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Ukraine will never join NATO on my watch, says Slovakia PM Fico
  • A proxy war would be imply that neither the US nor Russia are involved in the Russian invasion of Ukraine on a direct military basis. As that's not the case in this context, while the conflict has some similarities to a proxy war in terms of pitting the resources of the West against those of Russia, financially sustained by its trade deals with Iran, India, and China, it is a gross mischaracterization to even imply that neither size is more to blame than the other in the conflict when all Russia needs to do to end the war, financial restitutions aside, is simply return to Ukraine all of its stolen lands and kidnapped citizens.

  • Question about Firefox - any way to open specific sites as if they were an app or program (similar to an option in Chrome)?
  • The loss of built-in PWA support was the biggest disappointment I had when switching from Chrome to Firefox, with the add-on solutions I tried having one problem or another in replicating my goal of making opening a handful of websites I had set to be PWAs look as much like regular applications as possible. While I wouldn't switch back to Chrome in a second, and am still trying to get the rest of my family to make the switch, there's a number of things Firefox needs to implement to remove the remaining roadblocks for people looking to make the switch away from Chrome or another Chromium browser.

  • Where Wealthy Millennials Are Moving – 2024 Study
  • Not particularly relevant when home ownership is a pipe dream at this point for the majority of young adults in the US unless a substantial amount of new affordable housing is built to fulfill market demand.

  • Biden lost the Vote of this Pastor over Gaza. Harris must earn it Back
  • And Trump would gladly see far more Gazans killed for the sake of securing Israel's hold on Palestinian territory. Not that Harris couldn't do better by the Gazans, but it's either naive or deceitful to imply that both candidates have similar stances on the issue of Palestine.

  • Barclays planned to pull out of Israel's bond auctions under activist pressure, FT reports
  • There's no point of mentioning it other than undeserved positive PR until such plans are actually implemented and stay implemented, at the very least until a settlement that provides for an equitable, permanent, two-state solution is mutually agreed upon by both Israel and Palestine.

  • Most creative cache you've found?

    Nearing the 2,000 find mark after ten years of caching on and off, the creative caches have definitely stuck with me more than the rest.

    Sometimes it's a particularly unique container, such as one where a metal tube cache sat at the bottom of a PVC pipe, retrieved by pouring water into the pipe, making the cache float to the top as the water drained slowly from holes in the bottom of the pipe.

    Sometimes it's a particularly creative puzzle, such as one where I had to use GIMP to see what barely noticeable differences the cache owner had made to a picture, revealing the faint outlines of Roman numerals and a Morse code sequence that gave the cache's final coordinates.

    What are some of the most creative caches that you guys have found so far?

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    US VP Harris to meet Netanyahu this week at White House
  • In her place, Trump would be lauding how great he thinks the US-Israeli alliance is and commit twice as many resources to Israel in the process. Acting like Harris is anywhere near as bad as Trump on the issue of Palestine is either being grossly naive or intentionally deceitful, while not voting for her just because she isn't pro-Palestine enough is counter productive when Trump is far less so.

  • Disallow the use of sources deprecated by the Wikipedia editing community for unreliability

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/23066599

    Since 2017, Wikipedia editors have compiled a list of news sources from which articles are highly likely to employ systematic bias, lack professional editing and/or journalistic standards, regularly misrepresent sources, and/or fabricate information.

    While its list is by no means a complete list of publications with the aforementioned problems, it has helped make Wikipedia articles more reliable by basing them off of sources covering the same events and information from a less biased point of view.

    To make Lemmy news communities better than their Reddit counterparts, I think avoiding links to those sources in favor of more reliable alternatives would be worthwhile.

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    Disallow the use of sources deprecated by the Wikipedia editing community for unreliability

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/23066599

    Since 2017, Wikipedia editors have compiled a list of news sources from which articles are highly likely to employ systematic bias, lack professional editing and/or journalistic standards, regularly misrepresent sources, and/or fabricate information.

    While its list is by no means a complete list of publications with the aforementioned problems, it has helped make Wikipedia articles more reliable by basing them off of sources covering the same events and information from a less biased point of view.

    To make Lemmy news communities better than their Reddit counterparts, I think avoiding links to those sources in favor of more reliable alternatives would be worthwhile.

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    Disallow the use of sources deprecated by the Wikipedia editing community for unreliability

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/23066599

    Since 2017, Wikipedia editors have compiled a list of news sources from which articles are highly likely to employ systematic bias, lack professional editing and/or journalistic standards, regularly misrepresent sources, and/or fabricate information.

