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  • Are all dinosaur fossils 'replicas'?

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  • If you want to see a lot of real fossils directly, no replicas, go to Dinosaur National Monument and check out the Quarry Exhibit Hall. A huge wall of fossils still in their stone matrix.

  • The tech world is sleeping on the most exciting Bluetooth feature in years

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  • Hmmm... somewhere in here is a solution for the Bluetooth connection prioritization/stealing quagmire but I cant sus out how.

    If bluetooth audio devices would include a paired device selection function by cycling through the list of connected devices sequentially instead of auto-prioritizing either the most recent connection or the most recently paired device that would fix a lot of the Bluetooth hellscape we are in right now.

  • PixiEditor is a Universal Editor for all your 2D needs

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  • looks nice

  • Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone

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  • DEX is actually pretty good when used with a keyboard and external monitor. I also dont love thr Samsung walled garden, but I end up buying their products because I use my phones for several years at a time before replacing them so top end hardware specs are a priority and especially cameras.

    I would go Sony but the data band support in the US is incomplete, and I can't get caught out by poor cell service while traveling.

    I am considering going Pixel next but Graphene hasn't been announced for Pixel 10 yet so I'm a bit on the fence, I guess I could buy an older model and give it a try wifi only for a bit to see how I like it.

  • The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization

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  • Nice, I dont use Peertube as often as I'd like because I haven't found the right creators for me. Good to know they already have this, should be an example to the rest of the platforms

  • Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone

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  • A lot of the issue with foldable is the non-standard aspect ratio. This gets to a standard tablet aspect ratio, so should run out of the box with most apps without additional modification.

    Also DEX support on-device means it can run fully windowed applications and use mouse and keyboard natively, which is a big boost in functionality for productivity applications.

  • The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization

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  • Client side support for a tipping link (Koffee, Patreon, crypto wallet, whatever the user's choice is) that is built in to the UI would go a long way.

  • Which countries combine high quality of life and strong equality?

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  • Most Oil and Gas reserves remaining in the US are on public land, as is the massive lithium deposit just discovered in southeastern Oregon. Then there are the seabed polymetalic nodules that will be mined sooner or later. There are plenty of opportunities to nationalize natural resources, what is lacking is political will.

  • Plebbit is the the most decentralized selfhosted social media protocol And why development slowed Down

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  • If I'm reading(skimming) the documentation right, it seems like anyone who can pass the challenge can download the full node and see the full record of interactions. IPFS is not a perfect privacy network, so user accounts can in theory be traced back.

    So basically as with Fedi instances it is fully on the Node host to set who can get in based on the challenge, and what is hosted there is their liability. Only difference is Plebbit allows any user to spin up a new instance/community node ad-hoc and they aren't responsible for maintaining infrastructure beyond what is required seed the nodes they host.

    Is that right? I'm not sure but hopefully someone better in the know will correct me if not.

  • Mozilla's Latest Quagmire

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  • I wish projects like this would offer simple "security profile" settings that would allow you to batch change the relevant settings between the most common suggested settings for different usecases.

    Just "General use" and "Privacy" profiles would go a long way.

  • Mozilla's Latest Quagmire

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  • What would it take for a fork of Firefox to become the main branch one must wonder? I know I switched to LibreWolf and IronFox when this all started, not FireFox. Now I'm hearing WaterFox works on the platforms I use (is it as good?)

    Neither of these projects are doing core feature development on the browser engine though, as far as I can tell. I guess what it would take is a heap of cash for them to really compete.

    I see LadyBird and the grumbles about their sponsors, but at least they are really doing work from the core rather than modding.

  • WFH ended and so has my career. Dunno what to do with my life now.

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  • One of the biggest and most underrated things you can do now to prepare for a job search os have your current coworkers and managers endorse the skills you listed above on your LinkeIn profile. This is powerful both because it validates your resume (for real people and AI reviewing it), and gives recruiters a way to find you. With your skill set you should have plenty of people coming to you asking if you are interested in work without even pursuing applications yourself.

    What kind of CAD software are you proficient with? What type of designs have you mostly focused on?

  • Chat Control: EU Council vote is a Green Light for Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance and the End of Right to Communicate Anonymously

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  • YSK that the First-Past-The-Post voting system allows a political party to gain an absolute majority with only a minority of the votes

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  • Ranked-Choice voting can be used for multi-seat elections as well, essentially voter ranks the top x candidates from the full pool. After the first seat is selected the tally continues by removing the first seat name from the pool to appoint the second seat.

    I am from the US in a city where we have rank choice local elections, so "strong party" style elections where you vote for a party not a candidate seem frankly wildly unaccountable. I see no advantage to this system for the voters over individual candidates.

  • YSK that the First-Past-The-Post voting system allows a political party to gain an absolute majority with only a minority of the votes

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  • Ranked Choice ftw.

  • What thing do you possess that is objectively priceless and inherently valuable (in material/NOT entimental value)?

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  • not today Swiper, not today

  • Chat Control: EU Council vote is a Green Light for Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance and the End of Right to Communicate Anonymously

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  • You are vastly underestimating the youths current addiction to social media. Take it away and you will see some rapid pursuit of novelty.

  • The cloud is just someone else's computer, but the internet is just someone else's network

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  • I'm ok with both, but prefer co-ops because the members get direct voting on large decisions by default, rather than a proxy vote via an appointed government worker who answers to the municipal government.

    That said, there is no reason these can't be one and the same, the local government could fund the establishment of a regional co-op and maintain audit and some other limited authority over it.

    I also support long-distance fiber infrastructure being built and maintained by worker's co-ops that would then get paid for service by the regional ISPs. Worker members would be highly motivated to maintain good uptime, and hiring/training members who live local to the fiber lines in remote regions would be possible with the incentive of worker ownership. Once built it is a long term maintenance and security business with steady return, perfect for a worker's co-op that could be financed with private capital at decent ROI.

  • World Socialist Web Site to launch Socialism AI

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  • Eh, recent studies show some implicit bias in some of the best Chinese models, mostly when it comes to software dev stuff so less relevant here. Not the hugest deal for this kind of projected either way, but it would be good to know if they are using those vs say Llama, or yes just building a front end fine tune for a closed model.