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Right to Repair Fight
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Consumers' Checkbook Magazine
Right-to-Repair Fight
Manufacturers of vehicles, electronics, appliances, and more are making it tough for independent shops and DIYers to make repairs. Shouldn’t you be able to get stuff you own fixed where and how you want?
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The sun was dimmer when earth formed – how did life emerge?
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Quanta Magazine
A Solution to the Faint-Sun Paradox Reveals a Narrow Window for Life
We might have a past faint sun to owe for life’s existence. This has consequences for the possibility of life outside Earth.
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Rebranding FLoC Without Addressing Key Privacy Issues
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Brave
Google's Topics API: Rebranding FLoC Without Addressing Key Privacy Issues | Brave
The Topics API does not address the core harmfulness of FLoC: that it’s arrogant and dangerous for Google to be the arbiter of what users consider “sensitive” data.
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Some Amazon divisions have lost at least 35% of their staff in the past year
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Business Insider
Some Amazon divisions have lost at least 35% of their staff in the past year. One reason: The company doesn't reward loyalty, insiders…
The company's frugal culture is clashing with a falling share price, high expectations for employee performance, and an intense talent war.
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Show HN: AlexCalc, a scientific calculator with LaTeX equation display
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alexbarry.github.io
AlexCalc
Scientific calculator with LaTeX equation display, variables, units, complex numbers.
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On self-modifying executables in Rust
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‘Maus’ is an Amazon bestseller after Tennessee school ban
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CNBC
'Maus' is an Amazon bestseller after Tennessee school ban – author Art Spiegelman compares board to Putin
"Maus" is a decades old book about Holocaust survivors. Its ban by a Tennessee school board has sparked renewed interest in it.
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Heartbreaking: 6509 PSUs Fail After a Brief 22 Years of Service
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jumboframeinternet
Heartbreaking: 6509 PSUs fail after a brief 22 years of service
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Pirates spammed an infamous Soviet-era short-wave radio station with memes
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VICE
Pirates Spammed an Infamous Soviet Short-wave Radio Station with Memes
The UVB-76 numbers station took a break from being a suspected communications tool of Russian intelligence to blast 'Gangnam Style'
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Can a biologist fix a radio?–Or, what I learned while studying apoptosis (2002) [pdf]
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In southern France, unique boats revive a lost way of life
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Atlas Obscura
In Southern France, Unique Boats Revive a Lost Way of Life
Provence's négo chin boats have made a comeback thanks almost entirely to one man in love with his local waterway.
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Tor Browser: a legacy of advancing private browsing innovation
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blog.torproject.org
Tor Browser: a legacy of advancing private browsing innovation | Tor Project
In this post, we want to share a little bit of Tor Browser history with you, the origins of our features and designs, and how many of our innovative privacy and security features have been adopted by other browsers.
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A man who gave himself away (2016)
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Wellcome
Mosaic has now closed | Wellcome
Wellcome's digital platform dedicated to long-form journalism about science and health, has now closed.
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Latin as She Is Spoke: How Classicists Tricked Themselves (2019)
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Blogspot
Latin as She is Spoke: How Classicists Tricked Themselves, and the Real Issue with Mary Beard's Latin
How Classicists tricked themselves into not learning Latin well.
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Citizen developers are rapidly becoming the vanguard of corporate digitisation
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The Economist
What if all workers wrote software, not just the geek elite?
Citizen developers are rapidly becoming the vanguard of corporate digitisation
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People don't work as much as you think
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Substack
People don't work as much as you think
There is a persistent idea that people work 40 hours a week. They don't, and if you try to do this it will break you. Here are some more reasonable guidelines.
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Preserving a floppy disk with a logic analyzer and a serial cable
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www.chzsoft.de
CHZ-Soft - Preserving a floppy disk with a logic analyzer and a serial cable
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The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part I: Bargaining for Goods at Helm’s Gate
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A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
Collections: The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part I: Bargaining for Goods at Helm’s Gate
This is the long-awaited first part of a series (I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII. VIII) taking a historian’s look at the Battle of Helm’s Deep from both J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Two Towers…
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Sometimes, rewriting in another language works
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Ask HN: Do people still use DeviantArt?
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How can you tell if the company youre interviewing with is rotten on the inside?
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charity.wtf
How can you tell if the company you’re interviewing with is rotten on the inside?
How can you tell the companies who are earnestly trying to improve apart from the ones who sound all polished and healthy from the outside, whilst rotting on the inside? This seems to be on a lot o…
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