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  • What’s your most used line?

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  • When relaying inconvenient news or the need to complete annoying tasks, I like the preface with it "Good news, everyone."

  • Is there a way to change KBin default post language to English? I've removed Swedish but it keeps defaulting all posts to that regardless.

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  • @cragsand What about removing English, saving, and adding it back. Also, maybe clearing the cache will help.

  • Is KBIN dying? Srs Question: Is there any further development or support being done for Kbin.Social Keep getting the error page when trying to block users, create posts, view notifications. Been going

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  • You can do this with firefox, too. It how I run it on my mobile.

  • Can you recommend me a book?

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  • Just a few different options:

    • Project Hail Mary (Scifi)
    • Red Planet Blues (Scifi)
    • Dresden Files (Fantasy)
    • Gunslinger (Fantasy)
    • Sigma Force Series (Action/Historical Fiction)

  • Was Our Universe Formed Inside the Quantum Chaos of Another Universe’s Black Hole? A cosmologist explains the mind-bending hypothesis that our universe could have branched off from a black hole singul

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  • Bullet Trains Are Coming to America. Too Bad Our Old Rail Lines Can’t Handle Them. Only a measly 375 miles of U.S. track are equipped for 100+ mph speeds. [https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/

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  • @perviouslyiner There is a need for it. America as whole needs a more robust public transportation system.

  • What’s the Bare Minimum Number of People for a Mars Habitat?

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  • @stopthatgirl7 That seems really low. The Roanoke colony in the U.S. had around 120 people with access to food, water, and shelter on Earth and still vanished. I know that is not a 1:1 comparison, but the point is that I would think that a Mars colony would be 10x more difficult. But, I guess we will never know until we try.

  • “They Were Everywhere” – Exploding Monkey and Pig Populations Pose Human Disease Risk

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  • Bodhi Linux 7.0 is its best, most user-friendly release yet

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  • Bodhi was one of the first linux distros I tried. I have fond memories of that little distro.

  • What's a dead giveaway that someone is a bad person?

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  • When they do not return the grocery cart to the cart corral.

  • Google Flights will now tell you when it's the cheapest time to book | TechCrunch

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  • TIL: There was something called Google Flights.

  • Solar powered Low-tech Magazine: How to Build a Low-tech Internet?

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  • I like the ideas the site proposes in principle (a lighter, more efficient tech/internet); however, I am not sure I agree with some of the solutions, such as returning to typewriters and paper-based solutions in a general office environment. Also, I am not sure image dithering lightens a website enough. (Full disclosure: I do like the aesthetic of the site itself.)

    Instead of typewriters and paper, I would say that more cli-based and tui-based solutions would be more energy efficient. As well as replacing most monitors with e-ink displays for these solutions. I do agree with the deployment of minimal, static websites. However, instead of image dithering, focus on image formats optimized for the web (such as webp). Also, include images only when helpful or relevant; not just plastering a site with stock photos. I would contend that the images and videos included on most webpages are irrelevant, anyway.

    The problem here is not me and you and our websites; its corporate websites (retail, news, social media.). With all of the tracking, javascript, inline ads, popup ads, video ads, spam emails, etc that they deploy, the web has become bloated. They deploy whatever they can to get us to click. Until we, as content consumers, actively choose to avoid these sites, their behavior will never change.

  • Scientists Invent New Glass With Supreme Toughness

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  • tougher thinner

    pricier

  • Canada demands Meta lift news ban to allow wildfire info sharing

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  • Sounds like they need their own mastodon server.

  • Sup is a New Messaging App by the Creator of Pixelfed

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  • The biggest thing to note about the new messenger, by far, is that the developer intends to provide end-to-end encryption. More impressively, the app is intended to work with any Fediverse account.

    This would make cross communication across the fediverse easier and may even interest others to join. It gives a leg up to the InstaRedFaceXTwitThreadApps since you can just use your one fediverse account.

    There are definitely some open questions about how Sup works with the rest of the Fediverse. Do users just sign in to a service via an OAuth dance with their Fediverse accounts? Do the messages federate over ActivityPub? Does my server store my messages, or does just the app store those?

    These questions and more would have to be answered before I signed up though.

  • Google search is over

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  • @JoBo I just googled it and Kenya came up as the first hit in Search and in Bard.

  • Space mining company developing nuclear reactor and more for moon projects

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  • First contact with aliens could end in colonization and genocide if we don't learn from history

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  • Seems like there are two schools of thought on this:

    "We don't know much about aliens, but we know about humans. If you look at history, contact between humans and less intelligent organisms have often been disastrous from their point of view, and encounters between civilizations with advanced versus primitive technologies have gone badly for the less advanced. A civilization reading one of our messages could be billions of years ahead of us. If so, they will be vastly more powerful, and may not see us as any more valuable than we see bacteria." --Stephen Hawking

    "While Sir Stephen Hawking warned that alien life might try to conquer or colonize Earth, I respectfully disagree," Tarter said in a statement in 2012. "If aliens were to come here, it would be simply to explore. Considering the age of the universe, we probably wouldn't be their first extraterrestrial encounter, either.

    "If aliens were able to visit Earth, that would mean they would have technological capabilities sophisticated enough not to need slaves, food or other planets," she added. --Jill Tarter, former director of the Center for SETI

    Source: https://www.space.com/29999-stephen-hawking-intelligent-alien-life-danger.html

  • Chip implants get under your skin so you can leave your keys at home | Engadget

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  • “Consumers should be fully aware of the “hidden” costs (privacy, risks, and advertising messages) associated with such tech and not just the cost of getting such implants,”

    This should be at the top of the article.