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  • Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining

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  • Looks like Microsoft needs to further enhance the consumer experience by adding more personalized product recommendations, that'll fix it right up!

  • ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say

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  • I mean the sale agreement could require the buyer to never expand outside the US.

  • UK passes bill to send asylum seekers to Rwanda

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  • I'm referring to the the Charter of Rights and Freedoms from 1982. But yes there is still a lot of unwritten rules too like the UK.

  • UK passes bill to send asylum seekers to Rwanda

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  • The UK system has the concept that Parliament is the ultimate authority of matters. So courts there interpret laws but are unable to reject them.

    Canada on the other hand has a constitution which lists different rights that people have, and Parliament has no authority to take away some of these rights. There is some controversial leeway with some of the rights where Parliament, using the 'Notwithstanding clause', is allowed to temporarily ignore some sections of the Constitution, but they have to keep renewing that every several years or else it expires, and it can't be applied to some rights like voting rights.

    Regarding this specific law I'm unsure of whether there's anything in our constitution that would prevent deporting irregular migrants to a third country.

  • Bossy baby

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  • My sister (parents' cat) is great at communicating. She'll get your attention and then lead you to whatever she wants. The door to go outside, the food drawer for treats, the bathtub for running water, and to her toys if she wants to play.

    Sometimes she likes to steal my dad's office chair; for that she'll lead him out of the room as if she wanted something else and then run back in to claim the now-vacant chair. Or she just jumps up and wedges him off :D

  • UK passes bill to send asylum seekers to Rwanda

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  • Please be specific about this being the UK's democracy and not democracy in general. In Canada for example courts are stronger and it would be much more difficult (albeit not impossible) for our Parliament to do something like this.

  • Scientists push new paradigm of animal consciousness, saying even insects may be sentient

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  • Rape then? Lots of animals rape and humans do so too. It's 'natural' but barbaric.

  • North Texas man sues Cinemark claiming 24-ounce beer cups can't hold 24 ounces

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  • I'm not in the EU but I got captchaed too.

  • Scientists push new paradigm of animal consciousness, saying even insects may be sentient

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  • Just because something is natural doesn't mean it isn't barbaric. Male lions will regularly kill cubs to make the mother ready for sex - that's natural but we'd never accept (correctly) a human doing that.

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  • Ever watch an extra wide screen film? That black bar above and below licensed content is the perfect place to inform you about exciting products and opportunities!

    Did you know that your eyes only look at one spot at a time? Our customer optimizers are working hard to design a system to use AI to identify this spot in every frame, so that we can fill the rest of the screen with even more consumer opportunities! This applies to audio gaps too - we'll fill in those awkward silences with exclusive content!

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  • if the video being displayed is static

    Imagine you're playing Skyrim and while reading one of the books your TV covers up the content with an ad! That would be infuriating!

  • backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise

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  • They also believe we (Arch users) are unaffected because this backdoor targeted Debian and Redhat type packaging specifically and also relied on a certain SSH configuration Arch doesn't use. To be honest while it's nice to know we're unaffected, it's not at all comforting that had the exploiter targeted Arch they would have succeeded. Just yesterday I was talking to someone about how much I love rolling release distros and now I'm feeling insecure about it.

    More details here: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/xz/-/issues/2

  • What's the deal with Docker?

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  • I started self-hosting a bit prior to when Docker took off, and getting multiple services running was much harder. Service A wants a certain version of PHP installed with certain plugins while Service B wants a different version. You'd follow a tutorial for installing Service C and desperately hope that it wouldn't somehow break Service A or B. You installed Service D for a bit despite all the installation pain and now want to uninstall it - I hope you tracked exactly what config changes you made throughout the system so you can undo it.

    Docker fixed all of this by making each service independent through containers which made self-hosting 10x easier. I'd also add that I love how easy it is to transfer my setup to a new server - I keep all of my container volumes in a specific directory and my docker-compose files in another and that's all I need to backup / transfer. Without Docker you'd have to specifically handle each & every configuration file and database location, and if you later upgrade to a newer version of the OS or a different distro you'd have to handle possible conflicts between your versions and what the distro expects.

  • India moves to implement controversial citizenship bill that excludes Muslims

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  • It's been a while since I've read about this but my understanding is that many people in rural areas will lack the documentation showing that they've always lived in India and have citizenship. Basically, this would let the government then start questioning people's citizenship and effectively pretend that many rural Muslims are illegal immigrants while allowing Hindus without documentation to be unaffected.

  • Fridge failures: LG says angry owners can't sue, company points to cardboard box

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  • I know that Chinese brands have a bad reputation, but there are some really good products they make too. I have an ice cream maker (compressor based) that's both cheaper than any of the traditional brands but also has a really fantastic build quality. It wouldn't surprise me if over time some of the Chinese brands start to target western consumers more, and if they actually deliver quality products while the traditional brands aren't then they might gain significant market share.

  • Troubled Commercial Real Estate Loans Outstrip Reserves at Top US Banks

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  • Yeah, I don't disagree that these loans are going to cause trouble for a long time, but I disagree with the headline implying these banks can't meet their deposits.

    I think that, over the next decade, many of these commercial buildings will undergo retrofits (say to turn them into housing) which will help the owners / lenders recoup much of the costs.

  • Tensions grow as 160 tonnes of Ukrainian grain sabotaged in Poland

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  • We live in a global economy. If Lativia doesn't get this grain then they'll buy / outbid other grain that might have been destined for a poorer country. For any commodities like grain any impact in one place does have a worldwide impact through changing prices.

  • Troubled Commercial Real Estate Loans Outstrip Reserves at Top US Banks

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  • The 'reserves' are just money they put away for bad loans. All this means is that they'll have some quarters of lower profits, NOT that they're going bankrupt.

  • How performant are the Intel Arc GPUs in linux?

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  • Related question - how usable (in practical terms) are these cards for running AI models like Llama or Stable Diffusion? I know it's technically possible but I don't want to install a billion AUR packages and a custom kernel, etc.