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Or extension that limit themselves their permissions to specific sites. Like SponsorBlock and Reddit Enhancement Suite. That's actually the complete list of plugins I have, uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, SponsorBlock and RES.
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Del.icio.us has been serving an expired SSL certificate since May 4th(del.icio.us)
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Don't know about the "stuff", but Linux distros frequently shipped with packages for the TLDP. Or rather whatever it was know as at the time, some derivative of Linux HOWTOs or linuxdoc.org.
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Just a tiny bit of clarification, Shanghai isn’t part of Jiangsu, but just to the southeast of it. It does act as a major port for much of Jiangsu though, together with Suzhou in Jiangsu, right next to Shanghai.
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> When the economic benefits stop rolling, people will start speaking up against the tyranny. No they won't. They've been gaslit, backed by the supposed evidence of thousands of years of history, that they themselves, though mo
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> You’ll see pro PRC activism rise in Taiwan Pro-PRC activism is so dead that even anti-CCP activism in the form of the KMT is starting to look on life support. Yeah, there's media organisations that have ties with the PRC and CCP.
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China is a pretty soft target with things like the Three Gorges Dam. The 1938 Yellow River flood is taught as one of the great crimes of the KMT and is in the consciousness of most of the mainland Chinese as one of the unforgivable crimes o
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The CCP has now been in control of China for essentially everyone's living memory yet apparently the masses are still uneducated enough, too volatile, too vindictive and wild to support a democracy. Plus, how could the CCP not be elect
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> destroying the streets like monkeys And from an NPR interview covering the book 'Less Than Human' > Nazis referred to Jews as rats. > Hutus involved in the Rwanda genocide called Tutsis cockroaches. > Slave owners th
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> China by all rights has a claim to the land Huh? The people of Hong Kong have a claim to the land of Hong Kong. The people of I don't know, Shanghai have a claim to the land of Shanghai. The People's Republic of China doesn&#
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$8 million will go nowhere towards rebuilding it, at best that’d suffice for part of a clean-up. And from Universe Today: > If Channel 37 were ever lost to TV, the gap would mean a loss of information about the distribution of cosmic ray
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No one is bothering to fix Arecibo...
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Yes you can. Personal access tokens.
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> they're burying the repo cloning info I didn’t know websites could hide the address bar.
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19 takes seven strokes. 19 in Arabic numerals starts at the top left and takes two, maybe three strokes. Also, a 1 followed by a five needs a lot of kerning to not get confused. And the vertical heights and offsets of the glyphs vary a lot.
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> Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people's ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the e
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Mostly because afaik the law prohibits Google as it is from delisting news content specifically like Facebook is doing now, so it was either efforts like this to last-ditch prevent the legislation from passing or face a complete shutdown in
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One recent quote from the former prime minister when Australia was planning to introduce backdoors to end-to-end encryption: > "The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of A
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Partially. Most of the funding comes from corporate sponsors and individual donors and those tend to be on a station by station or program level. The funding sources for NewsHour, probably the most relevant part of PBS, are listed here for
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You’re right, I had missed that. I had watched the original segment but evidently missed that part. Partly probably by design because how the information was obtained and collated kind of distracts from the subject matter.
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You guys need to be careful, having given the responsibility for funding public broadcasting to the government. That’s dangerous.
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For a bit of a background for non-German folks and particularly Australians... that's a "government-run", "federal" broadcaster publishing this. Sounds like shooting your own foot? No. The Basic Law of Germany, appr
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It's not an analogy, it's pretty much the same thing: Basic Law of Germany, Article 73: > The Federation shall have exclusive power to legislate with respect to [...] 7. postal and telecommunication services Constitution of Aus
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Deputy Leader for 13½ years of the party in power, then make him chairman of the second largest media organisation in the country for 5 years now. Yet somehow the problem isn't with said organisation or party but that Google lists thin
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> You speak with your votes; if you vote a$$ hats into power, don't complain when they do this kind of stuff. I think it’s gone beyond that, the electorate is a captive audience and we’re in a democratic death spiral. Like just toda
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That said, amazing that the other 10% apparently tracked thought an actual open-source licence was worth it enough to make their way through that.
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> when they download our default distribution from elastic.co 1. elastic.co 2. Products 3. Elasticsearch 4. Ignore three buttons, click the link "Or download and get started" 5. Ignore six buttons, click the link "Visit ou
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That's because Elastic did their own great, concise callout, it's just a little bit hard to find for those not following things closely: Announcement from 2018: > "We did not change the licence of any of the Apache 2.0 cod
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Germany has a remarkable system of public broadcasting that is unequaled in the world. Following World War 2 it was obvious that the centralisation of media was one important factor in the rise of the Nazis and the western allies wanted to

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