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GO -> go outside
OUTSIDE
and look 👀 LOOK
go outside and look
👁️ < 🐑 🐏 🐑
GO OUTSIDE and look at SHEEP
NOW YOU SEE IT NOW YOU SEE

some of my programming-interested followers might not have read my greatest contribution to the literature: my 2023 SIGBOVIK paper, published 2023-04-00, on achieving memory safety via unconventional use of memory protection

Today is making me think that "don't roll your own datetime" is even more important than "don't roll your own crypto"

Today I'm doing a USB cable test.
I have quite a few to go through

my wife randomly found a cable in the bedroom, and I ran off with it to stick on the tester. Guess what? It's a USB-C charge only cable!

We must stay ever vigilant, the threat never ends.

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BREAKING: Amazon will be banned from the European Parliament!

After weeks of mounting pressure by trade unions, civil society and Members of the European Parliament, Amazon's lobbyists will no longer be able to access its premises.

Our reaction:

uni-europa.org/news/victory-am

#BoycottAmazon

> looking for an example of a religious conflict
> guy offers me one
> ask if it's a religious conflict or an ethnic conflict where religion is an ethnic marker
> guy laughs and says it's a good example
> look inside
> ethnic conflict

The train knows where it is, because it knows where it isn't. It isn't on the ground therefore it must be on the tracks.

"Cryptocurrency that tries to base on proof of contribution to open source projects sparks wave of bogus pull requests" isn't the headline I expected to see in the--

No actually, I expected this from the moment I saw it, because we had the exact same problem with something far more trivial: a t-shirt for making a contribution.

When are we gonna learn that "Go make a PR, any PR, get a cookie" is a net loss for effort put forth for project maintainers and this must, absolute must, be opt-in?

it's only an analogue if it comes from the analogue region of france, otherwise it's just a sparkling famiclone

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Common bass principles for good ergonomics: alternating plucking fingers or strumming direction, economy of motion, raking, usually sticking to the lower notes of the strings

Me: flamenco strumming 8ths at 130bpm with my whole fucking hand on a 6-string while barring drop-tuned power chords above the 12th fret

okay the files written by the game LONESTAR are weird. They're JSON files, but if you look at them, they're base64 encoded.

so you base64 decode them, and they're... binary files?

to all haters: this is an actual, real Ghidra instance living inside of a Minecraft client, open with a real executable of FFXIV

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You reverse engineer executables with the Ghidra UI. I reverse engineer executables with a Minecraft command so I can read decompiler output while fishing. We are not the same

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