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Comparison between #slot machines and #vibe #coding
@brucelawson "fancier pacifiers for adults" 😂
@hackberry Funny story. I appreciate Doctorow, and his decision to buy the rights is pretty cool. Not sure if I'm going to buy the book at this point, but thanks for bringing it to my attention!
@Elvau Das betrifft nicht nur Mädchen. Die Begriffe "Schambein" und "Schamhaar" wären z. B. ja auch relevant.

The Man in #Seat61 seems like a relic from a forgotten age of the #Internet.

Seat61.com is a genuinely useful website created by just one guy, a train travel enthusiast who has curated a vast array of information that will help anyone who would like to travel in #Europe by #train

He is not trying to sell you anything and there are no adverts (apart from a few affiliate ids).

His website has won various "best travel website" awards. Notably the last one was in 2012.

https://www.seat61.com/

The Man in Seat 61 | The train travel guide

How to travel by train in Europe & worldwide: Schedules, fares & how to buy tickets.

Poliisi otti mut kiinni eilen Elokapinan mielenosoituksessa. Hän kysyi, että eikä mua aikuisena miehenä hävetä istua kadulla. Vastasin, että ainakin pystyn katsomaan lapseani silmiin, ja sanoa, että yritin tehdä jotain, kun ei vielä ollut liian myöhäistä. #elokapina #kulovalkea
What's been lost...
Entomologists from Krefeld, Germany, collected flying insects for two weeks in August 1994 (left) and—at the same site, with an identical trap— in August 2016 (right). Similar data from 63 German protected areas overall gave a shocking result: a 76 percent drop in insect biomass between 1989 and 2016.
It has worsened significantly in the past 9 years.
Photographed at Entomological Society of Krefeld

Remarkable investigation into Telegram by IStories (in Russian):
https://www.istories.media/stories/2025/06/10/kak-telegram-svyazan-s-fsb/

English version by OCCRP:
http://www.occrp.org/en/investigation/telegram-the-fsb-and-the-man-in-the-middle

tl;dr:

👉 Telegram uses a single company with ties to the Russian FSB as their sole infrastructure provider, globally.

👉 Combined with a cleartext device identifier Telegram's protocol requires to be prepended to all encrypted messages, this allows for global surveillance of Telegram users.

I am quoted in this story.

#Telegram #InfoSec #Privacy

Как «Телеграм» связан с ФСБ

За инфраструктуру мессенджера отвечают те, кто обслуживает секретные комплексы российских спецслужб, используемые для слежки за гражданами

Every website in 2025.