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Walmart customer banned from every store in US over self checkout 'watch' trick that let them pay $1 for expensive items
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RETAIL giant Walmart has banned an alleged serial shoplifter from every store in the US over a secret barcode scam. Ashley Cross was caught on security cameras using an old watch battery barcode to…
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Now available: Khadas Mind 2s mini PC with 64GB RAM and built-in battery can be transformed into a laptop
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Now available: Khadas Mind 2s mini PC with 64GB RAM and built-in battery can be transformed into a laptop

The Khadas Mind 2s is now available for sale. It's a modular mini PC that can be expanded with many accessories, some of which turn it into a laptop or even a well-performing workstation with a decent amount of GPU power.
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I really enjoyed the first 22 or so chapters of this one. I finished the rest. It got a bit too dark for my taste, though, and the things it was trying to say, combined with the way it was saying them, just didn't quite land for me.

Nemesis Quest [Isekai + LitRPG Satire]by Charmpagne: "Nemesis Engine engaged. Nemesis found... Transporting...
And now that I had EVERYTHING going in the right direction, I'm sucked into another world as a scullery maid because some ex-boyfriend from high school still hates me? Seriously? I was pre-med! I had a family! And a cat!
What do you mean I can have my cat? Well, that's a start...but once I get the hang of this, someone is going to pay because if I'm what you wished for, your genie doesn't like you. Did I mention I can cook?
Finished and Complete" www.royalroad.com/fiction/68328/nemesis-quest-isekai-litrpg-satire

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Imagine a free, point-to-point file transfer service with no file size or type limitations. Enter Blip – it's like platform-agnostic AirDrop from anywhere.

podfeet.com/blog/2025/02/blip/

w/ @bart


Fast Point-to-Point File Transfer with Blip - Podfeet Podcasts

The Problem to be Solved When Bart and I record an installment of Programming By Stealth or Security Bits, we both record both sides of our conversation. We use Audio Hijack to record the files in stereo, so he’s on one track, and I’m on the other.
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The amazing feeling of discovering that The Archive Of Our Own has a character tag for "Fediverse Network/Mastadon Platform (Anthropomorphic)", followed by the disappointment of finding only a single #fanfic using that tag. I wanted to read a bunch of erotic #Misskey#fanfiction about all that forking! Maybe a #GnuSocial#Pleroma slashfic! Or some #GoToSocial and #Mastodon lemons. A #hubzilla and #friendica hurt/comfort fanfic anyone? C'mon, people. The fact a tag exists means we should use it. archiveofourown.org/tags/Fediverse%20Network*s*Mastadon%20Platform%20(Anthropomorphic)/works

Fediverse Network/Mastadon Platform (Anthropomorphic) - Works | Archive of Our Own

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
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#friendica #Mastodon #pleroma #hubzilla #misskey #GNUSocial #fanfiction #GoToSocial #fanfic

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Welcome kriztalz as #curl commit author 1343: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1633…

Correct argument names & URL redirection by kriztalz · Pull Request #16334 · curl/curl

Two documentation edits related to the following documentation pages: CURLOPT_SSL_ENABLE_NPN Issue: The use of a full-stop breaks the redirection when rendered on a webpage Action: Removed the fu...
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Minetestbildung ist jetzt auf Matrix Immer wieder haben datenschutzsensible Leute beklagt, dass wir mit einem Open-Source-Projekt discord nutzen. Deshalb haben wir zunächst als Alternative einen öffentlichen Matrix Space gegründet mit verschiedenen Unterkanälen. Auch Videochat ist dort möglich. Erste Anfragen haben uns dort schon erreicht . Beitreten könnt ihr über diesen Link: https://matri… Vollständiger Beitrag: blogs.rpi-virtuell.de/minetest…
##minetest #luanti #matrix

Minetestbildung ist jetzt auf Matrix – MINETESTBILDUNG

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Hi, Ihr erwähnt die synod.im App mit dem Hinweis, dass sie keine Altersbeschränkung hätte. Soweit ich das verstanden habe, gilt die nur wenn auch synod.im als Homeserver genutzt wird. Euer Space ist doch aber, wenn ich das richtig sehe, auf matrix.org beheimatet...?
Kann sein, dass ich etwas durcheinanderhaue, @csett86@ruhr.social weiss vielleicht Genaueres.
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The Gemini protocol is a lightweight alternative to HTTP positioned as a spiritual successor to Gopher. One drawback is that without reuse of TCP connections, every navigation takes several seconds on geostationary satellite Internet.

