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   Frank Zappa on Crossfire about censoring rock lyrics (1986) [video](youtube.com)

   38 points by racked 2y ago|10 comments
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   by racked 3y ago

   Appreciate you taking the time to show me around. There's some interesting (very politically incorrect) views on there. :-) True, I also feel that HN overmoderates genuine critical debate, and the high barrier for allowing downvoting h
3. 63.▲
   by racked 3y ago

   I gave 4chan a shot again after reading your comment. Seriously the first post that I found was: https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/464559056 How do you filter out the stuff that's clearly coming from insecu
4. 64.▲
   by racked 3y ago

   Can you elaborate on societal coherence in Russia? This in particular piques my interest; what I hear from Russia is that it's a place where any interpersonal conflict is resolved with (verbal) violence.
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   by racked 3y ago

   Scary. Sounds like a "scuba diving for newbies" session I took, where they would literally force you 16 meters underwater with only a quick spoken instruction about how to clear your goggles etc. Hair-raising.
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   by racked 3y ago

   I'm inclined to feel that it's an anti-citizen policy, intended to limit people's mobility, but taking off the tinfoil hat, my conclusion would be: it's wishful thinking policy; lawmakers are hoping that all the practica
7. 67.▲
   by racked 3y ago

   Try running 'getmail' with a daily cron job. It's an old piece of software, and (at least for me) required an initial `for` loop to catch up with old mail, but it's the best low-maintenance way to backup Gmail AFAIK. Del
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   by racked 3y ago

   Widevine video encryption really kicked my ass the other day. It's supposed to be bypassable but I've yet to find a practical option that doesn't require hours of fiddling.
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   by racked 3y ago

   If not site:reddit.com, what am I going to type into Google to get any kind of reasonable search result?
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    by racked 3y ago

    Beautiful build, especially the electronics bits
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    by racked 3y ago

    Fascinating hacking work. I adore this article especially because at each step, it explains the reasoning behind it. Comes just at the right time, as I'm studying electrical engineering.
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    by racked 3y ago

    Dutch speakers have enjoyed such a wiki for a long time already: WegenWiki https://www.wegenwiki.nl/Hoofdpagina The UK's got SABRE: https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Pag...
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    by racked 3y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_on_mass_surveilla...
14. 74.▲
    by racked 3y ago

    How do you keep them in check?
15. 75.▲
    by racked 3y ago

    So what _does_ represent what's on the web right now? Genuinely curious to learn.
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    by racked 3y ago

    Well, Not Yet But Maybe When They Roll It Out For Everyone Rather Than Just A Subset Of The Population Always nice when an article answers its own question in the 2nd paragraph.
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    by racked 3y ago

    https://archive.is/j1Xyg
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    by racked 3y ago

    > there is no viable alternative for people who are (...) very demanding of their tools How about the simple demand to have a task bar with readable titles instead of icons?
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    by racked 3y ago

    Looks like something out of Alien
20. 80.▲
    by racked 3y ago

    Did you get ProSupport? (I think they call it different nowadays) They came by and replaced mine, no questions asked. Same for the Wi-Fi chip, GPU, motherboard and heat dissipator. They even do it worldwide, which is nice when travelling li
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    by racked 3y ago

    The ultimate 'fuck you' would be for sites like PornHub to split into multiple entities to go under the threshold of 45 million average users per month. That would be nice.
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    by racked 3y ago

    > And we’re extremely excited to share the news that Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, together with colleagues, will be joining Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team. This seems like the real bit of news here
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    by racked 3y ago

    Wordpress actually provides a database wrapper (I wouldn't call it an ORM) called WPDB, which can use prepared statements. In practice though, I have found myself on more than one occasion just using PDO in my plugins. WPDB is slower,
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    by racked 3y ago

    Could you be more specific as to what it is that breaks your mental model?
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    by racked 3y ago

    Adding to that: Stephen Fry. His documentary about bipolar disorder, for instance.
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    by racked 3y ago

    Some food manufacturer that cocked up perhaps?
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    by racked 3y ago

    I agree. It's the only easy-to-understand way to do it _in GnuCash_, _that I could find_, anyway
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    by racked 3y ago

    Some people are talking about OFX, and yes, there are tools for a lot of banks (for example) that convert their various export formats to OFX. However, I prefer it a different way: CSV. When loading a CSV, GnuCash lets you map each column t
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    by racked 3y ago

    I quickly researched this a couple of months ago and came to the conclusion that using separate accounts was the only easy-to-understand way to do it. So now I have accounts like: Hosting Expenses [SomeTag] Hosting Expenses It&
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    by racked 3y ago

    I wish Netflix had a way to filter out Netflix Originals, because 90% of the time, they are just 'filler', stretched-out garbage.