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20 votes
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The launch of the Green Flyway research project between Røros, Norway and Östersund, Sweden marks a world-first test area for electric flights
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The annual assessment of Lockheed Martin's $428 billion F-35 program includes 873 software flaws and a gun that can't shoot straight
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Durov: Recent events showed once again that all WhatsApp users are at risk
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Something is broken in our science fiction
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Unexplained drones are swarming by night over Colorado
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Facebook’s Clear History tool is now available to everyone
15 votes -
Thunderbird's new home
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Where can I find collected wisdom from Silicon Valley?
I am talking about advice such as "make incremental improvements" and "ship the minimum viable product." Is there a name for this kind of advice - advice related to software and tech. I am looking...
I am talking about advice such as "make incremental improvements" and "ship the minimum viable product."
Is there a name for this kind of advice - advice related to software and tech.
I am looking to make a compilation.
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Facebook to pay $550 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over its use of facial recognition technology in Illinois
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YouTube: bad? - Shannon Strucci's musing on YouTube, fan toxicity, issues with takedowns, and the ups and downs of a YouTube career
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A Guardian investigation of 218,100 Facebook ads reveals how the Trump campaign’s sophisticated social media machine targets conservative voters
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Upcycle Windows 7
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Scroll: A subscription service partnered with major websites that removes ads and many trackers, and pays sites based on your usage
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Jumpshot, a subsidiary of antivirus company Avast, is selling users' web browsing data to many of the world's biggest companies
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Steven Sinofsky: The tenth anniversary of the iPad: A perspective from the Windows team
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How do you find flights?
Planes may soon be a thing of the past, for now they're still sometimes hard to replace. I used to rely on Hipmunk for finding flights, but sadly, they recently shut down. So I was wondering, what...
Planes may soon be a thing of the past, for now they're still sometimes hard to replace.
I used to rely on Hipmunk for finding flights, but sadly, they recently shut down. So I was wondering, what do people on tildes use to find flights? Any tool/website you're happy with?
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Clearview AI claims its facial recognition software identified a terrorism suspect in New York City last year, but the NYPD says they played no role in the case
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Product Hunt has launched YourStack, a social network for people to share products they use and love
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Mastodon, my saviour: Why the left should ditch ad-verse social media
13 votes -
Why I won't buy an iPad – ten years later
13 votes -
Ring's doorbell app for Android sends sensitive user data to multiple analytics and marketing companies
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YouTube moderators are being required to sign a statement acknowledging the job could give them PTSD
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So you want to become a software QA professional?
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Tildes users on the fediverse
It's been a while since we've had a thread like this and our active users have cycled around a bit (plus there's a lot of dead links in the old threads), so who here is on the fediverse?...
It's been a while since we've had a thread like this and our active users have cycled around a bit (plus there's a lot of dead links in the old threads), so who here is on the fediverse?
Connecting with some more people from here sounds nice :)
13 votes -
Diary of an Engine Diversity Absolutist
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Google researchers find serious privacy risks in Safari’s anti-tracking protections
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How IoT betrays us: Today, Sonos speakers. Tomorrow, Alexa and electric cars?
19 votes -
I've been thinking of retiring
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You can track your assets, including everything from ROVs to containers anywhere in the world with Iridium’s new IoT tracking capability
5 votes -
Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained
21 votes -
The English Wikipedia has reached 6,000,000 articles
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Banning facial recognition misses the point: The whole point of modern surveillance is to treat people differently, and facial recognition technologies are only a small part of that
5 votes -
The Yang Gang and its bots
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With great tech comes great responsibility - A student guide for navigating ethical issues in the tech industry
9 votes -
A software engineer's advice for saving social media: keep it small
29 votes -
Every Google result now looks like an ad
@craigmod: There's something strange about the recent design change to google search results, favicons and extra header text: they all look like ads, which is perhaps the point?
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[SOLVED] Tech support request: Recovering from hard crashes in Linux
EDIT: Latest update This is something so rudimentary that I'm a little embarrassed to ask, but I've also tried looking around online to no avail. One of the hard parts about being a Linux newbie...
