ftl64

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by ftl64 3y ago
What has allowed the Russian state to treat him with such a degree of cruelty is the war with Ukraine. News of his arrest, imprisonment, and treatment in jail were overshadowed by those of another airstrike on a civilian population. Not to
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by ftl64 3y ago
I had an experience using Starlink at a hotel in the Wadi Rum desert in Jordan. Funnily enough, I only became aware of this after some websites began redirecting me to their German versions - turns out our traffic was being routed through a
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by ftl64 3y ago
This is art. Perfection, even.
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by ftl64 3y ago
"No HTML Club" stands as the only logical step forward in this evolution. Browsers are perfectly capable of rendering plaintext, what could we ever need those pesky "tags" for?
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by ftl64 3y ago
History, forgotten. Chernobyl happened just 37 years ago. RBMK had a flawed design, this could've only happened in a corrupt socialist country, you might've said, but then we got Fukushima 25 years later. Now you might say that th
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by ftl64 4y ago
Mine's also almost stock, the only changes being tracking and startup menu/taskbar garbage disabled.
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by ftl64 4y ago
Growing up in a developing country, until recently Apple devices (laptops/desktops especially) have been a bit out of price range for me. Although I can afford one now, my current laptop is nowhere near its end of life, and something i
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by ftl64 4y ago
It's just more stable, at least this has been my experience. I've tried hard to become a full-time workstation Linux user for years, daily driving Ubuntu, Mint, and Fedora for months at a time, but I always had to come back to Win
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by ftl64 4y ago
Well, huge respect for raising reasonable and well behaved kids. What makes it hard, imo, is that kids chase status and conformity (social school dynamics, probably). What could be worse than seeing everybody in class with a shiny new smart
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by ftl64 4y ago
You've never had children, have you?)
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by ftl64 4y ago
Highly factual and well-written. Thanks for sharing the link.
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by ftl64 4y ago
It is sure easy to make political comments on countries that you know so little about, know no one from and have never been to. fyi, I am from Almaty and been in the city in January. Can you even imagine how it felt here, waking up from gun
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by ftl64 4y ago
Also, nowhere in the article it says that Russian security forces ended up killing rioters.
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by ftl64 4y ago
Things aren't actually as clear-cut as you say. While protests started out peacefully things quickly escalated into violence, especially in Almaty. Most notably, armed bandits captured the city's airport, burned most of the govern
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by ftl64 5y ago
If anyone uses Firefox, it is possible to disable websites from knowing about any clipboard-related events. Go to about:config, search for dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled and set it to false. Done.
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by ftl64 5y ago
I think that ultimately this project might do more environmental harm by consuming more electricity (therefore creating carbon emissions) to function/transfer webpages then it can offset by increasing engagement with environmental cont
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by ftl64 6y ago
you seem like a very avid learner! can you recommend a couple of courses you've enjoyed going through, or the ones that were most interesting and challenging?
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by ftl64 7y ago
they are non-profit
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by ftl64 7y ago
Couldn't agree more.
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by ftl64 7y ago
Same here. Haven't yet got any SMS or notifications from my mobile/home ISPs, but couple of my friends are reporting that they did / there are many posts at social media, proving the fact, like this one: https://ww
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by ftl64 7y ago
https://github.com/ossu/computer-science