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I believe the environmental/climactic concerns raised by antinatalists are just a feeble deflection. They are primarily interested in personal comfort.

Comment · 3 years ago

If you are asking for examples of brutal acts performed or ordered by Muhammed, here is a long list [0]. Most notable to me is the murder of 600-900 captive non-combatants. This is referred to as the massacre of the Banu Qurayza (woman and children then made slaves).

I suppose you brought up Muhammed on the basis that his venerated status in Islam enables us to significantly extrapolate Muslim culture from his own personal culture. I will therefore state that the evidence of Quran/Hadiths yield evidence of great brutality in the person of Muhammed, which therefore may inspire brutality and violence in any devout followers of his, or in the broader Islamic culture. This is certainly conducive "creating criminal gangs".

[0] https://wikiislam.net/wiki/List_of_Killings_Ordered_or_Suppo...

Comment · 3 years ago

The accounts in primitve terms obscure it's true meaning.

It's just a analytic function on the moduli space of elliptic curves.

The collection of equivalence classes of elliptic curve (torii of the form C/lattice) has the structure of a complex space (it's not a complex manifold, but rather a complex moduli stack). Modular forms are just analytic functions on it. That's all.

This dumb article doesn't help matter by presenting a brazen lie in the headline. Fifth fundamental operation, my butthurt ass.

Comment · 3 years ago

Is there any intention of eventually supporting DML or DDL statements? That's when the COBOL-like nature of SQL syntax is most frustrating. For example, in order to run "ALTER COLUMN ..." I have to parse a ridiculous BNF like this[0] almost every time. I'll never remember it.

Usually, the error is a gotcha built into the language syntax (e.g. forgot the keyword "TO").

[0] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/sql-altertable.html

Comment · 3 years ago

Idiotic clickbait headline seeks to insinuate that there was something dishonest about her racing, when in reality her participation broke a false belief (a "lie") that women were physically unable to complete marathons.

Comment · 3 years ago

Another possible outcome of "I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know": https://github.com/dominictarr/event-stream/issues/116

Comment · 3 years ago

The website can further strengthen the illusion of interacting with the FS by using HTML+CSS that imitates the browser's builtin file browser. It knows what it might look like by examining User-Agent and Accept-Language headers.

Comment · 3 years ago

A phishing strategy this enables: confusing the https:// URI scheme with the file:// pseudo-URI scheme.

For example, we receive a phishing email which reads "This is the bank with your financial statement attached. It's a password protected zip file encrypted with your online banking credentials for security." We click to download and end up at https://financialstatement.zip, where a JS prompt asks us for the decryption password. We think we're interacting with the file system and get owned.

Crucially, i) some browsers don't display the URI scheme in the address bar, and ii) people are used to the idea of a password-protected zip file, and iii) people are used to opening files with their browser.

Comment · 3 years ago

Before you get all jubilant, note that they have fingerprinting techniques which don't use JS[0]. It was able to identity me. Contrary to popular opinion, disabling JS doesn't protect you from fingerprinting.

They describe their approach[1]. They use HTTP headers and conditional request triggered by CSS conditional media queries to gather data. Something like @media(...) {background: url(/tracking/$clientid)}. But in principle, they could also try and fingerprint the TCP/IP stack or the TLS implementation. I'm not sure it would get them more data than OS+Browser, though.

[0] https://noscriptfingerprint.com/

[1] https://fingerprint.com/blog/disabling-javascript-wont-stop-...