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I wonder if the actual issues with this rice are similar to the miracle rice programs of the '70s where western aid programs introduced commercial strains of rice to traditional fa…

- Patreon if what you're doing lends itself to regular updates - PayPal or other payment processor if your project could use donations - Subscription based Server As A Service for …

Ha ha yeah. Let me just remove all that childhood trauma and PTSD, then we'll get this train of thought right back on track. Why didn't I think of that sooner?

The attacker could pretend to be the service the user is trying to authenticate to, issue a bogus challenge signed with the user's public key. That will allow intercepting the user…

There's no reason to believe that commercial entities would be any less likely to spy on you than a government entity. The government can just pass security regulations that requir…

You asked about why they have that opinion. They provided a link which covers the reasons they have the opinion they have.

At least this wasn't the "who has registered with porn sites" database.

A lot of moderators hide the moderator list because they get far too much abuse for decisions they make. It's dead simple: make a moderation decision based on the rules of the subr…

> If it were a lab leak, there are probably a handful of eyewitnesses. Not at all. The chances are that if it was a lab leak the people involved had no idea the leak happened at al…

Dunbar's number is 150, which seems about right for the number of people to be involved for the group to end up devolving into two macro communities. The micro-communities still ho…

The context is discussion of social media platforms where the platform already owns all the content and has the tools to decide what gets published and what doesn't.

It's a counter-protest by white male supremacists ("neo-nazis"/Proud Boys) who believe that diversity and equality diminish them. It's a parody of Pride Month.

Blame the user makes sense because they don't want to show how fragile Reddit is while they're trying to attract investors for the IPO.

The more realistic explanation is that the toolbar takes up space and every pixel has value on smaller screens. Moving the toolbar out of the way when the user is not likely to be …

Falsehoods like this spreading through populations that consider themselves technically literate is one reason the NIST standard requires absolute destruction. There are methods av…

But these are physically locked to the supercharger. The original comment was claiming a vendor lock-in for the Combo 1 to NACS adaptor that Ford and GM would be providing.

That's related to HDCP rather than HDMI. Though it does mean that any video you move to a non-HDCP monitor ends up being just a grey rectangle.

More like "we're not really listening to music on our phones for free". These days everything is a subscription. Then games are released where every cosmetic change is paid for, so…

The obvious chain of events is payments not being processed, Thiel gets on the blower, receives inside information which causes him concern, removes his money while he still can. T…

You say “trailer parks” I say “affordable housing”. Affordable housing solutions like dorms and bedsit apartment blocks aren’t feasible in many places like the USA where it’s liter…

We might have to train people to think about things before they do them. Or heck, even plan things ahead of time, like adding things to a shopping list instead of buying one item a…

Perhaps playing dumb is the favoured form of dissent.

How do you test the rules about passwords containing at least one uppercase letter, one number and one special character if you don’t test with passwords that definitely do not con…

Push the gear stalk up Twist the steering wheel against the direction the car is turning it Tap the brakes These all immediately drop out of AP. The driver also has the option of p…