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If they run enough nodes to deanonymize users, it's a dagger through the heart of other intelligence services, but an absolute blessing for the NSA

I'm not a programmer either. I just started running Linux out of curiosity, followed a few "copy-paste this into your terminal" guides, eventually got the hang of it and now I do a…

If pdftk can't do it, then inkscape scripts probably can.

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If all that matters is to recognize the best team, then why bother with a knockoit stage, or even a world cup tournament? Just collate stats. The point is to play the game, and if …

I would not want to go to the hospital for a mild ear infection and hear the AI start blasting death metal.

The Ukrainian г is a voiced glottal fricative, IPA /ɦ/. This is as the English /h/ sound but voiced. Southern Russian dialects use /ɣ/, a voiced velar fricative, which is pronounce…

Another reason police unions are entirely different, even from other public sector unions, is that the police are used to break strikes. They're structurally antagonistic to every …

Isn't Valve known for letting employees work on whatever they want? I'd imagine they already had a bone to pick with MS and wanted to be able to play games on Linux. Before that, t…

How much are two hundred million microphones in earshot of private conversations worth?

Latin is "older" than English because Latin has been fossilized for over a thousand years due to having no native speakers. A better example would be French and English. Neither is…

Since Classical Chinese is ancestral to kanji, you might be interested in https://wy-lang.org/

Regurgitating old critiques of terrible, homogeneous design, then holding up as counterexamples two of the most embarrassingly bad designs of the last few years. I suppose this is …

I agree with VR being obstructive and awkward, but what percentage of the population would be okay with hooking a computer directly into their brains, let alone a facebook-controll…

I recently added a similar feature to the absolutely terrible code I've hacked together for controlling my smart lights[0]. I used python's astral package to get the highest and lo…

This is a great font! It feels to me almost like a 'handwritten' version of the font I use, [Julia Mono]( https://juliamono.netlify.app/ )

I stopped actively keeping up with any sort of serious news a long time ago. There's a few RSS feeds I'll check once a month or so but most of the news I get is filtered through wh…

"all it is, is a little prick in the arm. Quite literally. Nothing more than that." Alright then, I'll just poke myself with a sewing needle and you can count that as a vaccination…

ArriveCAN was quite stupid, but at least it was fairly simple and the mobile app was just a convenient wrapper around the web app. It could have been so much worse.

And Instagram and Twitter and all the other domestically-produced mind-addling time-vampires? I understand looking for "real motives" but getting people addicted to stupid things i…

In my experience the only Americans who use WhatsApp have family outside the US/Canada. There's a very large proportion of the population living entirely inside the Apple ecosystem…

How do you learn to play the piano without real physical feedback when pressing the keys? The "experiences" you can have through sight and sound alone are quite limited. A glove to…

> - It was not being used anyway and was less likely to be used every single day Once EU countries found themselves paying >5x what they're used to paying to keep their houses warm…

It wouldn't be the first linear city. The idea was popular in the early 20th century for industrial settlements. Magnitogorsk was orginally planned as such. None of the planned lin…

Why on earth would Russia blow up one of their own most important sources of both income and leverage over Europe?