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If you are doing software engineering, Dave Snowden's Cynefin Framework is worth a look. Considers complexity as one quadrant to deal with when making decisions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin_Framework

I personally never liked the whole Nord ecosystem. I tried NordPass and encountered bug after bug and had to stop using it. The software seems kind of thrown together / shoddily made just to make a quick buck. They don't nearly put in as much passion and effort as better offerings like ProtonVPN and Mullvad (no affiliation, just really love their services).

And with Mullvad you can just make a one-time payment of EUR 5.00 if you need to use it for 30 days. No auto-renew crap / commitment to long subscriptions to deal with.

Would be interesting to see how may people inadvertently employ Dijkstra's Algorithm on their runs/walks https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/dijkstras-shortest-path-al...

I remember seeing photos of some university - I can't remember where - that actually ripped up the old paths and paved over the desire paths, to great success.

And when people do this: it makes the path a bit jarring since you intuitively know it's been designed that way for maximum efficiency and you are being 'played' in this subtle way.

Well we assume any important Internet choke-point is used for surveillance. If I just started surveilling anything sent en clair my first stop would be Internet backbone connections.

And what percentage of these users regularly encounter censorship, Internet infra shutdowns, or even surveillance? Every other day there are news articles pointing out the woes of the Great Firewall[0]

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

Communicating the mapping of the code and the real world, as Naur describes, would have required us to document all these processes in meticulous detail. If we had tried to, I believe the result would’ve been multiple hundred pages describing the business processes

Or in other words: building in business logic is paramount and the only thing you should be doing if running a startup, otherwise these engineers are just dossing around with code that doesn't yield a profit.

Why specifically India? Multiple nations should be adopting digital currency. Europe for example is pushing for a digital Euro[0]

[0] https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/html/digitaleuro.en.html

Our world is defined by it, and yet we struggle to ever define it

German psychologist Gustav Fechner provided evidence that people prefer rectangles with sides in proportion to the golden ratio (if you’re curious, that ratio is about 1.6:1)

Glad it mentioned the Golden Ratio and beauty seemingly being in the 'eye of the beholder' as mentioned here:

Despite his experiments with the golden ratio, Fechner continued to believe that beauty was, to a large degree, in the brain of the beholder.

IMHO Beauty can be subjective, but there are entire industries built on the fact that some beauty is unquestionable, like in the modeling/fashion industry.

My decidedly Holocaust-centric childhood failed to instill in me hostile emotions toward Nazis, or anti-Semites generally.

Stockholm syndrome?[0]

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

I remember a lyric by Rage Against the Machine that went:

    'Anger is a gift'.

High performance animation and interactivity

Animations that jump out at you as you scroll always seem like a great idea, but are a misfeature to be avoided, since they distract from the content, and give across this 'trying too hard' vibe which I personally never liked.

Could you explain why Signal users are more careful than email users?

Sorry, I forgot to mention that phones are typically seen as more secure, and phones are the go-to operating systems that people use now, and are (usually) permanently switched on, so have to be secure since they are constantly exposed to the public Internet. (Yes, Windows can be seen as secure too, but IMHO phones are more secure. Windows is getting better over the years and have mitigated and patched a lot of the common vulns you do see).

Aren't all Signal users also email users?

No. Email is often reached from many different OSes and environments. It is common and expected to see people logging into their Gmail from potentially compromised systems at work, or at Internet cafes. They just assume that whenever they login, the are 'secure' when in some cases the Internet cafe is logging everything or their employer has setup 'monitoring' software to ensure they are actually working and not dossing.

Signal: not so much. They have a single secure device that they use to communicate with, and since Signal is tied to a SIM: migrating your old Signal 'account' to a new SIM is impossible.

Baking in automatic crypto to email is a lost cause, since email is not as straight-forward as let's say Signal, which only succeeds because it exists in a monoculture (iOS/Android). Email operates on 100s of different clients (and operating systems), and you get people replying-to-all by mistake, and fat-fingering sensitive data to random recipients (which is possible in Signal, but not nearly as bad as e-mail where e-mail can exist in any hostile environment it wants, unlike Signal which has a user which is more careful about what he/she sends).

I think the cat is out of the bag on this one

You mean that stock market manipulation is now in the hands of normies who don't wear a suit-and-tie and are not your typical business mogul who has regular insight into stocks and likes to play the stock market casually and for fun?

There's also PPL going around registering the shortest handle they can find that is not yet taken by someone, and then selling them on the darknet as so called 'OG' accounts. You can get a four letter handle for $200 like `@name`

I always wondered: how many of these tweets are just Justin Bieber fandom type posts, bots, spam, or other dross? Twitter is infamous for its bad signal to noise ratio. These researchers need to write algos to filter out all the noise

I always wondered: how many of these tweets are just Justin Bieber fandom type posts, bots, spam, or other dross? Twitter is infamous for its bad signal to noise ratio. These researchers need to write algos to filter out all the noise

do you have more info on the 'forever domain'?

https://www.epik.com/forever/

As much as I don't like using Google services, they do offer something I might actually use, as per the mention of 'offsite' offprem storage in the article:

https://cloud.google.com/storage/archival/

There is also Amazon Glacier

https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/

They market these services towards SMEs, but one-man-shows/solopreneurs can use them too.

I'm sure it's easy to write a small script that spawns new tabs in the browser and opens several random sites from /newest. In-fact I am tempted to write a bookmarklet that does this. You could also code up something in Tampermonkey that automatically opens everything in /newest

it's easier to just buy a domain and route * to your inbox

There is the caveat of the domain getting into the wrong hands, if you look long enough down the road. What if you die, or simply can't afford to renew the domain well into the future? I know if I could look down from heaven after I die and saw someone re-registering my dropped domain, I would be furious!

Then there is the issue of even when you're alive, you could simply refuse to renew for whatever reason and the domain is suddenly someone else's.

MarkMonitor and Epik are the only companies that I know of that can safeguard against this. Epik has so called 'forever domains' and ensure the domain stays active well into the future.

Rather than use 3rd party CDNs, I serve assets from my own server. You can't rely on 3rd party assets to be 100% up all the time. Granted, you can't ensure your own site will be up 100% all the time either, but if your site is down, the assets go down with it anyway. Also: if a 3rd party asset is down, your site slows to a crawl as the browser hangs trying to load the asset, so best just avoiding them.

I hate e-commerce stores that make you register an account to buy things. I mean I can understand why Amazon needs accounts, but for mom-and-pop stores you need things to be as frictionless as possible, and that means /accountless/ buying of items. Accounts are juicy targets for blackhats because of password re-use and a database of accounts can be used for credential stuffing.

Is the high similar to heroin/morphine etc in humans? Because if it is, then is catnip not addictive to a cat? What if a cat discovers whole fields of the stuff and decided to revel in it until death? It's unlikely but it could happen

enabling them to trade cryptocurrency with confidence

And how is that possible with a centralized system which cryptocurrency hates?

Next it needs filecoin support

This can apply to other fields, not just 'hacking' (whatever hacking means to you).

Whilst this tool is neat, it's not as useful as a hammer. If anything it's an embellishment - just use it to add a bit of gloss to a drab academic piece of stats, but that's its only function.

But it is from Andreessen Horowitz, one of Silicon Valleys' top investors. These guys definitely do their homework. So it must.

Not necessarily. Yes AH is a credible source, but not the final arbiter of truth and like all things, you take what they say with a pinch of salt. Software needs hardware too and hardware is oft overlooked.