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Verizon 5G DSS isn't the 5G you want
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Librem 5 mass production phone has begun shipping
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Apple will reduce App Store commission to 15% for small businesses earning up to $1 million per year, starting January 1, 2021
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Apple's MagSafe Duo charger is slower than it's MagSafe charger
@Mark Gurman: Wow, Apple has just updated the MagSafe Duo page. The $129 charger only gets you 11 watts for charging with a 20 watt brick, or 14 watts with a 27 watt brick. That compares to 15 watts you get with the solo MagSafe charger. pic.twitter.com/Z9iWM4PGpU
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Open letter from Facebook content moderators re: pandemic
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Twitter releases new "Fleets" feature
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Winning back the internet by building our own
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Microsoft reveals Pluton, a custom security chip to be built into Intel, AMD and Qualcomm processors
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M1 MacBook Pro and Air review: Apple delivers
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The world's first internet bench
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Canada's GDPR moment: Why the Consumer Privacy Protection Act is Canada's biggest privacy overhaul in decades
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The old way of handing out corporate hardware doesn’t work anymore
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Reverse engineering a forgotten 1970s Intel dual core beast: 8271, a new ISA
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Remote learning is here to stay — can we make it better?
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Want to see women in STEM achieving cool things? 2020 Pass It On Award Winners: The cash award helps fund women in computing or projects that inspire and support girls and women to enter computing.
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Reddit quarantined: Can changing platform affordances reduce hateful material online?
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How the US military buys location data from ordinary smartphone apps, including a Muslim prayer app with over ninety-eight million downloads
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The antique microwave oven that's better than yours
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GitHub has reinstated youtube-dl's repository - Answers about the DMCA and why GitHub handled this case the way they did, along with plans to improve in the future
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Social app Parler apparently receives funding from the conservative Mercer family
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Scientific publishers consider installing spyware in university libraries to protect copyrights
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Introducing the next generation of Mac - A new MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, and Mac mini powered by M1, Apple’s chip designed specifically for the Mac
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Does Apple really log every app you run? A technical look (The answer? No.)
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YouTube Rewind 2020 cancelled, very likely due to COVID-19
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Introducing the Pinephone KDE edition
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The touch lamp; a neat idea, and older than you'd think!
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Best photo cards in 2020
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JSHint: Watching the ship sink (A lesson on ambiguous licenses)
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Google Photos will no longer have unlimited free storage after June 1
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Your computer isn't yours
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UK sees record bandwidth use on Xbox Series X/S launch day
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Google apologises to Thierry Breton over plan to target EU commissioner
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Apple is currently having widespread server issues due to the macOS Big Sur update, which is also preventing users on Catalina from being able to open apps
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Twitter: An update on the features related to the 2020 US Elections
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TikTok can continue to operate in the US, Commerce Department says
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TikTok says the Trump administration has forgotten about trying to ban it, would like to know what’s up
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Guido van Rossum, the Python language's founder, joins Microsoft
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Daring Fireball review: The iPhone 12 Mini and iPhone 12 Pro Max
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How do you describe TikTok? The automatic culture of the world's favorite new social network
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SpaceX Starlink beta users provide first impressions and unboxing pictures
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Introducing "How to Fix the Internet," a new podcast mini-series from EFF
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youtube-dl's creator and initial maintainer explains the origins of the project
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Intel's new golden sample CPUs, and cryo coolers developed in partnership with EK and Cooler Master
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Privacy is a lonely bastion. Anyone know how to meet friends online these days?
At some point we recognized the signs of desperation. My wife and I had been running to the window like puppies for a glimpse of any unusual traffic. We caught ourselves bingeing on news articles,...
At some point we recognized the signs of desperation. My wife and I had been running to the window like puppies for a glimpse of any unusual traffic. We caught ourselves bingeing on news articles, as if saturating ourselves with reporting could somehow make us relevant to a world that saw less and less of us. We even resorted to calling my mother. After listening to 90 uninterrupted minutes of narration regarding her most recent routine doctor’s visit, we broke down. We resolved to end the isolation that was slowly killing us. Then the pandemic hit.
Our biggest stumbling block is figuring out how can we make friends online using only privacy-respecting platforms and software? We would like to see some friendly faces in real time without being simultaneously, you know, mined. Could anyone in the know share suggestions?
Edit: I'm grateful people are considering this. Thank you! I find it helps to ask people what their ideal solution would be, no matter how far-fetched. So, in response to that: My dream platform/venue/project would meld aspects of Lunchclub with The Human Library. I have stories to tell. I would love to video chat with fully-clothed individuals drawn from all over the world, chosen based on their stories and ambitions. It would work the way a good host does. You know, "Greta once had the job of getting sweat stains out of Bruce Springsteen's guitar strap. You two should swap cleaning stories, since you work at that drycleaner's, right, Butchie? Is it true it's a front for the mob? Oh, excuse me, I have to disinfect the pizza guy. I'll leave you to it." Maybe I should flesh this out more.
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Web history - Chapter 5: Publishing
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How to switch an old Windows laptop to Linux
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Amazon wants to win over Sweden – the Swedes have other ideas
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GPD Win 3 announcement
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Company made to change name that could be used for XSS vulnerabilities
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