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from this reddit thread :)
Microsoft: you're going to have to recycle your 2018 PC because we aren't providing updates anymore and we won't let you install the latest version of Windows (even though it works fine)
Debian: just a heads up, the next version of Debian might not work on the Amiga 1000 or Atari ST. It is up to you to make the necessary changes.
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Is there any escape from the "rich get richer" phenomenon in social networks where the people who have the most connections will garner the lion's share of the audience, drowning out those who are quiet and thoughtful, and the majority of users get basically no reach and no interaction, or is that inherent in the nature of all such networks? Seems like a lot of modern society to hang on essentially random founder effects.
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My apologies if you're already familiar with the model, but this problem has been studied under the name of scale-free networks (networks having a power law distribution). There are a few simple generative mechanisms proposed for them, and it sounds difficult to get rid of them. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-fr…

network whose degree distribution follows a power law

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I am happy to say that I have only seen that horrible, wrong and incorrect phrase "daylight savings time" once in the last few days. Well, crap. Now I've doubled it. Anyway, there is no savings. Only daylight. And ya know what? Screw the daylight. Don't save it. Yep, that's right, no more Daylight Saving Time. The save is being inged. It is not the saves that are inged.

Now, if all that sounded entirely ridiculous, you're correct. So is Daylight Savings, because it's wrong, and the concept of Daylight Saving Time itself, because it's (mostly) dumb.

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Today's micro conflict was about soda. Apparently I shouldn't have any because my dad doesn't want me to become diabetic. Let's just ignore all the blood work that says I don't have a sugar problem, the fact that I rarely eat candy, and I say no to processed foods if they have too much sugar. God forbid I drink a soda. Mom says they'll get some next time. I don't pay much mind to food and drink policing. I just think it's ridiculous.

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The FreeBSD platform was merged into the OCI runtime spec!

FreeBSD is now an official target for OCI containers (it’s been working in Podman as an unofficial target for a while).

#FreeBSD #OCI


Add FreeBSD as a platform by dfr · Pull Request #1286 · opencontainers/runtime-spec

This uses FreeBSD jails to implement container isolation.
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Alright. Restored my Time Machine backup to the new Mac Mini. It took HOURS. It was insane.

Installed and configured Bacula on it instead, just told it to backup /Users because that's all I really care about, and it ran in 90 seconds backing up 12GB (I'd already cleaned out tens of gigs of junk)

Tested restoring a couple files from the Mac to my FreeBSD laptop, and poof they appeared like magic whereas when they're in Time Machine it's impossible to read them out without a Mac

| bacula.i.feld.me JobId 1473: Elapsed time=00:01:30, Transfer rate=138.4 M Bytes/second |

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@donbahno za posledné tri roky to bolo prvý krát.. vládzem energie mám na rozdávanie toto nie je ten prípad, toto je čistá ľahkovážnosť. Ja ako konzumet naozaj nepotrebujem aby ma obsluhoval niekto mimo, keď to nezvláda nech to nerobí.
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That small joy when you unexpectedly come across a public bookcase that isn’t yet mapped in #OpenStreetMap .It's like a tiny treasure hunt for mappers 📚🗺️

With a few taps in an app, it’s now part of the OpenStreetMap database. The free global map of public bookcases just got a little bit better.

#OSM #PublicBookcase #Mapping #OpenData #Books

Public bookcase
#books #openstreetmap #opendata #OSM #mapping #publicbookcase
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Brian Bình

Michael J. Fox's real middle name is Andrew, but he didn't like "Michael A. Fox" as a stage name. By SAG rules, he had to use a name other than "Michael Fox" because there was already an actor with that name, so he just stuck a J in the middle.

In his hit movie "Back to the Future", his character's father, George, says he has to get home so he doesn't miss his favorite TV program, "Science Fiction Theatre". "Science Fiction Theatre" had only 8 episodes. Four starred the original Michael Fox!

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The Vietnamese language has *many* pronouns for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person. I can think of dozens off the top of my head and I suspect it's actually hundreds. They vary based on both relative and absolute age, social standing, incredibly complex family trees, profession, politeness, marital status, and more. Vietnamese people tend to ask a lot of personal questions when first meeting someone, which foreigners think is kind of rude, but they need that information to know how to refer to you.
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Brian Bình

Because of the complexity of its pronouns, the Vietnamese translation adds an extra layer of depth to the otherwise shallow dialogue of the Star Wars original trilogy, which I watched on TV in Vietnam.

People speak to droids with the pronouns used to speak to pets or farm animals. Droids address people as professional superiors.

Droids speak to each other like they are siblings.

Vader speaks to everyone (except the emperor and Tarkin) as an arrogant superior addressing an underling.

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