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Article #621669Re: It's not just Facebook. Thousands of companies are spying on you (CNN)
From: Mike Spencer
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2018 07:01
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2018 07:01
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RS Wood <r...@therandymon.com> writes:
> On 2018-03-30, Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:
>
>> M-x spook. You really have to keep updating your spook.lines files to
>> avoid anachronistic insertions, though. Kennedy, Qadaffi and Waco are
>> ancient history.
>>
>> Today, you can probably trigger the digital watchdogs just by
>> including a long string of base64-encoded random bytes. They'll get
>> archived as possibly encrypted subvesriveness.
>
> What a fun day - just learned something. Never knew that command
> existed. But now that I know, I'll be using it liberally.
Yer welcome. Next up: M-x dissociated-press in any text buffer.
Create updated replacement for Lorem Ipsum, simulate presidential
rhetoric, troll for handy neologisms. ("Edualize" was one I liked.)
As a CP/M user, I was stuck in front of a Unix workstation with X on a
big color monitor and told to "do something interesting". Emacs was
the editor. I hated it. But I walked over to the Square and bought
the hardcopy manual, read it cover to cover. That's probably the only
reason I knew about spook or dissociated-press. And of course, 30
years on I use Emacs all the time, would be lost without it.
--
Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada
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