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xkeysc0re commented on A Bitcoin Mining Operation Started a Secret Power Plant, It Did Not Go as Plannd gizmodo.com/a-bitcoin-min... · Posted by u/ourmandave

axiolite · 4 years ago

> Is there any other “technology” that’s so wasteful as-well as it’s completely useless?

Screen savers?

xkeysc0re · 4 years ago

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

Also login / lock screens are essentially just screen savers

xkeysc0re commented on What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp? krebsonsecurity.com/2021/... · Posted by u/happyopossum

bawolff · 4 years ago

IANAL but I would assume computer fraud and abuse act:

(5)(a)knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer;

xkeysc0re · 4 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.

xkeysc0re commented on What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp? krebsonsecurity.com/2021/... · Posted by u/happyopossum

bawolff · 4 years ago

If it was intentional, that's serious jail time territory. That's a high price to pay for such limited downtime. I'm pretty sure an intentionally malicious actor with that type of access could do much worse things.

xkeysc0re · 4 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?

xkeysc0re commented on What a crossword AI reveals about humans' way with words wired.com/story/crossword... · Posted by u/gsjbjt

weeblewobble · 4 years ago

A few years back I wrote a program that, given a blank or partially-filled in (NYT-style) crossword grid (with black squares already inserted), could fill out the rest of the grid with valid words/phrases both across and down. It had no relation to clues though, you had to write the clues yourself after the grid was filled out.

I wrote it because I wanted to make my dad (a huge nyt crossword fan) a custom crossword for his birthday. I put in a bunch of phrases related to him and our family and let the program fill in the rest. It was a huge hit, never really went back to it though. Anyone know if anything else like this exists?

xkeysc0re · 4 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.

xkeysc0re commented on On Solitude eriktorenberg.substack.co... · Posted by u/imartin2k

qzw · 4 years ago

Of all the writings on solitude that I’ve come across, almost all are from the male perspective. Anybody know of some good female/other writings on the subject? I have daughters, and I’d like to be able to better relate to them on this.

xkeysc0re · 4 years ago

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

xkeysc0re commented on Sir Clive Sinclair has died theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/haasted

5faulker · 4 years ago

Failure can be a source of inspiration, after all.

xkeysc0re · 4 years ago

Spite is a great motivator

xkeysc0re commented on Sir Clive Sinclair has died theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/haasted

Doctor_Fegg · 4 years ago

The Spectrum and ZX81 are (rightly) the computers for which Clive Sinclair is remembered. But it was his unsuccessful follow-up, the QL, which inspired a certain Linus Torvalds to write Linux:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_QL#Legacy

xkeysc0re · 4 years ago

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

xkeysc0re commented on Unplanned Freefall? Some Survival Tips (2001) greenharbor.com/fffolder/... · Posted by u/Tomte

sleavey · 4 years ago

I wonder if someone will make a computer game akin to Bridge Designer, but for surviving falls. Levels could have various objects released along with your body, and various targets on the ground to aim for, and you can try to survive.

xkeysc0re · 4 years ago

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

xkeysc0re commented on Beneath the surface of Bach’s music is a world of numerology and cunning craft aeon.co/essays/look-into-... · Posted by u/Stratoscope

telesilla · 4 years ago

Bach is beyond sublime and I am not a poet, my words are insufficient to offer praise of suitable depth. And I wonder, there are so many good writers and poets among us so why, on earth, have we yet to have a blockbuster biography of his, or celebrated film or TV series? We have them all of Beethoven, Mozart, even Mahler and Chopin. Is it because he's just too big to tackle? Jan Swafford--you mastered the other two, where are you?

xkeysc0re · 4 years ago

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