usern20260720

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by usern20260720 10d ago
A consumer respecting brand sells products. A Consumer selling brand sells consumers so they can be profiled, analysed for weaknesses and exploited economically in the name of Surveillance Capitalism
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by usern20260720 10d ago
macOS mail application used to receive RSS news feeds. It couldn't be simpler for your mom than that. She wouldn't even need to log onto twitter
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by usern20260720 10d ago
It is sad that Twitter is basically a private closed gate monopoly that people beg to use instead of developing alternatives like RSS
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by usern20260720 11d ago
This year, it got cloudy right at the climax. Luckily, we were watching it from home. I would therefore warn people against spending stupid amounts of money on something that a few scattered clouds can easily ruin
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by usern20260720 12d ago
If the European countries had wanted to be independent from the US, they would have adopted the gold standard for their currency
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by usern20260720 12d ago
LCD screen are pitch black by default. Eink can be white without extra energy
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by usern20260720 14d ago
ask a relative that you visit from time to time what's their favourite book on their shelf and why. This way, you at least make sure that they would not toss the book in a whim. ask them to write the parental control PIN on one or two
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by usern20260720 16d ago
I just got the biggest one they sell. I wanted to fulfil my dream of turning pages using a remote. It turns out though, that the device is switching off both wifi and bluetooth every few minutes (Maybe only when there is no wifi available)
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by usern20260720 17d ago
It is not collective sacrifice. The war on drugs was imposed worldwide by the American élites and it consisted on banning the production, trade and use of many drugs. Oil is a drug for the world’s economies. If you remove it, the economy pl
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by usern20260720 17d ago
oh, yes. Anything but stopping the extraction, trade or combustion of fossil fuels. Even if the workarounds have unforeseen consequences.
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by usern20260720 17d ago
I generated an immersive reading for Athenaze in a few afternoons with Claude
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by usern20260720 19d ago
There used to be a tiny macos app that allowed you to navigate the websites typing letters to follow links instead of needlessly roam your mouse around. Sadly, macos keyboard navigation is dwindling in interactions like the screen sharing p
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by usern20260720 21d ago
“The only social responsibility of Taylor Farms is to increase investor’s profits” Milton Friedman. “The only social responsibility of the government is to increase campaign sponsor’s profits”
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by usern20260720 21d ago
It’s not enough in most cases. JS must be deactivated beforehand
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by usern20260720 22d ago
Kirk?
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by usern20260720 22d ago
you can eat children alive and get away with it if you belong to the élite
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by usern20260720 22d ago
have you ever heard about "Epstein"?
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by usern20260720 26d ago
I can still read most paywalled articles by either blocking JS or digging into the HTML source code. I wish the browser could handle this issue by wgetting the source and decoding it without giving away any information about the visitor
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by usern20260720 26d ago
The US is not a country governed by the rule of the law
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by usern20260720 1mo ago
There used to be a meme “millions of years of fitting the environment to end up stuck to a glowing screen”
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by usern20260720 1mo ago
Yeah strike me off the birthday gift list
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by usern20260720 1mo ago
Not rechargeable battery. I have a rechargeable credit card sized tag. There’s no excuse
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by usern20260720 1mo ago
I hope it brings 10a prices down and a GrapheneOS phone becomes more affordable
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by usern20260720 1mo ago
The Apple Watch design is probably horrible (at least I am ashamed of mine) but they get away with it because the design decisions are reasonable (bigger screen real estate) and the hardware and functionalities are ok. Battery is very limit
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by usern20260720 1mo ago
My eSIM didn’t work abroad innerhalb der EU, where roaming is otherwise seamless and free
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by usern20260720 1mo ago
try loading it with JS off
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by usern20260720 1mo ago
it this font. Theano Modern. It has certain limitations so I had to use a more canonical one for Obsidian https://ancientgreek.eu/audiobooks/epictetus-enchiridion.htm...
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by usern20260720 1mo ago
My favourite ancient greek font is Theano
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by usern20260720 1mo ago
I generated a read-along version of Athenaze read by a real native language Greek speaker and I met some of the problems that this web has: the vast amount of vocabulary makes managing a dictionary rather complicated. For tbos version, I ga
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by usern20260720 2mo ago
although it is wonderful to know that there exists a piece of hardware in the world that is not conspiring against its users, the outcome of entering a duress password should be indistinguishable to the user that grabs hold of the mobile ph

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