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Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729 (borretti.me)
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If you have an old Intel MacBook Air, they work beautifully with Linux as well: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2025/11/05/2200
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If you want portability on something premium, I can't recommend enought the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7. Specwise I've got the one with the Core ultra 5 125h. It also has an option with the 155h, but it battery and thermals can take a hit that I don't think it's worth it. It's got 16gb spread across 8x2gb modules and 512gb of ssd, both soldered, both extremely fast. Build quality that rivals MacBooks, but with superior keyboard, very nice battery life and an oled screen on top of it. The problem I had with the oled screen is that I thought it oversaturate reds out of the box on Linux, which I corrected using hyprshade: https://github.com/gchamon/archie/blob/main/hypr/shaders/vibrance-oled.glsl . I am looking for a better solution because the filters get picked on screenshots and washes out the colours. I need to find an ICE profile or export one from Windows. The camera also behave a bit weird. It has noticeable quality difference when using chromium and other browsers, the latter with perceptible quality degradation. Other than that, a very good mobile linux driver, snappy, cool, quiet, charges fast and a joy to use.
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Tossing Linux on used enterprise laptops is maybe the best bang for your buck machine you can get. They're often time a great value and within three years old. Used multiple Thinkpads and Dells over the years that were fantastic and gotten sub $400. Things I learned to look out for: - Locked BIOS - Look into the manufacturer's repairability reputation. I replaced the entire keyboard on my ThinkPad X1 Carbon and it was perfectly fine. It was a pain to get to, but no problems. On a Dell Latitude, it refused to charge my non-OEM battery replacement. My fault - I should've done some research. In my experience, Dell and Lenovo have excellent Linux hardware support. I don't know about other manufacturers, but I hope that that's also the case now too.
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Whenever Microsoft makes me make an account and I cannot bypass it I just make an throwaway with not so pleasant words in the email. Followed by installing EndeavourOS.
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Is there a good linux ARM laptop, fanless ?
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MacBook Air M1. Find one with max ram (Facebook marketplace, $400), have storage upgraded to 2TB (IYKYK), Linux support is good.
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Have a look at X1E devicetree in Linux kernel source ( https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom all the way to the bottom). There are some models that have a very active development and an almost complete support by now, with Thinkpad T14s probably the most active.
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I’d be interested in this as well. I want a quiet machine with a decent display and a long battery life. Right now the MacBook Air checks those boxes but I’d be very interested in an alternative that I can throw Linux / OpenBSD on.
Amazon Pulls Out of Mamdani's NYC–Hundreds Laid Off in Manhattan (msn.com)
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There are many thousands of amazon people (still) in NYC. MSN going NYPost with the fanciful headlines.
Isn't Mamdani not even sworn in until next year?
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They are planning for him to honor his campaign promises. It does sometimes happen that a politician is honest. I don't think it is so rare that it compromises fiduciary duty to prepare for it.
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None of this is brought up in the text. It's presented instead as a general trend within Amazon: > "The layoffs come as part of Amazon’s strategy to streamline its workforce, eliminating excess managerial layers and fostering more ownership within teams." and other tech cos: >"Amazon's cuts are part of a larger trend in tech, as companies shift toward leaner models." So why Mamdani's NYC? (BTW, what a weird article. It reads like a press release from Amazon.)
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Exactly. How is this related to Mamdani? (as implies by the gratuitous inclusion of his name in the headline.)
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Correct. Jan 1st, 2026. Flagged.
6B Miles Driven (tesla.com)
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Good progress, but important to keep in mind that the number of unsupervised miles is zero.
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They do good marketing for sure. I would like to see same from Toyotas & Hondas of the world.
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Given how famously the tesla switches self driving off moments before an accident, these statistics are impossible to trust (but also because musk is famously a liar)
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From the article: > If FSD (Supervised) was active at any point within five seconds leading up to a collision event, Tesla considers the collision to have occurred with FSD (Supervised) engaged for purposes of calculating collision rates for the Vehicle Safety Report.
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I use it every single day and it is amazing! I have had my car for 6+ years now and it has only gotten better. Starting with "Navigate on Autopilot" when I originally got the car in 2019 which was pretty janky, it has only gotten better and better (with the rare regression in some cases). As of the last year or so, I don't even have to touch the steering wheel anymore!
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It would be more meaningful if we could see the data controlled for all the factors auto insurance is priced on (driver age, zip code, credit score, vehicle age, etc.) Does Tesla offer massively lower insurance premiums for drivers that do the majority of their driving with FSD?
