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  • I couldn't find a source for this, but I heard that we were convinced to think of dandelions as weeds by the makers of a herbicide so that we would accept the collateral damage.

  • What item did you "buy for life?"
  • I've had a set of those circulating through the family for well over a decade. But, they don't sound all that great.

    Fort the same budget, I'd recommend instead to buy a higher quality pair of bookshelf speakers that you would actually enjoy using fort the rest of your life.

    I also made a YSK post recently to explain how to objectively identify good speakers.

  • Re-Logic donates $100,000 to Godot and FNA, and sponsoring both for $1,000/month
  • "The team at Re-Logic has been watching the recent events surrounding Unity with both interest and sadness. The loss of a formerly-leading and user-friendly game engine to the darker forces that negatively impact so much of the gaming industry has left us dismayed to put it mildly. While we do not personally use Unity (outside of a few elements on our console/mobile platforms), we feel like we cannot sit idly by as these predatory moves are made against studios everywhere.

    We unequivocally condemn and reject the recent TOS/fee changes proposed by Unity and the underhanded way they were rolled out. The flippant manner with which years of trust cultivated by Unity were cast aside for yet another way to squeeze publishers, studios, and gamers is the saddest part. That this move was wholly unnecessary pushes things into the tragedy category - a cautionary tale the industry will not soon forget.

    We do not feel that a simple public statement is sufficient. Even if Unity were to recant their policies and statements, the destruction of trust is not so easily repaired. We strongly feel that it is now equally important to get behind some of the other up-and-coming open source game engines. Lighting some candles in an otherwise dark moment.

    To that end, we are donating $100,000 to each of the open source engines listed below [Godot and FNA]. Additionally, we are sponsoring each of these projects with $1,000/month each moving forward. All we ask in return is that they remain good people and keep doing all that they can to make these engines powerful and approachable for developers everywhere.

    Re-Logic has always been supportive of game developers and indie studios that do things the right way. We feel that our actions in this moment are the best way to carry that mission forward - by accelerating and strengthening competing open source game engines, we hope to empower and assist studios that are struggling with how best to proceed given these recent events."

  • How does everyone feel about Google Pixel phones?
  • Bootloader unlocked, while persevering access to hardware security features by 3rd party operating systems like GrapheneOS.

    They also provide 5 years of security updates for new devices.

    Nothing else competes.

  • Mega Thread - Donald Trump Pleads Not Guilty to Conspiring to Defraud the United States in Arraignment - Washington DC
  • What we need is a Constitutional Amendment that bars convicted felons from higher office

    This would be dangerous, allowing inconvenient politicians to be excluded from office through framing or selective enforcement of the law.

    What we really need is a population capable of making better decisions.

  • YSK: Loudspeaker quality can be more reliably estimated with a set of objective measurements called a Spinorama than by reading subjective reviews

    Why: You can find better sound for less money if you learn how to read a Spinorama.

    To learn how this scientific method was developed and why it is so much better than subjective reviews, I highly recommend listing to this talk by Dr. Floyd Toole.

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    Elizabeth Warren and Lindsey Graham want a new agency to regulate tech | CNN Business
  • No, it doesn't. "Prevent harm online" is the same justification given for the EARN IT act. Only this new agency won't be accountable to the people when it conjures the same deeply unpopular legislation.

    Also, the FTC is already tasked with enforcing the points under the Competition heading.

  • PDF Editor
  • Scribus is certainly powerful. You can also use python scripting to automate edits, so maybe you could even use regular expressions in a script to automatically insert hyperlinks.

  • Johnson and Johnson hold millions of lives hostage: restricting the distribution of life saving generic drug

    “Multidrug resistant tuberculosis is a growing threat, and bedaquiline is essential to curing it. Generic bedaquiline will drive down the cost of the drug by over 60%, allowing far more communities to access and distribute treatment. Evergreening the patent will cost so many lives over the next four years, which Johnson & Johnson knows. They must drop their efforts to enforce the secondary patents.”

    "Tell Johnson and Johnson that evergreening their patent on bedaquiline, which will deny millions of people access to live-saving treatment, is a violation of their corporate credo: https://secure.ethicspoint.com/domain… Tell them on twitter: https://twitter.com/JNJNews and https://twitter.com/JNJGlobalHealth Tell them on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jnj/ Tell them on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jnj/?hl=en And tell them wherever else you can. Tell your friends. Tell your family. Tell the Internet. This must not be allowed to happen.

    Big thanks to TB expert Dr. Carole Mitnick and MSF’s Christophe Perrin for helping me to understand the complexities of drug patents!"

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    Johnson and Johnson attempts to sacrifice millions of lives by restricting life saving tuberculosis drug

    "Multidrug resistant tuberculosis is a growing threat, and bedaquiline is essential to curing it. Generic bedaquiline will drive down the cost of the drug by over 60%, allowing far more communities to access and distribute treatment. Evergreening the patent will cost so many lives over the next four years, which Johnson & Johnson knows. They must drop their efforts to enforce the secondary patents."

    "Tell Johnson and Johnson that evergreening their patent on bedaquiline, which will deny millions of people access to live-saving treatment, is a violation of their corporate credo: https://secure.ethicspoint.com/domain... Tell them on twitter: https://twitter.com/JNJNews and https://twitter.com/JNJGlobalHealth Tell them on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jnj/ Tell them on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jnj/?hl=en And tell them wherever else you can. Tell your friends. Tell your family. Tell the Internet. This must not be allowed to happen.

    Big thanks to TB expert Dr. Carole Mitnick and MSF's Christophe Perrin for helping me to understand the complexities of drug patents!"

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    Numbers They Don't Teach You In School (Veritasium)

    P-adics

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    I'll pay 15x more for Sync if it's Open-Sourced

    I want Sync to succeed for the benefit of the community. Open-source guarantees that the community will always retain that benefit.

    I wonder. Is this sentiment common among members of the Lemmy community?

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