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6 votes
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Bots are destroying political discourse as we know it
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"The Ego of Metrics" - Ben Grosser - Podcast - Twitter Demetricator
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Information, photos, and demo of Intel's first discrete graphics card: the DG1, based on Xe graphics architecture
9 votes -
Style your Google Docs to look like WordStar
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Looking for drive backup/image program recommendations
Just want to back up my Win 10 drive to another local drive. Free options preferred. Thanks in advance.
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Tricky phish angles for persistence, not passwords
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Twitter will put options to limit replies directly on the compose screen
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Australia's bushfire emergency is being exploited on social media, as misinformation is spread through cyberspace via hundreds of thousands of posts.
News article: Fires misinformation being spread through social media This includes a prominent local billionaire, Andrew Forrest, who has pledged $70 million for bushfire relief: "I think there's...
News article: Fires misinformation being spread through social media
This includes a prominent local billionaire, Andrew Forrest, who has pledged $70 million for bushfire relief: "I think there's a multitude of reasons why the fire extent has bene so devastating. I think a warming planet would be part of that — [but] the biggest part of that is arsonists," he said.
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The bot scare
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UrbanFootprint: A SimCity-like tool that lets urban planners see the potential impact of their ideas
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Sonos, squeezed by the tech giants, sues Google
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reCAPTCHA: Is there method in monotony?
What started out as a little facetious in my own head leads me now to a serious question. Is there some meaningful reason why Google has to use a subsection of images for reCAPTCHA? I really...
What started out as a little facetious in my own head leads me now to a serious question. Is there some meaningful reason why Google has to use a subsection of images for reCAPTCHA? I really dislike having to do this and at the very least would appreciate some variation.
- Traffic Lights
- Buses
- Bicycles
- Cars
- Crosswalks
Is there something special about these things in this context? Is the visual noise they're usually associated with what makes them good candidates? Are Google just really into urban planning? Who knows...I'm hoping some Tilder smarter than I can help me out.
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Firefox 72.0 release notes
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Anyone have any experience with eSIMs?
I have ordered a phone with an eSim this week and I have been reading a bit into it. As far as I know so far, you just have to download an app and you can just book some extra data as needed - it...
I have ordered a phone with an eSim this week and I have been reading a bit into it.
As far as I know so far, you just have to download an app and you can just book some extra data as needed - it seems especially cool because you can just book a local plan when you're abroad instead of getting a local sim card. Which can be more or less a hassle - 2019 I went to South Africa where it was pretty easy to get a sim card at the airport, 2018 I went to India, where it was a hassle.
I guess for people in the US this is not a problem? Some of my friends have global contracts, and I had that too when I was there via googles project fi. We don't really have an equivalent in GermanyI found the following pages in case anyone also wants to look into it
https://esimdb.com/ - this is an overview page about different esims
https://www.airalo.com/ - this is one specific offer that seems to be the cheapest for Germany, which is where I would try it, since I live here haha6 votes -
Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois
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The last tracker was just removed from Basecamp.com
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[SOLVED] Friend's computer is cutting power randomly
So my friend has a computer she put together, and after replacing what feels like every single part on the rig, multiple trips to the repair shop, and calling a priest wrestling the demons out of...
So my friend has a computer she put together, and after replacing what feels like every single part on the rig, multiple trips to the repair shop, and calling a priest wrestling the demons out of it, it is randomly cutting power and we think the replacement power supply might be just as busted as the last one. Are there decent odds of that being an issue, or could it be something that we are overlooking?
EDIT: So, I had a car issue pop up and I won't be able to to take a look at at it tonight. Will download the tools you all mentioned to a jump drive and will keep you posted.
Was there, stayed up the whole time. Really thinking it might be a bad power switch that stuck, so it would turn off randomly. Thanks for all your help.
FINAL EDIT: So I narrowed it down to the Graphics Card and/or the Cooling System. Running the Heaven Benchmark on Extreme pretty reliably cleans it's clock, especially turning it off and then turning it on again. This happens on the latest Windows Updates, with latest Nvidia Drivers. (RTX 2080) Pulling the card and running the benchmark anyway causes the same issue, and this time it powered on and then back off in a loop. CPU-Z stress caused it to crash, so I'm assuming it's the cooler. Thanks again.
