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Linus Torvalds Confirms The Next Kernel Is Linux 7.0
Nice! Just in time for the release of PC 2
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Linus Torvalds Confirms The Next Kernel Is Linux 7.0
Nice! Just in time for the release of PC 2
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British Woman Shot Dead by Father After Arguing About Donald Trump
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Prison rape isn't funny or acceptable when it happens to bad people either. It just perpetuates the idea that anal sex between two men is always a savage act.
Instead, hope he gets savagely assaulted regularly for what he did.
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TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture
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I think its mostly because of lurkers, but also, I first joined on midwest.social then something broke the feed and caused a bunch of federation issues. Now this is my "alt" but I can't see content from piracy@dbzero or whatever now
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EU readies €93bn tariffs in retaliation to Trump’s Greenland threat
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Or just sell the $8 trillion in US bonds Europe own and crater the dollar overnight.
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GOG is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with C++ experience to modernize the GOG GALAXY desktop client and spearhead its Linux development
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I mean yes, but maybe if you can interview in good faith, that's not what becomes part of the job.
"I saw here that the use of AI is required. I'm willing to compromise and use AI for some workflows, but I'm skeptical of wide scale adoption. I think its potentially bad for the long term code base maintenance and stability, which is what GOG is founded on. If I find that it's truly helpful in code writing, then I'll continue to work it into my larger workload, but do keep in mind that the Linux community as a whole is more technical than other OS consumers and this will be bad PR."
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Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond
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140 TB is a whole heck of a lot of movies and TV shows
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Best apps for private messaging
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If you don't like Signal, SimpleX is also an option.
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Wearing a tie can reduce blood flow to the brain by 7.5 per cent, make you feel dizzy and give you headaches
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Because I never truly need to wear one and I like the patterns and style of the ties I own? What kind of question is this?
People just like to accessorize. Not everything is that deep lol
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You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised
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No. Because the very nature of passwords and password managers make you immeasurably safer than not using one at all. Password managers in almost all markets detect password compromises and alert you to change them. Doing so is trivial and as long as you catch it in time, you're much safer and harder to target than almost any other user.
Passwords are like physical locks. Its not about being unpickable or indestructible. Its mostly about raising the barrier of entry high enough that you are an unappealing target. Why would I spend days/weeks/months trying to crack the account of someone using a random string of 14 characters unique to every service and that can change their password within hours or days--when I could instead gain remote access to hundreds of other users that keep a 'passwords.doc' file in ~/documents with open permissions? They likely use passwords like 'Snoopdog2004$' so they're easy to brute force, they won't notice incursions, and can't easily change passwords that are shared between multiple services.
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Latitudes
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In addition to there being a huge mountain range in the way. The Alps block/slow down a lot of the cold air currents that do make their way down from the polar regions. That's why cities like Turin and Milan still have cold climates in the north. Cold air still makes it's way over the Alps but is slowed and is reheated as it travels south so cities like Genoa/Florence/Rome are much milder in the winter.
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Republicans Approve ‘Dystopian’ Voter Suppression Bill That Would Force States to Give Info to DHS
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I have no idea why anyone thinks democrats will vote as a singular bloc. They'll vote to give DHS a massive budget soon despite being able to indefinitely withhold funding and starve the department committing heinous crimes. Then they'll say its to protect those that are in custody because DHS will have no funding to take care of them otherwise. DHS will continue their terroristic assaults on American soil until midterms. Democrats will run on stopping them and right before elections, Republicans will give their word to reign in DHS if they pass this bill. A handful of dems will break rank to cover the 4-5 Republicans that oppose working with democrats to save face and the bill passes.
Shortly thereafter something inflammatory happens and the Republicans allow DHS to resume their terror efforts. (If they ever stopped in the first place) And democrats get nothing out of the situation other than being able to indefinitely act appalled by this administration.
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Sludge built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration
I don't want to make an account. If you want me to read an article for free, allow me to access it without an account. If I like the content then I'll subscribe. Especially for activism like this.
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Christian dad sued school to keep his son from knowing that LGBTQ+ people exist. He just won.
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Parents like this hope the child moves out when they graduate high school and get rich so their kid can care for them when they're old.
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What happens to the human body in 49C heat? Australians are finding out
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Sorry, but that's wrong. WBGT takes radiative heat into effect when it's calculated. The sun and shade effectively have two different WBGT readings. That's why its measured with a black globe. Protocol is to measure ~2 meters heigh in direct sunlight away from structures that block wind so you get the worse case scenario. Like any whether reading, its localized.
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Anyone with they could hibernate?
Why yes I do, Mike Tyson. Thanks for asking
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Resolution to block Trump from invading Greenland introduced by Sen. Gallego
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Previous "first acts" of world wars quickly led to a cascade of treaties being acted upon and declarations of war being announced. I think your opinion is unfounded in historical context. Not to say that we shouldn't be alarmed or that we're hurtling towards a global armed conflict if drastic change doesn't occur, but I think its alarmist to claim its already started.
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NATO Leaders Issue Defiant New Greenland Message to Trump’s US
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You can't make a comparison to Ukraine and the Russian invasion. Ukraine isn't a NATO member nation, whereas Denmark is.
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1st Feb is #GlobalSwitchDay
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That's just fine. Don't worry yourself too much. I don't know about everyone else, but I only want the people open to making a switch here. If you're so put off by trying something new that you aren't willing to give it a chance, then I'm not going to be begging for you to join my community.
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No One, Including Our Furry Friends, Will Be Safer in Ring's Surveillance Nightmare
I also despise everything this would mean in terms of state surveillance, but if you could isolate this capability, it 100% would help recover lost dogs. Speaking from experience. We lost our dog for 6 days and didn't have any idea where he was until 3 days passed. The most effective way to recover lost dogs is by knowing their current location and setting out live traps with food for them to find at night. Scared dogs don't recognize their owners by sound so driving around calling for them wouldn't help.
So if it this technology could work solely as a lost pet sighting tool and not a dystopian state surveillance tool, it would be immensely helpful.
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Sludge built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration
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Especially when OSM is free and open source. Super simple.