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by botanical 10d ago
I also think archive.today is superior to web.archive.org as it breaks less when archiving sources. It's a shame Wikipedia blacklisted it now as an archive source.
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by botanical 27d ago
I noticed this on AliExpress years ago with cheaper Bluetooth earphones. Actually, all Chinese e-commerce sites activate audio for some reason.
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by botanical 1mo ago
Anytime I go on the website, my fan start going crazy. But it is a good website with the most accurate forecasts, I feel. Another annoyance is that tree planting initiative, I was able to plant like 10 trees, now they made it very difficult
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by botanical 4mo ago
OpenRSS, your website is broken. I get: > Too many requests are being made from this network, which brings down the performance of feeds for other users. Please try back later. With regards to the topic, I've noticed this when using
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Palantir defends its role in the kill chain(heise.de)
107 points by botanical 6mo ago|60 comments
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by botanical 6mo ago
Sounds like justification for a false flag operation by the US government. How would they transport these massive things and launch them on a different continent? That, or the US is trying to justify that this illegal war is on their doorst
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Cheap solar is transforming lives and economies across Africa(nytimes.com)
29 points by botanical 9mo ago|16 comments
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US 'Homeland Security' Twitter account seemingly run from Israel(thecanary.co)
50 points by botanical 10mo ago|21 comments
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by botanical 11mo ago
Load shedding hasn't been a problem for a while now. With proper maintenance of the coal stations and investments in solar, we haven't had it in Winter either. But you're right, it's always lurking. With increased renewa
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by botanical 11mo ago
True, but I meant in South Africa, SA is the most used. Less so with RSA or ZAR. ZA is somewhat used but SA (I would say) dominates in conversation and in written text.
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by botanical 11mo ago
By what metric is it in "steady decline"? As as South African, it's amusing to see how my country is generalised.
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by botanical 11mo ago
ISO 3166-2 code for South Africa. It's from Dutch: Zuid-Afrika. It's used quite often to refer to South Africa; RSA or SA is also used.
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Developers drop Vercel, call for boycott after CEO posts selfie with Netanyahu(middleeasteye.net)
31 points by botanical 1y ago|2 comments
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by botanical 1y ago
Are they going to rehire the employees they fired for being against this and Microsoft's support of the genocide now? It's more than just mass surveillance, and their leaders need to be held accountable. https://www.dro
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by botanical 1y ago
That's really commendable, but I wonder how to do it on a large scale. Uruguay's installed capacity is 4.6 GW. On a larger scale, batteries can't be the answer as their energy density is quite poor.
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Mistral's new "environmental audit" shows how much AI is hurting the planet(arstechnica.com)
4 points by botanical 1y ago|0 comments
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Cutting US Military spending could save as much energy as used by a small nation(scimex.org)
4 points by botanical 1y ago|1 comments
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by botanical 1y ago
WhatsApp's call quality is second to none. Also the fact that it's ubiquitous, and its sync just works, makes it difficult to move to anything else. Everyone's on it in South Africa. I think we can only hope for regulation to
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by botanical 1y ago
As much as I like WhatsApp, I hate that it's been bought by a company like Meta. Its voice-calling quality is the best from all similar apps, companies use it to communicate with people, and my entire family solely uses it. I just wi
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by botanical 1y ago
North Korean and Chinese hackers are soundly shunned but for some reason it's always a "company" from a pariah country like Apartheid Israel that are able to sell their software weapons to indiscriminately target any civilian
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by botanical 1y ago
This translucent 3D look doesn't feel like they took usability into consideration. They just wanted to force a glass-look. At least the Aero look was frosted, this makes it so you have to strain to differentiate buttons and text on it.
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by botanical 1y ago
As if Western-backed companies are some type of beacon of light. If news of your company has Trump and Oracle linked to it, you aren't the good guys. This is just the American way of "consolidating power", by "spreading
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by botanical 1y ago
I wanted a board with Zigbee support but $21 ($16 plus $5 shipping) is quite expensive for a single board.
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Serbian student activist's phone hacked using Cellebrite zero-day exploit(securityaffairs.com)
13 points by botanical 1y ago|0 comments
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by botanical 1y ago
If Apartheid South Africa could last just a little bit longer, they would still be an apartheid state like Israel is today. Western media is just as complicit in this genocide as the fascists in charge of the Israeli government. And media a
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by botanical 1y ago
It's such madness that all this resource usage is for LLMs that are barely useful (at least for me). So many billions in resources wasted for machine learning systems that mimic human speech, it's not intelligent in any sense. Now
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by botanical 1y ago
NSO Group are a terrorist group for hire. This 0-click, 0-day exploit was found targeting civil society. Any one can pay to target journalists, NGOs, politicians. This is why open-source is paramount to security, and having code out in the
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Malicious bots account for nearly a third of global internet traffic(forbes.com)
2 points by botanical 1y ago|0 comments
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by botanical 1y ago
If I'm not mistaken, all Firefox tabs are cookie isolated: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/introducing-total-cooki... Containers are no longer necessary unless you're logging into the same site with
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Hope for endangered penguins as no-fishing zones agreed off South Africa(theguardian.com)
1 points by botanical 1y ago|0 comments

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