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Reminds me of a funny little short story by Terry Bisson called They're Made out of Meat.
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Reminds me of a funny little short story by Terry Bisson called They're Made out of Meat.
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12ft doesn't cut it anymore, any advice on getting past article paywalls
Add this to your custom filter list.
Bypass Paywalls Clean filter. Works for me with local papers and others like NYTimes etc.
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Facebook Finally Puts a Price on Privacy: It’s $10 a Month
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Aka a shadow profile.
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What’s The Strangest Thing You Do
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Have a look at Darcy Clothing! They produce clothes styles from c.1600s to 1950s. There's some nice stuff there for both men and women. Comfortable and stylish, imo. Example: https://www.darcyclothing.com/apps/bundles/bundle/24247
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Sanctions on Russian oil have failed. Were they ever meant to succeed?
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I don't understand your thought process here. Not meaning to be obtuse, but how did Ukraine do this? And, honestly, sorry to ask, but what does erased from the map mean? I get that it's a complicated situation, but how on earth should it all be resolved in a way that would leave everything better, or at least not long-term worse? Thanks in advance for your insights.
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Fair play to you Ruben, that's great! I forgot that it's early days for the app.
Will you be adding an opton to group/catagorise subscriptions?
Cheers.
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Z-Library Blog: "Unprecedented seizure of our domains with books on rare languages"
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With the Z-Lib app (v1.10.1(17) atm) you can get 10 daily downloads without signing up.
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The Bypass Paywalls Clean extension for Firefox
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Thanks for this, works great for several of my local papers.
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Is it just me, or has the BS with OpenAI shown that nobody in the AI space actually cares about "safeguarding AGI?"
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It often seems to be.. 'Gee Brian, that's a great invention! I wonder how we can kill people with it', the thought having germinated in a slurry of greed and self interest. (Apologies for the slightly jaundiced view of our betters and elders, it comes with age.)
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12ft doesn't cut it anymore, any advice on getting past article paywalls
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Eh, no.. I meant in the settings in uBlock Origin, which you would already have installed as an addon in your browser of choice. Choose open dashboard, it opens at filter lists and down the bottom is 'Import', just below 'Custom'. Add the url to import, it'll do its thing and you'll have a new entry in 'Custom'. Sorry, don't know much about Pi-Holes.
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What’s The Strangest Thing You Do
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Yeah, that's the whole being confident in your own skin thing. Tricky. Why not try clean, neat casual clothing first, like jeans/slacks, nice shirt, good shoes and put on a nice 'internal' suit first, good manner, curtesy/politeness, easy demeanor, well groomed, etc. that reflects what you want to be, or the reaction/response you seek from others. For those not terribly fond of the limelight/attention, any forced affectation will be pretty hard to carry. Sometimes it's just easier to blend in, depending on town, city, country. Sorry, got lost pondering your predicament. Hmm, tricky. Good luck.
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Intergalactic 'stream of stars' 10 times longer than the Milky Way is the 1st of its kind ever spotted
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From the article:
"Stellar streams are elongated threads of gravitationally entwined stars that have likely been ripped away from their parent galaxies or nebulas by the gravitational pull of other nearby galaxies. Scientists have mapped dozens of these streams within galaxies, including the Milky Way. But until now, none had been discovered in intergalactic space, meaning the space between galaxies.
In the study, which was published Nov. 30 in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, the researchers identified and mapped the first-ever intergalactic stellar stream, which stretches through the Coma Cluster, also known as Abell 1656, a group of more than 1,000 small galaxies located around 321 million light-years from Earth. The researchers named the first-of-its-kind structure the Giant Coma Stream — so named because it is also the largest stellar stream ever found.
"This giant stream crossed our path by coincidence," study lead author Javier Román, an astrophysicist at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands, said in a statement. The team was initially studying halos of dispersed stars around the Coma Cluster, in an attempt to measure the dark matter that surrounds the galaxy group, when they came across the starry trail."
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Do you still write notes with pen and paper?
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Ha ha, exactly! And all you did after that was add 'tomatoes' to a weekly shopping list. And then after turning it off and putting it down, remembered you forgot 'onions'.
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Second-most distant galaxy discovered using James Webb Space Telescope
"Because the light from these galaxies had to travel for so long to reach Earth, it provides a window into the past. The research team estimates that the light detected by JWST was emitted by the two galaxies when the universe was about 330 million years old and traveled for about 13.4 billion light years to reach the JWST. But, the researchers said, the galaxies are currently closer to 33 billion light years away from Earth due to the expansion of the universe over this time. "
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The ASUS Eee PC and the netbook revolution (including Linux)
Ha ha, a post about the Eee! Dug my 1000H out of the attic a few weeks back, put Mint xfce on it and it works great, pretty zippy! Then I put it back in the attic.
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What bootable "live" images of useful tools?
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Testdisk is great. I recently cleaned a drive with diskpart and after the initial 100bpm "oh shit, wrong drive" moment, I fixed the partition structure with testdisk. Took a while, but pretty simple and easy to use.
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IAPs not being verified/recognised?
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Thanks Evan, that worked! Oh, and thanks for a wonderful game, it's soo addictive! Cheers.
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'Marge: What about Bart? Homer: Let's see. Bart, dart, cart, e-art. Nope can't see any problems with that.'
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400 hours of work, 100 unique characters, and 50 working quests: One Skyrim fan's year-long journey to recreate the RPG in Age of Empires 2 is almost over
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Ha, same! Well, Iceraven. Very clean page. Impressive project and looking forward to the dld.
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12ft doesn't cut it anymore, any advice on getting past article paywalls
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No prob! Coupled with zero ads, it's like it used to be back in the day, just.. well, an article with some images. Good luck!