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As someone who lived under an authoritarian regime for more than 2 decades: that's not even close to be true. Even discussing a taboo topic may cost someone their freedom, if not t…

Dua Lipa opens, in Portugal, a library for books that are banned and censored (elsewhere).

I always wondered what the model meant when it writes "I'm now considering the architecture of the service" but outputs nothing of the sorts in its CoT. Is the model really "thinki…

The issue is not the amount; it's the currency. Ours is not convertible. To put it into perspective: even *free* services can be completely inaccessible here if they require paymen…

Thanks, but I don't use e-readers as they are not available here. I've been using MoonReader for many years now and settled on pretty good parameters that make the reading experien…

I live in a country where the selection of available books, especially in English, is very limited. Buying online from foreign markets comes with a long list of administrative hurd…

Thanks for the recommendation. I'm trying to get myself to watch more movies and this looks like the perfect one for a cosy weekend. And yes, science it seems is advancing faster t…

Manufacturing requires micromanaging every aspect of the process, requiring special machinery, trained workforce (human or not), inventory management. Reproduction, once we master …

You stumble upon a news article from 2226. You read it to see who, between Google, OpenAI and Anthropic, won the AI race. Instead, your learn about Biotic. It's now the leading pol…

I'm looking to update my reading list of 2026 to include anything interesting that was recently, or about to be, published. The internet is of course full of lists about the "most …

With the World Cup starting in the coming days, this can spiral out of control very fast. Football fans can get infected and spread the virus in their home countries if they get ex…

> The ListView control? It started out with the more tedious name “modern collection control”, which got shortened to “MoCo.” A missed opportunity to call it "MoCoCo" which, if you…

I wish the Soviets had focused more on developing an independent computer industry and their own distinct flavors of programming languages. Imagine the thrill of studying languages…

This is a different kind of ugly. For previous models, it was the excessive "sportiness" that sometimes made them look like a car from a mecha anime. Luce's is more of an underwhel…

I built life-link almost a year ago for the same purpose: https://github.com/ahmedsaoudi/life_link I even created a generator so people can configure it with their Telegram/Pushove…

I'd say that that's a feature of modern-ish newspapers with "advanced" layouting techniques from early to mid 20th century. A news sheet from THE olden days (eg Victorian era), loo…

I lived through similar dynamics (though not at Ferrari, of course). The management knows that they need something new and out of their comfort zone. Someone (from within or withou…

Is this a common thing? Sleeping without any sort of cover during the hot summer months (notably July and August) is the norm here (North Africa) and never heard of anyone who does…

Can't help noticing how the interface and general mechanics of these old OSes were tightly coupled to the hardware. Both the makers and users of that era seemed to relish that vibe…

What make TikTok, well TikTok, is the frictionless experience. When I opened the link, I expected to directly be shown the target content. If there's a login screen or any explanat…

Thanks a lot for this incredible gem! By the way, it looks like there's a bug where I can't search for articles when already inside one. To do so, I need to go back to home > artic…

No entry on the Great War? Really?!!! Just kidding, of course. This is incredible and surprisingly nostalgic. Reading some of the entries took me right back to being a kid huddled …

When Cook took over, people expected him to fail. I don't think even Steve Jobs would've been able to imagine that Apple can get this big.

I think it's time for some sort of a safety standard for a sound frequency to be reserved exclusively for alarm/alert use and that ANC systems have to let through. It goes without …