October 31, 2022
Happy Shelloween
Sorry not sorry.
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British tabloids are altogether ghastly... until they somehow achieve a platonic ideal of themselves
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Bob: So, how do I find people to follow on Mastodon?
Ed: It's decentralised. Use the right instance!
Bob: Ok, it's not a monolith. How do I find the right instance?
Ed: You ask people on Twitter!
Bob: Did you just tell me to go fuck myself?
Ed: I believe I did, Bob.
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Arguably one of the most influential punk zines ever, the archive of 'MaximumRocknRoll' has been digitised, with over 400 issues from the 1980s to the 2000s now online. archive.org/details/maximu…
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Who wants to hire a bunch of engineers this week?
Corollary:
Who wants to mint money on Twitter’s #bugbounty program on horrible bugs in new features hastily coded in a week?
nilay patel @reckless
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Pro-tip from a student: I often tell folks to read papers aloud to improve their writing style (the ear catches what the eye misses), but one student had Google Translate read it for them so they could make notes while listening, and wow, that improved their next paper much!
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Going to take this opportunity to plug our own vulnerability repair paper here too ;) LLMs do surprisingly well at this task even without any fine-tuning! arxiv.org/abs/2112.02125
👩💻 Paige Bailey #BlackLivesMatter @DynamicWebPaige
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A DIY copter made in Yemen from sticks and a simple motor. Talk about drone proliferation - this is about as simple as it gets. t.me/droneswar/4521
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Strongly recommending this post by Bret Devereaux. A deep dive on the Industrial Revolution.
https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-why-no-roman-industrial-revolution/-
Was the internet designed to survive a nuclear attack?
https://siliconfolklore.com/internet-history/-
* Image 1 is their onion site defaced * Image 2 is all of their known public posts
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