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by nojonestownpls 5y ago
> Sometimes, Appropedia has been described as an "appropriate technology wiki," but it is much broader than that —it is a green living wiki for all matters of international development and aid. So that's where the name com
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by nojonestownpls 5y ago
The invisible hand of free market at work.
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This is pretty interesting, but I wish they also included the "normal" whiskies they tried and the points they got, which would be a great reference point - better than this arbitrary "points" system which doesn't c
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by nojonestownpls 5y ago
> On 12 May, the Italian Association of Scientific Societies in Agriculture (AISSA), which represents 4,000 scientists in Italy, published a public letter defending the Puglian scientists and their work. “The claims do not have a scienti
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by nojonestownpls 5y ago
> The two countries were previously part of the Integrated Power System that also includes Russia and Belarus. This made Ukraine dependent on Russia's grid operator despite there having been no electricity trade between the two coun
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by nojonestownpls 5y ago
RE your first question, one of their answers from product hunt may be useful: > Q: Is this supposed to be open source version of Google's knowledge graph? > A: At their essence, KGs are based on semantic relationships, e.g. coffe
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by nojonestownpls 5y ago
A video without (afaict) a transcript, unfortunately. But it's worth listening to, in the background, even if videos are not your preferred medium (they certainly aren't mine); like a short podcast episode. You'll lose the li
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by nojonestownpls 5y ago
> Lately I've concluded their motives were not 'for the greater good' as they initially made out. I'd be curious to know what makes you say that, but beyond that, even the people here who believe their intent was not
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by nojonestownpls 5y ago
The nature of the medium she has to use makes that impossible, unfortunately.
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This takes no less courage than what Edward Snowden or Julian Assange did - the scale of actions may be different, but the amount of danger they put themselves into, in order to do what they believe is the right thing, is absolutely admirab
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by nojonestownpls 5y ago
From another part of the thread: > Easy tossing for stir fry is just one feature of a wok. For example, the round bottom causes liquids to pool in the center.
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Saudi Arabia puts 81 to death in its largest mass execution(apnews.com)
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by nojonestownpls 5y ago
Unfortunately also seems US based, and at this point I'm not ready to put any long term trust in US based companies remaining unbiased.
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by nojonestownpls 5y ago
Usually moderators are quick to change titles here to more accurate ones, especially in sensitive topics like this. I wonder why this one hasn't been changed.
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by nojonestownpls 5y ago
> reasonableness Tough ask in the current climate, in a Russia-related thread.
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by nojonestownpls 5y ago
Nitter link for the lazy: https://nitter.net/GergelyOrosz/status/1457665269267116034
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by nojonestownpls 5y ago
Oh thanks! The pages I found from a search didn't mention this at all (probably because they were largely about how Microsoft Edge enables the scrolling by default, and the Chromium flag itself not being the main focus).
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by nojonestownpls 5y ago
Thanks. But that's a solution to a small - and to me less important - part of the problem. My main issue is a Fitts' law kind of thing where it's just unnecessarily difficult to click to choose a tab without a risk of closing
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by nojonestownpls 5y ago
I also had the same problem (can't believe Chrome apparently doesn't have any UI solution for this natively), but reading your comment made me wonder if Vimium could be a solution to this. And yeah, pressing T and typing part of
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by nojonestownpls 5y ago
Seems like DTube is decentralized too? I wasn't familiar with it before your post, but some search says so.
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by nojonestownpls 5y ago
Reader Mode in Firefox is a godsend for this. Instead of click after click on the Zoom+ button (or Ctrl-+), trying to see how many it takes, it's a single click to immediately get things into exactly the font, width, and colour I want.
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by nojonestownpls 5y ago
My heart goes out to the Nadella family. I would suggest either of these two as a better link for this: https://www.ibtimes.com/zain-nadella-microsoft-ceo-satya-nad... https://www.geekwire.com/2022/zain
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by nojonestownpls 5y ago
Tucows apparently sent the following to "firms that the company has business ties with". While this doesn't affect customers yet, it does increase the likelihood that they'll place restrictions on customers too in the (n
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by nojonestownpls 5y ago
Yeah, this is breeding more isolationism and distrust; now I have to take nationalistic concerns into account when choosing service providers, and wonder who else might pull a Namecheap in the future.
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It's ironic that some people are using "whataboutism" as some trump card argument when people compare this actions of other countries, and in some cases linking to the Wikipedia article, when the article itself [1] points out
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by nojonestownpls 5y ago
Alternative services mentioned in this thread (I'm merely collecting them to one place, can't vouch for any of their future neutrality or lack thereof): * Cloudflare * Gandi * Njal.la * nic.ru (apparently the Russian state-owned r
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by nojonestownpls 5y ago
It's the standard PR appeasement of companies - complain loudly in a place others might see, and we shall see to your needs. Thousands of others who might also be suffering and don't have the means to do so or don't know that
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by nojonestownpls 5y ago
Terms of Service aren't necessarily legally binding - it's up to the judges to decide how much validity to give to them. Here, given they're offering refunds (and it's likely an American court that would theoretically ha