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17 votes
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Reddit is testing a paid monthly membership on a per subreddit basis for core features.
95 votes -
What Happens After Amazon’s Domination Is Complete? Its Bookstore Offers Clues
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Android aftermarket development and its boring state
So many ROMs. So many features. But they all look the same. I mean, I love that there are many options, but aren't you bored of going to XDA and finding only ROMs that follow the [9.0] EDGY NAME...
So many ROMs.
So many features.
But they all look the same.
I mean, I love that there are many options, but aren't you bored of going to XDA and finding only ROMs that follow the [9.0] EDGY NAME IN CAPS formula?
They all look stock. Android is supposed to be about personalization. Where are the highly customized UIs? Why are all fanboys so scared of breaking the scheme that Material has inforced upon us, and then whine about how Android is inconsistent? I wish that something like MIUI would appear again, like, a ROM made by a no name that ended up making a gigantic empire.
I wish to see someday another developer, making its own thing.
Breaking the AOSP UI mold.
[NOTE] This is reposted from reddit (it was made by me tho) because I wanted to discuss it here.
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#IAmHere – The people trying to make Facebook a nicer place
6 votes -
Small change, big effects: An overview of payment systems
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Bill Gates on making “one of the greatest mistakes of all time”
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When Myspace was king, employees abused a tool called ‘overlord’ to spy on users
8 votes -
Statement on 32-bit i386 packages for Ubuntu 19.10 and 20.04 LTS
11 votes -
Dutch telephone outage takes out nation’s emergency number for over three hours
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You can sue media companies over Facebook comments from readers, Australian court rules
13 votes -
What are the absolute worst VPN's you should never use?
Many good VPN's and bad VPN's exist, which fall under bad VPN'S?
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Need advice for simple speaker setup
I just moved into a new apartment, and am using a 32" tv in the living room. The TV is already way too small, but I'd rather prioritize spending on the speakers first. I thought I could live with...
I just moved into a new apartment, and am using a 32" tv in the living room. The TV is already way too small, but I'd rather prioritize spending on the speakers first.
I thought I could live with the TV speakers, but have quickly realized that they have made watching movies impossible. The dialogue is impossible to hear without cranking up the volume. And then if there is anything other than dialogue, it's way too loud.
The walls in the apartment are fairly thin, so I'm pretty sure a subwoofer is out of the question. So I was looking at soundbars but keep seeing conflicting advice. There are articles like this that make them sound fine, yet when you go to place like /r/hometheater, everyone despises them.
So my next step was to look at powered bookshelf speakers. They seemed like a pretty good option, until I went to best buy to listen to them. I'm not sure if they just weren't set up properly or what, but none of them sounded that great. Especially when compared to the tower speakers they had.
So now I'm at a loss. Should I go with a soundbar, bookshelf, or tower speakers? My budget is under $500.
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The researcher behind the smartphone “horns” study sells posture pillows
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Ravelry (a popular site/community for knitting and crocheting) bans posts in support of Trump or his administration
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Lightest, cheapest laptop out there with best battery life
My laptop is showing sings of death, and I know I will need a new one soon. Also, I am planning to get a tablet and ditch my smartphone, and to stop using the laptop for browsing content: I'll do...
My laptop is showing sings of death, and I know I will need a new one soon. Also, I am planning to get a tablet and ditch my smartphone, and to stop using the laptop for browsing content: I'll do most of that to the phone/tablet, and use the laptop as an authoring tool: writing and coding.
So I am looking for a laptop that is cheap, light, and can keep running for at least 3-5hrs under mild Debian+Emacs load. Ideally around 11"-13".
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The Gorgon Stare, a military drone-surveillance technology that can track multiple moving targets at once, is coming to a city near you
13 votes -
Is having a business line worth it?
Does anyone have a business subscriber Internet connection? Is it worth it? I just spoke with my ISP, and for an extra $40/mo I can get a static IP address with 100mbps that I can host my own...
Does anyone have a business subscriber Internet connection? Is it worth it?
I just spoke with my ISP, and for an extra $40/mo I can get a static IP address with 100mbps that I can host my own website on. I have a virtualization server, and I've been thinking about hosting my own hobby-scale website for a while. I haven't had any luck finding rack hosting space that I'd feel comfortable using so I'm thinking about just going rogue, and operating solo. If I had a static IP address with a pipe that would allow me to host then all I'd need to do is stand up a server, register a domain, and point it at my IP address.
Other than the typical security risks, what do I need to worry about? Would the experience be worth it?
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Is it possible to moderate a group chat on Facebook?
Long story, but I've ended up becoming the admin of a group on Facebook (the previous admin stepped down in a rush, and added me as he left). And the group has an existing group chat associated...
Long story, but I've ended up becoming the admin of a group on Facebook (the previous admin stepped down in a rush, and added me as he left). And the group has an existing group chat associated with it.
Is it possible to "moderate" this group chat? Specifically, as an admin of the group, can I remove unsavoury/unwanted messages from the chat associated with the group? It looks like I can't.
Can even the creator of a group chat do this? If I close the group chat and create a new one, will I (as its creator) be able to remove unsavoury/unwanted messages from that new chat?
I've done some searching via Google, and I'm not finding anything to indicate that this is possible. If someone posts something unsavoury in a group chat, it looks like the only option is to remove the person from the chat - but the unsavoury messages can't be deleted.
Please tell me that's wrong!
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Reddit is moving forward with their Community Points ("donuts" in /r/ethtrader) experiment, including moving them onto the Ethereum blockchain
26 votes -
GE's smart light bulb reset process is a masterpiece... of modern techno-insanity
24 votes -
Firefox zero-day was used in attack against Coinbase employees, not its users
11 votes -
Open Place Reviews, an open data review site developed by osmand and maps.me
8 votes -
What is Block.one, the company that just paid a record-breaking $30m for the voice.com domain name?
12 votes -
The death of YouTube skepticism
5 votes -
Google Maps is filled with millions of false business addresses created by firms pretending to be nearby
13 votes -
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?
25 votes -
Slack goes public via a direct listing, with a market cap near $25 billion in early trading
14 votes -
I386 architecture will be dropped starting with Ubuntu 19.10
25 votes -
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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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 -
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
7 votes -
How to write documentation that's actually useful
5 votes -
Hackers, farmers, and doctors unite! Support for right to repair laws slowly grows
6 votes -
Florida city to pay $600K ransom to hacker who seized computer systems weeks ago
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YouTube under US Federal investigation over allegations it violates children’s privacy
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Bodies in seats: At Facebook’s worst-performing content moderation site in North America, one contractor has died, and others say they fear for their lives
28 votes -
Rethinking open source: The challenges behind establishing a modern emulator
21 votes -
Nifty US govt chemical disaster investigation YouTube channel
4 votes -
Jordan Peterson announces free speech platform Thinkspot
34 votes -
Google is enabling RCS independently of mobile operators in the UK and France this month
10 votes -
Interview with Google's login chief about passwords vs. single sign-on
8 votes -
No, you don't look like that. How phone cameras alter reality.
7 votes -
The platform excuse is dying
16 votes -
Beware the Cheapfakes: Deepfakes are troubling. But disinformation doesn’t have to be high tech to be damaging.
5 votes -
The new wilderness
9 votes -
No, Elon Musk did not delete his Twitter account
4 votes -
The Trauma Floor: The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America
7 votes -
Samsung TVs should be regularly virus-checked, the company says
6 votes -
The M&A process is broken - Which is why we’re publishing the Atlassian Term Sheet to fix it
5 votes