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In Canada’s battle with Big Tech, smaller publishers and independent outlets struggle to survive
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The humble trash truck is ready for an all-electric upgrade
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The $2,000 phones that let anyone make robocalls
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Supreme Court, under pressure, issues non-binding ethics code for justices, without mechanisms for enforcement
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Special Ops bomb technician rates eleven bomb disposal scenes in movies and TV | How real is it?
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Will the switch to USB-C be good for repair?
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Folder-Dependent Git Configurations Using Conditional Includes
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Why banks are suddenly closing down customer accounts
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Handling Secrets in NixOS: An Overview (git-crypt, agenix, sops-nix, and when to use them)
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What is Classical Vaporwave?
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[Books explaining] why the heyday of the automobile is over
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Help me find an e reader
I am looking for an e reader with specific features, honestly I don't know if what I want even exists, but I figured this might be a good place to ask. Here's my wants: Charge via USB-C Open,...
I am looking for an e reader with specific features, honestly I don't know if what I want even exists, but I figured this might be a good place to ask. Here's my wants:
- Charge via USB-C
- Open, allows .epub files (I understand some brands don't)
- interfaces with Calibre
- Does not have any wireless radios ie bluetooth, wifi (I know lots of people would say just turn those features off, but I would just prefer the device doesn't have them to begin with)
Have you guys seen any devices that meet this criteria?
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Iceland volcano won't spew more carbon than humanity – social media is once again filling up with such claims, as it always does when volcanoes make news
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Mexican Congress holds second UFO session featuring Peruvian mummies
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The myth and reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard
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The Brain Scoop relaunch!
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Corbin Carroll discusses 2023 Rookie of the Year honors
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Jezebel and the question of women’s anger
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TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
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Japan to create ¥1 trillion fund to develop outer space industry
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Claire Saffitz cooks her ideal Thanksgiving start to finish
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One huge contradiction is undoing our best climate efforts
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Graduated and moving to an apartment in a major city in the US, advice/tips?
I graduated in the spring and spent the last few months at home with family. I'm hoping to find an apartment/job in a major US city working as a legal assistant or paralegal. I've never rented...
I graduated in the spring and spent the last few months at home with family. I'm hoping to find an apartment/job in a major US city working as a legal assistant or paralegal.
I've never rented before, so I have questions, but due to circumstances related to the ones pushing me away from staying at home any longer, I don't have any parents or older siblings to ask for help, so I'm hoping to crowdsource wisdom here. I have specific questions, but also happy to hear any general advice for someone renting an apartment for the first time.
Some relevant context:
- Studio apartment is nonnegotiable. I don't know anyone I trust enough to be my roommate. If that weren't enough, I'm one of the only people still wearing a mask and trying not to get COVID, so it's gotta be a studio for me to be able to relax.
- I'm looking for a walkable neighborhood and good public transit in addition to affordability, so really looking at Chicago and Philly right now.
- I love to cook, but I know studios often have really lackluster kitchens. Hoping to find one with a usable amount of counterspace.
Those questions I had:
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If you offer to pay a landlord the cost of the lease in full, is it typical for the landlord to waive the requirement that you provide proof of employment, or if you asked them to waive that, would they be likely to say yes? I would really like to take some time off, and coming home was intended to be that, but toxic family means I've just been stressed the whole time, so being able to get a place without needing a job right off the bat would be a fantastic setup to make sure this new start goes well. (If I save up part-time earnings for the next 2-3 months, I'll have enough to pay a lease on a $1200 studio in full, furnish it with the necessities, and feed myself.)
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Recently I realized that when apartments are listed as unfurnished, that means no bed or mattress either. (I kind of see now why futons are a thing.) How do people usually address this issue? Do you buy a mattress and bed frame with the expectation that you'll take it with you whenever you move out to the next apartment?
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Since I don't live in the city I'll be moving to, I most likely won't be able to see the apartment in person before committing. Any particular ideas on how I could handle this or what I should be wary of? I've heard of services where you can pay someone to show up to a tour and video call you so you can follow along (https://www.gandertour.com/). $50 doesn't seem too steep, but I don't know if that specific service is trustworthy, or if there's a cheaper or simpler way to deal with this.
Those are my questions, and like I said above, any advice not 100% related to these questions is welcome too!
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Edith Piaf AI-generated biopic in the works at Warner Music
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The ‘Georgists’ are out there, and they want to tax your land
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The unstoppable rise of disposable ML frameworks
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The Garfield Movie | Official trailer
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From a scholar of genocide: Both Israel and Palestinian supporters accuse the other side of genocide – here’s what the term actually means
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Privacy win: EU Parliament decides that your private messages must not be scanned
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Black-owned land is under siege in the Brazos Valley
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Something weird happens when you keep squeezing
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Warners reverses course in ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ fight
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Advice on GPU upgrade wanted
So I'm in the market at the moment for a GPU upgrade. I haven't spent a dumb amount of money on something stupid in a while now and I'm thinking this Christmas season is the time. My only problem...
So I'm in the market at the moment for a GPU upgrade. I haven't spent a dumb amount of money on something stupid in a while now and I'm thinking this Christmas season is the time. My only problem is, I've been really out of the loop since the Great Shortage. I've heard AMDs cards these days are actually more than complete jokes, and NVIDIA has been getting too big-headed and making some poor consumer choices. So a switch to AMD sounds like it might be viable for me.
