[1] Sounds difficult without any other detail.

But it would be funny if it's this: https://archive.org/details/teachyourselfweb00lema/page/n9/m...

This is a strong contender. Other candidates (hard to find links to the first editions):

- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11177063-creating-cool-w... - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1097095.HTML_for_Dummies...

That actually might be it! It's hard to tell, I was only 10. Still skimming it.

Why would it be funny though? Am I missing something?

Angry unicorns seem to be over.

If you try to ban lobbying you will incidentally criminalize basically all political speech. White papers are a form of lobbying, providing testimony is a form of lobbying, running an ad campaign is lobbying, speaking with your congressional representative is lobbying.

It'd simply have to be carefully drafted policy rather than an internet comment.

So simple it's indescribable

This notion always puzzles me. It's not a complex idea.

Just like, say, banning GMO bananas. But such regulation is a whole text which may need to define or refer to definitions of "GMO" and "banana", specify what's banned, exemptions, enforcement authority, penalties, and so on. Maybe 10 pages of legalese. It requires time, expertise, research. But it's still just a ban on GMO bananas.

Or a programmed UI button to show a message. Simple. The specifics of the execution are a separate matter.

It's not "indescribable", but no one will describe it to you ad hoc and expecting it is silly.

What's "it"? Speaking in public?

Making strawmen. Your position of "policy is impossible to write" is inane.

I imagine the random person, if they were to accept, would likely find themselves out of depth and simply outsource most of the job to whoever convinces them they're the right choice.

The system would then morph into a variant of representative democracy. Instead of millions voting for, say, around a thousand of various level representatives, you get a random thousand "voting" for "consultants".

These consultants would be directly hired by the random thousand to do the work for them. They would predicably have marketing campaigns to make themselves seem the right pick. They might even offer their services for free. Demagoguery and corporate sponsorship as usual.

In the end 1000 people would hire, say, 1-1000 consultants to represent them. Thus emulating the original process, or worse. The only difference is the tiny electorate, which increases volatility.

If you'd like to regulate it to prevent this, you'd have to expend an effort and fight similar pressures as with doing it in any other system.

I see it. Overworked special effects artists, I suppose. It's funny how well some movie CGI from the 90s holds up in comparison.

I'm extremely picky and Atkinson Hyperlegible was my favorite variable-width font. Never knew there's a "Next", so +

I remember a protocol which required the text to be replaced with random-length output of a Markov chain text generator, and only then pixelizing.

Oh, you've spent hours on unpixelizing my secrets? Well congratulations, is the last telescope that, nor drink from shrinking nothing out and this and shutting.

if you fully control the text and layout, you could just replace the redacted text with [redacted]

Yes, but that doesn't potentially waste your opponents' time.

Only names are allowed, of long-dead people.

You should be blacking out information, to be sure, but credit card numbers are one of the very few examples where cracking makes sense, given that otherwise you don't know the pattern nor the font. Assuming it's text at all.

Or the common case of redacting a name, address, or other sensitive text in a screenshot of a web page, word doc or PDF. In those, getting the font is very straightforward.

You also don't need to match the whole redacted text at once - depending on the size of the pixels, you can probably do just a few characters at a time.

Please move on, then.

That reminds me when I got a server-grade Xeon E5472 (LGA771) and after some very minor tinkering (knife, sticker mod) fit it into a cheap consumer-grade LGA775 socket. Same microarchitecture, power delivery class, all that.

LGA2011-0 and LGA2011-1 are very unalike, from the memory controller to vast pin rearrangement.

So not only they call two different sockets almost the same per the post, but they also call essentially the same sockets differently to artificially segment the market.