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Different left wing and right wing parties have different positions on social issues, and these are unrelated to their position on left-right economic axis. Here in Czechia, the most socially conservative party are christian democrats, who
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One of the foundational text of liberalism, 'On Liberty' from J. S. Mill, is pretty clear that the threat to individual liberty is not just from the government, but from the society itself: Like other tyrannies, the tyranny of
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> I don't think the concept of open source translates very well to model weights. I think it translates pretty well. Model weights are not really that different from other non-code assets, like images or 3D models. If i can bundle o
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User serviceable ethernet port on outdoor antennas is standard on wifi devices. Just put it behind movable cover and direct it down, partially recessed in plastic case (so it is protected from flowing water, rain and snow). See e.g. https:
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That is false dilemma between 'only compositor can handle screensavers / global keybindings / screen grabs' and 'arbitrary app can grab screen / read all keystrokes'. It is easily conceivable to have a sys
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It us unfortunate that there is no hybrid Wayland / X compositor that would offer backwards compatibility for existing WMs, so people could switch to Wayland and keep all existing X-based desktops, while allowing new native Wayland app
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>I find it weird that there's no way to specify a future date/time with respect to a specific timezone, e.g. Europe/London. It makes sense to me that it is not provided as it is something fundamentally different. ISO 8601
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That is not really a matching comparison. With BGP, there is kind of public space (global BGP tables) and participants are free to attach valid attributes to their routes. From a cursory look, these researchers used announcement that was co
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> As for expecting them to run their own auth service instead of relying on a third party, that is a hell of a lot more complex than it looks. I can't blame them for not wanting to take that on. Pretty much every web site that requi
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Unfortunately at the time when drunken people are returning home from pubs/bars (e.g. 2 in the morning) most public transport do not drive or at least is significantly limited.
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BIRD was not affected, so we just found out today from Hacker News :-) We made some thorough code review w.r.t. RFC 7606 compliance years ago.
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The disadvantage of such filter is that you want to get unfiltered light inside in winter.
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Several reasons: - Until recently, Firefox did not support VA-API video acceleration on Linux, while mpv supported it for a long time. My last computer struggled to play 1080p videos without hardware acceleration. - I am used to mpv keybind
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I use yt-dlp primarily not for download, but for playing/streaming Youtube videos directly in media player (mpv) instead of browser. Does YouTube Premium help with that?
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Point is that if you know that overwhelming majority of the result are false positives so that it is not worth to follow-up them with additional diagnostics, then reasonable step is to not follow-up in that case. It is a fallacy to account
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s/Conferences/Governments/ FTFY
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> The C standards, having to accommodate both target architectures where misaligned accesses worked and target architectures where these violently interrupted the program, applied their universal solution: they classified misaligned acce
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Also, while above i describe it in a symmetric way, there is an important asymmetry - which side pays the mental load of deciding whether the request is appropriate. In the 'ask' culture, it is the answering side (as the asking si
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I think this is just different ways to handle information asymmetry. The asking side knows value of the favor to self but does not know the cost of the favor for the answering side, while the answering side knows the cost of the favor to se
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> The very people in that very local community! This is mostly how Reddit moderation works, each subreddit is one small community with local moderators. I generally agree that this approach to moderation is much better than some universa
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> That's not "Desktop Linux has a Firefox problem", that's "Desktop Linux has a problem". hardware acceleration was always a pain to get working in linux Media players like mpv supported VA-API for video acc
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Keymap layout and physical layout are two orthogonal issues. Keymap layout (e.g. US /other language vairants) is primarily user-preference software setting, unrelated to the physical hardware (except for labels, but these are not relev
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In case of domain registries there is a contract with clear terms. In case of twitter handle or other free services there is no consideration on user's side so there is no binding contract, therefore the service could be revoked at any
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> Not really. For example the switch to LCD monitors from CRT was a step back in quality. LCD was just way cheaper and more convenient as in taking less space that regardless of worse quality it still took over. That pretty much depends
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Are eIDAS identity services even interoperable for private service providers? AFAIK public service providers use national portals that aggregate identity providers, but private service providers must have a contract with identity providers.
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Standards are not laws, they are reasonably well-written documents describing behavior that is supposed to be interoperable. If, for some reason, that is not true (perhaps because the standard is ambiguous, obsolete or some other reason), e
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> RAM is even worse now that many (most?) laptops have it soldered in, so there is no DIY upgrade after you buy. From the cursory look to an e-shop, it seems to me that majority of notebooks have soldered-in memory, but also one SIDIMM s
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> Then came direct debit, where giving out your IBAN now somehow became a fraud risk. I do not know about other EU countries, but here in CZ, i have to allow each counterparty and set a limit to maximum amount of direct debit to that cou
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Exactly. Hello to you too.
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Note that there is even a movie version: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065241/ It was filmed during Prague Spring and banned almost immediately after its release.
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