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> Does Tesla offer massively lower insurance premiums for drivers that do the majority of their driving with FSD? Yes: https://www.tesla.com/support/insurance/fsd-discount
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The discount is "up to 10%". I would call that a modest discount.
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Or they have eyes and ears and have seen the footage.
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You realize that almost every politician has done a similar type of pose right? So if there’s a picture or a video of your favorite politician doing that pose you’re automatically going to assume they are Nazi? Just a minimal knowledge of Musk‘s ties to Israel, and friendships with Netanyahu, Jared Kushner, and others you should realize that there’s no way he’s a Nazi or antisemitic. If anything, he is highly racist against Muslims.
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Yes, if I see a video (not a still) of someone doing a nazi salute two times in a row, I'm gonna assume they're a nazi. Doubly so if they also happen to tune in to an AfD and a Tommy Robinson rally.
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There is a difference between waving and doing a Nazi salute. There is a difference between seeing a single frame of a wave and a full video where he does it twice.
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Voyager 1 is 15B+ miles away. Kind of mind blowing.
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Pretty amazing to have driven six billion miles with 7x less major accidents. How many lives have been saved?
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Tesla appears to have an impressive history of automatically disengaging FSD immediately before a collision, and this page is quite light on details of what they’re comparing to what, so I would take it with a large grain of salt.
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True, we need to see the details of how they compute all this data. I do remember reading that they include crash data up to like a minute after FSD has been disengaged so these types of crashes should be included. Nevertheless, the latest version of FSD I can certainly believe is seven times less likely to get into an accident than the average driver. I experienced it daily.
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> and this page is quite light on details of what they’re comparing to what In the page: "If FSD (Supervised) was active at any point within five seconds leading up to a collision event, Tesla considers the collision to have occurred with FSD (Supervised) engaged for purposes of calculating collision rates for the Vehicle Safety Report." They are pretty open about how the stats are reported.
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For how many seconds after FSD is disengaged do accidents still get attributed to FSD?
How to write type-safe generics in C (raphgl.github.io)
Well, another option would be to use a C++ compiler, which supports templates, but limit the use of classes through a coding convention standard.
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Is there a way to pass compiler switches to disable specific C++ features? Or other static analysis tools that break the build upon using prohibited features?
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No two development groups agree on the desired features, so it would have to be a custom compiler plugin. You could start with a Perl script that looks at the output of “clang++ -Xclang -ast-dump” and verifies that only permitted AST nodes are present in files that are part of the project sources.
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Actually this was my first instinct too. Just limit what you use c++ for and write c code with templates and be done with it. The problems I am guessing start when you are tempted into using the rest of the features one by one. You have generics. Well next let's get inheritance in. Now a bit of operator overloading. Then dealing with all kinds of smart pointers...
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What would be the detrimental effect of using smart pointers?
C folks rather reproduce badly C++ than acknowledge its Typescript like improvements over C.
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C is sometimes used where C++ can't be. Exotic microcontrollers and other niche computing elements sometimes only have a C compiler. Richer, more expressive languages may also have additional disadvantages, and people using simpler, less expressive languages may want to enjoy some useful features that exist in richer languages without taking on all of their disadvantages, too. Point being, while C++ certainly has some clear benefits over C, it doesn't universally dominate it. TS, on the other hand, is usable wherever JS is, and its disadvantages are much less pronounced.
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It isn't the 1980's any longer, there isn't a chip in such scenarios other than PIC class, even AVR get to use C++.
> C folks rather reproduce badly C++ than acknowledge its Typescript like improvements over C This is a rather crude misrepresentation; most C programmers who need a higher level of abstraction than C reach for Java, C# or Go over C++. IOW, acknowledging that C++ has improvements over C still does not make the extra C++ footguns worth switching over. When you gloss over the additional footguns, it looks like you're taking it personally when C programmers don't want to deal with those additional footguns. After all, we don't choose languages based on which one offers the most freedom to blow your leg off, we tend to choose languages based on which ones have the most restrictions against blowing your leg off. If your only criteria is "Where can I get the most features", then sure, C++ looks good. If your criteria is "Where are the fewest footguns", then C++ is at the bottom of the list.
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Nah, it is called life experience meeting those kind of persons since the 1990's, starting on BBS forums. My criteria is being as safe as Modula-2 and Object Pascal, as bare minimum. C++ offers the tools, whereas WG14 has made it clear they don't even bother, including turning down Dennis Ritchie proposal for fat pointers.
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>> looks like you're taking it personally > it is called life experience meeting those kind of persons Looks like you are confirming that you are taking it personally. I don't understand why, though. You cannot imagine a programmer that wants fewer footguns?
