tossAfterUsing's comments

On: Apple helped make 'top secret' iPod for US government

[tossAfterUsing]

related? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet#History

[easton → tossAfterUsing]

Maybe, but that wouldn’t necessarily require modifications to the iPod. iPods could be used as USB external drives and you could just load it on there without having to mess with the OS at all.

On: Parents are 5X as Worried about Infection and School than Work and Paying Bills

[tossAfterUsing]

Without meaningful information about the geographies of the participants, how this data would be valuable is not quite clear to me.

On: Direct evidence for T-cell immunity as a factor behind Covid-19 heterogeneity

[tossAfterUsing]

I read earlier in the year... early in the news about the outbreak, a skeptical view that suggested the reason for this 'epidemic' had something to do with the relatively new ability to apply fast genetic testing to a 'fairly common cold'

edit to remove the phrases: "pandemic" & "new normal"

On: The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free

[tossAfterUsing]

love ur dashboard bro :)

On: Facebook overrides fact-checks when climate science is “opinion”

[tossAfterUsing]

> A handful of mainstream publications and a bunch of basically unknown facebook folks are now the censors.

I share your concern. And, hasn't this been the case for as long as there have been centralized publications?

On: The Guns of Bitcoin (2017)

[tossAfterUsing]

Pine floors are terrible to maintain though.

'cut off your nose to spite the king'

[Bishop_ → tossAfterUsing]

People have done worse for less, a specific parallel to current events should come to mind.

In any case i'll remove pine floors from my diy tiny house project checklist.

[tossAfterUsing → Bishop_]

imo, as a builder of one, tiny house has such a low squarefootage that you can spring for high quality materials without breaking the bank.

it's easy enough to find 200sqft (that's a 20' cargo container's worth) of high quality unmatched leftover flooring from a sale.

[gruez → tossAfterUsing]

>Pine floors are terrible to maintain though.

Why? Is it the sap?

[LgWoodenBadger → gruez]

Pine is a very soft wood. Some you can dent with a pencil.

Our dining table was like that when I was a kid. You could see all sorts of writing in it from too much pencil pressure when doing homework.

[dirtyoldmick → gruez]

They are soft and get dents and such pretty easily.

On: Twitter internal panel linked to account hijackings

[tossAfterUsing]

avoid some other blackmail

On: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

[tossAfterUsing]

remember the failwhale?

On: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

[tossAfterUsing]

Coinbase is not decentralized.

On: Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad

[tossAfterUsing]

Thanks for the share from suckless.org. I'm interested to learn about init now :)