The boiling frog of digital freedom — PSA: Don't base your business around Discord.7yr account banned for posting ASNs — and Climate Change Tracker

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The boiling frog of digital freedom gazoche.xyz \| points: 597 \| comments: 398

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PSA: Don’t base your business around Discord.7yr account banned for posting ASNs news.ycombinator.com \| points: 442 \| comments: 144

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Climate Change Tracker climatechangetracker.org \| points: 395 \| comments: 278

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I don’t want to grow my freelance design studio into an agency neladunato.com \| points: 306 \| comments: 134

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How to type “blimpy” in Emacs [video] youtube.com \| points: 291 \| comments: 118

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Hacking the Timex m851 lock.cmpxchg8b.com \| points: 281 \| comments: 60

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The Raft Consensus Algorithm (2015) raft.github.io \| points: 240 \| comments: 62

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UPI Payments: 10B transactions a month done, next stop 100B bqprime.com \| points: 221 \| comments: 355

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Transformers as Support Vector Machines arxiv.org \| points: 217 \| comments: 137

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Harry Browne’s Rules of Financial Safety (1999) thetaoofwealth.wordpress.com \| points: 217 \| comments: 187

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Sag-AFTRA votes unanimously to expand its strike to include the games industry eurogamer.net \| points: 200 \| comments: 193

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Pesticide safety limit for salmon farms watered down after industry lobbying theferret.scot \| points: 183 \| comments: 56

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How did Stripe come up with its name? (2015) quora.com \| points: 178 \| comments: 125

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Baresip – An Open Source modular SIP User-Agent with audio and video support github.com \| points: 173 \| comments: 45

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Calibre replacement considerations (2019) anarc.at \| points: 156 \| comments: 79

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Vale.sh – A Linter for Prose vale.sh \| points: 153 \| comments: 59

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Microsoft Edge is starting to annoy me big time dedoimedo.com \| points: 136 \| comments: 92

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Tesla FSD Beta tried to kill me last night electrek.co \| points: 128 \| comments: 121

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DOS Game Club dosgameclub.com \| points: 125 \| comments: 26

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The Musaicum EU-plus 10M resolution image of Europe imagico.de \| points: 124 \| comments: 25

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