firefax

We're presuming no merry pranksters.

Isn't it possible, theoretically, to direct something at one not the other for precisely that reason, to make it SEEM far away?

Back when I was on Facebook it was often incorporated into people's art -- this was around the time Joy Division released a greatest hits album. I suspect many people went on a Wikipedia wander and came to the same inspiration after listening to "Unknown Pleasures".

I am not clicking that link.

What I will do is give you a genuine reply: I listened to a few tracks from their latest album, but when I posted this I had forgotten they had that album out.

I'd actually completely forgotten I made this post until I noticed my karma had jumped for some reason -- sometimes I don't grok why people like one link but not another, and I try to just focus on surfacing interesting stuff.

And as I said on another nym recently:

I might lack things like tact, diplomacy, and deodorant.

But I think if someone had a perfect history of me, from that pollyannyish little twelve year old on Gamefaqs to the man in the corner with his back to the wall like Matt Damon, they’d respect that when I made mistakes, I was operating with imperfect information, a limited budget, and, at times, behind enemy lines.

>On desktop there's always "Translate page" in the hamburger menu.

Thanks, maybe I didn't look hard enough last time.

2600 magazine baby. (With cash, as always.)

Well, given that modern consoles are connected to the internet, a zero day embedded in the code could be a bad thing.

Also I was more drawing attention to the meta level idea anyone who can put in an easter egg can put in a zero day.

(Also, a lot of people emulate old software, and there's some interesting things you can do when you game that out I'll leave to your imagination.)

No, I think the beauty of it is the ambiguity, but I think there's a culture here that is distinct and different from the creative nonfiction community, so I'll try to be more mindful of whether the site is blue or orange.

And why is it never like, a lovable German weirdo? Why is it always tankies?

I've been enjoying the Firefox translate, but for some reason sometimes it doesn't show the option to engage it, and I have to fall back to running things through duck.ai

Too shy to file a formal bug or let the cloud know what I'm OSINTing :-)

It's easy to throw stones, but who among us hasn't lost a key missile scientist at some point or another?

Nononono no more of this shit

I remember walking into some shitty congresscritter's office with a fucking years old one pager, with a few more citations written on the bottom in pen because I wasn't going to bother making it pretty this time around.

You should have seen his face when i asked him straight up: dude, you seem to have a problem processing information. Are you having some kind of medical issue? Because I'm not the last staffer: If you abuse my time, I am never coming back here again to add more citations to a fucking one pager from 1999 -- I'm making it my mission to remove you if you fuck this up on purpose ever again.

(Or something to that effect -- I've been told I can get a bit aggressive in my rhetoric.)

This was approximately 2016 and that individual is no longer in office.

I stand by my words.

i thought we were trying to do the sequel to slashdot, but much like other web forums i've been a part of i don't really read the front page

Now imagine it's not an easter egg, it's zero day.

I'm writing a poem, in German.

>since Google basically owns them

Google has been trying to kill them since they moved the Chrome team into the same building as the now defunct SF office.

(Apparently they offered people a lot of money? There are some words I could use to describe people who do things they think are unethical for cash I'll leave unsaid.)

You can have my ad blocker when you take it from my cold dead fingers. I will literally move to a shack in the woods rather than go back to late 90s level of bullshit advertising.

Thanks for adding this.

I wonder if these deaths are linked to... I'm struggling for a word here. Extortion doesn't really capture it.

I've heard discussion of "hurtcore" sites[1] in public venues.

The reporting in the above cited case (and several others adjacent) seems to focus on the CSAM angle, rather than the meta level issue of extortionists running roughshod over the internet.

There are a LOT of rules about security clearances. I never had one, but I knew people who did, and it used to really enrage me in my early 20s how folks would gatekeep access to stable, well paying jobs while yeeting out into cyberspace how much they love snorting coke, smoking weed, and purchasing the services of sex workers.

(Fun fact: prostitution is also illegal at the federal level, but for some reason the feds hyperfocus on weed. It's almost like they don't actually care about protecting victims, just propping up an abusive world order... but this isn't a political discussion site, so I'll stop myself from going on yet another vent session.)

