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aritmo··on Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project
Perhaps in another dimension.
aritmo··on Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project
Looks like this "Replit" is a joke service. Too easy to replicate and no reason to use them.
aritmo··on Trans-Pacific Cable Chaos, Shifting Asian Hubs
What are the "security concerns" for a direct cable between the Americas and Hong Kong?
aritmo··on UFO Sightings Went from Conspiracy Theory to a Serious Government Inquiry
The vast majority of UFO sightings in the US have been secret US military aircraft. These sightings are said not to be any of the secret US military aircraft. That is hard to believe.

Obviously there are no (extraterrestrial) aliens involved in any of these. The irony would be if Mexico is somehow involved.

aritmo··on Google removes its head of diversity after 2007 blog post surfaces
It is quite evident that this person has been affected by the plight of the Lebanese and the Palestinians. As unbelievable as it may seem, many modern-day Israelis consider the Palestinians to be sub-human. That the Palestinians do not deserve their land. This attitude is indoctrinated through the military service. They make the Palestinians in Gaza really suffer.

That article is hard to understand. Makes yu think that this person witnessed somehow whats going on there.

aritmo··on Researchers: Culture drives human evolution more than genetics
It is ironic that most cultures believe that genetics drive human evolution.
aritmo··on Mass scale manipulation of Twitter Trends in Turkey discovered
The important detail is that you can make a tweet on a subject, remove the tweet as soon as possible, and that deleted tweet will affect the Trends. Amazing.
aritmo··on Noyb aims to end “cookie banner terror” and issues more than 500 GDPR complaints
Do Facebook as well. Here is their trick:

1. Connect with a private browser session so that you get a fresh "Accept Cookies". 2. You are asked whether to "Accept All" (highlighted), or "Manage Settings". 3. You click on "Manage Settings". The cookie options are indeed unselected, but the only button says "Accept cookies".

You click to "Accept cookies" in order to not accept cookies!

aritmo··on Danish whistleblower details NSA collaboration, cable and data center spying (2020)
>One is US led with roots in western roman church

I stopped reading there.

aritmo··on Don't take on China alone, says ex-Australia PM Kevin Rudd
That is the sad truth. All the talk about democracy, open markets, are just a ruse.

There is a real economic war against China and we play dirty against them.

aritmo··on Hacking the Silvercrest (Lidl) Smart Home Gateway
In Spain it is 17.99€ - https://www.lidl.es/es/central-domotica-zigbee-smart-home/p1...
aritmo··on Egyptian Circumnavigation of Africa ~600 BC
The Antikythera Mechanism is a computer and was created in Ancient Greece around 100BC. That was a period of time before the Roman conquest of the known world. When there is an empire in power, things do not progress. The knowledge of that device got lost in history.

China has been an empire for much of her history. Being an empire does not help in the technological advancement. But fierce competition helps.

aritmo··on Cheese photo leads to Liverpool drug dealer's downfall
There is some heavy editorializig by the BBC here. As a cheese lover, the cheese was fine. That person just posted a photo that also included their fingertips.
aritmo··on [dead]
Before:

Unlawful activities and related support activities are considered off-topic, as are inappropriate advertising, heavy media file trading, proprietary game software modding, warez, porn and various forms of antisocial behaviour, including (but not limited to) political, racial, ethnic, religious or gender-related invective.

After:

Off topic channels are required to act in good faith in accordance to the freenode community as a whole. Unlawful activities and related support activities are considered off-topic, as are inappropriate advertising such as unused channels for the purpose of polluting the channel list results, transmission of illicit content such as warez or illegal content, spam, or squatting a namespace preventing others from utilizing it.

My comment:

Andrew edited the file in order to add "inappropriate advertising such as unused channels for the purpose of polluting the channel list results" as a way to stop the mass exodus. If a channel changed the topic to "We have moved to libera.chat" and stopped using the channel on Freenode, then Andrew would take over that channel.

But in doing the edit, he removed inadvertently[?] the part about "antisocial behaviour, including (but not limited to) political, racial, ethnic, religious or gender-related invective".

He can easily add back the part about antisocial behavior. However, the core of the change is to be able to takeover any channel that has moved elsewhere, and remove any hint that a channel is no longer unofficial.

aritmo··on Did a weak WiFi password lead police to our door?
How about suing the ISP for lax security relating to the home router?
aritmo··on Install the Russian keyboard to prevent Russian ransomware attacks
Where will this end though? If they start checking the timezone, you keep your timezone to Moscow?!?
aritmo··on The new corporate owner of Freenode is Imperial Family Companies
Aristocracy theme for the company and then make weird claims toward democracy.
aritmo··on Freenode resignation is official, not a draft
How do you connect to Libera Chat? Your Freenode password does not work anymore but there is no way to create a new account yet.
aritmo··on Microsoft Authenticator Chrome Extention is not from MS and is phishing
It is a very simple extension. No effort to hide the malicious URL.

See the source: https://crxcavator.io/source/mabdjppmcjpjploliggpbonahnjjlgk...

The malware link: hxxp://przekierowanie2.chrome_augustow.pl/?123-Microsoft525896

aritmo··on Ask HN: What equipment's/setup do I need to mine Bitcoin at home?
Bitcoin mining has a "variable" difficulty. If many are mining, the difficulty rises a lot. Any many many are mining Bitcoin.

See https://www.nicehash.com/profitability-calculator in order to figure out whether your investment (buy the mining equipment, pay for electricity) would be able to break even.

aritmo··on I am resigning along with most other Freenode staff
That URL, https://p.haavard.me/407 is a pastebin text.

According to https://p.haavard.me/ the pastebins expire after 24 hours. But most URLs in the pastebin already are 404, which likely means that someone pasted an old text file for an issue that happened some time ago.

aritmo··on Swiss spy chief exits after reports of row over CIA-linked firm
This is bad for the image of Switzerland. How can you trust them with security sensitive issues ever again?
aritmo··on Why do we buy into the 'cult' of overwork?
It's just posturing. The same people who complain all the time, for sympathy.
aritmo··on Why psychology isn’t science (2012)
Neuroscience replaces psychology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience

aritmo··on A nickel is worth more than a nickel
They should have said instead "Nickel is worth more than a nickel".
aritmo··on Russian intelligence launches anonymous threat tipping portal in Tor
Probably fake, it is http://.
aritmo··on Bill and Melinda gates divorce after 27 years of marriage
Did not age well, https://twitter.com/billgates/status/1080139729100693504?lan...
aritmo··on A blood test may help the diagnosis and treatment of depression
Oh, it is that bad... Terrible.
aritmo··on Global cryptocurrency “market cap” exceeds “US” currency in circulation
"market cap" assumes infinite demand for your currency, and that all your currency will sold at the current value. Kinda not happening.
aritmo··on Tether (USDT) is launching on Coinbase Pro
> For stablecoins like USDT, the company behind the protocol is responsible for holding reserves that fully back each token. The company behind Tether, Tether Limited, claims to hold reserves that fully back each USDT. As of 2021, USDT is the most widely-used stablecoin in the world, with a market cap over $30 billion.
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