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As a Jakarta resident I can confirm that the bus transit system (TransJakarta) have massively helped mobility amongst the populace. With a flat fare of 2 cents you can get from one end of the city to the other; it's an amazing system.

Doujin works are made with the awareness that they are parodies of the original work. It does not alter the body of the original work in any way and, as the term itself means, self-published. It is made without any direct affilation in regards to the original work.

It means both the sender and the receiver of the message, if coerced, can without coordination have a degree plausible deniability for the contents of the message.

For example, I send you the message "CIA" encrypted using this scheme. Theoretically, it should be impossible for any third party to prove that I send "CIA", because I can give up a different decryption key that decodes the ciphertext to, say, "NSA". Similarly, on the receiving end, you can give up a different decryption key that decodes the ciphertext to, say, "FBI".

This scheme also means it is impossible for a third party to discover who is giving up the 'truth' in such scenarios (for example if I told the truth and decrypted the ciphertext into "CIA", while you lied and decrypted the ciphertext into "FBI", the third party has no way to know which one is correct, or if either of them are fake).

I Do Not Like Go 8 years ago

This must've been quite an old article, because lo and behold, nearly every single complaint on that page is being addressed with gusto by the Go community! Proposals on generics and error handling is well underway, and his complaints regarding GOPATH and the go get has been solved with Go modules.

EDIT: As I expected, the linked page is written on Feb 2018[1], things indeed have changed a lot since then.

[1] https://github.com/grimoire-ca/bliki/commits/master/wiki/dev...

Thank God, finally a proper "Getting Started" guide for Go Modules. The official docs and wiki page always felt so obtuse and unhelpful about how to actually use the feature, while dep at least offers the obvious "dep init then dep ensure and you'll be fine" solution.

Doesn't the account in the article run counter to the narrative that cows are massive greenhouse gas producers? Is there an alternative to grazing that would not require cows?

Advent of Nim 8 years ago

Advent of Code is a really fun event in general and an excellent problem-solving exercise, I remember how /g/ won last year's global leaderboard. I'll definitely going participate this year as well.

Hopefully those safety concerns will force cities to accommodate electric scooters as part of their transportation infrastructure, leading to proper lanes, safety inspections and docking stations, instead of banning them nilly-willy.

The current urban infrastructure in America are build for automobiles, specifically cars, with bikes being an afterthought. The mass adoption of electric scooters will eventually cause a wake-up call for city planners, and will hopefully put the brakes on car culture.

I appreciate knowing this and I don't fault Google for collecting it; I definitely can see the value in this, both for the customer and Google themselves.

I just wish there's the option to erase the items there, or even better disable the collection entirely.

Thanks for the source. Still, I'm getting mixed signals from that article, I guess he did what he did and regretted it? Have they taken steps to prevent something like that from happening again?

I found this app earlier today and it's been working pretty great. It appears to be developed by Google's Jigsaw[0] organization and is surprisingly unknown.

Where I live quite a few sites are blocked by the government and while Drony[1] has been quite helpful it's incredibly outdated and, as per the latest update, become really ad-ridden.

[0] https://jigsaw.google.com/

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.sandroprox...