Anyways... maybe I'm the cyberspace equivalent of Charlie from Always Sunny in front of his "big board", but at least I said my piece. But there are other cases, less reported on. (One involved a German army officer for example) where folks gathered not just to trade abuse imagery, but to gather together to torment folks.

There's been some more recent reporting on 764[2], but in that liminal period in between those two articles lies so many untold stories... multiple darknet communities that deserve longreads that were never written, possibly because so few people with technical acumen can also write prose, and the ones with that very particular set of skills often are very, very busy and very very very sleep deprived.

[1] "Inside the Repulsive World of ‘Hurtcore’, the Worst Crimes Imaginable" https://www.vice.com/en/article/59kye3/the-repulsive-world-o...

[2] "The recruiting process usually starts with The Com members starting a relationship with the victim, sending them kind and romantic messages. Once the victim trusts the member, they gradually start to coerce the victim to share private information. After the victim shares the material, The Com starts to blackmail them into sending violent material, for example videos of the victim hurting strangers, their family, or themselves." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Com#Notable_activities

Only two points? I know we're not supposed to beg for karma, but if you know me that joke works on SO MANY levels.

The US military does a lot of blue team stuff -- there's been a cultural shift from the days of zero day hoarding that started around the time some analyst went buck wild with their exploits.

(Lets be clear: a big source of the ransomware epidemic stems from folks not respecting the vulnerabilities equities process.)

I decided to go ahead and click through, since this looks like it's just an expired certificate. It's a really great piece of creative nonfiction that evoked all sorts of emotions, some of which even managed to be positive.

And I'm going to go with my gut and not give my thoughts on love, and instead simply reflect on the fact that in the early days, there was no "swipe culture" -- you got shown the girl of your dreams, on paper. (In reality, there's looks, social class, and of course, the foundations of geopolitics.)

Anyone have a non-paywalled source?

Just to clarify, do you "indeed" that links can't be stolen, or do you "indeed" the idea that we should all just adopt the ironic detached tone of the dirtbag left to discuss Current Events?

(Or, as always: why not both?)

Did I wander into Reddit for a moment?

We can do Reddit on HN if we want -- hell I'm jonesing for it, I bristle at restrictions on my literary tone... but obsessing over who "stole" a link seems juvenile.

Links were made to be shared :-)

>The discs have been a formality for longer than most gamers understand or want to admit Sony is discontinuing disc sales as a response to how gamers are buying games not the other way around.

I can see where you're coming from, but having recently replayed my childhood copy of MGS, all I can say is don't ask me for Meryl's codec number.

When I used it, it was popular among folks who would do photography as a hobby when attending academic conferences.

Tom Anderson liked one of my landscape photos, which briefly made me popular with the crew who'd roll into gallery showings for the wine and cheese.

(This was back before Instagram got acquired by Facebook and Obama let Putin take Crimea and Xi Jingping scoop up rare earth mineral rights in Africa.)

It was a great example of being evil -- they reduced user choice while pushing an inferior product.

I'll throw it on my list, I've got a pretty big backlog right now.

Wasn't there a Defcon or Derby talk about this years back? (The insecurity, not the Persian angle)

Struggling for a source.

Guy had the energy of that one Simcity 2000 character who bugs out if you cut back on funding that you'll regret it. Early twenty aughts IIRC?

>dominance of the Bloq Quebecois has over Quebec preventing the establishment of any lasting NDP influence

So the social democrats won't play nice with the social democrats who want to secede, to grossly oversimplify? :-)

Here in the states (and sorry to do the thing parent was complaining about), I've seen the same people who used to vilify Ralph Nader for splitting the vote melt down they're getting primaried by "extremists" -- the generation that brought us South Park and the Iraq War has grown up to be fragile as fuck.

> Too often with these kinds of surveillance laws the drive for them doesn’t seem to be originating by from the electorate, and it feels like this kind of stuff has an exogenous source and is meant for a whole different audience or player in the game.

Too often we refuse to listen to victims and pretend there is a technical issue preventing the prosecution of serious violations of the non aggression principle.

Aha, thanks for this.