hand, just put out a joint press release with Lightspark, announcing their support for Lightning transfers. I haven't tried it, if I do I'll follow up with another post.
https://www.lightspark.com/news/nubank-announcement
Ha, then neither of those debit cards have their own ATMs, so I'd expect about 20 pesos in fees for cash withdrawals. A better alternative would be to have a brick-and-mortar bank account (like BBVA or Banamex) and use SPEI to send pesos from Nu to that bank for ATM withdrawals. SPEI is fast, unlike US ACH.

2024-06-30 00:27:11

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Another caveat about Bitso and Nu: Both are fully KYC and regulated by the CNBV, the Mexican financial regulator.

2024-06-30 00:11:40

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Bitso and I think Nu Bank have BTC-linked MXN debit card accounts. Both are Brazil-based fintechs with consumer-focused apps which operate in Mexico. The exchange rate may not be the best, but they are both very convenient.

2024-06-29 22:35:16

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looks to me like a 10-minute cronjob

2024-06-25 02:12:26

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Unfortunately he needs to first make a pit stop in a US Pacific island colony, err, "Commonwealth", to perform a ritual of submission with the US Court system, which has promised to release him with a sentence of "time served" in return for Assange pleading guilty to one count of "illegally obtaining and disclosing national security material."
But yes, eventually he goes home.

2024-06-25 01:51:23

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#freeassange
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=hvj1Ih_5i7k

2024-06-25 01:48:25

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#freeassange
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=k9avKq94DGY

2024-06-25 01:39:56

#freeassange
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=k9avKq94DGY

2024-06-18 23:31:32

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@npub1wmr…g240 I wonder what replies across the bridge look like. Do you have a screenshot?

2024-06-18 19:18:34

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To spell it out: Nostr over LoRa. OK, what is LoRa? Long-range, low power, local OR wide area network, often associated with the Internet of Things (IoT) concept. Lots of buzzwords, but my take away is LoRa is a possibly a way to move the means of Internet communication, or at least last-mile communication, from giant mega corporations, ISPs and mobile telecom companies to DIY communities and individuals. So Nostr is a natural fit. Good idea!

2024-06-16 05:32:48

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What is it? Is it a bramble? Rubus? Are the drupes edible? How about the leaves? Sure is pretty!

2024-05-03 19:36:41

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unset HISTFILE
exec bash -l # or whatever your shell is with its own fiddly flags

2024-05-03 19:27:33

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[you] Teach
Your children well
Their father's hell
Did slowly go by
Feed
Them on your dreams
The one they pick
Is the one you'll know by
You
Who are on the road
Must have a code
That you can live by
And so
Become yourself
Because the past
Is just a goodbye

2024-04-30 16:07:51

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In this situation I would typically run:
lsof | grep deleted
to see if a process had held open a file descriptor for a deleted file. Sounds like whatever it was resolved itself without your intervention, but if it doesn't I know which process I need to stop or restart in order to reclaim disk space.

2024-04-30 15:46:24

5 weeks out, the frontrunner Claudia Sheinbaum — leading the opposition candidate Xochitl Gálvez in the polls by 20% — believes she has the sexennial Mexican presidential elections in the bag.
What do you think about the supposed advertising truism "there's no such thing as bad publicity"? https://image.nostr.build/3b570abbe6b4be4b3c3c7db80f04a377e9a961390b430a32c665615da363d9c9.jpg

2024-04-30 15:28:13

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Keep the name.
Because I stayed awake in US history class, I know it stands for the fundamental reforms to capitalism which later enabled the United States to navigate between the extremes of fascism and socialist revolution in the 1930s. I thank progressives for:
• the right to vote for all non-felon citizens
• free education for all
• libraries for all
• fire escapes, emergency exits (it's amazing how much you miss them when you move to a country where you are constantly having to ask someone to unlock the door to let you OUT of a building)
• the concept of "the weekend"
• near elimination of child labor (the exception was unfortunately farm labor)
• national parks
• being able to rely on meat and dairy products not to make me ill (at least in the short term)
• ingredient lists for food and medicines
• the concept of government transparency and public accountability of elected officials
• direct election of Senators
I'm sure I left off some important other achievements of the original Progressive movement. Modern day progressives would do well to look to the origins of the name. It's a hopeful political ideology, and the best chance for delivering practical change in the present, rather than trusting in some distant utopia.

