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I don't use the VPN, but I still happily use their privacy-oriented (Firefox-based) Mullvad browser.

https://github.com/mullvad/mullvad-browser/

Strange if you never heard about Bruce <s>Lee</s> Schneier.

Chuck Norris haven't died, he just went to carry out the Last Judgement of God (ant probably torture Satan on the way).

Have you guys tried to read it with javascript turned off, as I always do? Works for me.

Learning from fiction? Let's learn from the Dune then and start Butlerian jihad already.

Funny that Yandex's AI agent is called Alice.

I believe the logic is simple, the same as with advertising illegal drugs: lies can be seductive and do harm. HK officials make people consider any outer information as lies-filled propaganda, and thus justify the prohibition.

Not about to defend NK regime, but to make it fair, and not to play "they are bad guys, thus we're good guys".

First, doubts of people not right away believing any news about NK are justified, given how many lies about NK, like executing by feeding to dogs, were spread. So don't take them as NK defenders, it may be just a healthy skepticism.

Second, note that NK kills their citizens for what is illegal in their country, which is gross, but in 2019 Americans killed North Koreans for what was pretty legal, and got away with it [1].

Third, it looks hypocritic to read how horrible is that people got prosecuted for just watching videos. We all know that in so called civilized democracies, people's life can be ruined (luckily not taken) for possessing illegal video materials, it's just legality differs by jurisdictions.

West's true advantage is that we're much more shy in capital punishments, however we're still far from humanistic ideals, and I believe concentrating only on NK regime crimes lets the mindset "they being so bad, then we're not so bad after all".

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/us/navy-seal-north-korea-...

You should also mention that capitalism is evil (so is everyone who believes to it), otherwise it's lie by omission.

Given that NK hackers have probably much more incentives to do their work well than western ones, you shouldn't wonder that they do.

Made me laugh, thank you! Laughing is healthy, though should be taken more often than once a week. For the record, it gave me https://player.vimeo.com/video/994963176

If you block Google Tag Manager, you probably also want to block Yandex Metrics and Cloudflare Insights.

And it's a very bad practice. No experiment ever should be taken without an assistant (sitter in this case).

Would it surprise you seeing eg. seeing on the front page articles about both Nobel prize winners and Darwin award winners? What is intelligence, after all? We expect AI to be as smart as Einstein or Terens Tao, but so far, we see that LLMs are pretty good at behaving just like humans, that is, most times stupid.

I would indeed expect an upright 'd'. It's an operator, not a variable. I don't recognize the tradition you're mentioning.

That's strange. I've never seen a math article in English with upright 'd' differential, only have seen it in German and Spanich articles. It's also math italic in TeX (you can check Knuth's TeXbook).

Typst authors being germans, one can hardly accuse them in the "everyone uses English" attitude. Typst `dif` math operator (as in dx/dt) produces upright 'd', quite unexpected to ones used to slanted 'd' tradition.

Speaking of mystical abbreviations — CAR, CADR, CDR !

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And they were right imho. Having a clear notion of a subject is good for both physics and mathematics, but what's good for physics or engineering, is not enough for math, in math, you also need rigorous reasoning, or you'll fall into subtle mistakes.

Note though, that nonstandard analysis isn't compatible with more "intuitionistic" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_determinacy (in place of axiom on choice), which free you from Banach–Tarski paradox and have some other appealing properties.

It's good news, but reminded me at once Mutant 59: The Plastic Eaters (1971) by Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis, where a bacteria made to utilize plastic went wild and started destroying wire isolation everywhere, causing multiple crashes etc.

I read is as a reference to https://xkcd.com/242/

Can you please elaborate, how exactly running from fresh container would stop tracking? As I see it, once you get fingerprinted, running from the same environment keeps your fingerprint (excluding (super)cookies, which you could clear inside your browser as well), thus not preventing tracking.

Obviously, just use Alt-X butterfly ...

I find some irony in that some 20 years ago, while there were pure-html web apps, eg. web-chats using <meta refresh...>, there were also java applets (remember the <applet> tag?), which were fast and used common inet-family sockets. I believe, they were mostly booed because security and privacy concerns. The applets were small (bytecode, so no interpreter required) and allowed using same language (statically typed) for both frontend and backend. Now, instead of making them more secure, we have xmlhttprequest, web sockets, node and typescript or webasm with minified and obfuscated scripts. Well, evolution paths are often curly.

Now, with all the <div><div><div><div>div</div></div></div>s in doesn't look so useful ...

For some reason they don't mention ukrainian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_programming_language which, according to some sources, was used to program soviet ballistic missiles.

I wanted to point to FOSS (GPL3) alternative ProcessHacker [1] which I'm using for years, and found out that their github link [2] now redirects to systeminformer [3], looks like repo rebranding, wasn't able to find it mentioned anywhere though.

[1] https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/

[2] https://github.com/processhacker/processhacker/

[3] https://github.com/winsiderss/systeminformer/

The genre he works in is often described as hyper-realism.

That's what constitute a great book: many meanings can coexist there, and one isn't not right reading it this or that way.