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32-year-old blogger's research forces Harvard Medical School affiliate to retract 6 papers, correct another 31
Why do articles like this feel the need to include the blogger's age?
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32-year-old blogger's research forces Harvard Medical School affiliate to retract 6 papers, correct another 31
Why do articles like this feel the need to include the blogger's age?
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don't ever change you're perfect
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Flagging things like that usually leads to their removal
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EVs obsession is placing an entire population at risk of genocide
That's a pretty ridiculous headline imo
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Yeah this
Fireship is owned by private equity if you didn't know
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‘Time is now’ to step up efforts for Ukraine peace, says Germany’s Scholz
I listened to an interview recently, I believe on BBC, where the interviewee said the biggest issue with peace talks is that the international community isn't able to trust Putin to keep his word on whatever is agreed upon. I hadn't considered that, but it makes a lot of sense and I'm not sure how that could change
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They were sold to private equity and are slowly transitioning it away from Derek. That way it can be a brand not directly tied to him and his face
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Who the hell is MrBeast?
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I tried watching a video of his once because I was genuinely interested in the subject. There were so many jump cuts it was unwatchable. Now I know all YouTube videos for kids are like that
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No rest for the virtuous
I'm about to post out a new FOSS project I've been working on for a while, so this is making me a bit nervous
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What's the most impressive video game mod you've ever come across?
Surprised no one has said MyHouse.wad yet
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The channel is owned by private equity
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Gimp 3.2 is officially released. The game has changed. Adobe just got punched in the face.
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GNU Image Manipulation Program
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TikTok will completely shut down app in US on Sunday as ban looms
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socialist like platform having an audience. Which in my opinion is why they wanted to force a sell or just ban Tiktok.
This logic doesn't follow. What does forcing a sale have to do with being "socialist like" ? TikTok has been diluted into a sales platform anyway.
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Has a stranger's reply to you on social media ever changed your strongly-held belief(s)?
Yes, but not in a way you might think.
When it comes to the death penalty, I've always been on the "against" side of the fence. But for very heinous crimes, I believed I understood why families of victims would want to pursue that.
On an online forum, I encountered such a family member. They shared the crime in great detail, and how they felt about the assailant. The way they discussed it was very ugly, selfish, and overly punitive. It was clear they no longer viewed the person as a human being. They weren't able to process the trauma. This changed my belief that there are rational arguments for the death penalty from family members.
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Could VPNs Be 'Banned'?
That would severely cripple remote work/collaboration, which is essential for all megacorps. Unless there's some sort of carve out for that I don't see it happening
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Dev rejects CVE severity, makes his GitHub repo read-only
Disputing a CVE is no straightforward task either, as a GitHub security team member explained. It requires a project maintainer to chase the CVE Numbering Authorities (CNA) that had originally issued the CVE.
CNAs have conventionally comprised NIST's NVD and MITRE. Over the past few years, technology companies and security vendors joined the list and are also able to issue CVEs at will.
These seems like an issue worth addressing. If it's too easy to report and too difficult to dispute, I could see the CVE ecosystem be weaponized and turned into a political tool.
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College Students Say Tesla Is Canceling Summer Internships
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Software updates have, more than once, changed my settings for things like autopilot without warning, and I've only discovered it when driving and turning autopilot on.
I feel like this point can't be overstated enough. When I need to go somewhere, I shouldn't need to reorient myself because the car receives software updates all the time. A device that's constantly changing is inherently unreliable, even if technically it's improving over time.
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Convince me of a better system than capitalism that could actually be implemented
when there's never been any other successful systems.
I don't know what you define as successful, but I can assure you there were previous systems and alternatives that currently exist. It's a broad term
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What small tiny app have you found that not many people know about
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This apps seems to be poorly rated. What has your experience been?
There seems to be little information online about the organization who runs it, Exchange Initiative. They have an inactive Facebook account and an abandoned website. I don't see myself using this without having more assurance on its efficacy and privacy policies
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Anon gives back
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Would explain the block listing as well
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GitHub - mendel5/alternative-front-ends: Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms (e.g. YouTube, Twitter, etc.)
Libredirect can redirect to other front-ends automatically for you.