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  • The slow death of Twitter is measured in disasters like the Baltimore bridge collapse

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  • I'm guilty of doing this (just reading the headlines) as well. I usually do it for these reasons:

    • I don't care enough to want to read more. For example, news about US politics. I don't live in the US. I feel that reading the headlines is enough to keep me informed about what's happening, but I really don't care any more than that.
    • The details aren't valuable to me. For example, the Apple anti-trust lawsuit... Is it important? Yes. I'm already well aware of the horrible anticonsumer practices of Apple. But do I need to know all the particular details about the lawsuit? Not really. In fact, the only thing that matters is the final verdict, which hasn't happened yet.
    • I care, but I already know enough details.
    • I don't feel like the article would bring a lot of value, especially if the title is click-baity. I've encountered too many articles that are void of content, just the title repeated in 10x more words.

    I don't like visiting news sites because, in addition to all of them being obnoxious and ad riddled, I feel like I'm wasting a lot of time reading long articles that could be rewritten as 3 bullet points. On platforms like lemmy, users will highlight the important bits in the comments which saves a lot of time.

  • Google is removing third-party apps and clock faces from all Fitbit watches in the EU

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  • A good start would be to require that companies put an expiration date on the products they sell, and until that date they are legally required to support the product. Also, it should be put into law that companies cannot remove features, services or content in a product after it was already sold until the expiration date.

  • A cargo ship’s ‘WindWing’ sails saved it up to 12 tons of fuel per day

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  • You can't use traditional sails on a ship of that size and mass, they wouldn't make much difference and would need a large crew to operate.

    If you want to apply the concept to modern ships, you need to design stronger sails (e.g. made of metal), you need to make it easy to operate with a small crew and you need to also design them in a way that doesn't interfere with cranes in ports.

    It's not as easy as just slapping sails and calling it a day.

  • Linux distro for selfhosting server

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  • If you don't want to be on the bleeding edge and want a distro with longer support, CentOS Stream isn't bad. Sure, there was some controversy surrounding it, when Red Hat killed the old CentOS. But ignoring that, the distro itself is pretty good and stable.

  • Good luck speed cameras

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  • Did you even read my post? I said that you need plates to drive, but you don't need plates if you are parked (or on private property). If a car is parked, you have plenty of time to read the VIN. Driving on public roads without plates is illegal and you risk jail time.

  • Radarr / Qbittorrent: How to switch to hardlinks

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  • You can't hard link across docker volumes. In the second example, you need to remove the /media/movies and /media/downloads volumes, only keep /media.

    After fixing this, only future downloads will be hard links. Use a deduplication tool like jdupes to create hard links for the already downloaded files.

  • Good luck speed cameras

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  • I highly doubt cameras would be able to recognize this as a valid plate.

  • Good luck speed cameras

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  • Where I live, you only need valid plates to drive on public roads. If the car is parked or you drive on private property, there's no problem. The procedure for getting plates requires you to not have plates for like 2 or 3 days.

    Cars can still be identified by the VIN which is on the windshield.

  • Cars are rewiring our brains to ignore all the bad stuff about driving

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  • There are a lot of things people do while driving that are dangerous but very common. Things like driving with the high beam, speeding, tailgating, using a phone while driving etc.

    The problem is that enforcing the rules is hard. You would either need a large percentage of the population to be police officers, or to put traffic cameras on every street.

  • HP is in the rent-a-printer business now

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  • They make decent laptops. I had Elitebooks, ZBooks and an Omen, excellent machines. I liked them more than Dell or lenovo.

  • Putin doesn't really want a war with NATO because 'Russia will lose and lose quickly,' UK military chief says

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  • Also, the west gets to get rid of the old weapons that would otherwise have to be destroyed, while also burning through Russia's materiel.

  • Reddit literally shilling their own stonks to users in direct message, reveals that CEO gets paid $193 million last year

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  • Let's be real, they did it because they didn't want people training AI models without paying them. They didn't give a shit about 3rd party apps.

  • RIP my photos from 2017 and contacts from 2005

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  • Much better. SSDs and HDDs do monitor the health of the drives (and you can see many parameters through SMART), while pen drives and SD cards don't.

    Of course, they have their limits which is why raid exists. File systems like ZFS are built on the premise that drives are unreliable. It's up to you if you want that redundancy. The most important thing to not lose data is to have backups. Ideally at least 3 copies, 1 off site (e.g. on a cloud, or on a disk at some place other than your home).

  • RIP my photos from 2017 and contacts from 2005

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  • PhotoRec and TestDisk are probably the best, but they don't recover file structure.

  • RIP my photos from 2017 and contacts from 2005

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  • Fuck up #1: no backups

    Fuck up #2: using SD cards for data storage. SD cards and USB drives are ephemeral storage devices, not to be relied on. Most of the time they use file systems like FAT32 which are far less safe than NTFS or ext4. Use reliable storage media, like hard drives.

    Fuck up #3: no backups.

  • Software under stress decided to talk Arabic to me

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  • I read that like 5 times as satanic error.

  • This is painfully true

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  • The honestly prefer the bottom one than the modern 50 step wizards that take 10 seconds for each page to load, and load an ungodly amount of JS scripts.

    A company I worked for was using an ancient bug tracking tool (called Pivotal) that looked like a 90s site. It was so fast and responsive. Later, we moved to something modern. It was 10 times worse, significantly slower and overly complex.

  • So glad I'm ditching these fucking idiots

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  • Give Solid Edge (from Siemens) a try. It has a free for hobby use edition. It's not perfect, but I'm pretty happy with it, and none of the stupid restrictions of Fusion.

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  • Because Amazon is shitty with the sellers, the good ones can't make profit on the platform. All that's left is the Chinese garbage sold at huge margins, where the seller doesn't care if it gets returned.