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6,657karma·1,778submissions·June 27, 2009
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> To friends and neighbours, his family seemed respectably bourgeois. The reality was quite different, though. ‘Almost as soon as I could speak’, he later recalled, ‘I knew that everything people t…
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Hi I’m here looking for a different offering. I have a personal library of physical books that our small group wants to be able to lend out to others. I want people to be able to see which books are a…
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Fun concept, love it. But won’t scammers be able to pick up pretty quickly now that it’s promoted? Surely it has some tells? I mean changing name is easy enough but what about the accent or the repeat…
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O2 Ad: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RV_SdCfZ-0s
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Imagine if we had an openly adoptable Buurtzorg model along side open source software used for adminstration. With the power resting with the carers the non-care admin work could be collectively autom…
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I remember if you checked into a ferry port you could unlock an “I’m on a boat” badge. Was fun to use in those early days.
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From what I understand Singapore is also connected into a larger Asian grid, albeit mostly running on fossil fuels currently. So this has extra impact also, as once they unlock Singapore, they could p…
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Attend a local meetup/camp. The focus on developer happiness usually translates into very welcoming, friendly local dev communities.
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I think the new dedicated camera button is interesting. (Wannabes) Influencers are increasingly consumers of the latest phones and this is a significant UX focus on enhancing the users camera experien…
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Real question. Assuming that mastodon got super popular, would it be at risk of the same or is it someone more immune to this sort of thing?
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From dev perspective this highlights that lack of embedded version control and handling of big/security fixes for any academic paper. Dependencies that are reported to have bugs reported akin to …
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"Deming Factor Deploy Mix" https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3fsGpmEXHfqitoQlLjyFTq?si=... 1. Push It (Salt-N-Pepa) 2. The Final Countdown (Europe) 3. Under Pressure (Q…
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Yes.
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Lago doesn’t store card data. You still use a Payment Processor like Stripe to process one-off payments. But the Subscription management and data related to subscriptions moves into Lago, in short you…
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Give it a rest already with the default cynicism, we need more bold record breaking large green infrastructure bets to help get us out of this mess that years of conservative policy has caused in the …
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Go full Solar Punk with your reddit-like forums and check out the federated lemmy instance https://slrpnk.net
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I’m sure nothings better for the soul than a walk along the beach while four legged vacuum cleaners drone away in the background.
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Main Topics covered (and timestamps) 09:20 1979: the rise and fall of hacker culture 11:44 1969: Bell Labs, Unix, C 14:15 1976: Copyright Act (in USA) 17:09 1979: Scribe markup language 18:05 1980-198…
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To write this whole article and not even mention circular production practices (eg full lifestyle resource management) and our resource constrained planetary context seems arrogant and stupid and unde…
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More recently I’ve been considering neuro-divergence in the context of these personality types. Specially ADHD and Autism. ADHD by example has a whole system effect for someone, with resultant strengt…
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Like engagement with war zone footage I agree that for many the imsgery is too much to handle.. with sadly people looking away rather than leaning in to push for change. I think there’s an interesting…
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My hunt for an open source Authy took me to 2FAS, which has been fine. Any opinions on this offering? 2FAS — the Internet’s favorite open-source two-factor authenticator https://2fas.com …
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