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28 votes
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The pandemic is no excuse to surveil students
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Community contributions such as user made subtitles will be deactivated
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4K screen on 15" laptop - worth it?
Pricing up my next Thinkpad (I'm a lifer for Thinkpads I think now) and I keep hovering over the 4K screen option. I'm looking at a 15.6" screen. The FHD 14" screen I currently have is lovely and...
Pricing up my next Thinkpad (I'm a lifer for Thinkpads I think now) and I keep hovering over the 4K screen option. I'm looking at a 15.6" screen. The FHD 14" screen I currently have is lovely and sharp with a decent colour gamut, and I don't think I can see pixels, even now when the machine is literally on my lap. I'd guess the screen is maybe 35cm from my eyes at the moment.
I don't really game, I do edit photos, video (HD, not 4K) and do a little 3D work with Blender/FreeCAD/etc. I usually run Debian/Gnome, occasionally dropping into Windows because my 3D printer's preferred slicing software is Windows only (grrrr).
The other bonus to 4K is HDR400 and twice as many nits of brightness but again, I'm not sure that's worth an extra £250. I'd probably turn the brightness down anyway. The HDR is potentially interesting but as I don't watch TV/movies on this machine and my camera doesn't output HDR, that's likely not very useful despite sounding good. I could buy quite a lot more compute power and ram with that money instead..
I would go and look at one in person but I have no idea where the nearest 4K Thinkpad is, in person, and even if I did, I don't really want to go into shops right now.
Any thoughts, experiences, advice, etc would be much appreciated.
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Japanese convenience store chain begins testing remote controlled robot staff in Tokyo
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Apple showing signs it may soon launch a search engine to compete against Google Search
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Ceasefire, the site started last year by /r/ChangeMyView moderators, will shut down in a few months unless it reaches at least $1500/month on Patreon
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Technology has been promising the dream of a cocooned future, and our pandemic isolation is giving us the rare opportunity to see where this road leads
12 votes -
India bans PUBG, Baidu, WeChat, Alipay, and 114 Chinese apps in the third ban wave
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NVIDIA announces Ampere-based RTX 30 series GPUs
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Content moderation best practices for startups
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Leaked salary spreadsheet reveals Microsoft employee earnings for a second year
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Google proposes new village next to Mountain View tech hubs
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Facebook announces that if Australia's proposed News Media Bargaining Code becomes law, they will no longer allow Australians to share any news on Facebook or Instagram
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ASU researchers are developing artificial intelligence that can communicate with humans within Minecraft
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Patreon raises another $90 million in Series E funding at a valuation of $1.2 billion
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Solar energy and mechanical triggers power the Engage, a console at the cutting edge of computer engineering
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How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism - A new, short book by Cory Doctorow that looks at big tech as a monopoly problem
18 votes -
Reddit announces "power-ups", their plan to have individual subreddits unlock features through members paying for a monthly subscription
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Amazon drivers are hanging smartphones in trees to get more work
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Geofence warrants - Smartphone location data is giving US law enforcement new surveillance tools
6 votes -
The Nokia 3310 is twenty years old today
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Hive mind: In the early 2000s, there was a website that tracked and reviewed open source applications. What was it?
You could look up, say, CMSes, get some basic info about each one (to make useful decision), and learn who its active committers were. The site closed, I know. Do you remember its name? Or people...
You could look up, say, CMSes, get some basic info about each one (to make useful decision), and learn who its active committers were. The site closed, I know. Do you remember its name? Or people who were part of it?
I asked someone to write an article for me about "review sites for open source" -- think Yelp for Software -- and neither of us can remember its name. But if you have others that you think should be included (for positive or negative reasons), please let me know.
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Silicon Valley has deep pockets for African startups – if you’re not African
10 votes -
Apple app review process updates
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Amazon moves closer to drone delivery with US FAA approval
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Email sucks
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Estimating software testing time: a few useful guidelines
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Cloud storage recommendations?
I'm thinking of paying for some cloud storage and I'd like to hear your recommendations and experiences with cloud storage providers. I'd like the best bang/buck and preferably something that...
I'm thinking of paying for some cloud storage and I'd like to hear your recommendations and experiences with cloud storage providers. I'd like the best bang/buck and preferably something that works well with Linux (Void is my current distro). I had been using Keybase as they offer 250GB of space for free(?), though I recently learned they've been acquired by Zoom which...concerns me. Plus, I can't seem to get the filesystem mounted on Void for some reason =/.
Here are a few I'm considering:
Major Players
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Google One: $20 a year for 100GB
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Microsoft 365: $70 for 1TB of storage + Microsoft productivity suite (that I probably won't use all that much)
Out of these options, I think I'd prefer Microsoft at this point.
Smaller Players
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Cloudamo: $25 a year for 100GB. Bonus that it's built on open-source tech and looks pretty flexible.