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Yes, when careless programmers are responsible for critical infrastructure systems, and rather take a YOLO attitude to systems programming.
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> Yes, when careless programmers are responsible for critical infrastructure systems, and rather take a YOLO attitude to systems programming. Well, that's a novel take: "Opting for fewer footguns is careless". :-) It's probably not news to you that your view is, to put it kindly, very rare.
Kagi Bloopers – Search Results Gone Wrong (help.kagi.com)
Does Kagi have any value in the era of LLMs? My understanding is that it aggregates result from different providers.
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Kagi assistant is effectively a superset of other LLM chat apps. Has access to kagi search which is a also a superset of search backends for the assistant
Is Kagi worth paying for? It's been on my radar for a while.
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My wife and I got the duo package because we do a lot of writing and need citations and sources. Compared to google and DDG it is less noisy and returns fewer spammy pages. We’re giving it a year to see if it is worth it.
Just be aware that a small percentage of your money would be going to the Russian government: https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/07/17/kagi/
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The EU is still buying billions of dollars of fossil fuels and other resources from Russia.[0] [0] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/3/how-much-of-europes-oil-and-gas-still-comes-from-russia
Sixty-ten-eight! Sixty-ten-nine! Four-twenties! 1999 == One thousand, nine hundreds, four twenties, ten, nine. I studied French in grade school over ten years and I love it. But the way numbers convert into language is wild. I tease it with love.
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US time: a quarter till 8.
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"Four twenties and ten" is better than the Danish "five minus a half, times twenty".
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That is so cursed. I love it!
Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today (adguard-dns.io)
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Anti-child porn activists really are a unique new breed of fascist authoritarians. This is only the latest in a long line of outrageous and comical threatening letters where the recipient’s apparent reticence to comply with a takedown request is deemed to be, by the activists, active knowing involvement and participation, which is obviously outrageous but these dickheads bank on the fact that actual child porn elicits such strong community reactions. See also: trying to strongarm Apple into running local scans on everybody’s devices and telling Apple not to listen to its customers.
But apparently there was actual CSAM there, since the article mentioned that archive.is removed it within a few hours. So the claim was real. Why did they make up such a story around it?
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Since archive.is doesn’t scan the internet and only archives content on demand, those might as well have been planted exactly for this purpose - which would put another crime onto the accuser.
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Because they went to the unrelated DNS provider and not the archive itself.
So they're pressuring a DNS resolver to block a specific website? That seems like an incredibly slippery slope. What stops them from forcing Chrome to block the website, or LetsEncrypt to not issue any more certificates for the domain, or Microsoft and Apple to add them to their firewalls? Hell, can they go after the infrastructure software developers and say, force nginx to add a check and refuse to serve the domain? Then what happens when a fake report is sent to an open source project without budget for lawyers?
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We already did the slipping. Sony sued Quad9 to have them block The Pirate Bay. They only lost after a lengthy legal exchange. There's also voluntary censorship, so without any real due process, in some countries. Mostly at ISP level, but all the other entities you mentioned could also implement it. They may be forced to, as a means of dodging liability. There's all kinds of nefarious schemes.
The internet will be destroyed as countries the world over seek to impose all of their silly and incompatible laws on it. The international network will fracture into multiple national networks with heavy filtering at the borders. I've been making this prediction for years now. Words can hardly capture the sadness I feel when I see evidence of its slow realization. I'm happy to have known the true internet. Truly one of the wonders of humanity.
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> The internet will be destroyed as countries the world over seek to impose all of their silly and incompatible laws on it. > I'm happy to have known the true internet. Truly one of the wonders of humanity. I'm old enough to have been around for the whole thing. I used to kind of share this view, but I don't anymore. I think it's impossible to reconcile this point of view with the obvious observation that huge aspects of life have gotten really dramatically worse thanks to the internet and its related and successor technologies. It has made people more addicted, more anxious, more divided, or confused. It has created massive concentrations of wealth and power that have a very damaging effect on society, and it is drastically reducing the ability of people to make decisions about how they want to live and how they want their society to be structured. It's also done a tremendous amount of positive good, too, don't worry. It's obvious to me, like it should be obvious to any rational person, that there are huge benefits too. And of course, to some extent, there's a bit of inevitability to some parts of this. While certainly there are examples of silly laws in the world, it's worth noting that that's the exception, not the rule. In general, laws are things that society does on purpose with the intent of making the world match its values. I think countries should in fact be governed by the consent of their own citizens and by the rule of law. I welcome changes that make that more likely. I also like Archive.today, and I hate paywalls, they're annoying. This may not be the best place to post my counterpoint, but I think it's worth mentioning and it doesn't get repeated enough. I was around in the 90s, and I'm very familiar with the techno-utopian approach of the first internet generation. It failed.