Read what curl maintainer Daniel Stenberg (@bagder) thinks of Gemini
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/05/28…

#GeminiProtocol #satellite #Gemini #curl


The Gemini protocol seen by this HTTP client person

There is again a pull-request submitted to the curl project to bring support for the Gemini protocol. It seems like a worthwhile effort that I support, even if it is also a lot of work involved and it might take some time before it reaches the state …
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Sheryl Crow sells Tesla in bid to save NPR thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/… thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/…

Sheryl Crow sells Tesla to donate funds to embattled NPR

Country music star Sheryl Crow said she will donate funds from selling her Tesla to NPR amid President Trump’s intensified calls to slash federal funding for public broadcasters — calling out…
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Did you know that you can easily (re-)setup DAVx5 via QR code by simply using this type of URL to automatically pre-fill the DAVx5 Login screen:

davx5://user@server.example.com/path/

You will need an appropriate QR code scan app like Binary Eye. Read more here: manual.davx5.com/integration.h…

Pro tip: save the QR code somewhere and whenever you want to re-setup simply scan it again ;-). Also great to help other not so tech savvy users by simply giving them a QR code!

7. Integration / API — DAVx⁵ documentation

manual.davx5.com

  • I knew that, super practical ;-) (4%, 11 votes)
  • Didn't know, that's awesome <3 (95%, 260 votes)
271 voters. Poll end: 10 months ago

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So in case you aren't aware, the reason why the Import from Instagram feature in @PixelFed is so tricky is for two main reasons:

1) You don't actually upload the archive, it's unzipped and parsed client side, so you only upload the photos/videos and captions that you select

2) Instagram changes the json structure every few months, just to fuck with us

But just to take a step back, when you import, your DMs and other private data is never uploaded

The code is auditable github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/b…


pixelfed/resources/assets/components/AccountImport.vue at dev · pixelfed/pixelfed

Photo Sharing. For Everyone. Contribute to pixelfed/pixelfed development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Former Kennedy Center president speaks out in first interview since her firing - NPR apple.news/AV5A3FxL1RDyiIPA-bM…

Former Kennedy Center president speaks out in first interview since her firing — NPR

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to Deborah Rutter, former head of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in her first interview since the board installed President Trump as its new chair.
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Just listened to this talk by Casey Muratori called "Simple Code, High Performance": youtube.com/watch?v=Ge3aKEmZcq…

It's a case study about a piece of code from the game _The Witness_ (actually, from the art editor for that game) which he rewrote with dramatically better performance.


Simple Code, High Performance

Kickstarter link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/annarettberg/meow-the-infinite-book-twoThis was a presentation I gave to the University of Twente in e...
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Matt Campbell

My summary is that he addressed the original code's poor performance in three stages:

1. He came up with a new algorithm that didn't get progressively slower like the original, and also produced better output.
2. He found that even the new algorithm's inner loop was calling into code that did lots of unnecessary work, including memory allocation, so he instead wrote code that did something much simpler.
3. While he was doing the rewrite for #2, he went ahead and used SIMD.

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Matt Campbell

He had some provocative things to say about the dangers of code reuse and "modern" C++ about an hour and a half into the talk. And I think we Rust programmers have to watch out for these things as well. It's easy to casually use high-level abstractions that aren't appropriate for the situation. I don't think we have to give up Rust's safety to avoid that problem, though; we just have to be aware of what the functions we're calling are doing.

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The CPC could've chose BUY CANADIAN, OR ANY OTHER TEAM CANADA TYPE SLOGAN to support Canadian businesses, but, NOPE...

Instead Pierre PoiLIEvre is holding a CANADA FIRST rally today in Ottawa... cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre…

REMEMBER: CANADA FIRST IS ALL ABOUT SECURING A WHITE ETHNOSTATE IN CANADA. antihate.ca/canada_first_expos…

I DOUBT Pierre PoiLIEvre chose this racist, xenophobic, antisemitic slogan ACCIDENTALLY.

