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  • Looks like google domains is no more.

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  • Yeah, I’ve been waiting for Cloudflare to finally support .dev but it might be too late before Squarespace transfers sites. I might have to temporarily use porkbun

  • Looks like google domains is no more.

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  • Had some guy from one of their shell companies tell me a domain no one would ever spend five figures on was being sold for $55k. GoDaddy sucks massively.

  • Why tile?

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  • Most of my work happens in browser, some of it happens in terminal, other parts happen in vscode. I have very little method to the madness but I’m hoping at some point in the not so distant future to consolidate my desk to a triple monitor setup. I currently have two connected to the work laptop and two for my personal desktop. It’s a bit chaotic

  • Omnivore is an excellent open-source read-it-later alternative to Pocket, that can be self-hosted as well

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  • This is true, but it’s not like I’m stuffing sensitive thing in there. It was a lazy alternative to this and the best I had a few years ago

  • Omnivore is an excellent open-source read-it-later alternative to Pocket, that can be self-hosted as well

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  • I’ve been using a personal discord server to *save all the things I want to read, watch, or look at later

    Edit: no idea how Dave found his way into this comment

  • Illinois just made it possible to sue people for doxxing attacks

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  • Don’t get me wrong, I agree that it’s overreach for the government to collect and distribute people’s data like that. I’m just not sure the law, in its wording, actually provisions the protection you are hoping it does.

  • What's your favorite Linux Desktop software?

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  • MPV handles decoding much better than VLC, in my experience trying to watch fansubs

  • Illinois just made it possible to sue people for doxxing attacks

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  • The law states “individual” not sure if this applies to the government disseminating personally identifying information to other governments.

  • News Corp profits dive 75% as Rupert Murdoch-owned company hints at AI future

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  • Plus the other side MSNBC and CNN just feed people statements that are meant to make them upset, nervous and angry, all of the news media is hot garbage. I can’t stand any of it because it’s all blatant propaganda

  • Why US tech giants are threatening to quit the UK

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  • The claim is to protect children, but they’ve never done anything about Andrew. The real reason is unfettered data collection, no encryption means everything is available, and it’s appallingly obvious.

  • Elderly driver plows into Los Angeles car dealership dragging customer 20 feet to her death

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  • I don’t think they missed the point, they just expanded that it isn’t only an American problem.

  • The Internet is not forever after all: CNET deletes old articles to game Google

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  • The Library of Alexandria burning to the ground was a historical turning point, I wonder how comparable in terms of data are some of these larger, older sites? I don’t personally care too much about CNET, but they are one of many. The internet culling vast amounts of knowledge en-masse goes virtually unnoticed due to the invisible nature of its collections.

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    Hydrogen-powered planes almost ready for takeoff

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  • We’ve learned our lesson from the Hindenburg. Huge bladder of hydrogen bad, little tanks of hydrogen good

  • Systemd: Hidden Gems for a Better Linux

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  • I find systemctl to do a much better job than any alternative that comes stock with distros. I’m looking at you service

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    Americans seem to support abortion access. Why do Republicans keep trying to block it anyway?

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  • This is the foundation for the research article listed in the March 2013 NBC article.

    Fourth paragraph of introduction starts:

    The discovery by Kanai and colleagues [15] that four brain regions implicated in risk and uncertainty (the right amygdala, left insula, right entorhinal cortex, and anterior cingulate (ACC)) differed in liberals and conservatives provided further evidence that political ideology might be connected to differences in cognitive processes.

    Same paragraph concludes:

    The ACC is involved in conflict and error monitoring and in action selection [21], [22]. Thus, the regions implicated in risk and conflict, cognitive processes during which liberals and conservatives have been shown to differ in physiological response, are the similar regions shown by Kanai et al. to differ structurally in liberals and conservatives. If patterns of brain activity in these regions during the evaluation of risks could dependably differentiate liberals and conservatives, then we would have further evidence of the link between mental processes and political preferences.

    Conclusion of the introduction:

    Previous studies [26]–[28] using this risk-taking decision-making task found activity in some of the same regions identified by Kanai et al. as differentiating liberals and conservatives.

    Honestly, I think their finding is more accurately conveyed with this sample:

    Although genetic variation has been shown to contribute to variation in political ideology [48] and strength of partisanship [53], the portion of the variance in political affiliation explained by activity in the amygdala and insula is significantly larger (see Appendix S1), suggesting that acting as a partisan in a partisan environment may alter the brain, above and beyond the effect of the heredity.

    The argument here is not so much that brain chemistry predicts political bias, but rather that political bias can influence brain chemistry.

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    Americans seem to support abortion access. Why do Republicans keep trying to block it anyway?

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  • The source article is a small research article sampling young adults who were students in college. The article itself addresses the scope of its findings aptly:

    Although these results suggest a link between political attitudes and brain structure, it is important to note that the neural processes implicated are likely to reflect complex processes of the formation of political attitudes rather than a direct representation of political opinions per se. The conceptualizing and reasoning associated with the expression of political opinions is not necessarily limited to structures or functions of the regions we identified but will require the involvement of more widespread brain regions implicated in abstract thoughts and reasoning.

    We speculate that the association of gray matter volume of the amygdala and anterior cingulate cortex with political attitudes that we observed may reflect emotional and cognitive traits of individuals that influence their inclination to certain political orientations.

    I don’t think it is a good idea to base your opinion of political bias and brain chemistry on a single article’s speculation.

  • We pay massive amounts to subsidize car travel and don’t even know it

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  • I think this is an easy way out of doing anything. I don’t think that’s entirely accurate, and it’s probably the reasoning that has made cars so ubiquitous across many countries. Cars can still have their uses, but depending on them for everything is excessive and harmful for our communities.

  • We pay massive amounts to subsidize car travel and don’t even know it

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  • Three years ago and no one has batted an eye, the automotive industry has already gripped tight and there is little in the short-term to loosen that chokehold. I guess it starts locally, small changes can add up very quickly. Lose the car, ride a bike, begin telling people about how wasteful vehicles are, share stuff like this. Get friends thinking about clean alternatives.

  • Life but it's Baldur's Gate 3 | Joel Haver

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  • Definitely a top-tier creator