Jiocus

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> I ended up studying English Romantic poetry with the late Jonathan Wordsworth, who was a great-great-great nephew of the famous poet William Wordsworth. Sounds like they were Worth their Words .
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Nice bit of CS and computer intelligence history. Think I'll try and mock up a Rivescript bot with this original manuscript. “I AM THE DOCTOR. PLEASE SIT DOWN AT THE TYPEWRITER AND TELL ME YOUR PROBLEM” If that won't alleviate a
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I understand what you mean, but it's important to understand the technological side here. Protonmail offers an email service, and despite all privacy marketing, very little of that applies to emails which enters or leave their own syst
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Here in Scandinavia, the usual narrative about Alfred Nobel is that he wanted to offset the damage his inventions have contributed to the world. To acknowledge that, he probably felt that it was intertwined with his reputation and his own c
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- I slipped on the thermal transfer this morning.. It's never happened before. I wasn't concentrating enough. [1]: THX 1183, https://youtu.be/U0YkPnwoYyE
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They are specialised in providing encrypted storage of email, as well as end to end encrypted emails between their users. These features requires some measures which deviate from the plaintext standard protocols.
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That's cool, I wasn't aware Protonmail had this feature. I use Tutanota and their client is required to access their service, which does work great as is.
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Fewer women die in total, than men. This is because roughly 51% of all births are boys, 49% girls.
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The title is almost underwhelming in severity (which is a refreshing break from sensationalistic headlines), “[€28m in bonuses] even after taking three billion euros in loans last year, and 100 million euros in State aid including 65 milli
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Spot on. In an ideal world, Tutanota/Protonmail would be compatible with a Thunderbird client.
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“Some critics think they are simply drones or balloons, but the Navy and the Task Force list them as unknowns.” https://archive.is/2aMo0
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“Our European visitors are important to us.”
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This makes me think of the 1971 science-fiction 'THX 1138', where the subservient protagonist goes to share his troubling issues in the automated confessional booth[1]. - "I slipped on the thermal transfer this morning.. It&#
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It's not the actual problem, it's just irrelevant. The reference doesn't make sense to describe the actual kind of shoe. The original description doesn't provide a real distinction about the sandal in question, if there
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> I kind of wish this was true nowadays. I don't have hours and hours to play anymore, and so tend to avoid multiplayer online since the playing field is heavily tilted to those who have lots of time to play. Have you considered EVE
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I think what the original dictionary did, was describing an ancient term e.g. κροκωτός (krokotos) with a then contemporary occurence i.e. “a saffron-coloured robe worn by gay women” . The latter which may well have been a misconception o
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More accurate than it's predecessor, which seem to have been engaged in willfully obscuring the content matter – not exactly a success for a dictionary of any pedigree. I don't believe they've been more raunchy or diverse tha
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Of course, but many services would require a registered VAT number to be able to fulfill a purchase or transfer to an organisation. Or rather, to set up such an account in the first place. Frankly, WHOIS records is to crude a metric to real
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> Why is the domain owned by an icelandic entity instead of the nonprofit? According to the WHOIS information, the registration of libera.chat was made 2021-04-23. This registration was made ~1 month before the organisation Libera Cha
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Is https://libera.chat/about specific enough?
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Except that, today, it works fine in Firefox.
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“The mainstream comes to you, but you have to go to the underground.” - Frank Zappa
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Seems like Durov aired some personal opinion on a consumer device. Probably to inform others who might be interested in the same performance areas as himself. Is there a 'Apple, Mac' news shortage at the moment? I'd think 9to
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There's also https://www.dj/
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I think it's interesting, and I appreciate, that fonts can communicate so much all by themselves, raise all kinds of opinions, a cult following or a shared 'in-culture'. At uni, a friend and I spent ridiculous time 'perf
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What a great tool. I've been reading articles of theirs for the past couple of days. Makes it easy to spot outlier topics and less obvious relations (like ‘primary domains’ vs ‘other domains’). I think it's the first time I'm
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Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. One person may even perceive deformity, where another is sensible of beauty; and every individual
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> I wouldn't want to make people feel bad for "waking up" the website. Great take on user interaction and design. If someone feels this idea seem far-fetched, think about how applications or sites make you feel when it bel
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Doesn't sound too strange considering it's a change consumers need to adjust to, maybe set up proper 2FA. Just give it some time, if that's the case. Another way to see it, is that 3-D Secure works, but they don't want t
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You actually have a point. I think 3-D Secure both fulfills it's purpose to increase consumer protections when paying online, while at the same time, as you suggest, it's acts as a soft obstacle reminding the consumer to maybe re-

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