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bahjoiteon The single most important criteria when replacing GitHub

"And this kind of pedantry feels like a tactic."

Astonishing that this was the response to a comment which offered-up le mot juste.

bahjoiteon Using the Web for a Day with JavaScript Turned Off

The whole point of the article is that not everybody is able to use javascript, for a variety of reasons, and it makes perfect sense for apps to provide as close to equivalent functionality as is practicable.

bahjoiteon The Fall of Eclipse (2016)

For PHPers and lovers of Free Software, Eclipse and PHP Developer Tools (PDT) are very fine tools. Long live Eclipse!

bahjoiteon 500M of “Have I been Pwned” hashes broken

Someone should add a "Has my hashed password been broken?" and an opt-in notification when one's password is eventually revealed.

Last person standing gets a prize.

bahjoiteon The House That Spied on Me

Remove ghostery and install privacy badger instead https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

bahjoiteon Why I’m Digging Deep Into Alzheimer’s

Same. And with nearly thirteen thousand lines in the source of the page you'd think the text would be there too.

edit: oh, there it is, 25 lines beginning at line 8201.

bahjoiteon I hate telephones

People should send calling cards ("Hi, it's so-and-so, wish to call on you at your convenience") and wait for a response. Same for telephones (send an email/text message first).

bahjoiteon This island is not for sale: how Eigg fought back

Something approaching Utopia arises on island owned by its residents.

bahjoiteon Snowflake macro photography (2013)

Or "Enigma".

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7616/16857912678_239dc8dee5_o...

bahjoiteon GitHub Debug

I wonder if Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) could help.

https://ooni.torproject.org/

bahjoiteon Chelsea Manning: The Dystopia We Signed Up For

> ... and avoid the negative psychological behaviors which disconnected individuals typically exhibit.

Please explain what you mean by "disconnected individuals" and what are the behaviours. Genuinely interested.

bahjoiteon The Pentagon Is Spending Up To $2.2B on Soviet-Style Arms for Syrian Rebels

"US Officials Ask How ISIS Got So Many Toyota Trucks" http://abcnews.go.com/International/us-officials-isis-toyota...

bahjoiteon Systemd-resolved does not keep the order of the DNS servers

The relevant option to change is "dns-servers" at https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/meson_options...

bahjoiteon Systemd-resolved does not keep the order of the DNS servers

> The "Switching to fallback DNS server 8.8.8.8." message indicates that you have no DNS servers configured at all, in which case resolved will use compiled-in fallback servers because it tries hard to just work also if you have a locally misconfigured system

It's good to have the knowledge that Google servers are compiled-in to resolved.

bahjoiteon Bell Pottinger “incited racial hatred” in South Africa

The article reveals a few "dark arts" of the PR firm:-

- Twitterbots to "amplify the message"

- "manipulate Google results to 'drown out' negative coverage of human rights violations"

- get Members of Parliament "known to be critical of investigative programmes could be used to attack journalists over minor reporting errors"

- "a team dealing with negative Wikipedia coverage of clients"

and this bit:-

> In 2016 the Bureau revealed a secret $500 million propaganda operation run by Bell Pottinger in Iraq for the Pentagon after the invasion in 2003. It involved making videos which would look like they had been produced by local Iraqi TV stations to spin the news, and recutting insurgent videos with code to track anyone who watched them. When the Bureau revealed this Lord Bell told the Sunday Times that "it was a covert military operation" for the CIA, the Pentagon and the National Security Council and "we were very proud of it".

bahjoiteon New lubricated mussel-proof coating

Indeed, copper sheathing [0] may have been used by the ancient Phoenicians and Carthaginians, but the first authenticated use seems to have been in 1758 [1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_sheathing

[1]: https://darchive.mblwhoilibrary.org/bitstream/handle/1912/19... (pdf)

bahjoiteon [dead]

'Tis fair use to be a mockin' the article, me hearty.

bahjoiteon [dead]

tl;dr

Use ghjk to move the cursor.

To quit, type :q and press Return.

If you don’t want to save your changes, you can use :q! instead.

bahjoiteon Clean Code concepts adapted for PHP

A nice thing about this being open and editable is that the original author has obviously learnt quite a bit since their initial commit.

How to do for and foreach loops for example: https://github.com/jupeter/clean-code-php/commit/08d73d655ef...

bahjoiteon Binary data visualization

Perhaps they're getting it mixed-up with Carthusian.

bahjoiteon Facebook Has Mapped the Entire Human Population of Earth

> Correction: A Facebook spokesperson clarified that the company has mapped population densities in 23 countries

bahjoiteon Gnu Privacy Guard relies on one underfunded person (2015)

It would be super if they were helped to achieve their EUR15K/month target, but after nearly three months, they're only a third of the way there (a situation that is made a little better by having a couple months worth of one-time donations).

https://gnupg.org/donate/

bahjoiteon Facebook is steering users to donate to the Center for Disaster Philanthropy

> Fundraising expenses $169,676,000

$1 in every $16 spent is on fundraising. That seems a lot.

bahjoiteon Collection of letters by Alan Turing found in filing cabinet

"An exchange of letters relating to a teenage prodigy's contribution to linear algebra" [0] would have been a more interesting choice, especially if the article would include some research on Lionel March [1] and his "rebmun algebra".

[0]: https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb133-tur%2Fadd%2Ftur%2F...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_March

bahjoiteon NSA’s SKYNET machine learning algo may be killing thousands of innocent people

[2016]

bahjoiteon Danish FM admits to selling mass-surveillance technology to Saudi Arabia, UAE

Link to June reporting on sales of "Evident":-

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40276568

bahjoiteon Libsodium Audit Results

The findings begin at https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2017/08/libsodium...

bahjoiteon I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of the Links Worked

A research project presenting pages from Geocities: http://oneterabyteofkilobyteage.tumblr.com/

Pages from 1996 start 102 pages prior to the last page (at present: http://oneterabyteofkilobyteage.tumblr.com/page/10743 )