Perhaps it's a way to encode user and time-of-access into the document, so that even scanned leaks can be traced back to a person. :p
zibw 8 hours ago [-]
I run into this on some other websites, I think it's just a font and Linux issue.
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bangaladore 6 hours ago [-]
It's terrible with Edge on Windows, not vertically misaligned terrible, but terrible, nonetheless.
rolph 6 hours ago [-]
i think thats a general case
Xiol32 6 hours ago [-]
I have been having this exact same issue across multiple websites recently, most of the time it's monospace fonts that have the issue - Github is a nightmare. It only started after I upgraded to Fedora 42.
Haven't got to the bottom of it yet. I set Victor Mono as my Monospace font in Chrome and that has fixed it for things like the HN comment box, for instance, but Github and such still all look weird.
marginalia_nu 3 hours ago [-]
I've can't remember ever seeing this particular glitch before in my 20+ year Linux usage history. Very weird.
wlkr 8 hours ago [-]
It's not quite as pronounced for me, but it still seems to be a bit off. The CSS suggests that the intended font is GT America Extended.
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The28thDuck 4 hours ago [-]
This actually messed with my head. I now see the comments misaligned on HN.
j/k. For me that occurs only when I zoom the site on FF under Linux, but not when I leave it at normal scaling, and use the 3 letters on the upper right side to change the font size instead.
ManualEntry 4 hours ago [-]
BLIT is interesting, but I wonder if precedence already exists in photosensitive epilepsy and sending flicker/stroboscope videos/gifs. Of course with a lot of caveats (rarely deadly, affects few), but the idea seems similar to me.
Oh, that looks like the original Snow Crash. Time to read it.
sunrunner 5 hours ago [-]
It made me think of Infinite Jest too.
> Time to read it.
Nice knowing you.
carlcortright 2 hours ago [-]
this made me laugh out loud
diabllicseagull 8 hours ago [-]
fine on firefox and safari under macos
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sunscream89 8 hours ago [-]
Hey, go grab those Gateway files, I’m sure they have copies at the desk!
Gateway II is disappointing and the hidden plot line is that these experiences are curated by superior handlers and these are the accounts as ordinary man would interpret them.
Btw, were you being satirical? They won.
3seashells 6 hours ago [-]
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hoistbypetard 8 hours ago [-]
It's interesting that they chose to redact some of the markings on the document. (e.g. you see "SECRET" and below that there's a redacted mark.)
psunavy03 7 hours ago [-]
That generally means that while the document was declassified, parts of it weren't, and the still-classified info obviously gets redacted.
Information generally gets declassified after 25 years, but there are exceptions for when arbitrarily declassifying things could jeopardize capabilities that are still in use, burn intelligence sources who are still alive, etc.
ricksunny 4 hours ago [-]
Like the fact that up to 50% of the State Department was actually CIA, as noted by Arthur Schlesinger Jr and only declassified this year, 63 years later, as part of the recent trove of JFK files releases.
(Even this much was the result of decades of sustained political support for disclosure since Oliver Stone’s landmark 1991 film.)
Key takeaway is that if the unaccountable minders thumping national security don’t want something released - ever - it won’t be releases.
hoistbypetard 5 hours ago [-]
That makes sense. I just found it interesting that the markings were considered something that could fall into that category. I thought those were usually so broad (e.g. NOFORN) that they wouldn't be.
psunavy03 4 hours ago [-]
The existence of certain programs, or the tying of certain codewords to their subjects, can sometimes itself be classified. Sometimes just the fact that a program exists under a given codeword is itself classified information.
buildsjets 19 minutes ago [-]
The material is classified. Its composition is classified. Its use in the weapon is classified, and the process itself is classified. But at least we know it's called FOGBANK.
psunavy03 4 minutes ago [-]
It's easy to joke about, but one of the other problems is that if Government X knows that the US has found out specific facts A, B, C, and D, they can then determine that the only person who could have provided those pieces of information is Person Z.
And now Z (and maybe their entire family) get literally taken out back and shot in the head. Now you not only lose the source of intelligence, you disincentivize anyone else to provide intelligence to you.
Or they find out that it could have only been gathered by obscure technique Q, they take specific countermeasures to mitigate against Q, and there goes millions or billions of dollars of R&D.
nonameiguess 7 hours ago [-]
Portion markings in the IC, at least in the modern era, will include both the classification and a compartment. The compartment is specific to the collection method, i.e. SI indicates signals intelligence, TK indicates satellite data. Since those can reveal the source of the data, that reveals capabilities that the agency may not want to reveal, even if the data itself is no longer sensitive enough to classify.
MrMorden 3 hours ago [-]
Compartments are just for SCI. IC agencies do like putting all the classification markings on cafeteria menus, but they do non-SCI as well.
Both SAPs and SCI control systems can be unacknowledged/unpublished, and foreign releasability markings can easily be classified because they show that the country in question has an intelligence relationship with the US that covers a specific topic.
mschuster91 5 hours ago [-]
> Since those can reveal the source of the data, that reveals capabilities that the agency may not want to reveal, even if the data itself is no longer sensitive enough to classify.
Always 'member Trump and his release of a high resolution photograph from a satellite [1]. It took mere hours for people to work out which exact satellite was used to create the photograph and established a lower bound on its imaging capabilities.
[1] https://imgur.com/fpruTB9
Haven't got to the bottom of it yet. I set Victor Mono as my Monospace font in Chrome and that has fixed it for things like the HN comment box, for instance, but Github and such still all look weird.
j/k. For me that occurs only when I zoom the site on FF under Linux, but not when I leave it at normal scaling, and use the 3 letters on the upper right side to change the font size instead.
Apparently it is illegal in the UK to do that and I'd guess it is illegal in most countries. https://www.epilepsy.org.uk/news/sending-triggering-images-o...
edit: Didn't find a case, but it is illegal in the UK at least.
> Time to read it.
Nice knowing you.
Gateway II is disappointing and the hidden plot line is that these experiences are curated by superior handlers and these are the accounts as ordinary man would interpret them.
Btw, were you being satirical? They won.
Information generally gets declassified after 25 years, but there are exceptions for when arbitrarily declassifying things could jeopardize capabilities that are still in use, burn intelligence sources who are still alive, etc.
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/2025-03-19/cia-cover...
(Even this much was the result of decades of sustained political support for disclosure since Oliver Stone’s landmark 1991 film.)
Key takeaway is that if the unaccountable minders thumping national security don’t want something released - ever - it won’t be releases.
And now Z (and maybe their entire family) get literally taken out back and shot in the head. Now you not only lose the source of intelligence, you disincentivize anyone else to provide intelligence to you.
Or they find out that it could have only been gathered by obscure technique Q, they take specific countermeasures to mitigate against Q, and there goes millions or billions of dollars of R&D.
Both SAPs and SCI control systems can be unacknowledged/unpublished, and foreign releasability markings can easily be classified because they show that the country in question has an intelligence relationship with the US that covers a specific topic.
Always 'member Trump and his release of a high resolution photograph from a satellite [1]. It took mere hours for people to work out which exact satellite was used to create the photograph and established a lower bound on its imaging capabilities.
[1] https://qz.com/1699833/what-we-can-learn-from-the-spy-satell...