DicIfTEx

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by DicIfTEx 1y ago
See also the films Groundhog Day and (especially) Edge of Tomorrow . Also, this contemporary homage published recently on a British military blog: https://wavellroom.com/2025/07/25/defence-baltic-bridge-dre
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by DicIfTEx 1y ago
> I hate the term stealing identity, because it implies the victim made some mistake to allow it to happen. When what really happened is the company was lazy to verify that the person they're doing business with is actually who they
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Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse(jacobin.com)
18 points by DicIfTEx 1y ago|5 comments
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by DicIfTEx 1y ago
I believe your modernisation attempt misinterprets the dino reference and its connection to the the previous clause about the floods; should it not rather be something like Mud overflowed the streets, as though the waters had only just ret
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by DicIfTEx 1y ago
There's also this vintage article (1991!) from the Atlantic : https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/1991/10/-quot...
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by DicIfTEx 2y ago
I was referring to the government's stated case (whether or not one believes that they really believed it) that it was not in breach of its legal obligations to strip her of British citizenship because she was eligible for Bangladesh
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by DicIfTEx 2y ago
The US is one of very few countries not signed up to various anti-statelessness conventions, and they will allow you to renounce your citizenship without having another to fall back on.[0] This has been used a handful of times over the deca
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by DicIfTEx 2y ago
FWIW you're not alone in thinking that: there's a W3C CSS4 Community Group[0] now, and you can find more detail on their proposal at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/4770 and ongoing CSS[3
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by DicIfTEx 2y ago
Being British English, I'm sure are are bitterly fought-over regional variations, but I would say 'bin bag' and 'bin lorry'. And 'roll' for a round breaded morsel.
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by DicIfTEx 2y ago
I shared a book in another comment[0] which contains an entire chapter[1] on the topic of (dis)obedience in the German Bundeswehr, which has a more permissive approach to individual objection than many comparable armies. [0]: https:/&
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by DicIfTEx 2y ago
For an interesting book-length treatment of this topic, see When Soldiers Say No: Selective Conscientious Objection in the Modern Military , which examines both the philosophical arguments for and against and a selection of case studies fr
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by DicIfTEx 2y ago
Here's a guide to PET (peer-to-peer, encrypted, through Tor) apps, focussing on Briar and Cwtch: https://itsgoingdown.org/the-guide-to-peer-to-peer-encryptio...
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by DicIfTEx 2y ago
The federation page on the Forgejo Web site ( https://forgejo.org/2023-01-10-answering-forgejo-federation-... ) is out of date and most of the links don't work. They also used to publish annual progress reports until 202
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Anchoring the Free Software Foundation in its values(fsf.org)
7 points by DicIfTEx 2y ago|1 comments
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by DicIfTEx 2y ago
> How does that work? Do they just let foreigners into their University? Yep, looks that way: http://www.ryongnamsan.edu.kp/univ/en/education/internationa... (although I note that 'the US' is not
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by DicIfTEx 2y ago
We have a similar impending, though more distant, student-loan disaster in the UK, although the details are very different (generally to the benefit of the loanholders, thankfully). Between 2012–22, university tuition more than tripled and
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by DicIfTEx 2y ago
I'm the same, I just figured I'd been grandfathered into something. Although I don't use the app any more since they redesigned all the courses last year or so; it's worthless now.
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by DicIfTEx 2y ago
There's been a few recommendations already for Serial Experiments Lain , but whilst I did enjoy it, for my money Texhnolyze by the same creator is absolutely incredible (and much less discussed). It's very slow going though, pa
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by DicIfTEx 2y ago
On the flipside, Samsungs are also exceptionally bad at breaking Android expectations around battery management (and, by extension, background processing and applications): https://dontkillmyapp.com/samsung
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by DicIfTEx 3y ago
Duolingo uses s for س and S for ص, in more formal/academic contexts it's usually s and ṣ.
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by DicIfTEx 3y ago
> Was a report sent to the king of Spain about the brutality of conquistadors? Yes, most famously from Bartolomé de las Casas. If you'd like to see how Christopher Columbus was viewed by his contemporaries, I'd recommend the th
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by DicIfTEx 3y ago
Makes sense, you want anyone following GPS to divert from the scene ASAP. Caching-wise, I see the updated bridge at zoom 15+ but the old intact bridge at zoom ≤14.
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by DicIfTEx 3y ago
It'd be cool to see a remake of Masq [0] in this. [0]: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/have-you-played-masq
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by DicIfTEx 3y ago
From https://www.uk.coop/understanding-co-ops/what-co-op/quick-fa... > There are 3 million co-ops around the world – with 1.2 billion members. > That means 12% of the people on Earth are part of a co-op. Wit
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by DicIfTEx 3y ago
There was also a theatre production produced around AOL User 927: https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2008/05/uare-what-u-se... And a documentary series about User 711391: https://www.imdb.com&#x
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by DicIfTEx 3y ago
https://xkcd.com/610/
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by DicIfTEx 3y ago
For context, Ofsted is the much-maligned government inspectorate of schools in England. They are currently under increased scrutiny following an inquest into the suicide of a headteacher following an inspection that concluded at the end of
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by DicIfTEx 3y ago
“A Rape in Cyberspace” was later collected into a book called My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World , all about the author's relationships and experiences in LamdaMOO. Highly recommend.
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by DicIfTEx 3y ago
As a counterpoint, Derrick Jensen's “Beyond Hope”: https://orionmagazine.org/article/beyond-hope/
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by DicIfTEx 3y ago
> I think that’s fine if I assume … I won’t die in a disaster that also destroys my house. You might not die, but you might still end up in a pretty bad position: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/06/ive-locked

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