I've given up on trying to change the world. > What will the world will be like in the future is decided by us every day. That's the problem. This "us" you're referring to. People. They're the problem. They have no principles. They stand for nothing. They think they do, but the reality is their principles are easily compromised. They are highly susceptible to manipulation by way of emotion. Powerful emotions like terror and rage. Conjure up some drug trafficking, money laundering, child molesting terrorist boogeyman and they'll compromise immediately. Suddenly freedom is being traded away for security. Suddenly free speech is no longer absolute. Then you see that these weren't principles that entire nations were founded upon, they were more like guidelines, thrown away at the first sign of inconvenience. The harsh truth is that danger must not only be accepted but embraced in order to have true freedom and independence. The internet that connects us also connects criminals, the cryptography that protects us also protects criminals. There is no way around it. Compromise even a little and it's over. People are the problem. They endlessly compromise on things. No ideal can ever be reached. It's an existential problem that cannot be solved. To be an idealist is to be an extremist. Sadly people are not prepared to pay the costs of idealism. The ideal of a decentralized, encrypted and uncensorable communications medium, for example. It requires that they accept the cost that criminals will not only use it but be enabled by it. They won't accept it. Thus we march not towards the ideal but towards its opposite: centralized plain text surveilled and controlled communications.
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I don't necessarily disagree with you, broadly. The good news is that, I think, we don't really need - if fact, we probably don't really want - most people to accept anything, at least the specific context of this thread. It's about whether we can carve out a space - some space - for people like you and me. > I've given up on trying to change the world. I don't think you have. Speech matters. Ideas matter. I'm not going to try to quantify such things, but looking at your HN submissions and your comments - including this one - I think you are actively changing the world, for better or worse. If nothing else, you believe in objective truth, I think. We have a surprisingly large number of people who don't. > Believe in Truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights. Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny
Don’t forget cloudflare
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Yes. Alas my list was far from exhaustive :(
I speculate, and the conspiracy theorist in me believes, something of a compromising nature has been archived and they want that data inaccessible, but at the same time, pointing out what they want hidden would shine a light on it. It is even more interesting the US government is coming after archive.today at the same time, or maybe that is just a coincidence, and this is just a tech-savvy philanderer trying to hide something from his wife.
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I doubt it’s one thing. People in powerful positions need the ability to control the narrative and gaslight the public on an ongoing basis by disappearing content. Being able to call them out on it breaks their system, so they’re trying to fix that.
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This seems to me to be the most likely explanation. Someone important and/or rich wants something memory-holed and the archive sites are amongst the last to contain the content, so someone else is creating a facade organization as an attempt to get it taken down in every way possible. And yes it's entirely possible that the archive sites have multiple "enemies".
Well, as the post indicates, it likely isn't from a government body.
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Oh I see, I thought it was all FBI. But the point stands I think, as I’d expect legal demands to be measured and to the point.
I thought they were suggesting it was a government body (an FBI operation)
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Its interesting that being unable to find a legal route to dig up dirt on archive.is, they're going the route of CSAM allegations. I first heard of this technique on a discussion on Lowendtalk from a hoster discussing how pressure campaigns were orchestrated. The host used to host VMs for a customer that was not well liked but otherwise within the bounds of free speech in the US (I guess something on the order of KF/SaSu/SF), so a given user would upload CSAM on the forum, then report the same CSAM to the hoster. They used to use the same IP address for their entire operation. When the host and the customer compared notes, they'd find about these details. Honestly at the time I thought the story was bunk, in the age of residential proxies and VPNs and whatnot, surely whoever did this wouldn't just upload said CSAM from their own IP, but one possible explanation would be that the forum probably just blocked datacenter IPs wholesale and the person orchestrating the campaign wasn't willing to risk the legal fallout of uploading CSAM out of some regular citizen's infected device. In this case, I assume law enforcement just sets up a website with said CSAM, gets archive.is to crawl it, and then pressurize DNS providers about it.
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> Its interesting that being unable to find a legal route to dig up dirt on archive.is, they're going the route of CSAM allegations. This looks like someone in US (because FBI + CSAM) does not like them. A lot of "sensitive" content is behind paywalls in the "free press" so someone, possibly FBI, wants to suppress this info.