At the moment, I've got an RTX 2070 8GB. I've read that lately, games have been utilizing VRAM like crazy so I want to bolster my numbers on that front. Was looking at 12GB cards since the 24GB ones are all ludicrously priced. At the moment, I'd say my budget is around 500/600 USD. Is AMD worth switching to at the moment? Or should I go for something like a 4060?
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Internet sleuths want to track down this mystery pop song. They only have seventeen seconds of it.
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UAW workers at major Ford and GM truck plants vote 'no' on record contract deals
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Payments app Zelle begins refunds for imposter scams after Washington pressure
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US reenters the nuclear fuel game
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Asked to do something illegal at work? Here’s what these software engineers did
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Wordpress hosting
My girlfriend has started a small business and is looking into a blogging platform. What she has tried so far hasn't been great. She has decided to go the WordPress route and this is where I am...
My girlfriend has started a small business and is looking into a blogging platform. What she has tried so far hasn't been great. She has decided to go the WordPress route and this is where I am involved.
Any suggestions for hosting providers? What features should I be considering or anything else I should be aware of when it comes to picking a provider?
Right now I am looking at Bluehost vs Hostinger. Bluehost just seem to be the most advertised. Hostinger seemed to offer more for the same cost.12 votes -
Looking at getting a new phone - help with my odd requirements?
Well, maybe they're not that odd, but I've not really been paying attention to what phone manufacturers are up to these days, so I need some help with what will work for me. I've previously had a...
Well, maybe they're not that odd, but I've not really been paying attention to what phone manufacturers are up to these days, so I need some help with what will work for me. I've previously had a huawei p10 lite (which I only sold after the news of them selling data to the Chinese government), Pixel 3a (i used that until it dying breath and then sold it for parts), and now I have a RealMe 8 5g, but I'm having charging issues with it. I might look at getting it fixed, but depending on the cost I might sell it on and buy something else.
MUST HAVES:
- Headphone jack. I'll die on this hill and I will get a phone with a headphone jack as long as they are available to me.
- good battery. It's the main reason I went for the RealMe 8, the battery has just been fantastic so far.
- No bloatware. I'm ruling out Samsung, and anything similar that is full of extra junk I can't get rid of. As close to pure android as possible is best.
IDEAL
- good for games. the heaviest duty game I play on my phone is TFT, and then I move around between various puzzle and idle games for when I'm travelling or on my lunch break, but I don't need it to be super powerful.
- wireless charging. Nearly put this as a must have, but I could definitely live without it.
- Not chinese made/owned. Also nearly put this as must have, but I don't want to limit myself massively.
- under £250 I very rarely spend even that much on a phone, but I'm open to treating myself a bit.
I don't care about the camera really. I'm a photography hobbyist and so if I want to take good photos for memories I'll just take a camera with me. If it's good then thats a bonus but its near the bottom of my list of things I think about.
What would there be out there for me? I've always liked the look of Sony phones but they're typically a lot of money, how do they fit in with my requirements? I've also been looking into the Fairphone but it really is out of my budget, and i don't know how it runs.
Thanks in advance for any help :)
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Armor Games Studios publisher sale
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The rise and fall of America's favorite junk foods | Rise and Fall
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The extreme ambitions of West Bank settlers
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The Anthropocene Explosion - Essay by Koert van Mensvoort (2014)
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Architecture lovers can spend the night in a modernist masterpiece designed by Alvar Aalto – former TB sanatorium is now Finland's most unusual holiday let
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Album of the Week #9: The KLF - Chill Out
This is Album of the Week #9 ~ This week's album is The KLF - Chill Out Year of Release: 1990 Genre(s): Ambient, Sound Collage Country: United Kingdom Length: 44 minutes Listen! (YouTube) This...
This is Album of the Week #9 ~ This week's album is The KLF - Chill Out
Year of Release: 1990
Genre(s): Ambient, Sound Collage
Country: United Kingdom
Length: 44 minutes
Listen! (YouTube) This album isn't available on streaming services.Excerpt from Pitchfork:
The interwoven pieces play out like a radio broadcast heard while half asleep, tapping into the same surreal aesthetic that David Lynch would explore in Twin Peaks’ debut just a few months later. Call it the American uncanny, in which familiar tropes are turned strange, and tantalizing snippets suggest hidden narratives—root systems of stories burrowing deep underground. Like the Swiss heritage of photographer Robert Frank, another eagle-eyed traveler of America’s backroads, the KLF’s foreignness gave them special purchase on American myths. It was all a product of the duo’s imagination; Drummond had never even been to the places they were evoking, and they only settled on the titles after recording. “We thought that it had the feeling of that sort of trip,” Drummond told X Magazine in 1991. “I love maps and atlases and I love place names, and I just sat down with the atlas and picked, you know, and saw the journey that it was and it all seemed to fit.”
Discussion points:
Have you heard this artist/album before? Is this your first time hearing?
Do you enjoy this genre? Is this an album you would have chosen?
Does this album remind you of something you've heard before?
What were the album's strengths or weaknesses?
Was there a standout track for you?
How did you hear the album? Where were you? What was your setup?--
Album of the week is currently chosen randomly (via random.org) from the top 5000 albums from a custom all-time RYM chart, with a 4/5 popularity weighting. The chart is recalculated weekly.
Missed last week? It can be found here.
Any feedback on the format is welcome ~~
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"Disengage" by David J Siegel on finding space in modern life
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New York residents say a hazardous waste incinerator’s emissions violate their new constitutional right to a “healthful environment.”
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Weekly thread for casual chat and photos of pets
This is the place for casual discussion about our pets. Photos are welcome, show us your pet(s) and tell us about them!
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