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12 votes
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Who favors unbreakable commercial encryption?
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360° view of Hong Kong’s National Day turmoil: Thomas Boarder shot a 360° frontline, 2k-resolution feature from the protests on Hong Kong Island, taking a blast from the water cannon in the process.
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Interview with one of the developers of Interslavic: the constructed language used in "The Painted Bird" which aims to be mutually intelligible with all Slavic languages.
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With alternatives stretched and neighbors angry, Seattle police return to arresting sex workers
9 votes -
A new study posits that tsunamis triggered by the Great Alaska Earthquake in 1964 washed a deadly fungus onto the shore
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How much faster is Redis at storing a blob of JSON compared to PostgreSQL?
6 votes -
The sun sets on We - The story of WeWork's IPO postponement and CEO ouster
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Watch enthusiasts/collectors
Do we have any watch enthusiasts or collectors on here ?. I’m more of an enthusiast than a collector, i do owned a couple but wouldn’t call it a Collection.
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Anyone watching the F1 race in Sochi, Russia today?
If so, any thoughts before, during or after the race? If not, feel free to ask any questions about the sport or motor racing in general, if you'd like to beef up the ole knowledges. ( Discord...
If so, any thoughts before, during or after the race?
If not, feel free to ask any questions about the sport or motor racing in general, if you'd like to beef up the ole knowledges.
( Discord server invite for more action : https://discordapp.com/invite/dCnYaSw )
7 votes -
The Ocean Cleanup device is finally catching plastic
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How a double-free bug in WhatsApp for Android could be turned into a remote code execution vulnerability
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Doctors working for the Department for Work and Pensions must respect a service user's pronoun choice
This is a bit complicated. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is the government department that pays social security benefits in the UK. There are a range of benefits. Some of these...
This is a bit complicated.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is the government department that pays social security benefits in the UK. There are a range of benefits. Some of these benefits are for people who cannot work because of disability. In order to qualify for some of these disability benefits you need to have a medical assessment with an "independent" doctor. This doctor is independent from the patient. They're employed by companies who are paid by the DWP, so there's supposed to be some kind of arm's length arrangement there.
A doctor was employed by one of these companies to do this assessment work for the DWP. He was a committed Christian. He held that he would not be able to refer to people by anything other than the gender they were assigned at birth.
The DWP is clear: you must respect a person's choice of pronouns.
The General Medical Council (the registrant body for doctors in England) is also clear: you must not impose your personal views upon your patients, especially if it's going to cause distress.
This doctor was spoken to about his beliefs. He declined to change his stance. He lost his job. He took his employer to employment tribunal for unfair dismissal based on discrimination against his protected characteristic: his religious views.
He lost his case.
Here's the legal document: https://christianconcern.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CC-Resource-Judgment-Mackereth-DWP-Others-ET-191002.pdf
It's pretty long! 42 pages! The last pages give a summary.
You'll notice the URL. He was supported by the Christian Legal Centre. I won't say anything about them, but I'll link this page which gives some useful information: https://nearlylegal.co.uk/2018/04/on-the-naughty-step-the-questionable-ethics-of-the-christian-legal-centre/
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To make Later Alligator, Smallbu had to wrestle with game design
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Elizabeth Warren's new remedy for US corruption: A tax on lobbying
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Charming pixel art game Yes, Your Grace re-emerges after years of silence
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CSS is weird because it's solving a weird problem: what does it mean to design for an infinite and unknown canvas?
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Microsoft Surface Neo first look: The future of Windows 10X is dual-screen
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Jamal Khashoggi, one year later
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LCCS: The LCD/CRT hybrid from JVC
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Cube World wasn't worth the wait
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GTA Online is six years old today, a look at GTA Online over the years
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What are you reading these days? #29
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction or poetry, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk about it a bit. Notes We're coming up on #30! Exciting! Previous...
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction or poetry, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk about it a bit.
Notes
We're coming up on #30! Exciting!
Previous topics
Previous topics are listed in the wiki.
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Samsung Galaxy Fold review: The $2,000 phone of the future is here—please don’t break it
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How a big enough news story — like impeachment — could warp the polls
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Hypothetics: let's say it takes 1/100 of the current fuel to take a spacecraft out of Earth's atmosphere. What happens?
This is obviously a thought-experiment, but maybe an interesting one. Let's say we get a super-efficient, eco-friendly alternative fuel that can do whatever rocket fuel does now with 1/100 of the...
This is obviously a thought-experiment, but maybe an interesting one. Let's say we get a super-efficient, eco-friendly alternative fuel that can do whatever rocket fuel does now with 1/100 of the cost, 1/100 of volume and 100% more efficiency. What does it change in the short term?
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Video games don't lead to violence...
@bbcnottingham: Goose smashes through taxi window https://t.co/RThaDIRumk
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Denmark's new government to boost spending after years of austerity, following a campaign pledge to reverse years of cuts by previous administrations
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Flight shame could halve growth in air traffic – Swedish concept of 'flygskam' appears to be spreading
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Norway's massive wealth fund got the go-ahead to sell oil and gas stocks worth $5.9 billion
8 votes -
How big oil of the past helped launch the solar industry of today
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A woman has been killed and ten other people wounded in a sword attack at a vocational school in the Finnish city of Kuopio
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'At what point does malfeasance become fraud?’: NYU Biz-School Professor Scott Galloway on WeWork
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Snowden in the Labyrinth
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Count the overall time someone spends on Tildes
1. The Idea Counting overall time would be awesome already. In order to avoid overloading the servers, you could just count every 5, 10 hours or something like that. As a plus (I have no idea how...
