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Social media platforms including X, YouTube, WhatsApp are blocked in Turkey(mastodon.social)
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by boramalper 1y ago
For those who didn’t read the full article, because people often don’t, here is the actual / other major reason why Sci-Hub stopped: > Why Sci-Hub stopped > The court order was not the main reason Sci-Hub stopped releasing new pa
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The coming war on general-purpose computing (2012)(boingboing.net)
3 points by boramalper 1y ago|0 comments
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Andrew Tate's "The Real World" is stealing my software (2022)(insrt.uk)
3 points by boramalper 1y ago|1 comments
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by boramalper 1y ago
They could've defined it as multiple filter lists for different kinds of content like uBlock does, but they chose not to. Therefore, anyone who (understandably and rightfully) want to block CSAM etc are now inadvertently blocking every
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by boramalper 1y ago
> ipfs IPFS have content blocking already: https://badbits.dwebops.pub/
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by boramalper 1y ago
> Pirate Sites are stupid. And the need for a Site is a stupid limitation of Bittorrent. See https://bitmagnet.io/
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by boramalper 1y ago
+1. Also worth noting that both LanguageTool [0] and Harper [1] are FOSS. [0] https://languagetool.org/ [1] https://writewithharper.com/
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by boramalper 1y ago
> You budget on future prospects, and right now Microsoft is facing some tough times in Europe. The biggest IT expense in my country is the public sector buying various Microsoft licenses, and everyone from the top down are looking into
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by boramalper 1y ago
Israel, like any other state, must be using a variety of methods including good old "human intelligence" so it's not either-or. In addition, saying that > someone approached a low level employee at the MEAF who turned over
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by boramalper 1y ago
1. libtorrent-rasterbar — https://packages.debian.org/sid/libtorrent-rasterbar-dev 2. libtorrent-rakshasa (rTorrent) — https://packages.debian.org/sid/libtorrent-dev What’s the third one?
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by boramalper 1y ago
> A refurbished iPhone 13 is $300 on amazon Is this Amazon US? Because even in Ireland, iPhone 16 costs 41% higher than in the US (979 EUR = 1,128 USD in Ireland vs 799 USD in the US).
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by boramalper 1y ago
> AppCloud—pre-installed on Samsung’s A and M series smartphones. Samsung’s A and M series smartphones are their cheapest models so their buyers probably cannot afford better phones. I don’t know of any other brands selling in the region
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by boramalper 1y ago
I suspect a strong link between mass surveillance (by corporations for advertising or by states for intelligence purposes) and the very recent targeting of the senior Iranian nuclear scientist and military officers at their homes in Iran. W
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by boramalper 1y ago
> And no Lemmy is not an alternative. Depends on the community we're talking about here but I found Lemmy to be a great alternative for tech communities.
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by boramalper 1y ago
> So now we're at a fork of a fork? This history is full of such "forks of forks" (whatever you're trying to imply with that): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Unix#/media/File:U
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by boramalper 1y ago
I guess this one (Mistral Medium 3) won't be open?
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by boramalper 1y ago
I wish PeerTube had a "flagship" instance like mastodon.social [0] for Mastodon or lemmy.world [1] for Lemmy. The lack of a generalist instance with open sign-ups hinders the adoption. [0] https://mastodon.social/
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by boramalper 1y ago
See also "Eventual Business Consistency"[0] by Kent Beck. Really good read. > Double-dated data —we tag each bit of business data with 2 dates: > * The date on which the data changed out in the real world, the effective d
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by boramalper 1y ago
Genuine question: if it's so easy and cheap to host a relay, why then "Free Our Feeds" initiative [0] looking to raise $4,000,000 [1] to establish a second relay [2]? Most of that money must be earmarked for administrative an
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by boramalper 1y ago
Okay, I found out that on Reddit [0] that you can follow for updates on the website of High Court of Delhi [1] (though you may need a VPN as it seems to be geo-blocked). [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/scihub/comments
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by boramalper 1y ago
Do you know the latest on that? Are they still holding their breaths over that court case in India?
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by boramalper 1y ago
As @diggan wrote[0] elsewhere in the thread, the issue is not that MIT is permissive but that Microsoft did not honor the requirements of the license (despite it being permissive!): > Does it matter what license you use if they actively
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by boramalper 1y ago
Also see: Open Source AI Definition Erodes the Meaning of “Open Source” https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2024/oct/31/open-source-ai-de... > The TLDR here, IMO is simply stated: the OSAID fails to req
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Apparently bsky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government(bsky.app)
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by boramalper 1y ago
Tweet by Alexandra Elbakyan, the founder of Sci-Hub: > There is a new platform, Sci-Net ( http://sci-net.xyz ) where researchers can help each other by providing paywalled papers. The platform builds upon Sci-Hub meme token $sc
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by boramalper 2y ago
The Tyranny of the Marginal User: why consumer software gets worse, not better, over time https://nothinghuman.substack.com/p/the-tyranny-of-the-margi...
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Tell HN: ProtonVPN Partners with TorrentLeech
3 points by boramalper 2y ago|2 comments
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by boramalper 2y ago
For so many comments in this thread saying that it’s impossible to make all advertising illegal, we can certainly start with making personalised advertising illegal with all its invasive practices.
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Musk's X suspends opposition accounts in Turkey amid civil unrest(politico.eu)
33 points by boramalper 2y ago|17 comments

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