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They are also involved in the military and aerospace industry. They also practically only have a single competitor in the passenger plane manufacture industry (airbus). So they are rich and powerful and do not shy away from exerting their influence to protect their interests.

You all look dumb when dancing.

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Today I learned that some torrent clients provide a built-in torrent search engine.

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Green/grey/blue/whatever refers to the production process and the energy sources used to make the hydrogen, because the production and powering it with electricity also requires emitting greenhouse gases. Most of the hydrogen produced today is gray hydrogen produced using fossil fuels. I don't understand why we hear so much about hydrogen as being the fuel of the future, when straight electrification would be more efficient, but maybe I'm missing something.

Something I've been for a while now is why this gender disparity is so strong in this specific area of engineering compared to all other engineering areas. People seem to claim it's because of the "geek" stereotype, but that seems more like a symptom than a cause and I fail to see how it enforces this disparity, considering there's nothing preventing a woman from being a geek too.

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Weirdly OSI doesn't classify the SSPL as an open-source license because it doesn't guarantee "the right to make use of the program for any field of endeavor", calling it a fauxpen license. I don't think the FSF has commented on the license, though I would be curious what they say about it.

I imagine they consider it to not give the right to make use of the program for any field of endeavor, because providing the source of the entire stack needed to run the service you provide makes it impossible for users to host their service on stuff like AWS, since it is proprietary.

I'm from lemmy.ml, so I shouldn't really have a say in this matter, but I just wanted to give some of my thoughts.

There's no problem in defederating from instances. However, I'm a bit confused by the reasoning given for the defederation. The points highlighted appear to simply be some normal leftist and anti-imperialist ideas, and I fail to see how it signifies intent to violate the rules of the lemmy.world instance (besides maybe point 7, if we were to consider supporting governments deemed "authoritarian" by the west as also being the same as calling for the opression for the people those governments are accused of oppressing (Which I don't believe is valid reason since that's simply not the case. For example, people who reject the idea that there is a campaign against the uyghur ethnic group in China, generally don't do so because they hate that ethnic group, but because they believe the claims are false)).

If leftist instances such as hexbear are problematic, I don't see why instances like lemmy.ml aren't, whose description some time ago was the following:

A community of leftist privacy and FOSS enthusiasts, run by Lemmy’s developers

Some time ago they removed the word «leftist» in the description, but very much still allow people who hold similar beliefs as the ones you highlighted to use the instance and to express themselves.

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These vpns seem to be quite a good target since at least the one my university uses is run as a setuid executable, so if there is a vulnerability in there, you can execute code as root that wasn't intended to be executed as root.

As TonyTonyChopper this thread said, sometimes that obscure software is what you are required to use in your institution, or they don't offer support for anything else.

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I'm no way an expert in this, but I've been told it's wrong to think of the expansion of the universe like an explosion where everything moves away from a single point, but rather that the space between each object is expanding, comparing it to the way the surface of a balloon expands (if you were to paint multiple dots on the surface of a balloon they would all move away from each other when you inflate the balloon), though I like to think of it as yeast bread expanding since that's 3d.

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Since we are on the topic of disliking Discord, what Matrix clients do you humans use? I tried both Element and Nheko (the latter of which isn't electron based), and they both felt slow, clunky and unresponsive.

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Also TOR, but you can easily tell it to use a different circuit and most of the times it isn't blocked, in my experience.

This is really a WTF moment for US diplomacy.

Not really, considering the US's past actions and decisions, especially regarding Israel.

How? It is exactly what it sounds like when people say to vote for the "lesser evil", especially in this post.

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I use SearXNG. It is a meta search engine so it use results from various other search engines and you can specify which with !. It does the job for me.

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If it is something that has been left untouched for some years, then the dust is probably too thick to be simply blown away (and would probably create a bigger mess than what you started with), I imagine. Use an old wet piece of cloth.

The first thing I thought of is working on a submarine

That is also something I've had some interest in, but besides military (I don't want to be involved with it in any way), I don't think there are that many submarines out there.

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room temperature semiconductor

I wonder what sort of mitigations we can take to prevent such kind of attacks, wherein someone contributes to an open-source project to gain trust and to ultimately work towards making users of that software vulnerable. Besides analyzing with bigger scrutiny other people's contributions (as the article mentioned), I don't see what else one could do. There are many ways vulnerabilities can be introduced and a lot of them are hard to spot (especially in C with stuff like undefined behavior and lack of modern safety features) , so I don't think "being more careful" is going to be enough.

I imagine such attacks will become more common now, and that these kind of attacks could become very appealing for governments.

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How do websites choose a language by location? What about countries that have more than one official language?

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GPS inaccuracies.

Does an ereader count?

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lemmy.ml is a lemmy instance run by the developers of lemmy. lemmy.ml is federated with hexbear, so you can read their posts and we can read your posts.

I’m not a good person and it will be a while before I am.

That should be printed on a shirt.

There's also Forgejo but federation is very WIP. https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/59

Harvesting organs from 5 people is less bad than harvesting organs from 10 people, I guess.

I've never seen porn on here because my instance doesn't federate with any instance that host that kind of stuff, but I think you could block the communities where it is posted or switch instances.

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When using git and are working on a feature, and suddenly want to work on something else, you can use git stash so git remembers your changes and is able to restore them when you are done. There is also git add -p this allows you to stage only certain lines of a file, this allows you to keep commits to a single feature if you already did another change that you didn't commit (this is kind of error prone, since you have to make sure that the commit includes exactly the things that you want it to include, so this solution should be avoided). But the easiest way is when you get the feeling that you have completed a certain task towards your goal and that you can move on to another task, to commit. But if you fail you can also change the history in git, so if you haven't pushed yet, you can move the commits around or, if you really need to, edit past commits and break them into multiple.

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I'm not a Nix user, but doesn't Nix make both pip and venv obsolete in a way? Nix is a package manager (which could be used to package anything including Python packages/modules) and also allows you to create environments that include only certain packages of certain versions.

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ocean depth map data

Where can I download it and under what conditions can I use it?

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It is only used by 3%!? Wasn't it at around 30% some years ago (not counting netscape)? This comes really as a surprise to me because in my circles even around half of non-tech inclined windows users use firefox.

Why did it lose so many users?

For anyone who was confused as I was about hearing of a new release of Netscape, this article is from 2000.

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Anti Commercial AI thingy

I don't think a license will prevent language models from using your post. If anything, you are allowing people to use your post for more stuff it couldn't otherwise be used, since a license is you giving someone permission to use your work in a certain way, but if you don't give a license, copyright law assumes that you haven't given permission.

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If it's like Lisp, then ? is just part of the symbol and doesn't have any special syntatic meaning. In different Lisps it's also convention to end predicate names with a ? or with P (p for predicate)

How will this offline translator affect Firefox's memory usage? The article mentioned that it currently only supports 9 languages. If I choose a source language will it be able to translate to all other 8 languages? Why didn't they use existing open-source software like Apertium (or did they?)?

Quoting also doesn't work on DDG, AFAIK.

Maybe because Ukraine isn't going to "win" any time soon or easily as you believe?

(pretty sure they are talking about the scary book that is the Communist Manifesto, which is visible in the picture. I think it is about a ghost haunting Europe or something)