#cdnpoli #polcan #hate #fear #division


Canada First Exposed: Months Inside One of Canada's Biggest, Youngest, and Newest White Supremacist Chatrooms

Tyler L. Russell is ripping off Nick Fuentes with the aim of securing a white ethnostate in Canada. He's recruiting "an army of nameless, faceless" kids to do it.
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This week we have united with 100+ #privacy fighters calling on the UK to STOP❗

Stop trying to undermine #encryption - the security backbone of the internet that all of us depend on. 🔒

Together we must fight for privacy and against #surveillance 💪

More info: tuta.com/blog/uk-demands-apple…

"Governments must not force tech companies to weaken the security we all depend on - particularly now that cyberthreats are increasing continuously. We fight for our users’ right to privacy with end-to-end encryption, and we will continue to do so, no matter what governments might ask.” MATTHIAS PFAU, CEO TUTA MAIL

Apple to backdoor encryption? Round 2 | Tuta

UK demands Apple to backdoor encryption similar to what the FBI asked ten years ago. Will Apple stay strong?
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Einkaufs-Apps tauschen Rabatte gegen Daten und normalisieren Überwachung. Datenschutz wird zur Ware – mit tiefgreifenden gesellschaftlichen Folgen. 👇

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#app #rewe #penny #lidl #dm #datenschutz #dsgvo #teamdatenschutz


Datenschutz als Ware: Wie Einkaufs-Apps unser Verhalten und unsere Gesellschaft verändern

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#app #datenschutz #DSGVO #teamdatenschutz #dm #lidl #rewe #penny

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Shockingly, ChatGPT doesn't consume as much power as previously thought — A new study reveals the stats were based on "napkin math" with the assumption that OpenAI powers next-gen models with dated GPUs windowscentral.com/software-ap…

Shockingly, ChatGPT doesn't consume as much power as previously thought — A new study reveals the stats were based on "napkin math" with the assumption that OpenAI powers next-gen models with dated GPUs

ChatGPT doesn't consume more power than most of your household appliances as previously thought.
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PSA: Download Your Kindle eBooks Now Before Amazon Removes the Option! blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2025…

PSA: Download Your Kindle eBooks Now Before Amazon Removes the Option!

Yesterday was a big day in the ebook world, and not in a good way. In case you missed the news, Amazon is planning to remove the ability to download purchased ebooks from their website starting February 26th, 2025.
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The lifehistory 'curve of happiness' does not look the same in non-industrialised populations. Interesting comparative study by #MichaelGurven Not really surprising, a bit stunning that there is any assumption Western lifestyles represent some kind of 'universal'?!

'In our study, we found that happiness levels did not consistently follow the U-shaped trajectory commonly observed in industrialized societies. In some cases there was a U-shape. But more often we observed an inverted U-shape, where middle-aged adults reported the highest level of happiness, or no significant age-related trend at all.

Overall, well-being often declined after middle age among resource-poor populations lacking social security and other institutionalized forms of protection. This aligns with prior research among low-income countries and even of wealthy nations during economic crises.

That being said, age itself was a weak predictor of life satisfaction everywhere. Sickness, disability and loss in productivity do a better job of explaining well-being than age. In fact, the few positive effects of age we did find usually disappeared when including measures of these misfortunes in our analysis.'

#anthropology #age #happiness #globalsouth

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Happiness in poorer countries does not follow the typical U-shaped curve − people are often happiest in middle age

In nonindustrialized societies, health, productivity and economic security play much larger roles in determining happiness among aging populations, a new study finds.
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I'm formally stepping down as a nouveau kernel maintainer.

I want to stress out this is only for the kernel side of things and has and will not have any impact on my involvement in mesa.

Don't really want to add too much here, just that things need to change. Recent events (tm) is just another example of the deep disagreement.

I won't be able to convince people I made up my mind on my own here, so I won't bother with it anyway.

Full upstream and public statement here: lists.freedesktop.org/archives…

[PATCH 1/1] MAINTAINERS: Remove myself

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