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When an object shoots past you at nearly the speed of light, it looks *rotated*.
This has been known for a while, but the famous topologist Jack Morava found a new formula relating the amount of rotation to the Mercator projection. And he's hoping this will make him rich.
(He's got a sense of humor.)
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@0xabad1dea Remember, the “S” in “IOT” stands for “security”
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@VolkerKrause @kde @neochat Yeah it means Gatekeepers, I also found the abbreviation funny and it was the reason I took it :D Sorry @GTK
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You should never ever use Scihub to access papers.
EVER !
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"W3C invites public feedback on a beta release of the W3C website redesign. The new site features a cleaner and more modern look, a simplified information architecture, improved accessibility, and more integration throughout the site" by @koalie
Read more at:
https://www.w3.org/blog/2023/02/w3c-launches-beta-of-its-new-website/
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I wanted to mention #espanso, an open-source cross-platform text expander I use daily. It has a complete feature set, with features not provided by many of its closed-source alternatives. Highly recommended!
You are lucky, Copyright violation is one of the favourite excuses to censor content on social media.
In Italy we even have public TV channels (we have a tax in the electric bill to fund them) but if you upload 10 seconds owned by them in a long YouTube video to discuss the content, the video is removed and you get a strike (3 strikes = channel removed). This happen way more likely if you are a real political dissident.
Add to this the strikes for "fake news", "bigotry" and even "explicit sexual content" caused by mass report and you can have your channel closed pretty quickly. Same with Facebook and Twitter.
This is why I said data mining and censorship are orthogonal, though recently Google announced a system meant to predict where a "fake news" would come from by analyzing users' data to block it in advance.
La OSI e il marchio Open Source sono un rebrand del Free Software che ha spostato l'attenzione dai diritti degli utenti verso la convenienza dello sviluppo collaborativo.
La OSI ha promosso le licenze permissive che permettono gli atteggiamenti predatori da parte delle corporations in contrapposizione alle licenze Copyleft.
Questo è il motivo per cui tutte le corporations come Google e Microsoft parlano sempre di "Open Source" e mai di Free Software, FOSS e Copyleft.
La OSI è responsabile della fama dell'Open Source di non essere sostenibile economicamente, proprio perché gli sviluppatori sono indotti a usare le licenze permissive altrimenti ne sarebbe compromessa l'adozione.
La OSI è solo un cartello di corporations che hanno voluto disinnescare il movimento del Free Software e creare un'enorme base di software a cui attingere gratuitamente.
È l'istituzionalizzazione del "ti pago in visibilità".
Wow, massive update, kudos!
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Here's the stuff I contributed to #KDE this February! Including work on the new Gamepad KCM, kdevelop.org, figuring out API documentation, and of course a slew of Tokodon features and fixes!
https://redstrate.com/blog/2023/02/my-work-in-kde-for-february-2023/
So basically like in many countries that enforce Copyright by blocking sites like SciHub, LibGen and torrent search engines through DNS but still allow companies like NordVPN that offer an easy way to get around the block?
It's not about spying on an ordinary citizen, it's about being able to retrieve data on anyone when needed for whatever reason.
I don't see how a company, foreign or not, could operate in a country by offering a way to overcome a measure by the governament: don't you think the Russian govermament would be more than capable and willing to block these so called VPN providers if their service were genuine?
Also notice that private companies collaborating with many governaments all around the world is not uncommon at all, see for example the Pegasus trojan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware)
I understood that part, what I am asking is: aren't collecting data and blocking sites orthogonal? Or are you suggesting they discover inconvenient sites by tracking users and then proceed to block them through DNS?
Wait a moment, what do you exactly mean by Internet censorship? I am not seeing how you are linking it to collecting data/tracking/spying people.
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How do you know VPN providers like NordVPN are just not part of a new effort by NSA/GCHQ/whatever to collect data, even from people in nations not willing to collaborate and whose ISPs would then be better?
These so called VPN services are suspiciously too much promoted lately and they are also dangerous for the induced false sense of security.
For sure using the acronym "VPN" for this kind of services is already too scammy to me.
A real VPN is a network you usually find in companies and whose employees connect to to access content and devices not exposed to the Internet.
These "VPN" providers like NordVPN are using this same technology to make their users connect to their network, but then it is connected to the Internet and so are their users. So basically they act as a man-in-the-middle.
Not Tor browser, you can have Tor running as a service on your machine. Depending on the OS there are different ways to make your traffic go through it, for example on Android just install and run Orbot, it will fake a local VPN and all your apps will use that.
In general you can use everything with Tor except torrents and you need some extra measures to be safe.
Using a VPN doesn't help AT ALL, so called VPN are nothing to do with being "private". The VPN acronym refers to the technology used to provide their service.
But so called VPNs are just virtual ISPs.
Questo è proprio il tipo di messaggio che incita all'odio e giustifica la violenza di una delle due parti.
Poi il fatto che se ne parli a livello nazionale è dovuto alla necessità di distrarre e creare una polarizzazione che giustifichi altre finte elezioni in cui si contrapporranno finte destre e finte sinistre, chiudendo la breve parentesi di altrettanto finta contrapposizione tra politica e antipolitica del M5S.
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