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For both native and non-native English speakers: what word or phrase do you find especially difficult to pronounce?
"Phthalates"
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I wish I had a tail!
You already have ears (probably).
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beeherhe
It's a good job they explained the joke.
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Time of the year’s earliest sunset
Using grey as the mid colour for this seems strange. It looks like missing data.
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Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increa
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Maybe in misunderstanding, but that story seems to be about Dolby going after AV1, not the other way around.
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medival peasant life
Why is the bread on a chopping board if it was clearly sliced by a machine?
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Urgent ‘do not eat’ warning issued for popular meal sold in Tesco and Morrisons
Does it contains seahorse this time?
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Average Joe from Accounting got sucked into the world of DnD.What class would he be?
Sounds like clerical work to me.
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Rules for Life
Not a "textbook". Clearly printed PowerPoint slides.
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Just something I made
Where's KHTML? The O.G. GOAT.
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"Introvert friends" by Sarah Andersen
It looks they are.
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 hits 500k sales in one day
I haven't played the first 32 games, am I going to be lost?
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Delightfully derpy
This is my favourite, from Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen
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Mozilla VPN Linux App is Now Available on Flathub
Article is dated 10th July 2025. Why was this posted now?
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rule
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Privilege comes from "private law", so would mean the ability to be judged in a different way to other people and therefore to perhaps avoid punishment for things others would suffer.
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What advertising slogan would you give for Linux?
Live, Laugh, Linux
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What’s in a name?
I like "Vectoria".
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removed a homeplug
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I don't mean to alarm you, but networking was designed by boomers.
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If you're developing a FOSS project, be aware of cryptobros trying to PR a tea.yml into it.
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YAML 1.2 was released 15 years ago and fixed this issue. The problem is not YAML but the libraries people are using to parse it being a decade and a half out of date.
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Baldur's Gate 3 - Patch #6 Now Live!
From what I hear, BG3 is great. The main complaint that I've heard about it is that Act 3 (I guess that act that wasn't part of the pre release) is a bit janky. Are any of the patches so far (or any discussed future patches) fixing things in this area? Or is it just not as much of a problem as people have said?