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I join the adjacents club with my THR5 (also, non C)! I have always been wondering if I could upgrade it to get closer to the THR10. It's so portable but therefor lacks a couple of…

It makes sense that it flourished when sending letters was cheap, plus it was a very common thing for adults to send letters, so why not add one for fun. But I don't think a high c…

Literally all of these meanings are used in the same way in German. And actually, the word "Sorry" itself, too. Not all Germans do it, but I'd say a fair share. I think, because th…

> Search needs massive improvement. Absolutely. Improving this would be a great boost in usability. I love OsmAnd and I've been using it ever since I've been using phones that can …

An alternative would be to create jobs for people that take on part of the development of used software. They would be a close connection between their organization and the Open So…

The catch depends a lot on the context that you're considering. Trying to replace Microsoft Office as a whole by a drop-in replacement like LibreOffie may work better or worse depe…

I remember having run netsurf from toltec. Netsurf isn't fun on many websites but it should be enough for rendering HTML content from RSS, no? Terminal emulators and lynx/elinks/li…

Thank you very much for this writeup! I've had my rM2 since 2020 and enjoyed the hacking community a lot. I've since lost track - at some point I updated the firmware because I wan…

I guess it's mainly un-sueable because the reference is very implicit (nothing but the last name) and using the name Swift by itself constitutes neither impersonation of someone sp…

I'm mildly surprised there has been no mention of (Taylor) SwiftOnSecurity here yet :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SwiftOnSecurity

Just leaving some links here because I had been researching this intensively before a planned shoulder surgery: (Definitely adding this to my list) Frogpad: German language one han…

I did, too! And it reminded me of a project idea I had a while ago: A time traveller's wiki that collects casual knowledge for different times (and different places). Such as: "Buy…

I know one story that may have become such an experience. It's about Wikipedia Germany and I don't know what the policies there actually are. A German 90s/2000s rapper (Textor, MC …

While I have no idea if this is or isn't the reason for those issues, I think it's worth mentioning that SSDs do suffer from bit rot, especially when left unpowered. https://en.wik…

I've just recently switched to GrapheneOS and I must say it has been very convenient. That is, coming from the hassle of flashing LineageOS to Samsung devices. Obviously, buying a …

Then you must also take that cost into account when calculating the cost of training LLMs, as well as the cost humans operating the devices and their respective individual brain de…

Consent-o-matic takes care of all honest cookie banners out there and opts out for me before I even realize it. When I run into a website that it doesn't work with, I sometimes use…

> we can speak of them dispassionately, as non-temporal observers Well, we can also speak of Wernher von Braun or even contemporary figures that way. It's only more likely that som…

You can open your Firefox about:config and set security.webauthn.ctap2 to false. This will cause a fallback to FIDO/U2F where possible and your browser will appear to not support F…

Could AI outperform humans in finding benchmarks in which humans outperform AI?

fwiw if you need a simple string as a qr code quickly: Type the following search into duckduckgo.com and it will forward your text to the qrserver.com api. You'll be sent directly …

=> Certainly is.

There is also ruffle which seems to be doing a very good job at reviving Flash animations. The Internet Archive is using it to preserve the profound cultural heritage of early mill…