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I don’t think that’s the definition of “hacker” in the sites name https://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
Re:mitmproxy adds --emudhra option on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @08:44PM (#50189632)
Most things have tradeoffs

At some point you’re forced to stack rank two or more of your values in a case where they’re mutually exclusive

More confusing, they change the name of the protest when they organize in places that actually have a king.
Ah misunderstood. Thought this was about hosting the private server, not hosting the source code for a private server.
> The majority have clauses I dislike.

At least for the HOA I was a part of, the CC&Rs were nearly impossible to change. Getting elected didn’t give you the power to change them. They were a contract signed with each individual homeowner - changing them required getting consent from every homeowner individually.

Being on the board gave you power over how budget was allocated within those CC&Rs. I.E. the maintenance and upgrade of shared spaces. Vendor selection for violation detection/enforcement. Etc.

> Tor

This sounds like fairy dust for this use case. You’re playing a real time game where latency matters, and you’re running all that latency sensitive traffic through a network of relays running on altruism - each hop would introduce latency and you’d deal with contention in the network.

The play experience would be awful.

Re:Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later on Monday October 12, 2026 @08:05PM (#50064791)
A random prediction does not have 50/50 odds of being correct
Re:Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking? on Monday October 12, 2026 @11:25AM (#50057810)
> get in trouble for that

> intent to murder

Two different things

Re:Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking? on Monday October 12, 2026 @10:58AM (#50057369)
Small nit:

If kitchen knife companies where, in fact, stabbing people to death in their R&D labs - I do believe they would get in trouble for that.

I would counter that it’s (or at least should be) a mission driven project.

That mission might be political - but the politics follow from the mission not the other way around.

The mission I’d personally like out of a product that fits Tor’s space is: the ability to unconditionally communicate securely and privately over the public Internet.

Saying that mission is inherently political, sure, you’re going to exclude people who disagree with the mission. That’s kinda the point.

But saying that the narrow politics of that mission means the organization should be broadened to take additional political stances that would exclude people who otherwise would participate in advancing the mission?

I don’t know how that follows.

Re:Our $445M Series D on Friday October 09, 2026 @02:23PM (#50024694)
> right, people will do it, but then they'll complain on a forum about having to spend 60+ hours (with prep time) for a handful of interviews with no guarantee of a position and i think that's a fair complaint to make.

This is an acceptable filter for me on both sides of the table.

You are interviewing them as much as they are interviewing you. Where you work should be a major life decision. These are the humans and craft you’re going to spend your time with/on for 40+ hours a week for years. You aren’t going to get a glimmer of understanding of the culture, people, and work in a single 45 minute interview (short of major red flags).

If all you’re doing is looking for a job, any job, I get this sentiment - and the other side of the table needs to be looking for a butt in a seat, any butt, and then these shotgun interviews work.

But if you’re optimizing for career and quality of life, having an extended diligence process is a pro, not a con. Especially since that means the team you’re joining has passed muster in the same diligence process when they were hired.

A strong diligence process signals the company takes who they hire seriously - and that the people who work there take where they work seriously.

Re:Social Reality in China on Friday October 02, 2026 @05:01PM (#49938575)
I think one of the biggest differences, that the author misses, is that China is a totalitarian state.

The average citizen is not who you need to convince. The national narrative is set from the top, disseminated through the Central Propaganda Department, and enforced.

It’s not a grass roots effort to sway national policy in China AFAIK - you’re trying to convince a small group of key people who have enough of their hands on the steering wheel of a totalitarian state.

Heard. If we’re going through this pain of a migration- adopting something that is forward compatible at the ecosystem/community level like ipfs makes sense to me. You throw a byte at the front of the hash which indicates the format the hash is in.

We have a content addressable storage system internally and we use a self describing hash for it, so we can change the hashing scheme for different use cases.

Multihash is ipfs’ container for this.

Re:Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake on Thursday October 01, 2026 @01:48PM (#49924805)
> We can go through years of this SHA-1 to SHA-256 migration and then quantum computers break 256 and we're back in the same stupid boat again.