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Release of over 100,000 leaked documents from Cambridge Analytica has started, showing the company's work in sixty-eight countries
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Tough, waterproof 3.5 mm cables
I'm looking for some very tough, ideally waterproof 3.5mm male to male cables. Does anyone out there have a recommendation?
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Inside a (3rd party) iPhone battery factory in China
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1996 talk by Cliff Stoll about the future of computers and the internet
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Bruce Perens quits Open Source Initiative amid row over new data-sharing crypto license: 'We've gone the wrong way with licensing'
9 votes -
The Light Phone
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Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest 2020 looking for exhibitors, speakers, and volunteers
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Promiscuous cookies and their impending death via the SameSite policy
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How much better can smartphones really get?
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Our neophobic, conservative AI overlords want everything to stay the same
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How do you explain tech topics when your audience doesn't understand the details?
Hive mind: What advice would you give to someone who has to give a presentation to a non-technical person, and it's important that the listener actually understand the details? How do you go about...
Hive mind: What advice would you give to someone who has to give a presentation to a non-technical person, and it's important that the listener actually understand the details?
How do you go about it? Specific tips appreciated. Pretend it's for a friend you care about.
(This is for an article. Ideally we could refer to you by reference for context and credibility, eg "an IT security pro at a midwest insurance company" or "aerospace engineer" so please give some kind of identification to use).
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On privacy versus freedom
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Opera introduces web browser designed for gamers
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Why it's already 2020
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The battle to save America's undercover spies in the digital age
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Old mobile websites?
Hey everyone, I'm currently looking for some web 1.0-esque websites, but with the twist of being designed for some ancient smartphones. An example of what I mean would be i.reddit.com , reddit's...
Hey everyone, I'm currently looking for some web 1.0-esque websites, but with the twist of being designed for some ancient smartphones. An example of what I mean would be i.reddit.com , reddit's original (and still fully functional) mobile implementation, or Twitter's site when you access it without a modern version of Javascript (which reverts to a clone of itself from around ~2012). I understand this is a super niche category and there's hardly any of them left, but if you happen to know of any or stumble upon one, please let me know! Thank you! :)
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8tracks, a site for sharing music playlists, is shutting down on Dec. 31 - The story of their 11-year journey from launch to shutdown
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The lesson that market leaders are failing to learn form Xerox PARC
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Sonos's “recycle mode” intentionally bricks devices so they can't be reused
@atomicthumbs: Sonos states on their website that "sustainability is non-negotiable," and that they design products to minimize impact, but I work at an e-waste recycler and have demonstrable proof this is false. Sonos's "recycle mode" intentionally bricks good devices so they can't be reused.
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Sweet Anita on Tourette's racial slur controversy
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Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands
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How NIST tested facial recognition algorithms for racial bias
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People in Canada’s remote Arctic capital are obsessed with Amazon Prime
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Don Norman: Technology first, needs last
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Sort by controversial
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The Original IBM PC 5150 - The story of the world's most influential computer
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Messaging app ToTok has been removed from the Apple and Google app stores following claims the United Arab Emirates government was using it to spy on people
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Film: The reason some of the past was in HD
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Web Developers! What personal projects have you made, and are proud of?
Time for some inspiration. I've been working on a few SaaS applications for the past 2-3 months, and have only really got into it full time recently, and I'm totally in code-mode now, so I thought...
Time for some inspiration. I've been working on a few SaaS applications for the past 2-3 months, and have only really got into it full time recently, and I'm totally in code-mode now, so I thought I'd ask to see what other people have created in either their spare time, or to earn some money.
Link your app/tool/product/service! What tools, frameworks, or services did you build it with? What does it accomplish? How did you express your creativity while working on it? What's next for what you're creating?
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Hong Kong protesters are using apps to avoid restaurants they suspect are pro-China
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The performance advancements of the Radeon open-source OpenGL/Vulkan drivers over 2019
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What we know about you when you click on this article—Vox has a pretty typical privacy policy. That doesn’t make it great.
11 votes