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European politicians say migration is out of control. The numbers tell a different story
  • The smugglers don’t give a fuck, they got paid.

    In the Mediterranean they use any shitty dinghy that just about floats and drive paying people to international waters, then the smuggler bails out in a proper boat and leaves the people adrift to be rescued by NGOs or coast guard.

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    After charger, Apple removes USB-C cable from the box
  • Multiple people were really angry when VGA ports disappeared, the amount of shitty corporate projectors with only VGA connectors was staggering and we had to resort to using adapters (“dongles”) for a long time until all of them were replaced with HDMI capable ones

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    US Postal Service electric trucks are finally here and drivers love them
  • American truckers especially love their FREEDOM to a stupid degree. I do get the lifestyle of being a road cowboy never knowing where your next haul is going to.

    But they’re also a dying breed, new drivers want to get home now and then and not live in a truck for months without seeing their family.

    There was a good documentary about this a while ago, can’t remember where.

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    Man sets himself on fire outside Israeli consulate in Boston, US
  • But suicide by self immolation because of it?

    Why? What drives a person to do that?

    If you’re willing to die for the cause, why not immolate the Israeli consul for example?

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    Dear Android users
  • And that is a bad thing?

    My Xbox and PlayStation and Switch are also “closed ecosystems” and I like them too.

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    Dear iPhone users:
  • mAh is a stupid way to measure batteries. Wh is more relevant.

    It also tells nothing about the efficiency of the device. You can add a 50kWh battery to a device but it doesn’t matter if it uses 2kWh at idle

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    The US federal loophole that allows food companies to decide what's safe for you to eat
  • I’d go with the amount of additives compared to the “real” thing.

    Like basic bread is water, yeast, flour and salt.

    If your bread has 20 ingredients - it’s ultra processed.

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  • indieweb.org POSSE

    POSSE is an abbreviation for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, the practice of posting content on your own site first, then publishing copies or sharing links to third parties (like social media silos) with original post links to provide viewers a path to directly interacting with you...

    I’ve been doing POSSE for a while now and it had helped me immensely by saving time and stress.

    Basically every time I post something on a 3rd party site I store the content locally. Currently only in Obsidian and some locally cached videos and articles (TubeArchivist and Raindrop)

    When I get dragged to the same argument or topic again, I can just grab my old comment, maybe edit/update it a bit and post it.

    For some stuff I have longer blog posts I can link to, for some they are images and graphs.

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    Q3 firmware update broke Karabiner Elements

    Keyboard: Keychron Q3 ISO KNOB

    I had a working system with Karabiner Elements, I had mapped caps lock to be a hyper-key on macOS. Everything worked perfectly.

    Then I was stupid and updated to the latest firmware on the keyboard to 1.0.5 because it's the new shiny.

    Now I can't override the capslock key with Karabiner any more.

    I can see it's being pressed in the event viewer, but I can't capture the event. How on earth is the firmware bypassing Karabiner and how can I make it stop short of remapping capslock to a key that CAN be overwritten in firmware?

    Pretty much every other key can be overwritten at least from the dozen or so I tested already, it's just CAPS LOCK being special.

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