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My son watching his beloved trains a couple of years ago.

When people know you have cancer it's amazing how many homeopathy cranks come out of the woodwork. It doesn't do much for anxiety.

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"Over 800 were based upon the dictionary word 'password', 4k based on this year as in 2019, we even saw passwords based on 2009 with the password of 'Sep-09'."

theregister.co.uk/2019/10/10/n

This is pretty handy if you want HW accel rather than letting your browser eat significant CPU time.

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Nice - ,mpv with youtube-dl plays a lot of live news streams, including Al-jazeera.

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We used to have a sign in the bathroom that said "flush twice, it's a long way to the CEO's office" and I think that's beautiful

Josh Steffen doing Lars Ulrich doing Duran Duran is strangely compelling: youtu.be/hSTQhz5XNQU

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Have you heard of this game where you play as a horrible goose that wreaks mischief on the mild-mannered inhabitants of a small English village?

This neural net certainly hadn't.
aiweirdness.com/post/188214106

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Taking a distributed system like DNS and collapsing it down to "Google and CloudFlare" is a huge downgrade.

There are certainly other factors to take into account, but "letting two companies handle all DNS" is just a bad idea.
zdnet.com/article/dns-over-htt

lol Adobe screwing over the entirety of Venezuela,.

If reports of Turkish armour stacking at the border are true, I do wonder if they're intending to go further than their 'safety area'.

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As the Middle East appears ready to boil over, I'm curious about some things:
i) What are Turkey's objectives in Syria? Really just a 'buffer zone'?
ii) What is Russia's thinking on i)
iii) Where does Iran fit into all of this?

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