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pCloud: I've been seeing this recommended in my current search for a provider. But... seeing as of this posting the website is down, I'm not filled with confidence.
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Wasabi: More of a DIY option, it'd be ~$72 a year for 1TB.
Cloudamo looks the most promising, here.
Complete DIY
- I have a 2TB drive that I guess I can expose to the Internet as a fileserver. Dunno what my ISPs policy on this is and I wouldn't be confident in its reliability.
Well, those are a few options. Got any more?
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[SOLVED] Archiving a deceased loved one's Twitter timeline, including media
Recently a loved one of a friend has died and they would like to archive their entire timeline (no retweets), including media they posted. I've looked around a little bit and the Twitter API only...
Recently a loved one of a friend has died and they would like to archive their entire timeline (no retweets), including media they posted.
I've looked around a little bit and the Twitter API only allows 3200 tweets to be exported. As this includes RTs, this goes back to about 2018, while the account was made in 2011, so it's missing about 90% of their tweets. Also, getting all the media isn't really possible.
Do any of you know a way to accomplish this? Or, can anyone direct me to scripts that crawl the page and save every non-RT tweet + potential media? I'm not very tech-oriented but I can at least run python scripts.
I should mention that I've so far checked out Allmytweets.net (returns RTs) and the Twitter archival project (or whatever it's called), which is a group of people that help in archiving accounts, but they haven't responded yet.
13 votes -
Sendgrid under siege from hacked accounts
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Fairphone users can buy and replace just the camera
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Planet of cops
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The case for making low-tech 'dumb' cities instead of 'smart' ones
8 votes -
The Anti-Capitalist Software License has a goal of "contributing to a world beyond capitalism"
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Why Johnny won't upgrade
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Five rules for successful test automation
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How a strange face in a random 19th-century newspaper ad became a portal to a forgotten moment in ASCII art history
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Mozilla: The greatest tech company left behind
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The conscience of Silicon Valley
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One year later, has the Huawei ban been effective?
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TietoEVRY, a software company from Finland, has developed a new font called Polite Type which uses machine learning to rewrite offensive language into more inclusive forms
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Six former eBay executives and employees charged with aggressive cyberstalking campaign targeting a couple who published an online newsletter critical of the company
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What's your computer/PC like?
(I'd be surprised if this hasn't been asked before.) A few questions that come to my mind are: What are your computers' specs? How are your computer parts/cabling organized? (Are they?) What is...
(I'd be surprised if this hasn't been asked before.)
A few questions that come to my mind are:
What are your computers' specs?
How are your computer parts/cabling organized? (Are they?)
What is the resolution of your monitor(s?)
What OS is it?
I'm not really knowledgeable when it comes to technology, so you can add you own questions as you please.
Edit: In hindsight, my knowledge of specs is even poorer that I thought it was and I can barely read the answers. Ah well "^~^
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Please read the paper before you comment
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Epic offers new direct payment in Fortnite on iOS and Android to get around app store fees, and is removed from both stores
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Analysis of health misinformation on Facebook finds that it's receiving billions of views—about four times as many as content from leading health institutions—and only 16% has a warning label
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I am a Mozilla employee, AMAA
Hi everybody, happy Friday! I am Aaron Klotz, a Staff Software Engineer on the GeckoView team at Mozilla Corporation. I have worked at Mozilla since the fall of 2012 and have worked on three...
Hi everybody, happy Friday! I am Aaron Klotz, a Staff Software Engineer on the GeckoView team at Mozilla Corporation.
I have worked at Mozilla since the fall of 2012 and have worked on three different teams across that time: Performance, Platform Integration & Security Hardening, and finally GeckoView.
Given the recent news about layoffs, I thought it might be cathartic to do an AMA to share my experiences at Mozilla and try to set the record straight the best that I can. I would not dare try this in other forums, but since the Tildes community is capable of civil discussion, I'll do it here! I provided some proof a long time ago when I first joined Tildes, and I'd like to think that many people in this community are willing to vouch for me at this point, but if you want more, I can add it.
Obviously I cannot discuss issues that are covered by my NDA (but fortunately most issues are not covered), and some details I might want to avoid out of sensitivity for people who were laid off. AMAA!
EDIT 1: Also to make clear (if it wasn't obvious): These opinions are mine and mine alone, do not reflect the opinion of any Mozilla entity, etc. etc.
EDIT 2: I'm logging off for the night, but I'll try to follow up throughout the weekend if I have time. Thanks for all the questions! Hopefully I've cleared up some things for you!
EDIT 3: Okay, I think I've gone through the other questions asked over the weekend, but I'm going to stop now! Thanks for your interest! Now, I've got a mobile browser to help build!
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Content moderation case study: Nextdoor faces criticism from volunteer moderators over its support of Black Lives Matter (June 2020)
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Ad agency Ogilvy abused Twitch donation messages to cause multiple streamers to advertise Burger King for only a few dollars
9 votes