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A Republican running for an Indiana House of Representatives seat was arrested early Monday morning on the eve of Election Day for commenting on a Facebook post made by someone who has a protective order against him, according to police.

GOP candidate Jim Schenke, who is running to unseat District 26 House Rep. Chris Campbell, was booked on a preliminary invasion of privacy charge at 6:10 a.m. Monday, according to the Tippecanoe County Sheriff’s Office. Records show he was released after paying a cash bond of $250.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 4 points 3 weeks ago

Weird weirdo is weird.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 4 points 1 month ago

Not since about 1988. Thanks for the memory!

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago

Is it booby-milk or udder-milk?

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks for letting me know about this game. Never heard of it before, and I like it better than the original.

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[–] Wiz@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The couch thing was true all along!

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I do not think Python is a very good comparison.

I was thinking more like Clojure:

  1. Enthusiastic and friendly geeks trying to push their language on the world trying to make it a better place. They are both definitely not a little cultish!
  2. Language intended to be simple to learn with a limited and regular vocabulary, but can handle complicated work with ease.
  3. They both say that learning their language will make your mind better able to do other languages.
  4. A bridge between languages. Vanilla Clojure runs on the JVM and can invoke Java commands. But it has also been built on other platforms like JavaScript (ClojureScript), .NET (CLR), Python (Basilisp), BASH (Babashka), and others I think.
  5. The parts of both languages can be broken up, mixed, and matched, and used for other parts. In Esperanto, the fundamental elements can be broken down and made into other words. In Clojure, you've got functions and lists - and higher order functions that work on functions and lists, and lists of functions, and functions of lists.
  6. Did I mention: Friendly & welcoming geeks that lo-o-o-ove newbies! Seriously, both Clojure nerds and Esperanto nerds are unnaturally nice and would like to welcome you to the club. They've got tons of free resources for you to learn it.

Honestly, I think both are right. Both are simple languages that expand your way of thinking, and are probably both worth learning, if you're into that sort of thing.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

About Esperanto, since it's not a national language (intentionally so) it's hard to do a census of speakers.

Also, to what level is considered "speaking Esperanto"? Taking the Duolingo course? Having it as a "mother tongue" where both parents speak it in a household in order to communicate? These are both probably countable, and produce wildly different numbers.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 16 points 1 month ago

Ackshully, Clojure is Esperanto, and I will not be taking questions at this time.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They can get the cost down in they advertise to you just before you die.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This is nice, but I'd like more to see the opposite, where the series went out on a perfect note. Like Breaking Bad or M*A*S*H (imho).

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 3 points 3 months ago

Add in the phone app "Street Complete" and now you can walk around with your phone and get "points" for improving the world map. Very satisfying!

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

First off, holy crap, thank you for sharing this site. I had no idea about it! I will definitely check it out.

Second, this seems like something I would pay for, to get more space. Is that available? I could not find that on their website.

 

Some companies are easy to quit. If I decide I don't like Coca-Cola anymore I can simply stop drinking Coke. Sure, the company makes more than just Coke, so I would need to do some research to figure out which products they do and don't make, but it's theoretically possible.

Quitting Google isn't like that. It makes many products, many of which you depend on to live your digital life. Leaving a company like that is like a divorce, according to an expert I talked to. "It's not easy, but you feel so much better at the other side," said Janet Vertesi, a sociology professor at Princeton who publishes work on human computer interaction. "Think of a friend who gets a divorce and is so happy to be out. That could be you. That's how it feels to leave Google."

She'd know. Vertesi researches NASA's robotic spacecraft teams and also publishes work on human computer interaction. In March 2012, after Google significantly changed its privacy policies, she decided to stop using Google entirely. Vertesi also runs The Opt Out Project, a website full of recommendations and tutorials for replacing "Big Tech" services with community-driven and DIY alternatives. She is, in other words, someone who has done the work, so I wanted to ask her for some advice about how someone should approach quitting Google.

Lifehacker has already published a comprehensive guide to quitting Google and a list of the best competitors to every Google product years ago, and that information stands up for the most part. But not using Google anymore isn't just a technical process—it's a massive project. Here's some advice on how to tackle it.

 

A newly discovered vulnerability baked into Apple’s M-series of chips allows attackers to extract secret keys from Macs when they perform widely used cryptographic operations, academic researchers have revealed in a paper published Thursday.

The flaw—a side channel allowing end-to-end key extractions when Apple chips run implementations of widely used cryptographic protocols—can’t be patched directly because it stems from the microarchitectural design of the silicon itself. Instead, it can only be mitigated by building defenses into third-party cryptographic software that could drastically degrade M-series performance when executing cryptographic operations, particularly on the earlier M1 and M2 generations. The vulnerability can be exploited when the targeted cryptographic operation and the malicious application with normal user system privileges run on the same CPU cluster.

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