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@angealbertini does a lot of cool work in this area. Check out this repo with examples of hash collisions for PDF, MP4, PNG, GIF, etc. https://github.com/corkami/collisions


I'm a big fan of Ken White (Popehat), his twitter feed is snarky and informative. He has a new podcast on first amendment issues that is really well done.

https://legaltalknetwork.com/podcasts/make-no-law/


He writes a lot of good stuff, but I've gotten a bit wary of him, since he is still plugging his friend Randazza whenever he can.

Re Randazza: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/how-copyright-la...


I like him too. Just be cautious - he's a contributing editor at Reason, which is heavily funded by the Koches and tends to follow their agenda. I wish we had decent smart right-wing voices that weren't co-opted by money from billionaires, but they're pretty few and far between.

Ken White is close to that but the Reason and Fox connections taint him a bit.

Edit: after looking into it he's only got three articles at Reason and it looks like 'contributing editor' is an overblown title. Phew. I want to like him and think he's fair.


I'm a conventional statist liberal, find a lot of libertarian thought amoral, and don't like Reason at all. Your comment is dumb, and didn't add anything to the discussion. As Dan is constantly telling people here: please don't pull conversations into ideological tangents.


Out of curiosity, what exactly is wrong with Kochs' "agenda"? And where does Reason follow it blindly?


The Tea Party Kochs, or the anti-over-criminalization Kochs? The anti-climate-legislation Kochs or the NOVA Kochs?


I got a 9 step one without a disambiguation page. https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Lion%20Express... Took a long time though.


After spending way too much time I got 9 degrees of separation. I did piggyback off of someone else's work with "Phinney". https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Lion%20Express...

I found a ton of 5 degree paths and only a couple of 6 degree ones. Then I pulled out the "big guns" (the dead-end pages category). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Dead-end_pages_from_F...


That's impressive.

Wikipedia is highly connected. Even pretty darn different things often seem to have only three degrees of separation. For example, here's Ramesses II to Ankylosaurus in three:

https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Ramesses%20II&...

After trying a bunch of things, I finally found a fourth-degree separation: William the Conqueror to Ankylosaurus.

https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=William%20the%...


I don't know if this is legit. The Lion Express node only connects to a couple of Wikipedia's generic help pages, which I'm pretty sure don't link back to Lion Express.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching


Here's one with 7 hops and not using The Lion Express. https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Zevenhoven&tar...

Like I said I spent too much time on this yesterday.


Damn, I had trouble finding more than 3 degrees


yeah I just cheated by using orphaned articles and managed to 'win'


This is why I started using Firefox on Android. I need uBlock to browse the web safely.


Same for me. The nightly build is much faster than the current stable too.


Brave is pretty cool too, based on Chromium.


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