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Advocacy emails
Here's the direct link: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/whatsapp-must-act-to-protect-elections/
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Advocacy emails
Here's the direct link: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/whatsapp-must-act-to-protect-elections/
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PySimpleGUI is now closed-source
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Previous versions licensed under LGPL will remain licensed as such. The current maintainers have no obligation to contribute distributing the older versions, but they aren't permitted to prevent others from distributing it or modifying or doing anything else that was permitted by the license.
And, yes, to change from GPL/LGPL to another license you would need all of the contributors to consent, or to rewrite the parts that were contributed by anyone who doesn't agree with the license change. Since it looks like there only one contributor according to the GitHub page, this probably wasn't too difficult.
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"I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!"
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This is cute
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It's a Unicode CJK variant. There are a bunch of characters that Unicode considers to be the same character but with small regional differences (e.g. how it's written in Mainland China vs. Taiwan vs. Japan vs. Korea, etc.). Since the region isn't encoded in the character, you're seeing whatever your system locale and font default to. For web pages, you can specify the region inside the HTML or HTTP headers and hopefully you get the correct character rendering, but that also requires you to have a font installed that includes the variant.
https://www.typotheque.com/articles/understanding-cjk-regional-character-variants
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The more you know about AI the less you’ll use it.
Link to the paper he's referencing:
https://gwern.net/doc/psychology/cognitive-bias/2025-tully.pdf
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Why do some people have so many browser tabs open?
I hate the default way most browsers handle tabs. Moved over to this setup years ago and I'm definitely never going back.
Firefox plus either Sideberry or Tree Style Tabs - both will organize your tabs vertically along the side of the window in a tree format. Follow a link in a new tab, it opens up as a new branch under the current one.
Pair that with Auto Tab Discard to keep memory usage down, and something like Open Link with New Tab to automatically open links across domains in a new child tab.
Now I tend to just collapse trees of related tabs and further organize broad related subjects in windows.
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It's not a British/American thing - any nationality can be referred to as an expat. It's all a matter of what you're trying to emphasize. The term "expat" implies being in a different country and feeling like a foreigner - using the term suggests that there is a degree of culture shock or not feeling like you fully fit in. Foreigners will often look for expat communities for support. That may be why you're noticing it with British and American foreigners - you can be a French expat or a German expat or any other nationality, but if English isn't your first language you're less likely to know the term.
You're also less likely to hear an American or British person refer to people who come to the U.S. or U.K. as "expats" - the term "expat"implies inclusivity with other people who came from the same place, while "immigrant" carries the implication of someone from a different culture that came here. As a native English speaker, I would think it sounds perfectly natural to hear someone say "I'm a Syrian expat", but I would only use the term to describe "the Syrian expat community" (i.e. the Syrians that have come here and are relying on each other for support). If I were describing the same person, I would say "Syrian immigrant" because I'm not the one feeling the culture shock of being in a foreign land. (or I would use the term "refugee" which carries the implication that they're here, but not by choice - they were forced out of their home)
"Immigrant" often also implies some sort of formal legal status, although in a looser sense it just means that you live in that country on a permanent basis. All immigrants are also expats, but not all expats are immigrants.
As others have pointed out here, while neither term is by itself positive or negative, "expat" will almost never be used in a negative sense, but "immigrant" can be used in a derogatory way, although it can also be neutral or positive depending on the speaker and context.
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Looking for a BMP picture that was common on Windows 3.1(1) (woman wearing hat)
I'm looking at your description and the link included and wondering if you're not actually thinking of this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna
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Children who grew up teaching themselves because nobody had time to teach them often become adults who are extraordinarily competent and quietly resentful
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It's an illustration from the origins of the theory of survivor bias. Here's an article:
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/abraham-wald.html
The poster is implying that not all of these children "become adults who are extraordinarily competent and quietly resentful" because it doesn't include the people who aren't successful in overcoming the adversity.
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Google should have called it JIF, not WebP
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Sure, but for consistency you also have to pronounce JPEG as "jay-feg".
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For those of you in the path of this big winter storm, how are you / how have you prepared?
Normal grocery shopping. We've got candles and flashlights if the power goes out, and I've got a fully charged camping battery that I can use to power the oil furnace so we at least have heat. If the power goes out, we've also got a camping grill that I can cook on, and if worse comes to worse a box of MREs in the basement that I bought last year as a humorous "this is what Dad had to eat back when he was in the military".
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Which browser do you recommend for a low-resource PC?
Firefox is totally doable on that much RAM. Not going to be pleasant, but usable. You want to strip down as much resource usage as you can: inside Firefox throw in uBlock Origin and Tab Unloader; outside Firefox use a stripped down desktop like XFCE or just a straight low resource window manager with no desktop environment (I was a big fan of WindowMaker back in the day).
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The disadvantaged are more sensitive to biased language for good reasons.
What was the original Chinese?
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YSK that Apple makes millions of dollars with personalized advertising. If you have an iPhone or iPad, you should turn it off.
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When that setting gets checked, the IDFA gets set to all zeroes per the developer docs. So it definitely doesn't stop data collection or attempts to target, it just changes that one data point. Instead of an easy "this specific account is associated with this action", you instead get "someone who clicked the opt-out button is associated with this action - you're going to have to target them using other details"
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The disadvantaged are more sensitive to biased language for good reasons.
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Yeah, as a 看得懂汉字的 native English speaker, seeing 族 used to describe both ethnicity and things as mundane as e.g. 开车族 always hits in a weird way. Reading 弱势族群 there would have struck me as the speaker looking down on them. I wouldn't have got the "for good reason", not because it's not literally there, but rather because I probably would have instinctively interpreted the writer as not being sympathetic - something like "all those damn poor people" as if he were to continue on in an ignorant rant about his taxes going to undeserving people on welfare or something. 弱势群体 definitely doesn't have that connotation.
Anywho, thanks for sharing.
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Google should have called it JIF, not WebP
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... which further strengthens the underlying point that acronyms don't need to be pronounced like the words they represent.
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row row row
"They're headed for land! We'll never catch them now..." "Incorrect. Look! A canal..."