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boatswain

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  • Netblocks: Update: #Iran has now been offline for 96 hours, limiting reporting and accountability over civilian deaths as Iranians protest and demand change; fixed-line internet, mobile data and calls

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  • While Snowflake is a pretty cool and worthwhile extension to run, I don't think having a proxied connection to Tor will help Iranians if they just don't have an Internet connection at all.

  • Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince talks about Italy fines while praising JD Vance and Elon Musk

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  • Gotcha, that makes sense to me; cheers.

  • Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince talks about Italy fines while praising JD Vance and Elon Musk

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  • I am, yeah. Like I say, I'm just not understanding what they're suggesting Cloudflare should be doing differently in this case, other than not invoking Vance and Musk (which granted is pretty gross to do).

  • Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince talks about Italy fines while praising JD Vance and Elon Musk

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  • So your argument is that one of the biggest DNS resolvers should just bow to censorship imposed by a single nation? I'm not really getting what you think they should be doing about Italy's demand. Are you saying they should just pay the fines and keep doing business there?

  • Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince talks about Italy fines while praising JD Vance and Elon Musk

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  • It reads to me like they're being responsible and not bowing to censorship; seems very similar to PornHub's approach to age verification laws. What would be a better course of action here, in your view?

  • Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination

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  • Who wants a stadium, though? Those things are a blight.

  • Anthropic’s Claude ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI agents.

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  • PornHub extorted after hackers steal Premium member activity data

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  • "Mixpanel is aware of reports that Pornhub has been extorted with data that that was allegedly stolen from us," Mixpanel told BleepingComputer.

    "We can find no indication that this data was stolen from Mixpanel during our November 2025 security Incident or otherwise."

    "The data was last accessed by a legitimate employee account at Pornhub’s parent company in 2023. If this data is in the hands of an unauthorized party, we do not believe that is the result of a security incident at Mixpanel."

    So Mixpanel may well be just disclaiming responsibility here to limit exposure, but if they're correct, then it's not necessarily true that ShinyHunters are behind all the MixPanel stuff.

  • Which RSS are you using?

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  • YSK that the First-Past-The-Post voting system allows a political party to gain an absolute majority with only a minority of the votes

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  • It would be helpful if this included an explanation, rather than just an assertion. Can you explain how FPTP allows this, and how proportional representation fixes it?

  • OpenAI confirms major data breach, exposing names, emails and more

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  • Username checks out

  • Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search

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  • Major Bitcoin mining firm pivoting to AI, plans to fully abandon crypto mining by 2027 as miners convert to AI en masse — Bitfarm to leverage 341 megawatt capacity for AI following $46 million Q3 loss

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  • Pretty close! It's tar-soaked hemp fibers (rope traditionally being hemp), called oakum. Sometimes cotton under that for filling if needed. To me it still feels more about carefully easing out, particularly since paying out also has other uses that aren't rope related, like falling off to leeward after a tack.

  • Major Bitcoin mining firm pivoting to AI, plans to fully abandon crypto mining by 2027 as miners convert to AI en masse — Bitfarm to leverage 341 megawatt capacity for AI following $46 million Q3 loss

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  • As long as we're being pedantic, when you pay out pitch, you're not covering the deck with it. You're making lines of it that go in between the deck planks. It's basically caulking. You actually have to be careful to not get it everywhere (not least because pitch is really hot when you're paying it out), so just like when you're paying out a line, there's a sense of careful control and easing out the pitch.

  • Is Kagi search engine worth it?

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  • I've been on the $5 a month plan, and go over probably half the time. The months when I do go over, it just means I start the next month a couple of days early. I'm probably actually somewhere around $6 a calendar month; my Kagi month is probably only 28 days or so.

  • Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago.

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  • Ah, but "Platner" and "Palantir" have most of the same letters!

  • ronnie raygun

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  • Surely the x axis is time, and the y axis is "some metric", right? Otherwise, spot on.

  • Air traffic controllers who duck unpaid work during the gov't shutdown could be fired, Duffy warns

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  • ChatGPT, of course! What's the worst that could happen?

  • Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar?

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  • Yeah, that's what my dad says, and he's a medieval historian, so I believe him. I guess it's possible that lifespan in 1901 was much shorter than the middle ages, but that seems unlikely