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  • I believe it's 1% for access to the "entire post-open ecosystem", rather than 1% per project which would be unreasonable. So you could use one or thousands of projects under the Post-open banner, but still pay 1%.

    It will take years to develop the post-open ecosystem to be something worth spending that much on.

  • Enemies of glory have no honor
  • Also chromosome tests aren't a foolproof indication of sex anyway. People can have one set or another while still having the properties associated with the other sex, so it doesn't really work as a definitive measure. The question is reasonable until you examine it and it's motives.

    The question subtly suggests that if she had a Y chromosome then she has some biological advantage and therefore doesn't deserve the medal she earned. Does she actually have an advantage from the Y chromosome? Are we going to ensure through DNA testing that all competitors are going to be exactly equal by genetics? If so, we're going to have 8 clones of Usain Bolt competing for the 100m sprint. Michael Phelps arguably had a biological advantage by having hyper flexible shoulders, are we disqualifying those biological advantages? Of course not, so what do they actually mean when asking those questions about the chromosome? They don't have meaningful answers to the questions I raise, they just want to add fuel to the fires of the culture war for their own political means.

  • A same-sex couple ignoring a Beatles concert, 1964
  • I for one am frequently so close to my very good friends that my nose is pressed against theirs, my eyes only able to see theirs, the world not existing around us, while discussing in a platonic way how their day is going.

  • Two in five not saving enough in pension for even basic retirement
  • If you're British and employed your employer is legally required to provide a private pension I believe. You also get a state pension if you've been paying national insurance (most people will get this taken out of pay cheques before you ever see the money, same as income tax). Some employers offer "matching contributions" up to a certain amount. For example if you decide you want to send £100 per month into your private pension, your employer will also do the same, so your pension gets £200. These contributions are tax free so it's a tax-efficient way to save money when compared to privately investing where you'd have to invest from your income, which has already been taxed and then potentially have to pay capital gains tax on profits.

  • My brother claims that Vanguard for League can do the same to gaming PCs that install it as CrowdStrike did to businesses who installed that, is this true? Does Vanguard have as much access/power?
  • That works until all* games come with root level anti cheat. It was the same with micro transactions which people still defend despite being utter shit.

    • Realistically this will never be 100% but it will be enough of the mass market AAA games like CoD etc to mean that if you functionally want to play a game made in the last X number of years you will need to accept this or stop playing games altogether. I think most people will continue to play games. Most people will continue to install root level anti cheat, knowingly or otherwise, and all of them will get fucked by an exploit of that software. They may never even know about it.
  • [OC] A DM Screen System that ACTIVELY helps you run games
  • I would be curious how this actually works in practice. What counts as "in progress"? Encounters? Plot points? Knowledge that a goblin has? If all of those things are "in progress" and you can only have so many things in the "in progress" column, I feel like you'd very quickly have to break that rule and then everything becomes "in progress".

  • Flag is just a piece of cloth
  • Coming from a country that doesn't have this sort of thing it's really weird as an outside observer. Students have to swear allegiance to the flag every morning too which is the sort of thing I would imagine happens in north Korea or dictator states.

  • TheLinuxExperiment: Menus, windows, launchers & system trays SUCK. What can we replace them with?
  • Kind of surprised this is getting so much criticism. It's a thought experiment, not a call for a fundamental change to all PC UX. My only real argument against the idea is that it's framed as being "for efficiency". If you want efficiency above all else you would just go full command line.

  • So Angry!
  • "It was the left that ruined Truss's budget!" Was the genuine reaction of someone I talked to about this a while ago. Could not believe it nor understand it. Still can't.

  • It'll end up as "Vote stupid parties, win stupid prices"
  • I said in another comment but basically the left have a tougher message to sell than the right. The right says that the system works but it's the foreigners/benefit thieves/refugees stealing your money/house/jobs. That is inherently quite easy to understand without much thought or critical thinking. The left on the other hand have to tell you all about Thatcher, Reagan and neoliberalism before we even get to the point of solutions which are usually incredibly radical like changing the fundamental economic model we've all been operating under since the 80s. Inherent in that is a fear that the left's solutions will take assets and wealth away from people. While the right promises that your assets, wealth and property rights are sacred and that it's the "other" that will have their assets, wealth and rights taken away. Again, very easy-to-understand messaging for the right versus the left.

  • Tripod recommendations for an amateur

    Hi all, my trusty (but honestly always pretty terrible) Amazon basics tripod finally died, does anyone have a tripod they'd recommend or brands they'd avoid?

    Typical usage for me would be travelling/hiking and landscape photography so ideally small and light without breaking the bank (which I know is pretty tough). Budget is variable but call it £100-£200 for now.

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    FP4 Android 13 Update is live
    forum.fairphone.com Software update: FP4.TP1V.C.073.20230905 | Upgrade to Android 13

    Hi everyone, Fairphone 4 is catching up to the rest of the pack and getting Android 13! The update will start rolling out on Monday. Software Version: FP4.TP1V.C.073.20230905 Security Patch Level: 5th of August, 2023 Update size (from previous version): 851 MB List of changes: Introducing Andr...

    Software update: FP4.TP1V.C.073.20230905 | Upgrade to Android 13

    It's being rolled out in stages so you, like me, may not have it yet.

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    I'm bad at the role playing part, suggest a character or trait to separate the P from the C

    Title. Friend group and I play regularly but most of us are bad at the role playing part of it to the point where it's hard to tell when the player or the character are speaking in some scenes. Conversations are stiff. We can't use too heavily modified voices because we're playing remotely. My character is about to die (probably!) so help me pick a character or trait of my new character that someone not comfortable roleplaying can stick to without feeling weird about it!

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    DIY vs pre-build NAS for home use

    What do you have, what do you recommend, and why?

    Asking as I've got a lot of spare components lying around that I'm planning on turning into a NAS. If it doesn't work out I'll buy a pre-built enclosure and reuse the drives.

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    Ruby Weekly Issue 657: June 8, 2023

    Not affiliated I just find this useful and it exposed me to a few of the new features of Ruby 3.2 like not having to specify the value in kwargs if the variable is defined in scope, eg:

    foo = 'bar'; call(foo:) is equivalent to foo = 'bar'; call(foo: foo)

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    InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)PI
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