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  1. Comment on Tildes Pop-up Book Club: Roadside Picnic, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky in ~books

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    One of my fav scifi books. Kind of a funny experience starting with the games, discovering they were inspired by a movie. And then discovering the movie was inspired by a book. Can also recommend...

    One of my fav scifi books. Kind of a funny experience starting with the games, discovering they were inspired by a movie. And then discovering the movie was inspired by a book.

    Can also recommend "The Doomed City", also by the Strugatsky bros. Haven't had the chance to read any of their other work though.

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  3. Comment on AlbumLove recommendations thread: May 2023 in ~music

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    Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite Man their past few albums, each is better than the last. This one is just an astonishing blend of brutality and complexity. Just banger after banger. Plus, as usual...

    Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite

    Man their past few albums, each is better than the last. This one is just an astonishing blend of brutality and complexity. Just banger after banger. Plus, as usual the political messages are very welcome.

    Recommended track: "We Eat Our Young"
    Highlighted feature: Travis' vox. Man he has so much range. The melodic highs, the growls, the screams. Fucken rippa

    4 votes

  7. Comment on Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel in ~comp

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  11. Comment on Making iron bacteria cement (water insoluble, no firing required) in ~hobbies

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    I wonder how long it will take primtech to figure out glazing...that would pretty handily solve the issue

    I wonder how long it will take primtech to figure out glazing...that would pretty handily solve the issue

    1 vote

  12. Comment on Have you ever been hacked? in ~talk

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    I had a vps a few years ago with an ftp server I forgot about. Someone brute forced it, and uploaded some malware that mined monero, and also scanned the net for other vulnerable servers. Woke up...

    I had a vps a few years ago with an ftp server I forgot about. Someone brute forced it, and uploaded some malware that mined monero, and also scanned the net for other vulnerable servers. Woke up to an angry email from my host and had to nuke the vps

    2 votes

  13. Comment on One month with Kagi search in ~tech

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    As an alternative perspective, I've been running a personal searx instance for a while, and find it pretty good. I do miss ddg instant answers and bangs, so still use ddg a bit

    As an alternative perspective, I've been running a personal searx instance for a while, and find it pretty good. I do miss ddg instant answers and bangs, so still use ddg a bit

    3 votes

  17. Comment on Looking for some long book series recommendations in ~books

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    You might like the Culture series by Iain M. Banks. It's space opera, so crosses the line between sci-fi and fantasy. It's not so much a series as a shared world, and so kind of hard to summarise...

    You might like the Culture series by Iain M. Banks. It's space opera, so crosses the line between sci-fi and fantasy. It's not so much a series as a shared world, and so kind of hard to summarise what it's about. The quality and complexity of the writing and structure and narrative is a real step above most of the stuff in this genre. Keywords: rich world building, politics, philosophy, social commentary, queer, neologisms, post modernism, strong AI.

    The author also has a number of non sci-fi works that are worth checking out, under the name Iain Banks

    5 votes

  20. Comment on If you could rebuild user authentication on the web from the ground up, what would you do? in ~tech

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    https://webauthn.io/ basically does what I want; asymmetric keys with a nice user experience. It's supported in the main browsers, but the documentation and infrastructure needs a bit of work.

    https://webauthn.io/ basically does what I want; asymmetric keys with a nice user experience. It's supported in the main browsers, but the documentation and infrastructure needs a bit of work.

    5 votes