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"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth."

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Comment · 5 years ago

Not if you still have older CRT monitors or plasma screens.

Also login / lock screens are essentially just screen savers

Comment · 5 years ago

In the cases cited under the CFAA (such as https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=124545279862007...) it seems the employee deleted data and private info. In this case, no data was deleted or other computing property damaged it just became unreachable.

Comment · 5 years ago

I'm curious as to what law, exactly, they would be breaking. Sabotage in the US code is defined mostly in terms of war material and damages done to physical "national defense" properties. Certainly an employee would be fired and sued by the company, but is deliberately changing a routing policy (and not something like a worm or virus that deletes or otherwise degrades hardware and software) a crime?

Comment · 5 years ago

There is Phil, the free crossword maker http://www.keiranking.com/apps/phil/ but I haven't had the best luck with its automated fill. Lately I've been using Crossfire http://beekeeperlabs.com/crossfire/ to make puzzles and its auto fill is quite versatile, even if some of the choices can be iffy (but easily fixed with some manual tweaking). You can even provide your own custom dictionary for it to use in the fill.

Comment · 5 years ago

Check out the writings of Clarice Lispector, especially The Passion According to G.H.

Comment · 5 years ago

Spite is a great motivator

Comment · 5 years ago

Funny that it was inspiring in its frustrating designs / lack of features, rather than a "positive" sort of inspiration.

Comment · 5 years ago

Such a game does exist - check out the Pilotwings series for SNES and N64

Comment · 5 years ago

Check out "The Loser" by Thomas Bernhard. Not a biography, but an excellent novel inspired by Bach

Comment · 5 years ago

Interesting podcast covering the influence of these computational propaganda campaigns and their effect on the human mind https://soundcloud.com/inpatientradio/neural-narratives-comp...

Comment · 5 years ago

Make sure you calibrate your time machine offsets properly, as a day during the Cambrian Explosion is about two hours shorter than today.

Comment · 5 years ago

You think that's air you're breathing now?

Comment · 5 years ago

Kind of wild to think that it was a project funded by Princeton and personally supported by their Dean of Engineering for decades!

Comment · 5 years ago

Writing your own random number generator can be a lot of fun. Lots of sources of entropy out there. Inspired by lavarand[0], I wrote an RNG in Python based on the output of the Global Conscousness Dot[1] (which is a ridiculous project in its own right). There's a lot of ways to visualize and ascertain how "random" your numbers are as well, whether plotting Pearson's with matplotlib or using a command line tool like ent[2] to calculate the degree of entropy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavarand

[1] https://gcpdot.com/

[2] https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man1/ent.1.html