2024-04-24 02:56:57

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The zapvertising astroturfing risk?
It could end up as yet another pay-to-play economy, except advertisers really ought to be paying the end-users for their attention, rather than paying themselves to climb the relevancy ladder.

2024-04-24 02:31:35

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Alex: Thanks for the thoughtful presentation.
Do you think it's possible to calculate transitive trust/relevance based on each principal's social graph?
Would it be desirable to have a dampening function on such a transversal search, a la IP routing protocols' TTLs. Otherwise you might end up with social graph loops.
Also, I may care less about the judgement of a friend of a friend of a friend than I do about a direct friend.
When I think about webs of trust, I immediately think about how unwieldy the PGP user trust survey is. Also, I think I'd feel a bit uncomfortable about broadcasting my evaluation of my social graph connections. So if there are any gradations between "connected" and "not connected", it seems like that ought to be private information either stored locally for each client/user, or else self-signed/encrypted data if published for cross-Nostr-client portability.
OK, one last blurb re: open social graphs. I think Tantek Çelik's microFormats, hCard, XFN, and FOAF concepts might be relevant, although they all seem to lean towards the too-much-information/self-compiled-dossier side of social graphs. See http://gmpg.org/xfn/and/#idconsolidation for some links.
Thanks again!

2024-02-12 15:45:17

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Get off the Xitter! https://image.nostr.build/46e75eb3916dac41d898526ee5f19340bf18880ed3bdf0d0eb29e835e94c2338.jpg

2024-02-05 22:07:42

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What is the difference between partially nude and partially clothed? Is this agl ass half-full/half-empty, tea cup overflowing koan?

2024-02-03 18:18:17

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Recommended for your further listening enjoyment:
https://album.link/i/1678536005

2024-02-03 17:53:34

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idiot's wanted, especially those tragically unschooled in punctuation
https://m.primal.net/HaZl.jpg

2024-02-03 17:05:05

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Empty blocks are not so uncommon. I think last week there were 2 in a row.
Makes me want to read up on bitcoin's hash puzzle preimage resistance — in other words, given an empty block, one might leap to the conclusion that the winning miner perhaps precomputed the winning nonce in advance (like rainbow tables for password hashes), so quickly the miner could broadcast a valid block before they had a chance to receive any transactions to put in the block. Bitcoin is supposed to use a hashing algorithm which resists precomputing (preimaging). So this would naturally become a target for antagonistic cryptography efforts at a nation-state level, or "friendlies" who hope to improve Bitcoin's security by beating the antagonists to the punch.

2024-02-03 16:43:13

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I meet your proxmox and raise you a QubesOS

2024-02-03 16:41:57

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fanta… fanta… twig? Ah! I get it!

2024-02-03 03:29:12

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Bootsy made for Walken, then?

2024-01-19 01:15:41

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I use "elixir lang" (a la "golang") and I generally get decent results. Add "string" and you'll get the guitar strings no matter what.

2024-01-10 11:28:46

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I'm going to krank call das Krankenhaus.

2024-01-10 11:25:27

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You might say, "What's good for the goose is good for the Gensler, too."

2024-01-09 14:52:10

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"The Unknown"? The description sounds wild!
https://m.primal.net/HXHc.jpg
https://m.primal.net/HXHd.jpg
https://m.primal.net/HXHe.jpg

2024-01-09 14:41:44

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Nope, apparently that movie had sound.

2024-01-09 14:40:20

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Just read her Wikipedia bio (is that cheating?). Is the movie "Our Dancing Daughters"?

2024-01-09 14:32:31

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With those eyes it's gotta be Joan Crawford. Which movie? I've got no idea, but the fashion looks like the 1920s or early 1930s.

2024-01-03 14:45:09

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Federal Reserve Economic Data

2024-01-03 14:41:17

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Maybe Rocky should try going in the museum sometime. He never made it past the steps, and it's quite a nice museum! Educational, even!
https://m.primal.net/HWRR.jpg

2024-01-03 05:40:52

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cajones - plural noun. Furniture (dresser, cabinet) drawers
cojones - plural noun, slang. Testicles, and by extension: courage, guts

2023-12-31 18:12:47

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L'État, c'est moi!

2023-12-31 05:35:49

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"We need faster mallets, ASAP!"

