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People like me flocked to Berlin because it was ‘poor but sexy’. Those times are over | Fatma Aydemir | The Guardian
"Berlin is not a pretty place. The winters are a total nightmare, no sunlight, no warm face. Its cuisine is all about fast food. Large parts of town smell like a public toilet; overdosed tourists randomly pass out on the street. It’s not a city where you would sit out on a cafe terrace to people-watch. But also it’s now nearly impossible to find an affordable flat you could call home"Tue Dec 31 10:30:44 2024 - permalink -- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/31/people-like-me-flocked-to-berlin-because-it-was-poor-but-sexy-those-times-are-over
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The Ghosts in the Machine | MetaFilter
It is in the financial interest of streaming services to discourage a critical audio culture among users, to continue eroding connections between artists and listeners, so as to more easily slip discounted stock music through the cracks, improving their profit margins in the process.Fri Dec 20 20:44:31 2024 - permalink -
I feel this is slowly happening to all types of media., not just audio. The slow dumbification of culture- https://www.metafilter.com/206804/The-Ghosts-in-the-Machine
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What do we know about the mysterious drones reported flying over New Jersey?
Authorities say they do not know who is behind the drones.Thu Dec 12 21:33:24 2024 - permalink -
The FBI, Homeland Security and state police are investigating the sightings. Authorities say they don't know if it is one drone that has been spotted many times or if there are multiple- https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/know-mysterious-drones-reported-flying-163514109.html
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Louis Derrac - The progressivist web had better migrate to Mastodon, not Bluesky
the progressivist web would do well to migrate directly to Mastodon, not BlueskyTue Nov 19 12:50:22 2024 - permalink -- https://louisderrac.com/the-progressivist-web-had-better-migrate-to-mastodon-not-bluesky/
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We’re leaving Kubernetes - Blog
we’ve found that Kubernetes is not the right choice for building development environmentsMon Nov 4 22:01:43 2024 - permalink -- https://www.gitpod.io/blog/we-are-leaving-kubernetes
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Addicted to love: how dating apps ‘exploit’ their users | Online dating | The Guardian
dating apps, which have been downloaded hundreds of millions of times worldwide, are “exploitative” and are designed not to be deleted but to be addictive, to retain users in order to create revenueSun Nov 3 08:30:18 2024 - permalink -- https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/nov/03/addicted-to-love-how-dating-apps-exploit-their-users
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‘One big mess’: Fifa not fit to govern football, claims human rights group | Fifa | The Guardian
‘One big mess’: Fifa not fit to govern football, claims human rights groupThu Oct 31 07:24:54 2024 - permalink -- https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/oct/30/one-big-mess-fifa-not-fit-to-govern-football-says-human-rights-group
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What does it mean that hundreds of thousands of players are clicking on a banana? - Sherwood News
Clicker games are the product of stripping a game down to nothing but the microtransactions and trading elements, which is likely why the developers of “Banana” don't care if it's bots or humans playing, so long as users are buying and trading content. They're earning about 10% of every sale between players, human or notSat Aug 3 13:11:15 2024 - permalink -- https://sherwood.news/tech/hundreds-of-thousands-of-players-banana-clicker-game-egg-steam/
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Opinion: The law should treat personal data like human organs – not for sale - The Globe and Mail
law should treat personal data like human organs – not for saleWed Jun 26 20:58:31 2024 - permalink -- https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-the-law-should-treat-personal-data-like-human-organs-not-for-sale/
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Millions of research papers at risk of disappearing from the Internet | MetaFilter
More than one-quarter of scholarly articles are not being properly archived and preserved, a study of more than seven million digital publications suggestsFri Mar 8 14:02:27 2024 - permalink -- https://www.metafilter.com/202820/Millions-of-research-papers-at-risk-of-disappearing-from-the-Internet
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What’s up with Generation Z? | Mental health | The Guardian
One in three 18- to 24-year-olds now report symptoms indicating they have experienced a common mental health problem, such as depression or anxiety disorder, compared with one in four in 2000.Sun Mar 3 09:28:12 2024 - permalink -
This figure was not the result of a quick and dirty snapshot poll. It was one result from a three-year research programme by the Resolution Foundation- https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/03/whats-up-with-generation-z
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Maybe Getting Rid of Your QA Team was Bad, Actually. | by David Caudill | Dec, 2023 | Medium
It turns out, the “One Weird Trick” to faster software delivery was not “fire your testers”.Fri Dec 15 09:02:44 2023 - permalink -
Wrecking this discipline was one of the worst kind of management mistakes- https://davidkcaudill.medium.com/maybe-getting-rid-of-your-qa-team-was-bad-actually-52c408bd048b
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Netflix is not a tech company — Benedict Evans
War mir klar, jedoch schön zu sehen, dass das mal jemand festgehalten hat :-)Tue Sep 7 20:48:13 2021 - permalink -- https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2019/7/31/Netflix