EDIT: Latest update
This is something so rudimentary that I'm a little embarrassed to ask, but I've also tried looking around online to no avail. One of the hard parts about being a Linux newbie is that the amount of support material out there seems to differ based on distro, DE, and also time, so posts from even a year or two ago can be outdated or inapplicable.
Here's my situation: I'm a newbie Linux user running Pop!_OS 19.10 with the GNOME desktop environment. Occasionally, games I'm playing will hard crash and lock up my system completely, leaving a still image of the game frozen on the screen indefinitely. The system stays there, completely unresponsive to seemingly any inputs. It doesn't happen often, but when it does it's almost always when I'm running a Windows game through Steam's Proton layer. I suspect it also might have something to do with graphics drivers, as I'll at times notice an uptick in frequency after certain updates, though that might just be me finding a suspicious pattern where none exists.
Anyway, what I don't know how to do is gracefully exit or recover from these crashes. No keyboard shortcut seems to work, and I end up having to hold the power button on my computer until it abruptly shuts off. This seems to be the "worse case scenario" for handling it, so if there is a better way I should go about this, I'd love to know about it.
EDIT: I really want to thank everyone for their help so far. My initial question has been answered, and for posterity's sake I'd like to post the solution here, to anyone who is searching around for this same issue and ends up in this thread:
- Use
CTRL+ALT+F3/F4/F5/F6
keys to access a terminal, where you can try to kill any offending processes and reboot if needed. - If that fails, use
ALT+SYSRQ+R-E-I-S-U-B
.
With that out of the way, I've added more information about the crashes specifically to the thread, primarily here, and some people are helping me out with diagnosing the issue. This thread is now less about the proper way to deal with the crash than it is about trying to identify the cause of the crash and prevent it in the first place.
12 votes - Use
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Smartphones have blurred the distinction between different spaces by turning anywhere into a place you can work, watch TV/videos, talk with friends, and more
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Wine 5.0 has been released
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The secretive company that might end privacy as we know it
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There is such a thing as too much technology
Today I went to my favorite bakery/cafeteria/restaurant/grocery store (yeah it's one place, but not large enough to be considered a supermarket - IDK the correct terminology in English but you get...
Today I went to my favorite bakery/cafeteria/restaurant/grocery store (yeah it's one place, but not large enough to be considered a supermarket - IDK the correct terminology in English but you get the gist). It's a nice place if a little pricey. About a month ago, they installed a gate. Next to the gate, there's a huge metal thing with a single red button. When you press the button, it tosses an electronic ticket (that stores every purchase you make in the system) and the gate lets you go through. These are not synchronous, sometimes the gate is unlocked a lot sooner than the ticket is tossed. So today, after I got into the store, an employee had to run towards me to give me my electronic ticket. Okay.
I noticed that, despite the machine having only one very big button, lots of people still need to be instructed by the employee in order to enter, and he's constantly manually handing out the tickets. There is also a gate to leave that slows things down.
In this last month, I went a lot less to this place. That's because, whenever passing by, I used to enter just to check things up, see if there was something new or appetizing. You know, impulse buys. The need to check myself in and out (even when I don't purchase anything) made me quit that habit. I think other people are the same. Besides, what's the good of automation if it requires a human being to make it work correctly? AFAIK, the analog system worked. And we're not in a dangerous part of town where one needs to worry about people putting products in their pockets.
That's why I say: sometimes, there is such a thing as too much technology.
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Smart homes will turn dumb overnight as Charter kills security service
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Biden wants to get rid of law that shields companies like Facebook from liability for what their users post
17 votes -
The Silicon Valley economy is here. And it’s a nightmare
10 votes -
What tech companies need to do before ‘solving’ urban problems
7 votes -
Leica’s new Monochrom camera has a purpose-built black-and-white sensor
10 votes -
AirPods Pro owners complain of worse noise cancellation after firmware updates—some people are convinced Apple’s latest earbuds worked better at launch
7 votes -
DigitalOcean is laying off staff, sources say thirty to fifty affected
10 votes -
DWeb SF Meet Up-- January
4 votes