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New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...
Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protestor
A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...
www.404media.co
March 5, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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trans is an advanced class, like druid in 1E; you have to have have a certain number of levels in gay first and then defeat the Keeper of the Grove.
most annoying thing about the stupid "huh have trans people tried being gay instead" take is that like, basically all trans people I have ever met have had mostly queer friends, would have been hard for them not to be aware of "gay" as an option on the table
March 3, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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Mistigram: this #ASCIIart #PenroseTriangle #opticalillusion challenging Euclidean geometry was drawn by @pixeldud.com and included in the MIST0222 artpack collection released four years ago this month.
February 27, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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I imagine the hardest part of this project was having to kill God so that you'd be unhampered by divine intervention stopping you from bringing this affront to the natural order to fruition.
February 24, 2026 at 4:37 AM
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I think many people see LLMs as a step along a teleological path to the kind of “powerful AI” that’s been foretold in fiction for decades, and the empirical evidence if you scrutinize it carefully suggests something different and very unintuitive.
January 31, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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This is so fucking funny. "The main algorithmic feed everyone uses on the website is gonna be down because it runs in the background on the gaming PC of someone named Space Cowboy." I love this website.
The For You feed will be down for a few minutes.

I need to restart the computer to try resolve Steam segfaults (probably another nvidia driver update?)

Will use this opportunity to enable RAM EXPO profile (4800 -> 6000) which got reset during the CPU upgrade.
February 1, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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【 𝕄 𝔸 ℝ 𝕀 ℕ 𝔸 】

"I don't think you're as cute or as smart
as he's always saying you are."

(●0●)

#mischiefmakers #fanart
December 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Big fan of Canada, really good stuff up there. Also a big fan of taking time away from computers.

Anyways, back to work.
September 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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"edit: never mind, i figured it out"
July 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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June 29, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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@aviva.gay introduced the ability for users to appoint their own "Trusted Verifiers" to their bluesky alt client, deer.social

1. Amazing turnaround, less than a week after we launched verifications!
2. This is a great way to explore new approaches to hard problems
3. Atproto is all about interop
April 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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[📄] Are LLMs mindless token-shifters, or do they build meaningful representations of language? We study how LLMs copy text in-context, and physically separate out two types of induction heads: token heads, which copy literal tokens, and concept heads, which copy word meanings.
April 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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The gaping abyss between the reality of this, and how it is going to be covered and remembered (even by negative sources!!) really does make me wonder how much historiography was just straight-up fabricated because the reality was too stupid for anyone to accept.
April 3, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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For people outside the industry, it may not be common knowledge, but one of the most famous bits of technical writing of all time, was Joel Spolsky saying that you should *never* rewrite an entire code base — 25 years ago. www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/t...
March 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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you either die a hero or live long enough to become a technical consultant
March 28, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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I got laid off today. They sent me a termination agreement to sign digitally. The app to do so was pretty nice.

I couldn't resist peeking into the source... Turns out it was using React-PDF, which I’ve been maintaining since 2017. 🥲

Open source sure brings some unexpected moments.
March 28, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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vast majority of the film takes place in dark, dingy, grimy places and harrison ford kills a commando prostitute in raccoon makeup
March 27, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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I really cannot stress enough how much of an unexpected marketing gift the term "vibe coding" has been for us.
March 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Whether something is decentralised or not is a function of the administrative control of different parts of the system, not a function of the network topology.
April 29, 2023 at 1:29 PM
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Ok, Dynamic Arrays are cool, but have you heard about Dynamic Programming?
March 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
March 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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I'm not sure which of you need to hear this, but:

If you push yourself to your limits and burn out for a company, you are trading years of your future productivity for minor gains in the present.

Burning out will _fuck you up_, it's like brain fog or depression, and it takes years to recover
March 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
the same with 99th percentile in Russia.
rich and bored, the hatred radiating from the media brings a sense of movement ("dvizhukha") into their lives
One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.
This isn’t some rant saying “Germany has learned nothing from its past” - the reality is more subtle than that. Middle-class Germans live and travel with an incredible amount of ease and comfort, and they just got…sleepy. Many of them dismissed the far-right’s rage as just another set of complaints.
February 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM