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If you need some non-election material to distract you, Leslie Lamport just dropped a new book on TLA+ lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/science-...

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

From the annals of bad opt-outs: if you want to opt out of Apple's location services, simply change your SSID to end with "_nomap" I can't wait for a regulator to slap them on the corporate dick for this.

submitted 283 days ago • 1 comment

Macklemore with a masterpiece

submitted 299 days ago • 0 comments

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

submitted 345 days ago • 997 comments

This is actually ridiculous...

submitted 360 days ago • 0 comments

I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are.

submitted 365 days ago • 0 comments

(1/) One thing I wish more people knew about the Belgian genocide of the Congo is how one woman who heard something incredible at a dinner party and took it seriously was singlehandedly more responsible for ending a genocide than anyone else I can name in history. Meet Alice Seeley Harris.

submitted 370 days ago • 34 comments

They literally have these listening devices planted wherever Black people live in NYC. Basically all of Brooklyn (where I now live), Harlem, all of the Bronx, Far Rockaway, and South Jamaica Queens (where I grew up). I've wanted to see this data for a long time.

submitted 373 days ago • 51 comments

WE NEED TO VOTE INDEPENDENT. ONE IS A CROOK. THE OTHER IS GENOCIDAL. BOTH ARE BAD. WE CAN'T ARGUE THAT WE NEED CHANGE AND CONTINUE VOTING LIKE THIS. AND, YEAH, BOTH ARE OLD TOO.

submitted 384 days ago • 0 comments

o|o

submitted 389 days ago • 0 comments

0.99999% is technically five nines

submitted 395 days ago • 0 comments

O'er the laaaaaaaand of the freeeeeeee, and the hooooooome, of the, braaaaaaaaave: www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/unp... (Via @shortcircuitij.bsky.social)

submitted 399 days ago • 15 comments

The most surprising thing about building a Kubernete on a bunch of disparate hardware is how few of the projects I use publish Arm Docker images. I have to run my own registry of (trivially) rebuilt images.

submitted 405 days ago • 1 comment

One cool thing about our current IP system is how several multi-billion-dollar companies stole my entire blog to train their LLMs and I have no recourse, but also a bot can instantly (and wrongly) flag my kid's coding project for school and prevent them from turning it in.

submitted 410 days ago • 8 comments

An Israeli history teacher was arrested on treason charges, his home was ransacked by police, and he was held in solitary confinement for Facebook posts critical of Israel's military action and civilian deaths in Gaza.

submitted 412 days ago • 46 comments

Chinese authorities are exploiting a weakness Apple has allowed to go unfixed for 5 years arstechnica.com/security/202...

submitted 415 days ago • 0 comments

everytime I read Dune, I get thirsty

submitted 429 days ago • 1 comment

"You've answered my question, thank you." #byeNikki

submitted 430 days ago • 0 comments

People get so defensive about their post-Xitter social media, which I find incredibly silly. All of these services are too new to come to any meaningful conclusions about them. And only 2 of them promise open ecosystems. Supporting any that don’t is reckless, uninformed …

submitted 532 days ago • 4 comments