2023-12-31 05:32:21

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egrep '^..a.ery$' /usr/share/dict/words
…and the best answers were:
toadery
snakery
knavery, and…
beanery

2023-12-31 05:21:33

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As with any marginalized social movement, the lower the stakes, the greater the infighting.

2023-12-24 14:47:39

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sum-endian

2023-12-22 13:39:55

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Maybe change their shell to something very boring like /bin/true, /bin/date, or cmatrix? Or, more seriously, rbash or scponly. Don't forget to update /etc/shells

2023-12-22 13:27:52

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So… 6?

2023-12-21 20:19:44

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So glad Noah had the presence of mind to pack that corn amidst the shit storm tsunami.

2023-12-21 03:14:15

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NOSTRINFLU
https://m.primal.net/HUjN.jpg

2023-12-21 02:18:33

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I've seen them in the Netherlands and Mexico.

2023-12-20 09:53:43

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fees?

2023-12-20 09:30:08

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Not at these prices, that's for sure!

2023-12-19 19:25:00

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The grammatical gender of "día" is a bit confusing because it's an exception to the rule: "masculine: -o; feminine: -a".
It's one of the few oddball words you just need to memorize:
"la mano/las manos": feminine
"el día/los días": masculine
And then some words from Greek which end in "-a" but are masculine gendered, the two most common being:
"el problema/los problemas"
"el planeta/los planetas"
And some occupational names where the occupation is a feminine-gendered word, but an individual person with that job happens to be male:
"el policía": the (male) cop
"la policía": the cops
There are some feminine-gendered singular words starting AND ending in /a/ which are exceptions (supposedly to avoid "-a a-", but only for words with stress on the first syllable ☹️):
"el águila", but "las águilas",
but "la alerta/las alertas", etc
"el hampa", but "las hampas",
but "la hamaca/las hamacas", etc
And also silly narco nicknames, like:
"El Pelucas"
"El Barbas"
Just learn the first 5 exceptions, and that "la gente" is singular even though it's a collective noun (even Americans and Brits can't agree on that in English), and that's good enough. Spanish speakers tend to be incredibly forgiving with gender concordance errors (a sweeping generalization, but one which all my anecdotes support).

2023-12-19 03:03:50

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Evocatio daemonis linux mercatorum!
Fiat sulphur et quiddam redundantia!

2023-12-19 02:46:49

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Clean living!

2023-12-18 15:08:00

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Infozombie-Auferstehungs-Bedauern-Gefühl?

2023-12-18 15:03:29

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ISO-8601: the one true international date format
Unambiguously big-endian, lexically sortable, favoring neither US (MMDDYY), nor European/Latin American (DDMMYY) date formats, most similar to the Japanese date format (YYMMDD), extendable to fractions of a second.

2023-12-18 14:09:52

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ARE YOU SAYING
HODLGUY == SADTOSHI ?

2023-12-18 13:56:12

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Seems like it was just one person being nastily defensive over the fact the forks run newer a newer kernel with better HW support for NanoPi. Everybody else seemed encouraging and helpful, fortunately!

2023-12-18 13:49:43

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I think maybe you can convert those PEM-style keys with ssh-keygen -y
Dunno, it's been awhile.

2023-12-14 11:22:26

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Was it an improper vhost-to-SNI issue?

2023-12-14 00:44:03

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I call BS

2023-12-14 00:39:29

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Also, Warsaw, Texas?

2023-12-14 00:38:27

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Paris, Texas?
Berlin, Texas?
Rhome, Texas?
Vienna, Texas?
Buda, Texas?

2023-12-12 21:52:44

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They sounded delightfully high.

2023-12-12 21:44:32

Run from
the fuzz
the cops
the pigs
the heat

2023-12-12 19:47:38

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Satdog Millionaire?

2023-12-12 16:06:51

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What I really need in my gut is some chemically-inert micro-bead trash. It'll be just like that time my dog ate tinfoil/alumin(i)um foil.

2023-12-12 01:28:43

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Sounds like they're forcing me to slack.

2023-12-11 02:11:39

I seem to be a verb.

2023-12-11 02:11:14

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Why, it's the Four Horsemen of Obnopcalypse!

2023-12-10 14:11:32

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Only if I could name it "Uncle Joe's Neighborhood Hawala and Rug-Pull", then maybe, yes, I think I would.

