A simpler and safer version of this would be something where you spin your phone and catch it right-side-up. Scoring could be done by counting the number of times this was done successfully in a row without catching it the wrong way or dropping it, or double-triple spins etc. I do this for fun all the time. So far, no drops on concrete.

I think that statement was more concerned with censorship than privacy.

Are they not one and the same? Take a look at Edward Snowden.

Whew, glad we're past downvoting based on trivial programming language choices.

this article is about nothing.

Technically this is not an article, it's a "Design Philosophy" page from the Arc section of pg's site.

This is basically what I was doing except with redis instead of netcat. I was happy to see copy-pipe in v1.8.

This is also what I do.

As opposed to having trailing whitespace and mixed tab/space whitespace polluting your diffs? Configure your diff viewer to ignore whitespace.

'copy-pipe' mode command to copy selection and pipe the selection to a command.

This is exactly the functionality I was looking for back when it didn't exist. It wasn't immediately obvious how to use this, but here's how:

bind-key -t vi-copy 'y' copy-pipe "redis-cli -x set status"

set-option -g status-right '#(redis-cli --raw get status)'

And now I have a message I just copied to redis in my tmux status bar. I'm planning on doing this with clipboard text next.