1. takes unlicensed peptides, because the insurance declined to pay for what the doctor prescribed.

2. «“people generally don't try to quantify tail risks.” Among the people I talked to, this is true»

That’s a pretty bad outlook.

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- Did you build libraries to efficiently analyze specific data formats? - Did you work on lean and fast serialization? - Did you create optimizing orchestration tools for GPU-bound tasks with dependencies? - …

… then please try to get them released as FOSS!

That way you ensure that even if the bubble bursts, the fruits of your labor will survive and their legacy can improve software for decades to come.

(you’re welcome to extend the list in the comments)

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And that repurposing the name would cause lots of damage.

Example publication: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/135485651880663...

> What are the content patterns on Freenet? Four patterns were identified. Freenet is (1) an archive of deviant data resistant to censorship (2) a space dominated by content associated with masculinity, (3) a nonmarket space where commercial exchange is non-existent, and (4) an empty space with many requests not returning information, and many flogs abandoned. We asked a third question: How does the analysis of Freenet inform current understandings of hacker culture? Freenet, we suggest, can be understood as a type of digital “wilderness”. It is a singular darknet space, supporting a distinct set of hacker practices

Practically: people in Hyphanet blog about stuff they dare not blog about in the clearnet -- anything from radical politics (from all kinds, left, right, libertarian, …) over personal opinion pages to wilder stuff like magick (yes, in that spelling).

Not to forget the Russian Poet who’s posting daily poems with the goal (as he wrote) that those poems still survive after police knocked at his door.

(besides talk about hyphanet and privacy tech)

So yes: I don’t understand the downvotes either, because it’s a legitimate question with a pretty clear answer: yes.

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Why this book?

Providing a concise start, a no-frills, opinionated intro to programming from first define to deploying an application on just 64 pages.

What is Scheme?

Scheme is a programming language — a Lisp — that follows the principle “design not by piling feature on top of feature, but by removing the weaknesses and restrictions that make additional features appear necessary”.

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This is a shared release announcement for 1502 and 1503. 1502 fixed an inserter tracing vulnerability and added several features while 1503 is a hotfix release that fixes regressions in 1502. The main changes are:

- fix vulnerability

- reduce visibility on the network

- support animated webp and more modern HTML and CSS

- enable direct linking to Freemail’s “New Message” page

- dismiss alerts and convenience

- substantial routing optimizations

- bug fixes

Hyphanet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant and privacy-respecting publishing and communication.

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My experience is that whenever I skip organizing my tasks with org-mode, I lose focus and time.

An example: While duplicating the gist of JIRA issues in my local org-file may seem wasteful, whenever I tried to leave it out, my completion time for tickets ballooned. I tried multiple times.

There’s just no other tool that worked for me, even though I’ve tried to use many over the years.

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> Chrome removed Theora support in 2024 and Firefox followed suit in version 130 (which broke brasilian banking OTPs: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1930548 ).

¹ https://www.hyphanet.org/freenet-hyphanet-build-1499-privacy-networking-css-ux-cleanups.html

Who caught the craze to think that killing the first libre video codec that got traction on the web could be a good idea?

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