2023-12-10 03:09:50

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Sounds to me like a half-baked plan!

2023-12-09 21:49:18

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Jack-o-meti!

2023-12-09 03:54:11

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It's still shocking how little consideration was given to preserving the hard-won peace in Northern Ireland, which ultimately could not have been achieved without both the UK and Republic of Ireland being together in the EU.
Brexit replaced a once invisible border with a universally reviled Rube Goldberg contraption for preventing an EU backdoor into the UK.
The whole Leave campaign showed contempt via indifference for Scotland and Northern Ireland, a contempt for the continuity of the UK itself.

2023-12-09 03:40:22

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Brexit convinced me not to move back to the UK, my birthplace. I didn't want to raise my kids in an inward-turning society, looking for scapegoats, building walls that had taken 45 years to demolish.
And now the UK must learn to love eating the abundant local mackerel.

2023-12-08 22:43:32

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> The 1990s… wasn't where history was made.
1990: reunification of Germany
1990: US-led Gulf War vs Iraq
1991: state collapse and war in Yugoslavia
1991: collapse of USSR, end of 45 year Cold War
1991: WWW released by CERN
1992: formation of the EU
1993: growing mass-market adoption of the Internet
1993: first NYC WTC bombing
1993: WTO created
1994: NAFTA takes effect, armed uprising in Mexico in response
1994: apartheid ends in South Africa
1994: war in Chechnya
1994: genocide in Rwandan
1995: genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina
1995: Quebec independence fails
1996: war in Congo
1997: Hong Kong joins PRC
1997: severe economic crisis in Asia
1998: war in Kosovo, US intervention
1998: end of 30 year long civil war in Northern Ireland
1999: establishment of the Euro
1999: anti-WTO protests

2023-12-08 14:36:36

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Wait until your 4-year old starts jonesing to play Friday Night Funking clones.

2023-12-08 04:50:41

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It's fucking awful. The UK Home Office's "hostile environment" policy was supposed to have died along with Teresa May's premiership, but clearly the zombie still staggers onward.

2023-12-08 04:44:48

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Dweeb realpolitiking newspaper man:
"Yo, you are driving the bus right off the cliff. Is that really why you dropped $44 billion to buy that bus?"
Insufferable, richest man in the world:
"Vroom-vroom, muthafucka! Also, I blame the road for not keeping up with my wheels."

2023-12-08 04:33:24

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Multiple bong-loads of the finest stank bioengineered THC-laden super-ganja, lit with stacks of Ben Franklin hundos, obvs. What else would it be after wiping his ass with $44 billion and then flushing it down the toilet?
When Musk fucks something up, he doesn't do it in a small way.

2023-12-08 04:21:21

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A pox on both their houses.

2023-12-05 13:56:43

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Legal Engineering, literally!

2023-12-02 15:06:50

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Aw stick a cork in it, will ya?

2023-12-02 15:04:49

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Isn't this strike 3 with this judge? Also, though Judge Engoron is likely livid, I can't imagine any other judge would be critical of this one reacting strongly to such provocative antics.

2023-12-02 14:52:39

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See also this English-language reporting from Haaretz from a week before the NYT report (note: "email address-walled"):
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-11-24/ty-article-magazine/.premium/over-a-year-before-october-7-israels-army-had-insight-into-hamas-attack-plan/0000018c-02a2-de3d-af9e-0bf7901b0000

2023-12-02 00:48:06

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define: cringe, adjective (not verb)
define: based, adjective (not past participle)

2023-12-02 00:43:49

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Worth a listen: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=nA0UOiVM1u0

2023-11-30 19:45:29

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And without messing around with port forwarding or /etc/hosts to load a vhost's website in a browser!

2023-11-30 19:43:31

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Need to reach some embedded gadget on some remote network?
Need to login to some localhost admin webserver (minio, rabbit-mq, CUPS, etc, etc)
Need a VPN that shows you what the client sees from their point in the world?
ssh -D <TCP port number> is the best thing ever!

2023-11-30 19:36:04

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Get well soon!

2023-11-30 19:35:28

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Taking a swim in the memepool!

2023-11-30 19:31:51

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That's not my experience, but neither your or my anecdotes ought to be taken as definitive.

2023-11-30 19:28:09

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Feminism: the shockingly obvious proposition that women are human beings, and that human rights are for everybody.