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  • Defining American Fascism

    An excerpt from Vice President Henry Wallace defining American Fascism: Fascism is a world-wide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself. Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare, in

  • Are more expensive helmets safer?

    Surprisingly there’s not too much correlation between price and safety though you should clearly not just buy the cheapest thing on Amazon. https://blm.io/blog/motorcycle-helmet-safety-price/

  • Universal Joint Smokehouse Burger

    First time eating at Universal Joint. Was not disappointed.

  • Motorcycle Riding Tips for Beginners

    These are just a few tips I’ve picked up from other more experienced riders and personal experience as a beginner. You don’t have to start on a 300cc bike. My first bike was a 650cc 2006 SV650s and I couldn’t have asked for a more perfect bike to start on. It had all the power

  • Google Uses IRC for Incident Response

    Thought it was very interesting that in case of extreme reliability Google turns to my favorite chat communication tool pre Telegram. https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/managing-incidents/

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  • Weekend Ride

    Ace & Club took a member to pick up a Street Triple R over the weekend.

  • Updating your own game via exploit

    Quoted from Jonathan Garrett, Insomniac Games Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal was an online title that shipped without the ability to patch either code or data. Which was unfortunate. The game downloads and displays an End User License Agreement each time it’s launched. This is an ascii string stored in a static buffer. This buffer

  • Alexander Shulgin: The Godfather of Psychedelics

    Alexander Shulgin had a license from the DEA to produce any schedule 1 substance, and managed to discover over 200 psychoactive compounds before his license was revoked. He was (and still is) the first private citizen to ever be granted a license like this from the DEA, generally they are reserved for pharmaceutical companies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Shulgin

  • New Kinect Depth Sensor for Devs instead of Gaming

    As someone who still has an original kinect in my office for hacking projects, I can’t wait to nab up a few of these to do full room mapping and tracking in my workspace. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/azure-kinect-dk/8pp5vxmd9nhq?activetab=pivot%3Aoverviewtab