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358 points impish9208 | 1 comments | 18 Oct 24 13:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.246s | source
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jgrahamc ◴[18 Oct 24 13:35 UTC] No.41879323[source]▶
So when he DM’d me to say that he had “a hell of a story”—promising “one-time pads! 8-bit computers! Flight attendants smuggling floppies full of random numbers into South Africa!”—I responded.

Ha ha ha. Yes, that was literally my very short pitch to Steven about Tim Jenkin's story!

The actual DM: "I think this has the makings of a hell of a story: https://blog.jgc.org/2024/09/cracking-old-zip-file-to-help-o... If you want I can connect you with Tim Jenkin. One time pads! 8-bit computers! Flights attendants smuggling floppies full of random numbers into South Africa!"

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cutler[dead post] ◴[19 Oct 24 02:15 UTC] No.41885135[source]▶
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fldskfjdslkfj ◴[19 Oct 24 08:22 UTC] No.41886463[source]▶
The jewish people have a 2000 year old history and presence in the region, if that's consider colonialism then might as well just declare earth a settler-colonialist project and get it over with.
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1. cutler ◴[19 Oct 24 19:20 UTC] No.41889999[source]▶
That's assuming you can prove direct lineage over 2000 years. The Kazar theory of 8th century Ashkenazi conversion hasn't been completely debunked.