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American Airlines is Issuing 'Poverty Verification Letters' For New-Hire Flight Attendants Because Their Wages Are So Low
How is being paid "from pushback to arrival" even vaguely legal?
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American Airlines is Issuing 'Poverty Verification Letters' For New-Hire Flight Attendants Because Their Wages Are So Low
How is being paid "from pushback to arrival" even vaguely legal?
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What Happens When Facebook Heats Your Home
Wish this kind of joined up thinking happened in places other than the Nordics.
Data centres and industry exist and dump heat all over the world. Putting it to use is a no brainer.
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Samsung forces repair stores to destroy customer smartphones, iFixit ends cooperation
"...prohibits repair stores from repairing components on the mainboard. Instead, the entire component must be replaced..."
A flagrant disregard for the costs of e-waste on the environment. What a surprise.
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🚨 It's time to fire up those seedboxes! Preserve human knowledge FOREVER by seeding Anna’s Archive torrents 🚨
It seems the majority of the torrents with poor seeder count are in the 1.5TB+ range. I just simply don't have the storage for that. Most everything in the 0-300GB range is pretty well covered.
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European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying
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In theory this is done. There is a Do Not Track (DNT) header that is browser defined. Does anyone use it? Do they fuck.
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Why are people preferring Blue Sky over Mastodon?
I'm dabbling in Bluesky atm. Having run my own Masto server for over a year at this point. Here's things I've found that Bluesky does just plain better - mostly cause it's not beholden to the whims of the ActivityPub protocol.
The first two are huge on a small/single user server. By default we get nothing, following a single account will get us the content of just that account and the replies that they happen to reply to. A post may get 200 replies, but unless I go looking on the original server I will see a fraction of that. Technical solutions exist to help with this but the Fediverse's penchant for privacy and control (quite rightly) limits the effectiveness (Fedifetcher, GetMoarFedi).
3 is something most people won't think about. But if they become aware they're not seeing something they thought they'd be able to they then have to deep dive into who's defederating who and why.
Most all the other points just make the whole thing a much more seamless experience for your average user. Bootstrapping a list of people to follow on a small server is hard (I'd absolutely recommend creating a Fediverse account somewhere large first to build up some sort of list before migrating)
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Facebook and Instagram are currently down.
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Someone is having a very bad day
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Question about Active Noise Cancellation alternatives
The sound produced by ANC is the exact 180 degree inverse (or as near as possible) of the incoming bad noise.
It's produced in realtime by dedicated signal processors and requires mic arrays feeding in the sound. The quicker your processing pipeline the better the match is and the more powerful the effect is.
There's no prerecorded sound that would work.
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Whats going on with this community? (Spam everywhere!)
There's a huge amount of it on the fediverse right now. People are working very hard at getting rid, all of them volunteers, and in their own time.
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It's finally happening, people!
Much like what happened in the original Minecraft, Voyager is entering a region where the simulation breaks down.
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Where to find a torrent for the original, UN-Rematered edition of the OG starwars trillogy?
You want either, the Despecialized editions, or the Project 4k77/80/83. Despecialized is an older effort and is slightly more noisy with lower resolution whereas the Project 4k versions are what you'd expect. Both are as close to original theatrical release as you would want.
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Interesting OSS project: Holesail creates instant P2P tunnels between networks (like a VPN)
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Very first line of the GitHub readme. As a support tool it's mostly useless, endless similar or identical questions answered differently or not at all and none of it indexed by search engines for use on the web.
It's an awful data silo / black hole that increases volunteer load.
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I work for the UK government. Everything my organisation does is licensed in either MIT or OGL (https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)
Developing code in the open really helps ensure you nail down your secure coding practices.
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Google lays off staff from Flutter, Dart and Python teams weeks before its developer conference | TechCrunch
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Aside from everyone who's using flutter?
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The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Announcement Trailer
Had some of the details super close, then screw up others. Hopefully it's good though.
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Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy.
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If buying isn't owning then piracy isn't stealing.
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[Help] I can't make Radarr's hardlink work
It's the multiple volumes that are throwing it.
You want to mount the drive at /media/HDD1:/media or something like that and configure Radarr to use /media/movies and /media/downloads as it's storage locations.
Hardlinks only work on the same volume, which technically they are, but the environment inside the container has no way of knowing that.
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Black & White (2001) open source game engine sees a first release
I wonder if they'll replicate the feature where a strange voice whispers your name (amongst other odd sounds) if you're playing in the early hours.
Scared the crap out of me when that happened.
Edit. Evidence https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6529 to show I'm not mad.
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'It should have been safe’: twin of woman found under coat in A&E says death avoidable
Fuck.
My wife and I were in this A&E 3 days later. She'd new lower body numbness appear some months into a broken back recovery. 101 said go straight there, this is a no fuck around situation.
We get there and are advised it's a 12 hour wait, the place is rammed, ambulances are queuing and the corridors are full of gurneys and paramedics.
My wife at this point is in tears. The broken back means sitting for an hour on a shit waiting room chair is hard work. 12 literally can't happen.
So we leave. What else can we do.
The situation was fucking awful, but I don't blame the staff. I felt genuinely bad for all of them - there was just a complete lack of hope on any of their faces.
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DEMOCRACY
Posted this in my group chat. This is the response I got:
"Fixed."