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Indonesia: Election law changes spark mass protests
  • Ah I missed this part of the article:

    Yet within 24 hours, parliament tabled an emergency motion to reverse these changes - a move which has sparked widespread condemnation and fears of a constitutional crisis.

    This does make sense now. It's just a very poorly written article :|

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    Indonesia: Election law changes spark mass protests
  • I don't see how removing the 20% requirement could mean this. Wouldn't that be the opposite? Less restrictions meaning more competition?

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    Indonesia: Election law changes spark mass protests
  • On Wednesday, Indonesia's top court ruled that parties would not need a minimum 20% of representation in their regional assemblies in order to field a candidate.

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    If passed, it would maintain the status quo, which favours parties in the ruling coalition of the outgoing president

    How?

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    Alex Jones and his fans are intrigued by Putin offer of sanctuary to conservatives
  • no uh, you wouldn't be happy to drive a Russian vehicle unless you like awful rides and literally death. There are no airbags or any modern safety features other than the seatbelt lol

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    YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers
  • I find the whole thing so ugly even as a youtube plus subscriber. How much possibly you could gain here? isn't youtube already profitable and being run by one of the world's richest corporations? just let people watch and educate themselves and whatnot.

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    I just wanted to take a moment to enjoy how clean the web can be
  • But lack of ability does not prevent any of that. Entrepreneurs who want to monetize stuff will find a way to spam and game the system.

    As someone whos responsible for docs and public facing material I'd never push text only content these days. There's just way too much UX value left out with this limitation. Sometimes more is more.

    Additionally I'd argue that people who only want text are have advantage in the current system as you can strip and reformat everything on the front end and nobody will ever know or bully you into accepting their system. Just like nobody cared about ad blockers before they were widely adopted.

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    I just wanted to take a moment to enjoy how clean the web can be
  • I heavily disagree with this. Stepping back to "walls of text with hyperlinks" is a bad idea that'll service no one and will never succeed in any reasonable capacity.

    Current web technology is not what caused bad web. The exception would be too powerful js where js should only provide interactivity and extra flavor to the page rather than run a full application which can fingerprint and punish user agents.

    Javascript, embeded images and audio are awesome things that can improve content readability a thousand fold. Just look at best docs on the web - all of them use these features to tend their users. Even wikipedia added js flavoring like hover pop ups. Because it works.

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    Google threatened tech influencers unless they ‘preferred’ the Pixel
  • Also these days it's all about rushing content and pandering to the lowest common denominator. Though pop tech channels were always this way. I stumbled on Unbox Therapy lately and it's so blatant that it almost feels illegal.

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    How can a sole trader/small business owner use AI to their advantage?
  • Eh, it's the same thing. If LLM can help me design a better process for my day-to-day tasks even if it's not part of the process literally it's still part of the process. Just like any growth like reading a book is part of the business process.

    Not even going to touch your second paragraph and it's completely unrelated. Cleaning for a living is not "running a small business".

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    Am I the only one that thinks we should have dedicated buttons for copy/paste on keyboards?
  • Keyboards already have too many keys. Your fingers are extremely inefficient at certain distances so you should never even touch numpad with proper keyboard design. 10 fingers can combine a lot of keys.

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    How can a sole trader/small business owner use AI to their advantage?
  • Yes of course it can help you. The lack of imagination in this thread is truly astounding.

    You have an assistant with you that can instantly answer your questions and help you develop your business:

    • "what's the most efficient way to track appointments for me on Linux desktop program with minimal budget and I have 4-6 daily appointments. My key features are reminder 30min before appointment and ability to put notes for each appointment"
    • "help me optimize my meeting structure. I'm in X niche and currently I have 30minute daily meetings that don't follow any structure, what are some de facto meeting structures and post meeting operations in this industry?"

    I'm not directing this at OP but to all of the naysayers in this thread - if you can't find use for a tireless, 20$/mo assistant that will instantly answer your questions then you should not be owning any business or leading anything for that matter.

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    What's a good habit you developed you'd like to share?
  • Journaling.
    It's extremely powerful from mental health to actual planning tasks and keeping track of things but weirdly enough it can be difficult to get into.

    My best advice would be to make it as easy and as low stakes as possible at the beginning. Just open file/journal and write anything every day, even if it's one word. Don't worry about anything else. Then you can add and evolve this habbit to whatever feels useful to you.

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    Alabaster Dawn Reveal Trailer
  • Yeah I really liked puzzles and only found the timing puzzles annoying on a controller though with mouse and keyboard it was much easier.

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    Alabaster Dawn Reveal Trailer
  • I love the movement a lot in the last game and it's so great to see more of the same focus! I hope it's just not a reskin though

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  • Alabaster Dawn is an Action RPG that builds on the best aspects of Radical Fish Games’ previous title, CrossCode. It features a deep combat system, challenging puzzles, and a mysterious world teeming with secrets, all bundled up in an engaging story. The shadow of Nyx has fallen—warping the world into a wasteland and vanishing the gods and their people. Now, Juno the Outcast Chosen, awakes to an impossible task: bring it all back.

