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[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

It's hard to believe that the "~80%+ of the internet is blocked in Spain during football games" claim is true - but it is!! And has been for years.

The government is sabotaging their complete digital economy... for La Liga, a private football org worth €5B. Pure madness

[Carl Winslow @CarlWinslou]

Sería un sueño...

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

When you throw a ball at a wall, you can be sure it will bounce back at you.

You would be extremely surprised if the ball suddenly appeared on the other side of the wall. In quantum mechanics this type of phenomenon is called tunnelling and is exactly the type of phenomenon that has given it a reputation for being bizarre and unintuitive.

The 2025 #NobelPrize laureates in physics John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis, used a series of experiments to demonstrate that the bizarre properties of the quantum world can be made concrete in a system big enough to be held in the hand. Their superconducting electrical system could tunnel from one state to another, as if it were passing straight through a wall. They also showed that the system absorbed and emitted energy in doses of specific sizes, just as predicted by quantum mechanics.

Learn more about this year's physics prize: https://t.co/aeI5EosDvy

[FFmpeg @FFmpeg]

Arguably the most brilliant engineer in FFmpeg left because of this. He reverse engineered dozens of codecs by hand as a volunteer.

Then security "researchers" and corporate employees came along repeatedly insisted "critical" security issues were fixed immediately waving their CVEs.

This was hugely demotivating to the fun and enjoyment of reverse engineering.

[Proton VPN @ProtonVPN]

Reports of Discord being hacked detail how the hackers were able to get access to the Government IDs of users who appealed the recently-enforced Age Verification checks.

[maia arson crimew FEEDBACK MAKES YOU PURE @awawawhoami]

> all your data will be removed
> you cannot reuse the same email or phone number

so not all of it, huh :)

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

This is remarkably telling headline by the FT: "Economists favour..." The FT makes it sound as if "economists" are an entity with collective preferences and views. But we, economists, are neither a party nor even a real scientific community. You put 3 economists in a room and who get 10 different, contradictory views on the most basic of economic issues.

Unlike physicists, an economics Nobel laureate is very likely to think of another economics Nobel laureate as a charlatan. Only financial journalists can be lulled by a false sense that there is such a thing as a reasonably unified, science-based, consensus on how the economy works and what needs to be done to, or with, it!
https://t.co/cRMRpXCFsi

[Alex_politics @comuflauta]

Que la derecha y los fascistas hayan conseguido hacerte creer que seguir directrices religiosas y conservadoras sean de izquierda es seguramente una de sus mayores obras de ingeniería social en la actualidad.

El islam y cualquier religión ultraconservadora es de Extrema Derecha.

Ese chaval tiene bastante más parecido a lo que tu defiendes que a lo que voy a defender yo.

[Forgotten Realms Wiki @FRWiki]

25 Years Ago: Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn was released.

It received critical acclaim, being praised for its gameplay, artwork, and voice acting, and is regarded as one of the best video games ever made.
#dnd #TBThursday #tbt

https://t.co/roDyUCG1vu

[Laura Strego @LauraStrego]

@Rittenreloaded No dejan a los chavales llevar gorro y bufanda en invierno cuando huela. Con la calefacción rota o deficiente, ¿Y ella tiene que ser especial? A la mierda, hombre.

[François Chollet @fchollet]

Software engineers shouldn't fear being replaced by AI. They should fear being asked to maintain the sprawling mess of AI-generated legacy code their employer's systems will soon run on.

Because that one will actually happen.

[Héctor @HectordeMiguel]

Yo elijo la que pone bien las tildes.

[Veritasium @veritasium]

What if our gadgets didn’t need batteries to run? No AAAs, no recharging. Just light.

UCL scientists may have found the key. 🧵

[On the other side of the Berlin Wall @03690jul]

Para eso quiere traer a migrantes, para que trabajen en su empresa de socorrismo aceptando condiciones leoninas. A ver que día la izquierda deja el humanitarismo cristiano y se pone a analizar los proceso en términos de clase. Que ya va siendo hora.

[Dra. Laura Redondo @DraLauraRedondo]

Cuando no tienes formación ni cultura y defiendes lo indefendible, siempre queda mezclar conceptos arbitrariamente para dártelas de algo. Es increíble que se le dé pábulo a estos personajes. Siguen gritando ¡muer4 la inteligencia! Pero con brilli brilli

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

Commercial surveillance allows companies to "optimize" products to be *nearly* so enshtitified that we quit them, but not quite, maximizing the value they can shift from us to them.

To be free, we don't merely need to be ungovernable.

We need to *become unoptomizable*.

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[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Annoying how global companies don't think about the use case of "what if a customer wants to use the same email for their account in two different countries."

If you buy an LG smart appliance, you need to use a different email in every country.

Amazon solved this: LG did not

[Pre-Rendered Backgrounds Aesthetics @PRBG_Aesthetics]

Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire (2018)

Developed by Obsidian Entertainment.

[GitHub Projects Community @GithubProjects]

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[Retro Tech Dreams @RetroTechDreams]

Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn (2000)