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  • I CAN'T go outside without permission - is there any way I can help fight for a better world from the comfort of my bedroom?

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  • Start with Plato's writings about Socrates. Republic, is widely considered the best. You can listen to lectures like this old one from Professor Sergue of Princeton YT from the 1990's. Note that the late Professor passed a few years ago, so naturally YT promotes it because it is high quality content, in medium/low resolution, and no one is likely claiming the revenue. In other words, do not feel guilty about using Pipe Pipe, and perhaps just download a copy to keep on hand. That is a rather good 3 part lecture series. This is something your local library will have in book form. If you search for "mass market paperback" with Plato, you are likely to find new books at around $5 too. These generally have more updated text than gutenberg.org, but that has several options too.

    Developing a philosophical mind and independent ethos like Socrates will do much to help you develop in very useful ways, both inside and outside your bedroom.

  • I'm so hungry, I could eat a ______!

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  • Trump says he will ban big investors from buying single-family homes

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  • Get into the business of subdividing homes into multi unit condominiums now. Corporations will buy up every one of them.

    The cost of living is due to criminal extraction of wealth through worthless mismanaged banking. That criminally inflated cost is why western countries are not labor competitive. Banking in its present form is privateer piracy.

  • Dad is there any way of fixing my robovac button?

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  • It may be crud preventing an internal switch reaching a detent, or it may be corrosion based upon the image. I do not know what that white stuff is near the switch, in the groove of the trim piece. That could be nothing, or it could be corrosion. There is no way for me to tell.

    Everything was put together by someone. You are as smart or smarter than that someone. You can take the thing apart and put it back together if you try and want to bad enough sweetie. Most problems are obvious and minor. Most objects have resources on YT or the internet for how to take them apart. I expect little miss to have a working robot vacuum past the zombie apocalypse, so you best start learning how to repair one now while it is easy. -Love Dad.

  • What's the most secure password?

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  • If you could go back in time, what is the one thing you would change about computers or the internet?

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  • Full documentation and second sourcing of all hardware.

    This restores the right of ownership and destroys the current dystopian nightmare world of lost citizenship and democracy. It is closely tied to google winning the right to digital slavery and the buying and selling of your digital person to exploit and manipulate you.

  • What's the best hoodie to wear for hacking a computer?

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  • Unix socks, libreboot, flexing a LFS build on a coreduo thinkpad. Very e-hood

  • Weekly chat thread... what are some good things going on this week?

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  • Found out my old road race shifters have the same cable pull ratio as my newer stuff. I've been stressing because I'm in the middle of a major rebuild of my bike and really needed new shifters, which was like $500 to replace everything. On the other hand my old race stuff "requires" a super rare rear derailleur according to the sketchy internet, and of course the buy buy buy info from the manufacturer. So today I got stuff sorted and physically measured the cable pull and my race stuff is exactly the same as my current stuff, just with one less rear cog. I can space that out fine. So I get away without any spend and get a major upgrade to my old gear too.

  • NSFW

    Yo mama opens your source for that

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  • ...and the stalkerware logging its use, and the router, and the server, and the device she bought it on.

  • Is it better to buy OEM unlockable phone from Amazon instead of from eBay?

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  • You are better ordering from neither. Amazon group batches their inventory. Their "sellers" appearance is just a price fixing scam. There is no way to trace the stuff Amazon sources to any specific seller. So everything from them is sketchy. The same applies with eBay. Most people are legitimate, but there is no effective way to tell who is or is not legitimate.

    There are two ways of looking at this. One, assuming you will install Graphene, the way Graphene uses the Trusted Protection Module TPM chip is to not trust any unregistered code. So a person will not be able to do much to the device to compromise it as far as I am aware. This is conventional type attacks. The second way is more abstract of what is technically possible but improbable and probably never happens in the wild. For instance, one unlikely aspect to be attacked may involve the modem. I am not certain what the Pixel's actual architecture involves between the SoC and peripherals. Often, the modem on mobile devices is another sophisticated microcontroller. This is capable and entirely independent compute device. The OS is interfacing with some kind of API, but is not privy to what is actually running on this hardware. If it was eavesdropping and communicating over cellular or WiFi, you would not know about it. These devices are undocumented and proprietary hardware too. The orphan kernel scam used to artificially depreciate hardware is based on the proprietary undocumented SoC and modem.

  • Anon is Dimitri

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  • Good neoteny is forward slant to the face, near perfect symmetry, small nose and mouth, and a head to body scale of one to five.

    The point is that most people cannot differentiate faces by descriptions well. There is a lot of translation involved between all the faces they know and those words. Facial recognition is much faster than word recognition in the mind. With strangers that have separate motivations and priorities, it is nearly impossible to effectively communicate this.

  • Anon is Dimitri

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  • Go on. Try and describe a face to someone verbally in a meaningful way.

  • Pronouns are out of fashion, what are your antinouns?

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  • Ħę/ħıƩ|¬ȸ

  • How do I feel comfortable/safe going outside by myself after being so used to have parent(s) be with me outside most of my life?

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  • Bikes are anonymous, especially road. No one is watching or paying attention... Part of the problem too, but still. I've been through some shit on a bike, but honestly still recommend it 10/10. The odds of you encountering some political refugee with a third grade education and a four page long driving record are nearly zero. You will never learn an area like you will on a bike. I have been all over Orange county and have ridden a lot of Los Angeles, Riverside, and San Diego, all from just starting from home. I know places on a different level than most people, like I know the bike trails, back roads, fire routes, parks, military bases, and all the way down to connections that are not intended like through golf courses, sidewalks and stuff. I know of a bunch of eclectic pastry shops too because I would make them destinations to push up my miles. Like, today I'm going to hit up a Persian place in Tustin, then a French shop in Huntington Beach before heading home for an 80 mile day. It takes awhile to build up that kind of strength, but only around a year. It is the ultimate freedom.

  • After 40, we just don't sleep

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  • I've gotten 8 hours a half dozen times in 12 years. Most are 3-5hrs. It will be what kills me... along with all the other stuff. Don't break your spine. Not recommended. Thanks tho.

  • After 40, we just don't sleep

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  • Meow mother fucker

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    Is it true that being short gives me a brutal advantage of exploiting particular vulnerability of a tall opponent's belly in case of a fight?

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    Is it true that being short gives me a brutal advantage of exploiting particular vulnerability of a tall opponent's belly in case of a fight?

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  • After 40, we just don't sleep

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  • All cars are driven by dicks

  • After 40, we just don't sleep

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  • Commuting by bike exclusively, and training for racing from 2009-2014. I only ever got hit by 2 SUVs at one time, but that is the one that broke my neck and back in 2014. Most of the rest were from people turning in and out of driveways or parallel parking spots. In the six crashes, three I rode away from with only road rash from going down. Three of the seven were totalled SUVs. I was faster than most e-bikes before lithium battery e-bikes were really a mass market thing. Back then, I averaged around 400 miles per week on the bike. I was one of the most hardcore roadies out there.