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According to the linked RFC it's due to the site's user generated content. I guess that's an understandable policy for Wikipedia.

Apparently for some people (my mom) the search or filters work better on Temu. No idea why, I only ever use AliExpress.

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Ok, that's fair. I just use the english terms anyways and usually also change the interface language to english.

Get a cheap VPS and set up a VPN of your choice.

I mean it sucks for him, but after having been away for three months with more leave time coming the company probably doesn't have any obligation to keep him hired.

At least that's the case here in Switzerland (if you worked for a company long enough) and I'd be surprised if the US had better protections.

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Theoretically cryptocurrencies are interesting, but Bitcoin just isn't usable.

Bitcoin and many other currencies have way too many and large fluctuations in value for daily use.
Bitcoin specifically is not practical for transactions in general due to cost and block size limits. Yes, lightning exists, but maybe your technology is shit if it needs a second overlay network to function.
Instead of fixing those issues, most other coins are just pump and dump schemes for a quick buck.
Only very few coins try to do something different and fix some of these issues.

In its blog post Red Hat specifically called out downstream distributions for not contributing anything to the development of RHEL and that they should be making fixes to CentOS Stream. Well, this is a fix for CentOS Stream and Red Hat still doesn't care. They just don't want community contributions.

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Maintaining a vacuum over long distances is really fucking hard.
You'd be better served utilising existing rail infrastructure and improving that to make high speed trains possible.

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Uh, yes. How else would you judge people?

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Classic testing in prod

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I mean yeah, that sucks, but them refunding you is absolutely the right move. I don't think they did that the last times Amazon removed something from their catalogue.

Edit: I missed this wasn't a refund, just store credit

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Agreed, RAID 1 (and 10) are pretty stable.

Moderately fun fact, RAID 1 in BTRFS is not really RAID 1 in the traditional sense. Rather it's a guarantee that your data lives on two separate drives. You don't know which ones though. You could have one copy of everything on a 12TB drive, whith various secondary copies distrivlbuted on three 4TB drives.
Traditional RAID 1 works ONLY with two drives, with a capacity of the smaller drive as upper limit. The way to extend a traditional RAID 1 array is by adding two new drives and creating a RAID 10 with all four. (Multiple RAID 1 striped)

Or Wayland, where this isn't an issue.

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They're the only other big plane manufacurer beside Airbus and being the only remaining US based one, probably important for national defense as well.

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Cool. Does ACL support also depend on the filesystem?

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For what current flagship phones cost they should absolutely be capable of general purpose computing.

Maybe come with a usb-c dock and screen as well for convergence.

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Or if you absolutely have to, choose the TLD of a country you live in.

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I like it very much and thanks to the various extensions it's also trivial to use in Firefox and Libreoffice.

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Ublock Origin and some other extensions were whitelisted. With this change, any extension can (theoretically) be used on mobile.

I use Kavita to host ebooks and manga for myself. It's still work in progress, so do expect changes, though I haven't had huge issues on the stable releases so far. Besides Tachiyomi for comics/manga there aren't any native reading apps yet, so you will have to use the webinterface for the time being.

Another option often mentioned is Calibre Web, though I haven't used that myself.

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It's a distribution completely centered around the Nix package manager. This basically allows you to program how your system should look using one programming language. If you want an identical system, just copy that file and you're set.

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Needing to subscribe to multiple different services to get everything you'd want and them constantly upping the prices is a service problem, no?

Tbf, that's mostly due to Epic themselves

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Apparently Cisco operates a popular DNS resolver? Never heard of that before.

And definitely don't learn how to use a VPN. Or set up Unbound or Bind or PowerDNS Recursive...

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What i you're right at or below the "minimum requirements" for an AAA game? Should those people just not get to play?

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On mobile Linux, Manjaro is the reason dont-ship.it exists. They distributed untested and WIP GitHub patches to their users, which understandably broke stuff. And users would then go to the project to report bugs.

TLDR: the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 might be pricier than usual. Alternatives considered by some brands are the SD 8 Gen 2 or MediaTek Dimensity.

Opinion: To me it doesn't make much sense to buy a flagship phone without a flagship processor.

Not being ridiculously overpriced is another advantage imo.

What happened in Gnome for them to merge so much stuff recently?

I recently found out about Softwareheritage, they also have yuzu mirrored.

https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory/?origin_url=https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu

From what I found digging through some posts, this exploit only works if your instance uses custom emoji. Federated custom emoji are apparently harmless.

This article is 2 years old

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Kagi also links to an alphabetical list as first result. However, they also have a "quick answer" button using an LLM.

Quick Answer

The country in Africa that starts with the letter K is Kenya. [1] Kenya is located in East Africa and shares borders with Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan, Ethiopia, and Somalia. [2]

Alphabetical List of All African Countries - ThoughtCo Countries beginning with K - Worldometer

Imo this would be impossible to implement. The user can just remove whatever mark was inserted.

I'll also leave this here: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp

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I'd argue against Neofetch being completed. PRs to properly handle custom colors in the terminal properly for example have been open for years.

Even without the racist connotations in the US it's a weird name.
Obviously not as bad though

You could use BTRFS, ZFS or BcacheFS to do compression on the filensystem level, but it's not gonna compress video files or other already compressed media.

I use Kavita to host my ripped ebooks and other reading stuff, can absolutely recommend.

Not sure how you can rip your existing Tolino collection, I only ever deal with the amazon DRM.

Some authors, like Brandon Sanderson, offer DRM-free books on their own stores, but discoverability is way worse for obvious reasons.

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