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smallnix··on Nigeria bans ATM cash withdrawals over $225 a week to force use of CBDC
My bank only allows 3x free cash withdrawals a month. Other banks have total sum limits.
smallnix··on Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux
References to internal concepts (acronyms), Hyperlinks to internal knowledge bases, insight into individual contributers & team / org composition and mention of undisclosed efforts / strategy. And undisclosed failures on whatever level that stakeholders maybe should not see.
smallnix··on China state CCTV avoids crowd close ups at the World Cup
Makes people distrust authority. That is where all the covid deniers and hoaxers come from. Created to further divide the US. Never intended to run rampant in China. Zero covid is a last ditch effort to prevent the otherwise unpreventable protests, revolts and finally the downfall of the cccp ;)
smallnix··on Humans.txt
Poe's law at work perhaps?
smallnix··on Cracking Passwords Using John the Ripper
Same for me but with the SubSeven RAT.
smallnix··on CRISPR cancer trial success paves the way for personalized treatments
Good news: We will cure some people with cancer

Bad news: We will not cure some people with cancer

smallnix··on I’m the nurse who called 911 for help with staffing
It does not answer the surface level question, but I think it answers the implicit ask to stop whining.
smallnix··on NightWare helps disrupt nightmares for those with PTSD
That "nightmares are part of a (slow and painful) processing of PTSD events".
smallnix··on Remote work may have fueled a baby boom among U.S. women
> Shouldn't women be allowed to take the first year of their child's life to provide for their long-term emotional development without jeopardizing their careers?

Yes. Men should be allowed the same right.

smallnix··on California’s greenhouse gas reductions could be wiped out by 2020 wildfires
Sensationalized title
smallnix··on The MKULTRA Evolutions
Text is hard to follow. And other articles of same author leave me with little interest to invest more time. E.g.:

"[...] Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum (WEF) have all sorts of ideas about what it will involve, from a new, rent-based “circular economy” to beer made from recycled wastewater. But before you say cheers and dive headfirst into that delicious environmentally-friendly sludge — and before you sign over your firstborn to global-government-mandated gender reassignment therapy [...]"

https://im1776.com/2020/12/04/are-you-ready-for-the-great-re...

smallnix··on The MKULTRA Evolutions
From part 1 of that series:

>This “state of exception” logic transformed scientific research in the US forever, setting a precedent that would eventually lead to the gain of function genetic therapy experiments associated with COVID-19.

smallnix··on The End of CI
From the linked Website:

> Depending on the team size, and the rate of commits, short-lived feature branches are used for code-review and build checking (CI). [...] Very small teams may commit direct to the trunk.

smallnix··on Use of special characters in usernames on YouTube has been limited
How does YouTube make money from spam comments?
smallnix··on Schroedinger's streaming service just died
I understood the point of the post to be about musicians not getting licensing royals.
smallnix··on The Endearing Colette (2015)
A great capturing read.
smallnix··on Comby - Structural code search and replace for every language
License seems to be apache V2, see https://github.com/comby-tools/comby/blob/master/LICENSE.

They have a comparison section in their faq (https://comby.dev/docs/faq):

"Coccinelle uses a declarative syntax for matching constructs like function calls, if-statements, expression blocks, and so on for the C language. Some notable differences are that Coccinelle provides a patch-like format to express transformations (handy when you want to inline smaller changes in a broader context) and metavariable declarations (handy for developing and organizing more sophisticated patterns). For an example, see the file null_ref.cocci. Coccinelle works only for the C language, and may struggle to parse files that contain non-standard C constructs, like GCC inline assembly. Recent Coccinelle work has started expanding support for Java. In contrast, Comby’s syntax targets a wide range of languages and is more robust to matching patterns in the presence of unrecognized constructs. Comby is more suited to writing quick find-replace patterns for languages beyond C, and works well on C languages too."

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