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Introducing time.cloudflare.com, a free time service that supports both NTP and the emerging Network Time Security (NTS) protocol for securing NTP
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The death of YouTube skepticism
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Google Maps is filled with millions of false business addresses created by firms pretending to be nearby
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HBO Chernobyl miniseries discussion
Thought a thread for this miniseries would be good, as I've only seen discussion of the trailer up here. As of today (16th May) there are two episodes out, and a companion podcast for each (though...
Thought a thread for this miniseries would be good, as I've only seen discussion of the trailer up here. As of today (16th May) there are two episodes out, and a companion podcast for each (though I've not listened to these yet)
I just watched both back to back, and I'm blown away. This is some very well made television, and somehow manages to be simultaneously nightmarish, and fully gripping. That this is based on real events is all the more amazing to me, and after watching the revelation about the exploding water tanks in the second episode I'm astonished that the world is as unscathed by this disaster as it is.24 votes -
How will the movies (as we know them) survive the next ten years? Twenty-four major Hollywood figures peer into the future
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Dota Underlords open beta is now available on Steam, Android, and iOS
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Machine learning is about to revolutionize the study of ancient games
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On being serious
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Are there potential downsides of going to 100% renewable energy?
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Liu Cixin’s war of the worlds
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How did the Dallas courthouse gunman get radicalized?
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Sixteen-year-old STEM shooting suspect said he wanted to target classmates over bullying
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When do you use a VPN?
I try to be privacy focused. I don't use social media, I use Firefox with adblock and tracker protection, with duck duck go as my search engine. I also pay for proton vpn. My question is, when...
I try to be privacy focused. I don't use social media, I use Firefox with adblock and tracker protection, with duck duck go as my search engine. I also pay for proton vpn. My question is, when should I use it? I use it when I'm on open networks on my phone, but that's about it. Do you guys run it 24/7 on your computer?
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Sky: Children of the Light is a theme park for altruism
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She’s 103 and just ran the 100-meter dash. Her life advice? ‘Look for magic moments’
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Stranger Things 3 | Final trailer
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Still snarling after 40,000 years, a giant Pleistocene wolf discovered in Yakutia
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Trump approves strikes on Iran, but then abruptly pulls back
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Slack goes public via a direct listing, with a market cap near $25 billion in early trading
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The case for room-temperature foods: There are many dishes and delicacies that benefit from being served at room temperature
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J Dilla - Stop
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Rich The Kid - Plug Walk (Mabel Remix)
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Seattle to open smoke shelters for 'new normal' summer fires
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Narlugas are real: A very strange hybrid whale was the offspring of a narwhal mother and a beluga father
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Towards Post-Quantum Cryptography in TLS
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I386 architecture will be dropped starting with Ubuntu 19.10
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How to start being an adult? I feel like I am falling downhill without any branch to catch me.
I hope this is the right place to post my question. About me: I am 23, currently studying computer science in a university and failing it hard. I have finished school with pretty good grades,...
I hope this is the right place to post my question.
About me: I am 23, currently studying computer science in a university and failing it hard. I have finished school with pretty good grades, found school easy and didn't really put any effort into learning. After getting my fancy sheet of paper with my grades I applied to compsci studies. Fast forward to now, I am in my last semester with only 30% of credits I need to graduate. It is really hard, I have zero friends to work with at unversity, I make plans and detailed lists of work I have to do but always fail to follow them. I feel like I cannot control myself, one week I will do my work, next week I will struggle to get out of bed and do anything, I can spend whole day laying in bed and doing nothing. My personal life did not progress upwards too, I do not feel any joy in reading, communicating with people or doing basically anything. Everything feels like one big boring game of get a degree, work, make kids and die. My parents are disappointed, since I am failing uni, got fat and basically became a complete opposite of who I was at school. If I dont have anything to do I will just sit at home and stare at my computer, I dont even play games or watch movies, just mindlesly browse reddit or some forum without posting or commenting.Maybe someone out here has faced a similar situation and give me a hint/tip to start with, I feel hopeless and useless. This situation seems like an endless void to me, maybe there is a way out that I cannot see?
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Anyone have experience going to school in their 50s?
I'm in my early 50s and have been seriously considering going to school. I have performed manual labor for most of my working career, and though I truly enjoy it, my body cannot keep up anymore. A...
I'm in my early 50s and have been seriously considering going to school. I have performed manual labor for most of my working career, and though I truly enjoy it, my body cannot keep up anymore. A few years ago I began looking for work in an office environment, and after a a demoralizing year of submitting resumes, I landed a minimum wage job in a small customer support office inside a larger organization. The work was soul suckingly boring. I applied to other departments and received job offers, but management would not let me leave customer service because I have a way of deescalating difficult situations. I was eventually offered the customer support manager role, but I refuse to manage people. Since the company would not let me move out of customer support, I left them and took a long vacation. That is where I am at now.
I am afraid that an educational investment will not pay out the dividends that I am hoping for. I don't have all the time in the world anymore. I guess I am looking for career / school advice, or if not advice, similar journeys.
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Scary fast: How hypersonic missiles are touching off a new global arms race that threatens to change the nature of warfare
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Tampa Bay Rays to explore playing in Montreal
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Blind reverence for the US Constitution—on the left and right—is tearing us apart
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How information is like snacks, money, and drugs—to your brain
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If PornHub wants to support a cause, start with sex worker rights
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Last year, a museum in France dedicated to the work of Étienne Terrus discovered that over half of its collection was fake. Phil Hoad spent nine months investigating how it happened.
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Friendly Linux Chat
I'm having some problems with a notebook I want to set up for a friend. And its the first time in a long time I'm not able to solve it just by myself. So I tried asking at #manjaro and...
I'm having some problems with a notebook I want to set up for a friend. And its the first time in a long time I'm not able to solve it just by myself. So I tried asking at #manjaro and #archlinux-newbies but I got no answer at all. It just seems that IRC changed a lot in the last 15 years. Or maybe my IRC manners are not up to date?
Anyway, do you know a place where there is a nice Linux-crowd? What are your favourite Places to get help? (besides the archwiki) ;-) I'm out of the loop for 10-15 years now because most places got pretty toxic.12 votes -
Horns are growing on young people’s skulls. Phone use is to blame, research suggests.
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Voluntary recall of a limited number of older generation 15-inch MacBook Pro units which contain a battery that may overheat and pose a fire safety risk
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How modern life is transforming the human skeleton
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A US war with Iran looms. Don’t for one second think that it is justified.
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Canada passes Bill C-68, overhauling the Fisheries Act and banning import and export of shark fins
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Amid Evil | Launch trailer (released from Early Access)
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How to write documentation that's actually useful
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Hackers, farmers, and doctors unite! Support for right to repair laws slowly grows
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The new American family: Trans, gender queer, nonbinary, two-spirit
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Telethon - Chimney Rock (2019)
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New California Bill Could Revolutionize How the U.S. Tackles Plastic Pollution
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Sicaria Sound with Ago, Karma & Kursk [Innamind Takeover] - 18th June 2019
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Scientists amazed as Canadian permafrost thaws seventy years early
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Corsica's 'cat-fox': On the trail of what may be a new species
6 votes