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I'm not a drawing person. I wish I could draw a lot better. I used to try once in a while, and the results were universally bad. So a few years ago, I took a drawing course, and pu…

You have to read the news from someone, and each one has its own bias. State news has a well known failure mode as propaganda. But commercial news turns out to have its own failure…

The reason of copyright has always been to protect the current powers. To promote usefull arts has always been a whitewash. Here's e.g. wikipedia on that topic: https://en.wikipedi…

"To protect the children, ...."

If this happens without clicking I agree, the software is not covered under any EULA and you're allowed to do whatever you want, right?

Seconded. I talk to my cats, to the software I'm troubleshooting, to my tools, sometimes even to my dishwasher while filling it. Presumably none of them cares, but every reaction i…

Doing this brings you close to OSI, which famously failed by being overcomplicated. The current design was implementable by zillions of cheap humans running cheap hardware. I alway…

It might be more of a weakened immune system thing. Everyone gets small lightning strikes all the times, but our defences stop it before it gets too bad. So when defences are faili…

As an EUian,I've never given one care about my credit rating. I don't even know if I have one. They can cause a long drawn out court battle, and abuse your data. Noyb is the real-w…

I did read the book, and know enough people who did. Now I may have weird interests, but that describes basically half the inhabitants of this site. BTW, as non-USAian, I never saw…

There was a time where Hawking's A brief history of time gave a decent overview of the universe to beginners. Does anyone know how well it holds up today and if anything better exi…

In the EU, anyone can legally get a second hand LTSC license. See e.g. https://en.windowsnoticias.com/Where-to-get-cheap-and-offici...

I've always wondered if adding your own dots would throw it off

One part of this is how hard it is to translate the impact to now-scientists. E.g. 2 degrees temperature raise did not sound bad to me, untill someone explained to me this is from …

In my corner of the world, credit cards were for buying stuff on the internet and travelling outside the EU. Now the net has evelved enough to accept our normal means of payment. I…

I love my Roomba 600 so much that I bought a new Roomba a few months ago. Unfortunately, it is a strictly inferior product on just about any point.

You're proposing encrypting the only thing that merits recovery?

There is a midterm comming up in the USA. If you're living there and you're now not going to vote,I'm sorry but you're complicit. They might make it inconvenient, but you all still…

This is not the correct model. For a typical user, they can bring the laptop to someone knowledgeable, who will pop out the drive for them. The main question is: What is the bigges…

Basically, the whole protestant faction. A sibling comment mentions Lutheran (German) and Mennonites (Dutch). There is of course catholicism from the Irish, but the Anglicans are s…

I've always thought of the USA as the east Roman Empire of the British Empire. The seat of the throne moved to the white house, but the USA is still culturally close to the UK. Exc…

Around here, I've never seen an ebike without speedometer, and everyone on the street should respect street signs and red lights. I see no reason to ignore red lights or stop signs…

Belgian view here. Flanders is slowly getting the Dutch cycling culture. E-bikes are forbidden from assisting above 25 km/h. You can go faster, but you will be providing the power …

There is this feeling where it's futile to do anything, the world is big and miserable and you're small and insignificant. I'm slowly getting convinced that some political players …