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"In retrospect, one can’t be surprised that the first experiment to carefully examine the aether failed to find it. But it would be extremely surprising if, after decades of experimental verification, quarks were shown not to exist. In addition, as disciplines grow older and bigger, they end up naturally absorbing people with minority points of view. So instead of entire disciplines executing a U-turn, these minority beliefs shift and twist while becoming acceptable to the majority."

"Do I know exactly how this happened? No and it is likely to be a while until we get any definitive answers, if ever. But I do have a pretty good idea what happened by which I understand the established processes and how they fail."- Funranium Labs

LLM prompt injection vulnerability using Unicode to hide text.

"The original American report blamed North Vietnam for both incidents, but the Pentagon Papers, the memoirs of Robert McNamara, and NSA publications from 2005 proved material misrepresentation by the US government to justify a war against Vietnam."

"smolweb.org promotes simple unbloated web. It provides resources to actors who want to participate."

Arch wiki, breaks down apps by type and subtype (ex: console web browsers, gui web browsers based on Chromium, etc.)

"The fediverse is not a place, it is the means to build a place. It’s the means to build a million different places."
Perspective on what the Fediverse is, isn't, and can be.