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I'm Ora (She/Her) Not a doctor. Nor am I Cory Doctorow, but he has sent me a password reset.

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togetherloop.com 2mo ago

TogetherLoop – Social media minus the nonsense

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www.northernnewsnow.com 4mo ago

Dateline Data Center: What's in it for us?

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eevd.fa.us6.oraclecloud.com 5mo ago

The Dallas Morning News Is Hiring a Faith Reporter

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infosec.exchange 6mo ago

Examples of things that people with average computer literacy can "just" do

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daniel.haxx.se 10mo ago

HTTP: //HTTP://HTTP:// HTTP://HTTP://?HTTP://#HTTP://

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blog.ecosia.org 10mo ago

What if a browser could save the planet?

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ir.gitlab.com 11mo ago

Gitlab Reports First Quarter Fiscal Year 2026 Financial Results

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techcrunch.com 11mo ago

Mastercard denies pressuring game platforms, Valve tells a different story

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www.disconnect.blog 1y ago

Getting off US tech: a guide

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bsky.app 1y ago

Academic discusses the list of topics censored in the US

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fabulous.systems 1y ago

Anubis saved our websites from a DDoS attack

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omglol.news 1y ago

Toward a more diverse social web

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help.x.com 1y ago

A Safer (X)

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ai.stackexchange.com 1y ago

How Does AI "Consume" Water? – Artificial Intelligence Stack Exchange

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omglol.news 2y ago

Blocking Bad Bots

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www.popularmechanics.com 2y ago

Suddenly, Mars Is Spinning Faster. No One Knows Why

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kind.social 3y ago

Discord is getting in on the “AI” trend, utilizing user data scraping

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pluralistic.net 3y ago

The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble

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mastodon.social 3y ago

“Elon Musk should pay taxes” now considered by Twitter TOS to be hate speech

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twitter.com 3y ago

“Somewhere in the middle of that is a DDoS attack I never even noticed.”

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www.expressnews.com 4y ago

A Texas road partially melted as a heat wave scorched the state

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doc.rust-lang.org 4y ago

“Memory leaks are memory safe in Rust”

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en.wikipedia.org 4y ago

Circle 7 Logo

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www.quora.com 4y ago

I have no natural desire for privacy. Can you sell me on protecting my data?

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blog.mybb.com 4y ago

MyBB 1.8’s Captcha Bug, Parser Validation, and PHP Compatibility

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support.google.com 4y ago

Dynamic Emails in Gmail

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www.msn.com 5y ago

Microsoft's 'app store principles to promote choice' take a jab at Apple

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help.hbomax.com 5y ago

A list of the companies that are supporting HBO Max

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www.msn.com 6y ago

Most NBC Stations Won’t Air the 30 Rock Reunion

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www.quora.com 6y ago

Has anyone switched to the Chromium Edge from Chrome? If so, why?

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All this debate about how politics are defined or how bias is measured. My question is why should I care? Grok identifying as Mechahitler didn't drag me any further right, why would ChatGPT be able to drag me left? If you vote the way AI tells you, that's already a problem regardless of what it said.

I'd say about half of Steam players aren't male. The "video games are for boys" thing is kind of a self fulfilling prophecy because anyone who believes that will obviously not play with a woman.

I used Typst for a few weeks. It already feels much more understandable, consistent, hackable, and customizable. I guess that is the difference between an ad hoc macro system and an actually thought through programming language.

The only drawback I can see is the ecosystem being smaller and less mature. That is, however, counteracted by being able to do things on your own, without immersing yourself deeply in LaTeX for years. Also, it will improve with time.

A very important note about being charged with something, it's not evidence of guilt but rather an accusation. As an example, of all unsolved murders in the United States, I theorize that you the reader have committed all of them. How does it reflect on your local law enforcement, courts, etc. that you're not sentenced for these crimes?

This is such a HN blog post it's almost funny. You wanted to selfhost and you can but it wasn't easy or particularly Linux friendly, so you got a Rust server from the community, but you wanted something officially supported, so they made a specifically lightweight self-hostable version but it's in a programming language you don't like. :( Those bastards!

I'd rather hear "the code is bad" than "the post sounds AI-written".

Of course you would. Reading through and judging the quality of AI output is the largest amount of effort in a world where you can get everything else by prompting. Please internalize this: If you want to be respected you will have to put in effort yourself. There is no way around this.

Let me just say the performance is absolutely incredible, and the persistence is so transparent. I actually was given access to an in-browser video editor that chokes pretty quickly so I'm impressed. The tracks didn't seem to work well for me. I'm on Firefox on Windows and couldn't drag and drop tracks to change the order, there doesn't seem to be any layer transformation tools (position, rotation, scale) that I could find to counteract it not handling footage of different aspect ratios (I.E. portrait and landscape).

You can only use one library card at a time with OverDrive, and don't have access to the audioboks or periodicals on Libby.

I personally was fine with the limitations, after all I'm only one person and I would only ever read books on my ereader.

(single point of failure to... another single point of failure)

I feel like you missed what the author meant with that phrase. The author wasn't talking about for their website, but the internet as a whole.

I can’t help but feel that the idea of centralizing the internet into a single US corporation feels off.

The point of picking Bunny.net is that it's alternative to this single entity that's got so much of the internet running through it, and is less susceptible to the BS in the US.

What's the difference between using the Tor and Ceno browsers?

Unlike Tor Browser, Ceno Browser is not a tool for anonymity, which is Tor's primary purpose. In the Tor network, network traffic is encrypted and routed through a network of relays run by volunteers, and appears to originate from the IP address of an exit node. Tor is an excellent option for privacy from Internet surveillance and website operators. If it works in your network environment, we recommend it, provided that you've also read their support documentation.

Ceno's primary distinction from a VPN is that it does attempt to route all of your website requests through the decentralized network. When a website is available without restriction, Ceno will simply connect to it like a normal web browser. Also, Ceno users cache and share content with each other. This reduces the strain on censorship circumvention nodes and improves deliverability.

source: https://ceno.app/en/faq.html

Not the person you were responding to but I work at a TV station here in the US. What kind of shows do you like? My husband and I are getting into "The Rise and Fall of Reggie Dinkins" if you want a new show. If new episodes of a long running show is fine, I still relax to Jeopardy when I can. If you don't stream anything, you can usually still find golf on the weekends which we use for our cats. :)

The question is whether we will get there before it's too late... and perhaps AI is the answer?

I won't touch "free and unlimited energy", but is there even evidence that AI produces more energy than it uses? Produces any at all?

It has nothing to do with "shareholder value"

The reason other countries are able to move so much faster than the U.S. is because parties that have power in the U.S. push back with economic concerns. The distance between "shareholder value" and "stock market performance" is miniscule.