    While its list is by no means a complete list of publications with the aforementioned problems, it has helped make Wikipedia articles more reliable by basing them off of sources covering the same events and information from a less biased point of view.

    To make Lemmy news communities better than their Reddit counterparts, I think avoiding links to those sources in favor of more reliable alternatives would be worthwhile.

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    Disallow the use of sources deprecated by the Wikipedia editing community for unreliability

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/23066599

    Since 2017, Wikipedia editors have compiled a list of news sources from which articles are highly likely to employ systematic bias, lack professional editing and/or journalistic standards, regularly misrepresent sources, and/or fabricate information.

    While its list is by no means a complete list of publications with the aforementioned problems, it has helped make Wikipedia articles more reliable by basing them off of sources covering the same events and information from a less biased point of view.

    To make Lemmy news communities better than their Reddit counterparts, I think avoiding links to those sources in favor of more reliable alternatives would be worthwhile.

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    USpolitics @lemmy.world Zedstrian @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Disallow the use of sources deprecated by the Wikipedia editing community for unreliability

    Since 2017, Wikipedia editors have compiled a list of news sources from which articles are highly likely to employ systematic bias, lack professional editing and/or journalistic standards, regularly misrepresent sources, and/or fabricate information.

    While its list is by no means a complete list of publications with the aforementioned problems, it has helped make Wikipedia articles more reliable by basing them off of sources covering the same events and information from a more objective and factual point of view.

    To make Lemmy news communities better than their Reddit counterparts, I think avoiding links to those sources in favor of more reliable alternatives would be worthwhile.

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    Does Reddit shadowban mentions of Lemmy?

    In the months since I deleted my Reddit accounts and joined Lemmy, the lack of user base growth has made it clear that we need some users to stay on Reddit as a means of shepherding more users over on an ongoing basis. Otherwise, Reddit simply got what it wanted: less users who make a fuss about how it manages its platform without losing users en-masse.

    In doing so, however, does Reddit shadowban posts that mention or promote Lemmy? Googling mentions of Lemmy on Reddit mostly brings up posts from around the time of the blackout, suggesting that mentions of it since then have been suppressed. Before I return to Reddit to promote Lemmy, does anyone know for certain one way or the other?

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    Usenet / Newsgroups Discussion @lemmy.dbzer0.com Zedstrian @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Collecting indexers

    While my initial motivation to try usenet was to find releases that weren't being seeded on torrent trackers, I've found it to be a helpful alternative to keeping content seeded on my laptop's limited hard drive for extended amounts of time. To increase the chances that I find what I'm looking for, I check several usenet indexers simultaneously, preferring to use ones that have lifetime subscriptions (altHUB, Miatrix, and NZBGeek). Should those three lack what I'm looking for, I also use DrunkenSlug, NZB Finder, and Tabula Rasa, as their free plans can be used indefinitely. Aside from the six aforementioned indexers, are there any good ones that I've missed with free plans that don't expire?

    From what I remember DogNZB, NinjaCentral, and NZBPlanet either have limited-time free plans or require account activity at least once every two weeks, which is why I chose to forego them in favor of the six I use now.

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    Puzzle games with procedurally-generated levels?

    While many great puzzle games have a fixed number of levels, I'd like to find more with procedurally-generated levels to maximize replay value. Aside from Minesweeper games, so far I've found the following ones:

    • Hexcells Infinite
    • InfiniPicross 2.0
    • KNIGHTS
    • Lines Infinite
    • Linklight
    • LOOP
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    Television @lemmy.world Zedstrian @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Detective show recommendations?

    Trying to help my grandparents find a new detective show to watch. For reference, here's what they've already watched:

    Bosch Bosch: Legacy Beyond Paradise Death in Paradise Elementary Endeavour Father Brown Lewis Lie to Me Longmire Marple Midsomer Murders Murdoch Mysteries NCIS Poirot Shetland The Brokenwood Mysteries The Mentalist

    While they generally seem to prefer British detective shows, I'm not sure which ones are left to recommend to them.

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    Add 'Redirect to home instance in new tab' option to browser context menu

    In navigating Lemmyverse for potential communities to subscribe to, it would be helpful to be able to redirect links to my home instance in a new tab to facilitate sorting through multiple communities at a time. Ideally, the option would be implemented with the ability to enable or disable either of the two context menu items to minimize context menu cluttering.

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