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TIL: Heavy Raspberry Pi User? Keep An HDMI-to-USB Capture Device Around | Hackaday
I was today years old when I learnt that these kinds of devices existed, and now I want one. It is something so stunningly obvious in retrospect… https://hackaday.com/2020/12/21/heavy-raspberry-pi-user-keep-an-hdmi-to-usb-capture-device-around/
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Unintended consequences of “protecting people from rude words” include leaving them open to defamation without the opportunity to respond:
Google is now automatically hiding reviews with insults or swearing. The problem is that those still count in the app overall rating and the developers cannot answer them anymore… so how how are we supposed to help those users now? — Podcast Addict (@PodcastAddict) December 22, 2020
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FOOD: 4kg of Coffee Beans should just about be enough for the Christmas break. All beans supplied by CoffeeGems Roasters of Farnham
Am just a very happy customer. Also: https://www.facebook.com/coffeegems.uk/
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FOOD: How did I miss the #Baogel?
Lunch with my partner, of home-steamed frozen char-siu Bao and stir fried vegetables, and a conversation that went a little like this: Alec: “…it’s wheat flour, isn’t it?” Partner: “Yes, and the combination of steam and dough.” A: “Yummy. Hm. Steam. Water. Boiling. I wonder if you could make a boiled Bao, but shaped like
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ESSAY: Why is #GlitterBomb better than #Cyber? (HT: @MarkRober) #DontHaveNightmares
Over the past few years I’ve enjoyed Mark Rober’s series of glitterbomb parcel-theft videos, and the latest episode landed a few days ago, and it’s a delightful watch: One of the things which I really appreciate is that in the latter two videos Mark has gone out of his way to dispel the “negatives” around
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TIL: Owls can get fat
The sanctuary said it was “extremely unusual for wild birds to get into this condition naturally”. Head falconer Rufus Samkin said: “Where she was found is very productive land, and it’s been a mild winter and there’s a lot of food around – voles, mice. “We think she’s just done incredibly well for herself and
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They’re the same picture
Lhttps://imgur.com/gallery/jD4a3WR
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Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Dell join legal battle against hacking company NSO
Getting the feeling that NSO is about to have its arse kicked rather heavily. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-nso-cyber-idUSKBN28V2WX (Reuters) – Tech giants including Microsoft and Google on Monday joined Facebook’s legal battle against hacking company NSO, filing an amicus brief in federal court that warned that the Israeli firm’s tools were “powerful, and dangerous.” The brief, filed before
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This? This is what the President of the USA spends time on?
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/17/947251937/trump-bemoaned-water-pressure-now-his-administration-has-eased-standards
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Sailing through Bering sea at winter
Sailing through Bering sea at winter
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Making Walnut Biscotti…
https://dendritics.com/scales/biscotti.asp