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  • The European Alternatives To YouTube, WhatsApp & Instagram

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  • Hopefully when the alternatives start gaining traction then things worth sharing will start turning up there. The irony isn't lost on me, though. In this case I found the channel through YT and thought it worth sharing. It's also ironic that the YT algorithm suggested it to me 😄

  • Today’s kids don’t have to worry about turning off your PC before you can unplug your mouse or keyboard

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  • If you tried to design something to intentionally hook cables it would still fail more than that happens. Infuriating.

  • On the seventh day, god created uranium

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  • When asked why God would do such a thing, the answer is usually "To test your faith".

    I was brought up Christian as a child, and went to church, but this answer is a prime example of what ultimately turned me away. Such behaviour didn't fit the image of God in my mind. My version of God was pure, loving and trustworthy, and wouldn't scatter "tests of faith" and other such trickery around my world.

  • Movies

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  • That was part of its charm for me. Red Dwarf was the same; the lack of budget somehow made it funnier.

  • Vibe Coding Will Break Your Company

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  • Depressingly, I suspect an executive would consider me far less productive because I only did 5 lines of change and the junior dev would have done thousands...

    Probably the very same execs that use phrases like "Do more with less!" and then completely miss the point when true efficiency stares them in the face.

  • My eyes!

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  • Definitely contenders, but they'd need to have killed themselves and/or their offspring in the process to win the prize (or caused their own infertility before having kids, but those are really rare).

  • A long-ass way to write 'not parmesan'.

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  • I'm convinced that Doritos nacho cheese dip is closer to a fossil fuel than a dairy product. I still eat it though 🤤

  • JUST IN: Iran Ends Direct Talks With US After Trump Threatens to Destroy ‘Whole Civilization’

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  • Imagine if, in 2019, you got a flash-forward to that statement. I wonder what terrors your imagination would conjour up, and whether they'd be better or worse than reality.

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  • I'd settle for the powerful people just not being dicks anymore.

  • Me with my first edition harry potter

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  • Looks like it might be AI to me. Check the right hand and the bit of book near it. Also, most of the words are illegible and have that telltale AI smear.

  • there is a special place in hell for these scientists

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  • Yes, but IIRC they just happened to be the location of the hell portal that humans disturbed, and hell started leaking out. The depiction of Phobos and Deimos as hell-like was after the leakage. The third part of original Doom was back on Earth when the leakage had spread there, and it looked exactly like the hell of the Mars moons.

    I wouldn't bet money on that being exact, but that's how I remember it.

  • Bears or no bears?

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  • It was a joke. You see, I was suggesting that a place with lots of sharks might be called "Shark", in keeping with the point of the original post.

    I am aware that most shark attacks are due to mistaken identity, but it wasn't meant to be taken too seriously.

    Perhaps the reason sharks came to mind before any other animals is because I read this article a couple of days ago: https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/surfer-bitten-in-half-7232230.html

    It stands out because the way it was reported makes it sound like the sharks executed a coordinated attack on the surfer. But, again, I didn't expect to get cross-examined on what I intended to be a humorous remark.

  • Bears or no bears?

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  • Regular visitors to Sharks would like a word.

  • Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption

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  • Any time they get asked questions like "Are my messages visible only to me?", they answer with a very canned response like "Your messages are encrypted from end-to-end and can't be read by anyone while in transit" ... or words to that effect. I have never seen them state that no analytics or telemetry is happening on the unencrypted side by the client. Which has always bothered me.

  • Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption

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  • Back at the start WhatsApp wasn't free, although it was pretty cheap. Then Meta bought it and made it free. Some time after that, the founders left and started Signal.

    The E2E encrypted protocol WhatsApp used to use was the Signal protocol. When the OG founders left and created Signal they revamped it, calling it the Signal V2 protocol. Whether WhatsApp still uses that original Signal protocol or not is probably not known to many people outside of Meta, but WhatsApp definitely used to be E2E encrypted prior to Meta's purchase.

    I deleted my WhatsApp account around the time Meta announced they were merging all of their messaging stuff together, e.g. Facebook Messenger, Instagram etc.

  • Denominator, go Mercator

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  • The dissonance with Trump is astonishing. The Arctic is recently becoming more important strategically due to ice disappearing, and yet he's one of the biggest and most stubborn climate change deniers.

  • Be ungovernable

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  • Norwegian Blues are quiet and chilled out, so I hear.

  • Scrum

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  • Exactly. A good scrum master shields the team from the bureaucracy, facilitates the meetings while keeping them targeted and on-topic, and keeps everything running instead of slowing it down. They also coach the team in self-organisation.

    There are far too many people that call themselves scrum masters that are actually just pressurising ticket managers.

  • Scrum

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  • The biggest problems with scrum, in my experience, are when the managers and directors don't understand it and ruin it. I've been a few places that implemented SAFe, but to this day I don't know what SAFe actually is beyond waterfall with pointless sprints. I've worked in a couple of places where the directors kept their noses out and scrum worked really well.