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WinRAR flaw lets hackers run programs when you open RAR archives
"Embrace tar.gz 7zip, son!"
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WinRAR flaw lets hackers run programs when you open RAR archives
"Embrace tar.gz 7zip, son!"
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Ukraine designates PepsiCo, Mars as 'international war sponsors'
"international war sponsor" what a nice title, I think every company operating in US should have it!
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"Punishment" by Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
and also typing only with index fingers constantly looking at the keyboard :'( :'( :'(
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Demanding selfie to unsibscribe
Don't send any data that you haven't sent already! Just block 'em f out, feels so nice :D Or they'll demand a nude selfie next time!
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How bad is TPM on a laptop for privacy?
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Looks bad enough. But what's TPM role in this?
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Self-hosted version of Notion called Affine.Pro will have docker released at the end of the month
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The real FOSS alternative to Notion is called AppFlowy. And it already has a docker.
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Stop using Brave Browser
Stop respawning this post again and again. Seriously.
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LanguageTool - a *foss Grammarly alternative (potentially not foss)
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Thanks for pointing out! This tool seems to look and work awesome, but non-foss browser extension is an instant 'NO'...
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Where in history is the reference point of modern week day countdown? [SOLVED]
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Well, the question is not about the origin and sequence of weekday names, but about the first day in history of uninterrupted count of 7-day cycles which leads to today’s state of the week. Added this to the post.
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Now that Sync and Infinity are out, which do people prefer? Also, how do they compare to the existing lemmy apps?
Just installed what popped up first in F-Droid search (Jerboa) and not feeling like I need something else - everything just works and UI/UX feels natural.
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How does the free version of Cloudflare proxy track users/visitors?
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Maybe bcause you use a cloudflare DNS? xD there are mirrors tho: https://git.kescher.at/dCF/deCloudflare/src/branch/master/readme/en.md
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Keeping it classy in Woolwich
i guess it tells more about the author of this writing than about russia xD
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Where in history is the reference point of modern week day countdown? [SOLVED]
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Here is the problem, because actual lunar cycle is 29.5 days long, so if we simply count its phases with whole 7 days it will quickly run out of sync. Therefore Babylonians and other ancient folks added a couple of 'out-of-week' days every now an then to compensate the difference.
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How bad is TPM on a laptop for privacy?
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Big thanks for detailed answer! My understanding is more clear now.
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Where in history is the reference point of modern week day countdown? [SOLVED]
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But the 7 days comes from the amount of time it takes to go from one visible lunar phase to another
I'm not arguing with that, but my question is different: where in history is the exact reference point (day) of today's weekday countdown? From when have people decided to stop adding or subtracting adjustment days and kept counting till today? The might have been some shifts along the way, but there should be a point exactly N x 7 days ago from which the 7-day countdown has not been interrupted. Or at least the earliest known day in history that everyone on Earth agreed upon as a reference point.
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Self-hosted version of Notion called Affine.Pro will have docker released at the end of the month
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Your choice of browser matters — Google's Web DRM and the open internet
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And those are the two options, unfortunately.
Exactly. Mozilla is better but not that much. What we really need is a 100% community-developed browser engine sponsored by several large companies that are independent from each other. But seems like it's too late, we're boiled frogs at this point. Although maybe these are the circumstances under which such an initiative could finally emerge.
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Soo-Won Mets is the most annoying thing that I have experienced in the game so far.
For a smooth run this meta requires an ok commander and good PUGs, to ensure both, join a couple GW2 discord servers like Hardstuck, where they frequently announce the runs with good comms, who place food & banners and give instructions along the way of progressing meta. If you join a random squad and a comm doesn't sort it into parties, go away at once, nothing good will happen :)
Go to the map early and do random events all across the map, at least 5 of them, so you'll be able to open more chests at the very end. Events give decent loot and EoD currency too.
I also recommend watching a Youtube guide for this meta, because it has a couple of particular phases, where you just need to know what to do, much like the Octovine.
So, with some effort it really can go from annoying mess to engaging and rewarding experience.
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I Found a Solurion to Get People to Switch to Signal
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I wonder how anything that requires your phone number can be considered private at all? And why people don't widely use Matrix?..
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The AD-BASED internet is DYING, and it's getting WORSE in the process
Nothing bad will happen if 80% of what is daily posted on Youtube will cease :) Together with fights for viewer's attention, overproduction and creators burnout.