White House weighs $100 billion for Israel, Ukraine bill; plans in flux
  • orizuru orizuru 1y ago 100%

    How many bureaucrats does that $1300 have to pay before it reaches the ambulance driver?

    The US healthcare system is notorious for bloat. Taxpayers pay more for healthcare than countries with free healthcare.

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  • How do you spend your idle time?
  • orizuru orizuru 1y ago 100%

    I follow the daily best posts on hacker news https://hnrss.github.io/

    This exposes me to quite interesting blogs (mainly tech, but not always). If I find someone worth following, I'll add their blog to my list as well. That's how I've been building my RSS feeds over the years.

    From the non tech blogs that I've found there, from the top of my head, these are nice

    https://going-medieval.com/ - medieval history professor's blog. She's quite witty, and makes super interesting posts about the daily lifes of people in the middle ages.

    https://brr.fyi - blog from an IT guy working in a scientific research center in Antarctica.

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  • How do you spend your idle time?
  • orizuru orizuru 1y ago 100%

    Depends on the effort.

    If you want a newbie friendly one with syncing: Feedly

    If you care about open source and controlling your own data (but don't care about syncing). Maybe liferea? There are tons of options.

    If you care about syncing and don't mind self-hosting: miniflux.

    I use miniflux, but requires some tech knowledge to set up.

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  • How do you spend your idle time?
  • orizuru orizuru 1y ago 100%

    I have a RSS reader that I check everyday for articles / blogposts from websites I subscribe to.

    The interesting stuff gets saved in Wallabag to read later. It syncs with my phone, and I can read offline whenever I got some time to kill.

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  • What do you all think of Mental Outlaw
  • orizuru orizuru 1y ago 100%

    Disappointed that he spends so much time these days uploading footage of chickens and commenting on political stuff. It was better when he just stuck to tutorials.

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  • Most of us hate Microsoft, and yet many of us use VSCode
  • orizuru orizuru 1y ago 100%

    The Unix philosophy is not something that every Linux user / developer abides by.

    Emacs is a good example of it.

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  • Most of us hate Microsoft, and yet many of us use VSCode
  • orizuru orizuru 1y ago 100%

    It's just great software. Suports every useful language and is very easy to write plugins for.

    If I remember correctly, codium does not support remote connections to servers or kube pods, which is a killer feature of vscode. Otherwise I'd switch to codium.

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  • “The West's Domination... is Coming to an End” Says Leader of Niger's Revolutionary Organization for New Democracy
  • orizuru orizuru 1y ago 80%

    What are you on about?

    African countries have been flooded by Chinese goods, to the point that it has killed the local manufacturing in Africa. Look it up.

    They don't have the service industry the west has, so the only thing they can offer in return are raw materials, which China is happy to take.

    Lemmy seems to hate went a western company exploits natural resources in Africa, but when China does it, they are somehow saving those poor people from the goodness of their hearts.

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  • “The West's Domination... is Coming to an End” Says Leader of Niger's Revolutionary Organization for New Democracy
  • orizuru orizuru 1y ago 37%

    China isn't really desperate for cheap natural resources as much as they are desperate for markets to export their manufactured goods.

    Thus killing local manufacturing.

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  • Free software pioneer Richard Stallman is battling cancer
  • orizuru orizuru 1y ago 100%

    Someone should keep an eye on Linus.

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  • People considering 'cancelling' new iPhone order after seeing comparison between older generation
  • orizuru orizuru 1y ago 93%

    Why someone keeps chasing the latest gadgets when the old ones work just fine is beyond me.

    Nobody is waiting every year for the brand new line of washing machines. Why is there a need to swap phones this frequently?

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  • Meta sparks privacy fears after unveiling $299 Smart Glasses with hidden cameras: ‘You can now film everyone without them knowing’
  • orizuru orizuru 1y ago 80%

    I imagine it wouldn't take long until someone finds a way to disable that LED.

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  • Top Chinese university scraps English tests in move cheered by nationalists
  • orizuru orizuru 1y ago 83%

    Sounds like the best way to cripple your scientific and tech sector.

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  • What blogs do you follow?
  • orizuru orizuru 1y ago 100%

    Not a blog, but a way of discovering new blogs. I subscribe to the unofficial best hacker news submissions RSS feed.

    https://hnrss.github.io/

    I found the blog on an IT guy that works in a research station in Antarctica.

    https://brr.fyi

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  • What are some great open source games?
  • orizuru orizuru 1y ago 100%
    • Nethack

    Yes the interface is a mess. But it's ridiculously deep once you get into it.

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  • orizuru orizuru 1y ago 100%

    The CEO of Unity was also CEO, COO, and president of EA. So, is anyone surprised?

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Riccitiello

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  • orizuru orizuru 1y ago 100%

    Or even better: buy soon to expire put options just before the announcement. 10x your money.

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  • I'm looking for a privacy-respecting open-source android keyboard, and so far I've found: - [OpenBoard](https://github.com/openboard-team/openboard) - [AnySoftKeyboard](https://github.com/AnySoftKeyboard/AnySoftKeyboard) - [FlorisBoard](https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard) Does anyone have any experience with these (or other alternative keyboards)? Which one would you recommend?

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