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Media freedom ‘perilously close to breaking point’ in several EU countries | Press freedom | The Guardian
April 29, 2024 at 8:14:24 AM GMT+2 * - permalink -Media freedom is declining across the EU and “perilously close to breaking point” in several countries
- https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/apr/29/media-freedom-perilously-close-breaking-point-several-eu-countries
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Why you need a "WTF Notebook"
April 18, 2024 at 10:40:32 PM GMT+2 * - permalink -Working on problems in the order I noticed them is rarely the most effective order. So the WTF Notebook gives me a place to park the impulse to fix it now, damn it! until I have more context for deciding what to work on first
- https://www.simplermachines.com/why-you-need-a-wtf-notebook/
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Outlook is Microsoft’s new data collection service | Proton
April 4, 2024 at 4:28:01 PM GMT+2 * - permalink -Outlook is Microsoft’s new data collection service
- https://proton.me/blog/outlook-is-microsofts-new-data-collection-service
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Conspiracy, monetisation and weirdness: this is why social media has become ungovernable | Nesrine Malik | The Guardian
April 1, 2024 at 11:10:34 AM GMT+2 * - permalink -Conspiracy, monetisation and weirdness: this is why social media has become ungovernable
- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/01/conspiracy-monetisation-social-media-kate-middleton
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Why Is Our Culture So Obsessed With Individual Experience? | MetaFilter
March 29, 2024 at 5:38:08 PM GMT+1 * - permalink -Why Is Our Culture So Obsessed With Individual Experience?
- https://www.metafilter.com/203094/Why-Is-Our-Culture-So-Obsessed-With-Individual-Experience
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‘Everybody has a breaking point’: how the climate crisis affects our brains | Climate crisis | The Guardian
March 27, 2024 at 8:19:09 AM GMT+1 * - permalink -How the climate crisis affects our brains
Scientists are just starting to discover how extreme heat and weather is linked to neurological conditions such as Alzheimer’s and motor neurone disease – and can even affect babies in the womb. What can we do about it?- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/27/everybody-has-a-breaking-point-how-the-climate-crisis-affects-our-brains
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Stop wasting time on ‘community’ - Uploop DX
March 23, 2024 at 10:09:26 PM GMT+1 * - permalink -build followings at scales that were once the exclusive domain of religions and nations
- https://www.uploop.dev/blog/stop-wasting-time-on-community
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Could Poland’s promotion to Europe’s top table be a turning point for Ukraine? | Paul Taylor | The Guardian
March 20, 2024 at 8:30:36 AM GMT+1 * - permalink -Frankreich - Deutschland - Polen: könnte genau das sein, was die EU als Motor jetzt und für die nahe Zukunft braucht
- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/20/poland-europe-top-table-ukraine-weimar-triangle-france-germany
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UK is officially the world’s second-most miserable country; these were the happiest and unhappiest countries of 2023 - The Economic Times
March 10, 2024 at 4:30:56 PM GMT+1 * - permalink -UK is officially the world’s second-most miserable country; these were the happiest and unhappiest countries of 2023
- https://m.economictimes.com/nri/latest-updates/uk-is-officially-the-worlds-second-most-miserable-country-these-were-the-happiest-and-unhappiest-countries-of-2023/articleshow/108361220.cms
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China Firewall Test - Test if Any Site is Blocked in China
March 10, 2024 at 1:42:36 PM GMT+1 * - permalink -Test if any site is blocked by the Great Firewall of China in real time
- http://www.chinafirewalltest.com/?siteurl=Wikipedia.org
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Pushing Buttons: When even PlayStation is cutting jobs, something is seriously wrong with games | Games | The Guardian
March 4, 2024 at 8:19:09 AM GMT+1 * - permalink -Sony’s news that it is cutting jobs and cancelling projects for the mega-console underlines a depressing fact about game development – it’s go big, or go home
- https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/feb/28/pushing-buttons-playstation-job-losses
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‘Everything is hairless’: what 100 women taught me about porn and body confidence | Pornography | The Guardian
March 4, 2024 at 8:18:30 AM GMT+1 * - permalink -How is pornography changing women’s perception of what is normal, acceptable and beautiful? I interviewed them to find out
- https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/20/everything-is-hairless-what-100-women-taught-me-about-porn-and-body-confidence
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Retromags - The Vintage Video Game Magazine Archive
February 10, 2024 at 10:19:38 PM GMT+1 * - permalink -man braucht einen .cbz-Webcomic-Reader dafür, cooles Projekt!
- https://www.retromags.com/
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When "letting it crash" is not enough
February 9, 2024 at 9:47:45 AM GMT+1 * - permalink -"let it crash". The core idea behind it has to do with the fact that modern applications have a huge number of states that they can find themselves in. The more complex your application is, the more variables you need to keep track of everything. Eventually it becomes impossible for developers to predict all combinations of state that these variables will form. Once your app gets into an undesirable state, the best thing you can do is to reset it and start from a fresh, well known and correct state
- https://flawless.dev/essays/when-letting-it-crash-is-not-enough/
"let it crash". The core idea behind has to do with the fact that modern applications have a huge number of states they can find themselves in. more complex your application is variables you need keep track everything. Eventually becomes impossible for developers predict all combinations state these will form. Once app gets into an undesirable state best thing is reset and start from fresh well known correct