    STEAM PAGE: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3110760/Alabaster_Dawn/ HOME PAGE: https://www.alabaster-dawn.com

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    No spoilers: I really liked it and it's one my favorite watches this year (released 2023 but just now on streaming)

    https://m.imdb.com/title/tt15679400/

    Have you watched it? Wdyt?

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    www.eureporter.co European Court of Human Rights bans weakening of secure end-to-endencryption - the end of EU‘s chat control CSAR mass surveillance plans? - EU Reporter

    The European Court of Human Rights yesterday banned a general weakeningof secure end-to-end encryption. The judgement argues that encryptionhelps citizens and companies to protect themselves against hacking,theft of identity and personal data, fraud and the unauthoriseddisclosure of confidential inf...

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    Is this the first AI generated movie or something?

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    kotaku.com GTA VI Confirmed Next-Gen Only, Skipping PC At Launch

    Rockstar's highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto sequel set in Vice City will be out in 2025

    I'm confused why Kotaku mentioning next gen in the title when Rockstar only commented on current generation PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.

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    www.notebookcheck.net Samsung and Google challenge Dolby Atmos with new IAMF 3D spatial audio technology

    Samsung has just announced that it has developed a new 3D spatial audio technology, IAMF (Immersive Audio Model and Formats), in collaboration with Google. IAMF is open source and has features like vertical sound channels, AI-based scene analysis and the flexibility to customise content audio based ...

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    I wonder what Lemmings are thinking of this device. I admire the innovation but just don't see how this would be used in practice outside of memes.

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    techraptor.net Warner Bros. Will Focus on Live Services as Hogwarts Legacy Fans Play for 700 Million Hours to Date

    Today, during Warning Bros' conference call, chief executive officer David Zaslav talked about Mortal Kombat 1 and the company's gaming business.

    Most interesting part of the article:

    > "Our focus is on transforming our biggest franchises from largely console and PC-based with 3-4 year release schedules to include more always-on gameplay through live services, multiplatform, and free-to-play extensions, with the goal of having more players spending more time on more platforms. U

    > Ultimately, we want to drive engagement and monetization over longer cycles and at higher levels where per specific capabilities we're currently under scale, and see significant opportunity to generate greater post-purchase revenue"

    What a major turn-off ngl.

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    kotaku.com That's The End Of Activision Blizzard's $120 Million Overwatch League

    The Overwatch esport league was a money pit and now everyone's walking away

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    store.steampowered.com Save 15% on My Time at Sandrock on Steam

    Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!

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    www.wired.com Facebook Finally Puts a Price on Privacy: It’s $10 a Month

    Meta is about to roll out ad-free subscriptions on Instagram and Facebook. But critics say privacy should not be turned into a luxury.

    Ad free Facebook and Instagram is officially on. I'm trying to stay open minded but honestly it's too expensive especially with this sneaky account center rule unless you're in an unfortunate position where you need to spend a lot of time on these platforms.

    More on official blog post: https://about.fb.com/news/2023/10/facebook-and-instagram-to-offer-subscription-for-no-ads-in-europe/

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    news.sky.com Sunak proposes raising smoking age every year to create 'smoke-free' generation

    Rishi Sunak has proposed raising the smoking age every year in a move welcomed by health charities but criticised by those in the tobacco industry.

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    mixed-news.com Meta introduces new anti-piracy measures for Meta Quest 2

    Meta introduces a new API that performs hardware and application checks, targeting piracy among other things.

    Meta sneakily introduced "Platform Integrity Attestation API" which basically calls home to see whether the user has a valid license to play.

    This means that to run apps user has to have online connection to perform an integrity test. Whether it's only a test on launch or continues call home like Denuvo-like DRMs is not yet clear. This could also mean that modified headsets could fail to pass this test essentially closing down the device for modifications that could damage "platform integrity". Not all details are clear yet but this doesn't look good.

    Currently it's optional and up to app developers to enable it.

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    So, apparently Pulsar Timing Arrays work and something important was discovered that'll be announced in few days.

    This might sound like a bunch of space-nothing but just like radio waves, discovering gravitation waves could open up a lot of new posibilities in space observation. Though, in practice producing gravitation waves takes absurd amounts of energy so we'll not be applying this on earth any time soon.

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    hermit.chimbori.com Hermit • Lite Apps Browser

    Native apps eating up battery and slowing down your phone? Switch to Lite Apps.

    Android browsers can already add pages to home screen but Hermit takes this even futher.

    It has significantly better UX with frameless and full screen modes. You can bookmark pages, so on Lemmy you can quickly bookmark community in specific sorting order. There are user scripts and blockers and loads of customization. You can even add push notifications for changes on the site or RSS feed.

    I've been running most Fediverse web apps through Hermit and it works really well! The only exception is that I couldn't figure out how to setup notifications on Mastodon.

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