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by ttctciyf 5y ago
Manual install on aging Ubuntu refused to load pages and pegged CPU. Manually reverted, and launching my older version (92!) demanded I either create a new profile or quit. This would have been a disaster except I tried it out on a spare pr
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Isn't the point that "win" here means "progress in one's career"? I think the comment is pointing out that promotions and salary increases depend on the perceptions of those in a position to grant them. (See al
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In this version of the tragedy of the commons, the youtubers themselves are the resource headed for exhaustion. > the revised video had 5 new copyright claims even before upload processing was complete! Maybe there's an opportunity
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by ttctciyf 5y ago
Personally, I do it once a month, to avoid donating to a billionaire. YMMV.
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My method: I subscribe and upvote generously, only downvote when it feels good, and do "not interested" in the sidebar recommends, with prejudice ("I don't like the video") if necessary. But the real trick is, on th
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by ttctciyf 5y ago
Came here with https://archive.is/uABu0 - but your edit was too quick!
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What clarity is sacrificed? Is it in doubt that the sentence ended? The single period favours both elegance and clarity over slavish and unimaginative punctiliousness.
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Given the literal translation: > The bread of-us the epiousion give us today And the sense of "epi" as in "outside" like epicentre and epidermis, could this be as simple as > Give us our daily crust of bread I wond
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But if you only have maps and no territory, can you still be said to be doing cartography? :)
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Thanks for the info!
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Forgive the questions, but you seem to be a good person to ask.. How does Blokada actually work? Its FAQ claims it: > prevents apps and browsers installed on your device from sending your private data (known as tracking fingerprints) to
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The All-Seeing “i”: Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy(edwardsnowden.substack.com)
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Interesting discussion (IME) has been unavailable there for a while (though I admit I sometimes enjoy the trolling and putdowns, it's very much not what you're after I suspect.) Where it shines is quick access to reporting within
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Check the link's parent :)
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> Originally discovered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28253333 Prior art! [1] 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21914570
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Galileo's Error is philosopher Philip Goff's book stating his version of panpsychism - pretty impressive to have 20 or so academics interested enough in your idea to take potshots at it in a special journal issue! - but if you w
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by ttctciyf 5y ago
There's a few different approaches to this. Here's one page about it, I'm sure there are plenty more. https://fsfe.org/activities/android/liberate.en.html
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And the sequel, Claudius the God . Some of the page-turniest yet most glowingly literary fiction you're likely to read! This was Graves' idea of making a quick buck by dashing off a potboiler, btw: > Graves stated in an interv
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by ttctciyf 5y ago
but see also: Alfred Bester, The Men Who Murdered Mohammed .
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Don DeLillo, Libra should be in there somewhere, I think.
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"Spreading lies" is a perjorative way of referring to speech. "Lies" implies intent to deceive and excludes the possibility of a simple mistake. You may not have intended to impute intentional deception to someone, but
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Unexpected!
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by ttctciyf 5y ago
> ctrl-shift-N opens a new window As does ctrl-n, which I mentioned in the comment you're replying to ;-D
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> I don't remember URLs with /some/post/id/123.html. I remember headlines When I open a new window[1] in Firefox and start typing in the address bar, I get matches based on the page title not just on the url. F
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The term "conspiracy theory" is itself an apophenic simplification serving to render intelligible the maelstrom of conflicting data about the spectrum of intangibles lying between proven corporate and governmental crime at one end
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I'm a "diehard" firefox user from back when it was Netscape, and just won't use anything else as my main browser until I'm forced to, but Constantly breaking the user experience with major overhauls is what
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by ttctciyf 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Murray#Ambassador_to_Uzb...
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by ttctciyf 5y ago
YouTube has never been shy of recommending already-watched videos, the issue is whether you can see that you watched them. I think.
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But a lot closer to what most non-British people would understand by "private school" than what they would by "public school" The Wikipedia link I provided has the details.
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> everyone on your list went to public school. *Note for non-Brits: "public school" is the British way of saying "private school"[1] 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_school_(United_Kingdom)

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