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>You haven't made any kind of case that The Guardian is "undermining the free flow of information" I view it as an attempt by a group of left-leaning media/news outlets hoping to d…

Well from their post alone it seems they would impose their particular world-view in their comment section. Isn't Guardian a "news" outlet, by which being "neutral" and "accommodat…

> Maybe I'm out of the loop here, where did the Guardian try to undermine the free flow of information? "given the often disturbing content promoted or found on the platform, inclu…

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There is also a micro-aggression against Iranians by fringe communities of Europe/US and even our Arab/Turk neighbors! They somehow think that the name of Iran is "fake" or "manufa…

Can you explain bit more? Isn't the dump of last RARBG magnet links on the order of MBs? We can just download it and grep in plain text. I don't get what is the role of SQLite or I…

Sorry to see it go. While we are at it, an honest question: Why should _anyone_ undertake the legal risk, monetary cost and development time burden for maintaining a public tracker…

>SWTYBLZ UHD I'll always be amazed by warez subculture and how they name stuff :))

So these crawl torrent indexers and provide search functionality? Do they also search private indexers?

Slashdot was sold to another media company which had other priorities. Are you aware of its "redesign" drama strictly followed by that same new leadership? Many users left then and…

Would the Rust foundation be ok with SQLite CoC? or a software project with a CoC in compliance with Uganda laws?

Many years ago, I read a comment on Slashdot saying "the fact of a programming language having a "code of conduct" makes it ripe for everlasting drama and politics." It made sense …

how do you control the quality and encoding of the show? And why is there a separate *arr app for every content? (music album, tv, movie, book, subtile(!),...)

Can someone tell me what is the appeal of *arr apps? I'm not a hoarder or professional movie/show watcher, why should I set up what is basically a glorified "periodic metadata down…

Thanks Prof Strang. Are there any "side channels" that host university lecture videos and course materials for less fortunate students in 3rd world countries? The ones on MIT cours…

I'm interested in this too. I've heard an account, that some Byzantine queen-consort was told by a soothsayer that she (the queen) in her pervious life, was a witch. So the queen a…

Why the ancient world seems mysterious and completely orthogonal to our modern ways? At some point in history, "something" happened, I don't know what. Like Augustus a Roman empero…

>No, I don't buy either. Nothing of value is lost. Nowadays games are manufactured dopamine-gamifying cashgrabs and movies are propaganda outlets for whatever care-free non-STEM ac…

In Sassanian sources he was refereed as "Alaksandar ī hrōmāy" and "Eskandar the Gajostak [accursed]". Note they used hrōmāy (Roman) in spite of him being Greek, possibly due to Hel…

>Your last development machine that was thrown away is so much faster than this >the computer I bought as a student in 2008 is comparable >the phone you had two generations ago Goo…

>The natural first place to start looking is among the indigenous inhabitants So Hagia Sophia was built by Turkics and the Königsberg Castle by ethnic Russians.

Saffavids relocated Armenians from their homeland in Caucasus. Many died en-route. These kinds of attritions and second-class citizen status later imposed by Ottomans resulted in A…

As I said, they didn't enforce their ideology on the conquered people. They just extracted tax and moved on. Abrahamics on the other hand.... How many statues and relics did the Ab…

>but the graphs tells us iran was in war and was sanctioned Saddam initiated the attack but only because Khomeini weakened the Army and cleansed it from opposition to his ideology.…