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The nerdy corner of the internet

πŸš€ Discover this must-read post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: OrangeCrumbs | The nerdy corner of the internet W Saved βœ• orangecrumbs βœ‰ Weekly Wikipedia digest Get new Wikipedia articles popular on Hacker News - one email per week. βœ“ You're in! First issue lands soon. Saved About Privacy No items match this view.Try Shuffle or New. Up next 0 βœ‰ Weekly Wikipedia digest Get new Wikipedia articles popular on Hacker News - one email per week. βœ“ You're in! First issue lands soon. ?Keyboard shortcuts ↑↓to moveΒ·?shortcuts Γ— Read more β–Ύ β–² β–Ό Navigate…
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‘Anger burns every part of him’: Angry Guerrilla Art’s response to the Epstein files | platform

‘Anger burns every part of him’: Angry Guerrilla Art’s response to the Epstein files | platform

✨ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Stage,Culture,Jeffrey Epstein πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: CSocial media brings revolution? Probably not, but it was vital to the teamwork behind this theatrical event, which was conceived on a WhatsApp group for playwrights shortly after the Epstein files were published. Members of the group were angry that the world was not talking enough about the impact of Jeffrey Epstein's actions on the girls and women he abused. They were also concerned that America's war with Iran was a distraction from the violence escalating in these cases against the…
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Windows 11 users say Microsoft account requirements are creeping into everything and they are tired of it

Windows 11 users say Microsoft account requirements are creeping into everything and they are tired of it

✨ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: Microsoft has spent the past year trying to convince users that it's listening. Through its Windows K2 initiative, the company has been focusing on improving Windows 11 with better customization, interface refinements, bug fixes, and other changes driven by user feedback.However, one of the most persistent complaints about Windows 11 remains unresolved, which is the company's insistence on requiring a Microsoft account during setup.A recent discussion on Reddit started with a simple request. User 2025Fishy argued that Microsoft should restore the option to create a…
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‘His last kiss to the world’: David Hockney’s return to Yorkshire sparks a glorious awakening | David Hockney

‘His last kiss to the world’: David Hockney’s return to Yorkshire sparks a glorious awakening | David Hockney

✨ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: David Hockney,Art and design,Culture,UK news,Painting,Yorkshire,Art πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: IIt was spring in Paris, and I was floating among little green leaves and white flowers, but I was not in a garden. I was on the top floor of the Fondation Louis Vuitton beaming, immersed in several David Hockney paintings on an iPad of his garden in Normandy. In one room, this green oasis appeared in the silver light of the moon: the dark room was alive with bright white lunar discs, blue clouds and the…
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Even More Batteries Included with Emacs

Even More Batteries Included with Emacs

πŸ’₯ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: Emacs features have a discoverability problem, and we’re chipping away at it one demo at a time. The years since I wrote the last one of these have yielded more surprising and useful finds, so it’s time again for a β€œbatteries included” report. Note This is the third in a series of articles highlighting useful but lesser-known features included in Emacs. Parts 1 & 2: β€œLesser-known” is a subjective judgment. Roughly, it means that at the time of writing, I have seen these features…
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Obsessed: How the Low-Budget Horror Film Changed the Game in Hollywood | Horror movies

Obsessed: How the Low-Budget Horror Film Changed the Game in Hollywood | Horror movies

πŸ”₯ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Horror films,Film,Film industry,Culture βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: TThis week, the independently produced horror film "Obsession," which cost between $750,000 or $15 million depending on whether you count its actual budget or the cost of its studio acquisition, officially surpassed the most recent Star Wars film at the box office (the film has so far grossed more than $165 million in the U.S. alone).It is no coincidence that this happened on a weekday. Obsession's box office strength lies not only in its incredible weekend-to-weekend strength (including a…
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21 years and counting of ‘eight fallacies of distributed computing’

21 years and counting of ‘eight fallacies of distributed computing’

✨ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: You’d think that by now, networks were well enough understood that people would stop making assumptions that we have known, almost since the dawn of networking, to be untrue. Yet as users, developers, and network administrators, we still seem curiously unable to let go of long-held beliefs. Perhaps the best-known collection of mistaken ideas about networks is the eight fallacies of distributed computing. The eight fallacies TheΒ networkΒ is reliable LatencyΒ is zero BandwidthΒ is infinite The network isΒ secure TopologyΒ doesn’t change There is oneΒ administrator Transport cost is zero The…
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β€œI only had this father, and he was gone”: Wafaa Mustafa’s fight for truth and justice for the missing in Syria | film

β€œI only had this father, and he was gone”: Wafaa Mustafa’s fight for truth and justice for the missing in Syria | film

πŸ’₯ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Film,Documentary films,Sheffield Doc/Fest,Culture,Festivals,Syria,Middle East and north Africa,World news πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: WWhen Wafaa Mostafa was a child, she remembers her father playing Umm Kulthum’s music non-stop at home in Syria, harmonizing with the notes of the legendary Egyptian singer. One day, in an attempt to encourage his daughter to appreciate music, he asked her to take a pen and paper and write down the lyrics to a song she liked. Wanting to impress him, Mustafa chose a song by Umm Kulthum called β€œAghrd Al-Qaq,” which translates…
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The hallucinogenic mushroom that contains no known psychedelic

The hallucinogenic mushroom that contains no known psychedelic

✨ Discover this trending post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: A globally distributed genus of boletes called Lanmaoa may represent a third family of psychoactive mushrooms, working through a chemistry that no one understands yet. The genus already holds one of the strangest entries in the toxicological literature. In Yunnan, in southwestern China, eating an undercooked bolete known locally as jian shou qing can bring on vivid hallucinations of tiny people. Patients describe colourful figures only a few centimetres tall, marching, dancing and climbing over the furniture. The effect sharpens with the eyes closed. More…
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Olivia Rodrigo: You sound so sad for a girl in love – who are you singing about? Who cares when the songs are this good? Olivia Rodrigo

Olivia Rodrigo: You sound so sad for a girl in love – who are you singing about? Who cares when the songs are this good? Olivia Rodrigo

πŸš€ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Olivia Rodrigo,Music,Pop and rock,Culture βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: WWith a certain overwhelming inevitability, the arrival of Olivia Rodrigo's third album was accompanied by a lot of deciphering its lyrics in search of references to Louis Partridge, the British actor whose relationship with the singer ended late last year. A magazine published a 1,200-word article, complete with captions, analyzing her songs for nuggets of gossip: the fourth piece she's published on the subject in recent months. A British newspaper published a news story about the fact that Rodrigo…
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