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743 karma · joined January 21, 2016

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/j5; my proof: https://keybase.io/j5/sigs/qR1qhvYPjAx02GEyvKDzy2GFwYe38y3fmbN-bw26wGA ]
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J5892··on EFF co-founder John Gilmore removed from org's Board
He's an old-school internet freedom activist.

Judging from what's happened with many similar activists, I'm guessing a hard-line anti-censorship mindset isn't compatible with today's social/political landscape in which rampant misinformation on the internet has direct effects on meatspace.

Of course, this is purely conjecture. It could be completely unrelated.

J5892··on Feds order Google to track people searching certain names or details
I'm not up to date with the current official narrative, but I can only assume it's that there was a large picnic that day and someone accidentally spilled a giant jar of raspberry jam.

But it was an otherwise pleasant day with exactly zero humans crushed by tanks or otherwise killed.

J5892··on Feds order Google to track people searching certain names or details
The point is that the photo was censored by a significant US search engine.

Also, let's not ignore that the CCP murdered somewhere between 300 and 10,000 Chinese citizens the day before he stood in front of the tank.

J5892··on Feds order Google to track people searching certain names or details
Even the official CCP numbers disagree with you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests...

> On June 19, Beijing Party Secretary Li Ximing reported to the Politburo that the government's confirmed death toll was 241, including 218 civilians (of which 36 were students), 10 PLA soldiers, and 13 People's Armed Police, along with 7,000 wounded.

But the actual number of deaths is likely much higher.

J5892··on OS/360 on Hercules: Overview (2003)
Ooh, a webring!
J5892··on HTTP Status 418 – I'm a teapot
Would it be valid for an actual IoT teapot to return this instead of a 200 for a valid request?
J5892··on Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time
I trust Neil Patrick Harris to be a compelling villain, but I'm not even sure he's the main villain.
J5892··on I hacked an office telephone to play Doom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery

"Multiple Discovery" is kind of on the nose, but it works.

J5892··on My Tungsten Cube (2019)
It's so dense that over time, the corners are pulled to the center by gravity.

(the picture is a separate 3kg sphere he bought after the cube)

J5892··on Why won’t Americans get vaccinated?
Just rebrand it and make the Trump/Freedom version an option. Others can just get the normal one.
J5892··on Why won’t Americans get vaccinated?
To be fair, I was completely out of commission for a day after the second shot. I could barely get out of bed, and was achy everywhere.

But I'd totally do it again if it's necessary to keep my immunity.

J5892··on Why won’t Americans get vaccinated?
Congratulations. You beat 100 to 1 odds that you will die.

Personally, I don't know why anyone would take that bet when they don't have to.

J5892··on A Twitter thread sparked a lawsuit against Nieman Lab’s founder
Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

J5892··on Ohio Republicans close to imposing near-total ban on municipal broadband
Democrats like money, too.

And ISPs have a lot of it.

J5892··on Stripe Reader
I came to the comments solely to see if anyone found secret codes.

Edit:

Found the key sequence handling code

  addToKeySequence(t) {
        if (this.keySequence.push(t),
        this.insertCardScreen.createShowDotsAnimation(this.keySequence.length).play(),
        this.keySequence.length < 4)
            this.insertCardScreen.createHideLogosAnimation().play();
        else {
            switch (this.keySequence.join("")) {
            case "1337":
                this.handleWpp();
                break;
            case "4242":
                this.handleInsertCard();
                break;
            default:
                this.handleInvalidCode()
            }
            this.keySequence.length = 0
        }
    }
J5892··on A technique that enables people to hear ultrasonic sources above 20kHz
You could use camera head tracking for that.
J5892··on Apple is threatening to remove Fanhouse unless they give 30% of creator earning
The standard modern web in general.

Mobile Safari is the Internet Explorer of the modern web.

J5892··on Seven Years of Factorio Friday Facts (2020)
I... what?

How?

J5892··on The Ransomware Problem Is a Bitcoin Problem
Bitcoin was wildly popular on darknet markets even when it was worth less than $10. It's still tied to a dollar value, so it can be used for payments without issue.
J5892··on The Ransomware Problem Is a Bitcoin Problem
1. No.

2. It wouldn't.

J5892··on The Ransomware Problem Is a Bitcoin Problem
The answer is that sometimes progress comes with a cost.

Whether or not you consider cryptocurrencies "progress" is irrelevant, because it's an emerging technology that exists whether you (or I) like it or not.

The cold, hard, unavoidable truth is this: Ransomware may be a Bitcoin problem, and it may not be. Either way, tough shit.

J5892··on US Supreme Court Restricts Scope of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act [pdf]
Agreed.

My initial reaction to the headline I read was anger that an officer got away with abusing his power. But upon learning the details, it's clear that a CFAA violation is an inappropriate charge here.

J5892··on US Supreme Court Restricts Scope of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act [pdf]
Yes, it likely should be a criminal act, and it may even be covered by one.

But it should not be a violation of the CFAA.

In your Geek Squadder case, you gave him access to the computer. He may have used that access improperly, but he did not increase his access through any illicit means. It is likely a crime, but not one that should be covered by the CFAA.

Your plumber case is a much different scenario. Also definitely a crime, but you did not grant him access to the machine. So it's possible that the CFAA should cover that, but I don't have the knowledge required to answer that with any amount of certainty.

J5892··on Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B
As a front-end engineer I don't feel any pressure to justify my job. The issue of "constantly changing things" tends to be completely out of our hands, so work is pretty abundant.

That said, I agree with you in principal. In this field I feel like I'm constantly fighting to keep the code simple and lean, while others think it's okay to import an entire bloated library just to make a button shine a certain way.

J5892··on Show HN: One Way Dungeon – A game I've been developing in the last five months
Initial reactions:

- It's great as a quick pick up and play game

- I would love an option to speed up animations

- I would definitely add attack power to the attack buttons

- When replacing an attack, it would be great to have a comparison view for the selected attack (or relative values next to the new values)

- Add some icons to the move buttons for effects (like attack up/down, etc.)

J5892··on Chrome testing RSS-powered ‘Follow’ button
Maybe they figured Google Reader was the future of RSS.
J5892··on OpenFlights – airport and airline data
Because If you didn't use it you'd be paying more money for the flight you did take.

Also they don't care about giving coach passengers a pleasant experience. They'd remove the seats altogether if they could.

J5892··on OpenFlights – airport and airline data
Skiplagged.com (and the legal issues around it) is a good example of why they may not want that data easily accessible.

But other than that, I assume there's a lot of money in partnerships with sites like Kayak and Priceline. But I'm not even sure which direction that money flows.

J5892··on Coinbase from YC to DPO
That's a saturated market.

The real money is in crypto-timeshares.

We have all the advantages of a timeshare business, and also blockchain.

J5892··on 34% of remote workers would quit rather than return to full-time office work
I actually much prefer an in-office setting.

But my desire for a short commute and the ability to not live in the Bay Area is much stronger.

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