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d.rift

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Nothing is complicated;
everything is detailed.

Live in the meanwhile;
meanwhiles are all we have.

Some things endure.
Every world is hand-made.

There is no victory alone.
Play only the infinite game.

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d.rift 4h ago

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dram🎀8h ago

@david_chisnall @whitequark "[...] the purpose of abstracting is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise." - Edsger W. Dijkstra, 1972, "The Humble Programmer" https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340.html

E.W.Dijkstra Archive: The Humble Programmer (EWD 340)

d.rift 6h ago

Ben 10h ago

David Bowie in 1999 - predictions about the internet

d.rift 7h ago

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Partially domesticated raccoon 7h ago

- **node** - a point in the network representing a computer, phone, or other device
- **cryptography** - a type of math used to obscure data so it can only be read by intended recipients
- **keys** - identity files used to do cryptographic functions
- **encrypted** - data that has been locked using someone's keys
- **signed** - much like form or contract, data can be signed with math and that signature is verifiable

d.rift 7h ago

Partially domesticated raccoon 7h ago

I'm working on a guide for non-technical people. This is my mini glossary I am using. **constructive** feedback is welcome.

d.rift 7h ago

Me having too much work at dawn / me reaching sunset with it not done.

@djm62 But like, where I'd put the bar on a gut level — know what it takes for you to access your stuff, know who else can access it and how, know who can lock you out of it and how — I can't even meet that bar myself except on technologies I have very tight control over.

d.rift 9h ago

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9h ago

Infosec guides: Enumerate the assets you want to protect and the threats to them and the likelihood and consequences of...

Users: I don't know, I just click on the 't' and there's a screen, what do you mean login, I didn't know it had files, what is going on here.

You can't _threat_ model if you haven't got _model_. The problem is so much bigger.

d.rift 13h ago

Wishing theoildrum forum was still live.

d.rift 21h ago

"Rules for thee and not for me" is THE POINT. Doing the very thing the Left is outraged by them dunking on the marginalized for is THE POINT. Because then, BECAUSE THEN, the Left punches ITSELF in the face. By mocking a percieved-as-male, for wearing a dress, ON TDOV. I don't care if he's a hypocrite, his clothes his body his business. I DO care that y'all got played AGAIN, and it's embarrassing as fuck.

d.rift 1d ago

I miss everywhere I've ever been. And I'll miss here too. And I want a thousand new places to miss forever. For so long I looked for a home; I didn't understand what I needed. I need this. Endless roads, continual culture 'shock', challenges to my assumptions about what life is.