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Wrote some notes on self-hosting an Atuin sync server and getting to it via Tailscale hackd.net/posts/atuin-...

Telemetry could not be disabled by the installer.

Oh good of course

Text on how to opt out of DOTNET telemetry, requiring re-running the installer after setting up an environment variable.

This is such a garbage design pattern, Microsoft.

We're really cooked when Klarna starts partnering with One Medical and your local healthcare providers.

Language auto detected as Italian for the salute emoji.

Didn't realize "🫡" was an Italian phrase!

Is TurboTax getting a kickback from all these CAPTCHAs we gotta solve? 🤔 Like damn seems like there's one every other click.

How many ===== is JavaScript up to these days?

There's a kind of cutthroat efficiency that's often applied to various kinds of systems which in turn makes them eminently exposed to black swan risk.

Absent significant skin in the game, the cost of failure is an externality not borne by the system designers/owners.

(See: Incerto, Infinite games)

Art critic CAPTCHAs

After hating everything for so long, you can make a killing on affiliate links on your new “Ed Loves” review site.

“This is Edproved!”

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

Here’s how to share sensitive leaks with the press Thinking about securely leaking information to news organizations? This guide will show you how.

We're just going to leave this here…

Someone is getting fired and someone is getting promoted.

Lack of skin in the game (quite literally, here) will always lead to terrible outcomes.

Fun fact! When the Nazis were looking for templates for their horrible fucking laws, guess where they went looking! Yes! That's right! The US Jim Crow laws!

So, yes. Fucking Jim Crow, yes.

Are they *also* reading the Sabotage manual?

If moving your newsletter from Substack seems overwhelming, both Buttondown and Ghost have processes AND people to help with it.

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These days, having eggs says you have connections, not just coin. Real wealth and power, not just fleeting financial freedom.

90s paperback cover to Snow Crash, featuring a Mesopotamian arch looking into a cyberpunk city, with a dude wielding a katana.

1. I'm NOT the sort of SF/F nerd who thinks everyone needs to read a "canon" of older works in genre like they're homework before they get to call themselves a fan, nevertheless the book I'm always mildly surprised when people say they haven't read it is "Snow Crash," which to me is era-defining...

As someone that does "red teaming" professionally, I know the point is to leave the thing being tested *better* than how I found it. I may have over-indexed on that choice of terminology, perhaps, as I felt it carried an undeserved negative connotation; we're seeing a flat-out attack.

Thanks.

Apologies if it landed off, I was not intending to be pedantic. I think we agree the results are negative.

I was reflecting on a difference of intentions and outcomes between the two concepts, as current efforts aren't an attempt to improve an existing system, but attack, destroy, and replace it.

@steveklabnik.com respectfully, red teaming implies a desire to future-proof the system so it’s more resilient to the types of tests performed, should they be attempted “for real”.

Absent an intent to improve the system, it’s just an attack.

How are people in the US keeping up with health-related information regarding existing or developing situations, nowadays? E.g., COVID-19 rates, new and exciting pathogens and their spread, etc.?

I’ve always actually preferred using “X”, to mark its “bag of shit” era.

The fact it also works for “American History X” was the unfortunate bonus we didn’t need.

Cans of Jeppson’s Malört Spritz

Only had the gateway version, still need to source the full experience.

How they divide us.

bubbe yaga, first of their name, raccoon whisperer, CISSP

Splendor water. Contains colloidal gold & silver, naturally. A naturally structured living-water. Award-winning taste; unparalleled purity.

Why is this??!

If the water lives I think you're supposed to boil it?

Bottle of water: Ophora Water for Wellness Nano-pure re-structured hyper-oxygenated $13.99

What the hell is this?!