SHA-256 is considered quantum safe by the NIST and is left out of PQC migration guidance entirely.

Re:The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @09:27PM (#49916588)
This. All services have experience doing most things - they do those things to maintain superiority over their domain. And the way they do them is specialized to that domain.

The navy was up there to maintain superiority over water. The airforce over the air. The army likewise.

But nobody clearly owned maintaining superiority over the domain of space and any operation that needed to ensure uncontested operation in space was a joint agency nightmare.

Space force is chartered to provide superiority in space so the other services can conduct their operations up there. Space is clearly a specialization that is differentiated from the air.

Re:The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @08:17PM (#49916144)
We have organizations chartered for land, air, and sea superiority. It seems fairly reasonable to have an organization chartered for space superiority, instead of leaving that adhoc across the other forces.
Swedish meta analysis from 2021 [1]

> It is concluded that street lighting continues to be an effective intervention in preventing crime in public places. A narrative synthesis of effects of the eight new studies and a meta-analysis of 17 studies confirmed this conclusion. In pooling the effects of 17 studies that could be included in the meta-analysis, it was found that street lighting led to a significant 14% decrease in crime in experimental areas compared with comparable control areas.

[1] https://bra.se/download/18.47bb43da192711ebb374ea5/172950596...

Darkness is one of the benefits of a high trust society.

Do we need bright white flood lights in places like Portland? Yes, they strongly correlate with reduced crime on the premise. This is the cost of a medium trust society.

Find a way to not have people regularly vandalize and B&E; many of the countermeasures can go away.

I live in a dark sky community and my property is unlit. I don’t worry about people walking onto my property at 2am.

Re:When oil prices spike, where does the money go? on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @10:53PM (#49903816)
Having not read the article yet: it goes to the people still able to provide you oil. Some of which were already providing you oil and they get it as almost pure margin, some of which couldn’t afford to provide you oil at a lower price point.

Edit: yup

Re:The Mars Delusion on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @10:47PM (#49903772)
You’re not going to land on the moon by standing at a podium and saying “we do hard things because they’re hard” either.

We call moon shots “moon shots” because we landed on the moon and generated incredible generational wealth from the technology in the process.

Had we not, we would call moon shots something else.

Re:A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @05:08PM (#49900570)
“Deal with the alligator closest to the boat”
Re:AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @04:59PM (#49900446)
This. Positive sum games are deflationary. Economic policy can, and has, offset the deflation of techno capital growth.
Re:AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @04:57PM (#49900426)
Wealth creation happens in positive sum games. Wealth destruction happens in negative sum games. Winners and losers are decided in zero sum games.

Play positive sum games.

Re:The Mars Delusion on Sunday September 27, 2026 @01:01PM (#49868509)
> it's physically impossible with current technology for humans to survive a trip to Mars and live on the surface

You seem to say this as if it’s some sort of enlightened reason to “not”

Instead, I suspect for many, enumerating, quantifying and solving the impossible is precisely the reason we venture into the unknown.

Re:Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy on Thursday September 24, 2026 @02:21AM (#49826894)
I wonder why China has brought 27 nuclear reactors online in the past 10 years, with another 36 actively being developed.
I do not consider being a reasonably well adjusted member of society, and enforcing that, to be the responsibility of businesses and do not agree that we are all subsidizing a business’ ability to have nice things without people destroying them.
A desert isn’t exactly paradise. A whole lotta desert in California.
Re:Socrates vs. the Written Word (2011) on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @03:41AM (#49797835)
> When you said something, back then, the people around you in close proximity to you would have a very similar understanding of the words you use, especially in terms of magnitude, cultural context and nuances.

On the one hand, yes, I agree with you.

On the other hand, I’ve played the game of telephone. I can’t imagine a game of telephone played over multiple generations has any sort of fidelity.

Re:Spymarks, Not Watermarks on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @01:41AM (#49797194)
Reminds me of the micro patterns from inkjet printers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots

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