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RT @mike_wanaoni: @JoeBiden How Hitler seized power in Nazi Germany:

  1. Create a crisis.
  2. Demonize opponents.
  3. Declare a state of emerg…

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RT @HeyFitzy: Taken King will be Destiny’s make or break.

Forsaken will be Destiny’s make or break.

Shadowkeep will be Destiny’s make or…

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If the other Star Wars series Disney puts out are as good as #TheMandolorian I’m not sure I’ll have time to watch anything else

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Pluralistic: 05 Dec 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Here’s what Thompson did: he hid a program in his compiler that would check to see whether you were compiling an operating system or a compiler. If you were compiling an OS, it hid a secret login for him inside of it. If you were compiling a compiler, it hid the program that looked for compilers or operating systems inside of it. Think about what this means: every OS you compiled had an intentional security defect that the OS itself couldn’t detect.

RT @chronic: reminder: Apple is not preventing anyone from doing anything, they are simply telling them to ask permission to track and to d…

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RT @lorenb: So it turns out that Google Chrome was making everything on my computer slow *even when it wasn’t running*, because it installs…

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Withknown to Hugo

So I’m considering switching my blog from withknown to hugo. There’s a couple of reasons for this. Known is good, but fairly complicated. I like all the indieweb stuff, but it all still seems very early, alpha stage stuff. I find it hard to keep up. I run Known on a VPS, and the latest version will require me to upgrade PHP, which in turn will require me to upgrade the VPS OS. Doing that is bound to break something, which isn’t something I want to deal with right now.

RT @doctorow: AWDL is Apple’s mesh networking protocol, a low-level, device-to-device wireless system that underpins tools like Airdrop. It…

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