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  • Trump signs new order to vastly expand presidential powers

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  • As a German, this is precisely what comes to mind

  • Led by RFK Jr., Conservatives Embrace Raw Milk. Regulators Say It’s Dangerous.

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  • Trump tells DOJ to prosecute teachers who “unlawfully” support trans or nonbinary students

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  • A fellow German flexing his Grundgesetz one last time before the AfD comes to power, I see

  • Trump orders creation of US sovereign wealth fund, says it could own part of TikTok

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  • That's not quite true. If you're better than the market, you can borrow until the market price for money (interest rate) adjusts (you become the market) and make money off of it. The thing just happens to be, governments aren't usually in the being-more-efficient-than-the-market game, so, yes, countries should never do that.

  • Youtube adds setting for uploaders to allow third party AI training on videos

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  • Both could be filtered out in theory (which they should do if they were smart, because amount of training data matters way less than quality or training data), but filtering AI created slop is harder, especially if you just slightly modify it.

  • What's the longest you've ever had to wait in line to vote? Where in the world?

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  • <5min Germany

  • A hopeless addict

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  • *fresh, running water that is not right next to their food. Cats would normally eat… dead things— and as water literally right next to these generally is not exactly hygienic, they will (as an evolutionary fact) much prefer even random puddle water.

    So: different place for water than for food.

  • Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer

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  • Yeah, but I don’t know whether you’ve recently taken a look in one of the local newspapers— being able to select topics you want to read about may very well be worth the extra effort (also, fun of course)

  • Personally I prefer NASA's pronunciation, which is "charon".

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  • Χάρων, of course

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  • Let me introduce you to my computer science professors…

    (yes, no joke)

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  • iOS user here, uYou++ is quite good, but only a mod for the regular YT app, not a complete alternative.

  • 60% of Open-Source Maintainers Are Unpaid: It's Concerning & What We Can Do About it

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  • What’s bad about (politely) asking for donations? After all, why not let people who really want to support the free software you’re creating do so even if they can’t code?

  • YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog

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  • YouTube is/ its ads are are extremely privacy intrusive and there isn’t really an alternative to the platform. Next to the comparatively obvious network effects all social media platforms rely on is also because YouTube on its own is not that profitable and probably only really makes Google money via the data collected on the platform. This means only platforms that have a gigantic ad network themselves and are able to monetize said data as well as Google can can actually compete with YouTube— and as you see, there are basically none.

    Also, the whole blocking ad blockers thing is trying to fundamentally reverse the power equilibrium between the website (the server) and the person visiting it (the client); because for the last 40 years or so, the server had the purpose of delivering content to the client which could decide what to do with and how to present said content. This sharing of responsibility between the two comes in many forms, starting with simple things such as screen readers or a reading mode for the browser.

  • YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog

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  • This is not necessarily the case.

    You could only use this new system if the old one fails, ie. only for the say 10% of users that block ads, and so even if it were more expensive it would still be more profitable than letting them block all ads.

    But I don’t think even that is the case, as they can essentially just "swap out" the video they’re streaming (as they don’t really stream "one video" per video anyway), bringing additional running costs to nearly zero.

    The only thing definitely more expensive and resource intensive is the development of said custom software

  • Name the band

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  • Then it looks like a really terrible concert and then you notice it’s cotton.

  • Linux reaches 5.25% in Germany

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  • Crazy to think that one of twenty people I meet outside use Linux

  • Automation be like

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  • Seems to have become one of the fundamental rules of the Internet now, I approve 👍

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  • Ohhhh, I desperately want this to happen!

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    ZeroTrust Your Home

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  • I, too, don’t love the use of AWS/Cloudflare, while I get that you can simply replace AWS S3 with something else for backups, this server setup is innately based on using Cloudflare.