1. The Idea
Counting overall time would be awesome already. In order to avoid overloading the servers, you could just count every 5, 10 hours or something like that.
As a plus (I have no idea how hard this is, please forgive me), there could be graphs showing how much time you spent by day, week, month, year, etc.
This would be a good way to help Tilders prevent Tildes addiction (on the other hand, there would have to be some mechanic to prevent people from gamyfying this...).
This time count would be entirely private to each user by default, but there would the option to display it.
2. The Reason
I find that knowing how much time I spent on something helps me be more productive. It's the entire reason for the existence of tools such Rescue Time, Waka Time and Toggl. If I know how much I spend on a platform, it's easier to control my addiction to it. These other tools are heavy and focused on billing hours. That's not my use case. I know this might seem silly, but it makes a lot of difference for some people. 7.2% of the world's population has ADHD. I happen to be one of them.
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Rx - An extensible pixel editor inspired by Vi
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Chinese company wins million-kronor bid to help expand Stockholm metro – the biggest investment in the Swedish capital's public transport in more than four decades
5 votes -
Cool Pics -- The fifty finalists in the 2019 Agora photo awards
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Suggestion: a simple table of contents
I think it would be awesome to have some markdown to create a simple table of contents for longer posts!
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Shoot them in the legs, US President Donald Trump suggested: Inside his border war
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Make the collapse/expand all option persistent
In such a fashion that all my threads will open either collapsed and expanded. Ideally, there should be a setting for that. Some people might prefer to always open expanded regardless of their...
In such a fashion that all my threads will open either collapsed and expanded. Ideally, there should be a setting for that. Some people might prefer to always open expanded regardless of their last choice.
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Amber Guyger, police officer who shot a man to death in his apartment, found guilty of murder
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What makes a Linux Distribution Stable instead of Not-Stable? (full-disclosure: I wrote this for Reddit - /r/ManjaroLinux - but I think I'd love to know what you think about the subject))
Introduction I wanna say that I made several corrections, additions, and improvements just because I love you guys way more than I love the people at Reddit Please note that I'm merely a dedicated...
Introduction
I wanna say that I made several corrections, additions, and improvements just because I love you guys way more than I love the people at Reddit
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Please note that I'm merely a dedicated Linux user, I'm speaking from that point of view. I'm not a developer and not a programmer. These are just my opinions of 10+ years using Linux
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These are just some commentaries from a dude who happen to love the concept of STABILITY in general (autism represent) and would like to discuss how it works when it comes to Linux distributions. This is all based on my use-cases and on what I think is common sense. I have no knowledge of how open-source projects really work, and make no claims regarding how they should work.
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Only distributions that claim to be stable are under my scope. So Arch and Debian Unstable are clearly out the scope, but Slackware, CentOS, Debian Buster, and MX-Linux are clearly under the scope.
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All considerations are void if the malfunctioning is SOLELY a product of hardware, extremely rare conditions or your own lack of knowledge.
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Except when otherwise noted, non-compliance means the distribution is deemed not stable.
1 Deal Breakers
After a correct installation by the user on hardware that is expressly supported by the developers, a stable distribution should, in the period of 1 year (counted from the first boot):
- Remains bootable, manageable and fully accessible.
- Work with almost no maintenance or intervention (updates excluded)
- Present no decrease in performance
- Freeze at most once every two weeks
- Have no package issue that cannot be solved by a simple command from its own package manager
2 Major Issues
Because of the complex nature of major issues, I'm not going to establish any criteria about them. Both stable and unstable distributions have critical problems that cannot have a fixed time-frame.
3 Minor Issues/Bugs/Annoyances/etc
Small issues are the ones that do not impede the usage of the machine, but provoke significant annoyances:
Examples:
- Window switching is not working properly
- The mouse stops working for 3 seconds every 15 minutes
- For some reason, the letter "c" is sending "h" on the terminal
- My configurations are not saved after reboot
- My configurations are not being saved at all
- I must change video output manually every time I switch monitors
- I must change audio output manually every time I switch monitors
- Some essential configuration is ridiculously hard to find
- Configurations have no undo button
- Configurations have no reset button
- A certain package cannot be installed
- A certain dependence cannot be installed (dependency hell)
- There's a ridiculously accessible keyboard shortcut that makes your keyboard change layouts all the fucking time
3.1 Places for Research
Such minor issues must be solved within 30 days, as long as the user does their part and seek some of the following resources:
- Official websites
- Official forums
- Official warnings, newsletters, etc
- Semi-official communities
- FAQs
- Manuals
- Github Issues
- Gitlab Issues
- Other Venues to post issues
If the minor issue is not solved in 45+ days, the distribution will be deemed not stable, regardless of the behavior of the user.
4. Conclusion
It is my opinion that, if any of the major and minor requirements are not fulfilled according to their particular rules, the distribution in question should not be deemed not Stable.
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The dark side of Japan’s anime industry
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NASA, Elon Musk, and the effort to return to orbit - A conversation with Jim Bridenstine about the Commercial Crew program
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As one of the world’s most unequal cities, why aren’t Hong Kong protesters angry at the rich and powerful?
7 votes -
Halide 1.14: Updates for iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro
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Global shipping companies have spent millions rigging vessels with “cheat devices” that circumvent new environmental legislation by dumping pollution into the sea instead of the air
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The hedge fund billionaire’s guide to buying your kids a better shot at not just one elite college, but lots of them
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What is the difference between activity and all activity ?
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7 votes