They have plausible deniability, but the fact of the matter is: this also erases evidence of past crimes from public records. If bad things already happened then we should keep the evidence that they happened. The root problem of CSAM is child trafficking and abuse in physical space. But for whatever reason enforcement efforts seem to be more focused on censoring and deleting the images rather than on curbing the actual act of child trafficking and rape. It's almost as if viewing (or this case, merely archiving) CSAM is considered a worse crime than the physical act of trafficking and sexually abusing children, which is apparently okay nowadays if you're rich or powerful enough.
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Great point. I guess one is just a better anti-privacy boogeyman.
I don’t know why you are downvoted, this is absolutely what happened semi-frequently until Reddit was finally forced to crack down on it. The same thing happened on Twitter/X for a while where bots would mass reply to targeted users with gore and CSAM.
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I downvoted it because it's commonly said by people who do bad things, as a red herring. "People from your subreddit keep killing people" "Well at least we're not infected by the woke mind virus"/"You can't accuse us of that just because we don't agree with the hivemind"/etc. It's no different from "but her emails" etc.
The current federal government of France? Of the EU? The article is not about the USA.
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> The current federal government of France? Of the EU? The article is not about the USA. Are you sure ? They say in the article that they were not able to fing out who sent the email. Site was behind Cloudfare (so US).
And that and other pedophile linked conspiracy theories (pizzagate) had huge ramifications in these elections
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pizzagate = not real, what I just said is not a conspiracy theory.
They released a bunch of emails this week. We can stop tiptoeing saying that "The president was connected to Epstein, a notorious sexual predator" - with the evidence from the emails we can upgrade it to the much more direct fact "President Trump is a pedophile who liked to rape little girls"
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>with the evidence from the emails we can upgrade it to the much more direct fact "President Trump is a pedophile who liked to rape little girls" A bunch of vaguely worded emails is enough to summarily conclude that someone is a criminal? I'm glad you're not a judge.
One Handed Keyboard (github.com/htx-studio)
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..we found an off the shelf keyboard that could work, but we couldn't get it because it was 999 euros. So let's make 7 iterations of our own keyboard with our Formlabs 3d printer, create silicom molds for each key, print legends with our uv printer and we're done. Glad he did though, looks awesome!
If anyone's interested in something way faster that still lets you go one handed. Take a look at the charachorder. You can type one handed, or easily rip 200wpm with 2 hands. But it does take like a year to get fast. I was coming from a moonlander tho so I was ready
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Thank you for sharing, so flipping cool. How do you handle the mouse navigation aspect? That’s one thing missing from my glove80
>It also has a much tougher job - all the cmd, ctrl, alt and shift + combinations are mostly done using the left hand Look into homerow mods if you are prepared to do some (invasive) key remaps in software: https://precondition.github.io/home-row-mods
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And if you like it, picking up any QMK or ZMK compatible keyboard would let you do it in firmware too!
Their video on YouTube, in English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vW12gQ4Klc
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Does anyone know which keys/switches out there sound like this one? It's got a soft cheery non-intrusive sound that I really like compared to the usual louder mechanical keys/switches that I hear in videos.
Okay I must say, the production quality of that video is insane.
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I'd watch a video about the making of this video.
Feels like HTX blew up out of nowhere with a ton of long form content at once, but they were huge in Chinese social media already, and finally decided to start translating previous content to english and uploading to Youtube.
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My family and I binged a few of their videos. They’re so good
NATO Ended Russia's Estonian Air Incursions (themilitaryanalyst.com)
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> This is why another similar move hasn’t happened, and why Russia will think twice before it does so again. It literally happened again the following month. Is this an AI generated article or something?
Shooting down a plane violating NATO airspace is the correct reaction, not an overreaction.
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Think about it for a second. Is it really the "correct" reaction when it achieves precisely the outcome wanted by the Russian command? How is this a wise policy?
It's also pretty obvious that Russia respects only strength. If NATO doesn't react strongly enough, it is perceived weak by Russia, which increases the likelihood of them trying something against a NATO country. I don't think shooting down aircraft that severely violate NATO airspace is overreacting. It's what Russia would do to NATO aircraft violating their airspace. I think everything Russia does should be responded with a measure of similar size. Being overly careful with Russia hasn't worked very well at all historically.
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Showing strength is also showing restraint. The Russian pilots now know that they owe their life to NATO's restraint, a restraint that they know they cannot expect from their own chain of deluded command. The releasing of this information to the Russian public demonstrates clearly who is what, and how foolish joining the ranks of the man-eating army of the losing side would be.
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