White House weighs $100 billion for Israel, Ukraine bill; plans in flux
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    How many bureaucrats does that $1300 have to pay before it reaches the ambulance driver?

    The US healthcare system is notorious for bloat. Taxpayers pay more for healthcare than countries with free healthcare.

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  • How do you spend your idle time?
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    I follow the daily best posts on hacker news https://hnrss.github.io/

    This exposes me to quite interesting blogs (mainly tech, but not always). If I find someone worth following, I'll add their blog to my list as well. That's how I've been building my RSS feeds over the years.

    From the non tech blogs that I've found there, from the top of my head, these are nice

    https://going-medieval.com/ - medieval history professor's blog. She's quite witty, and makes super interesting posts about the daily lifes of people in the middle ages.

    https://brr.fyi - blog from an IT guy working in a scientific research center in Antarctica.

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  • How do you spend your idle time?
  • orizuru orizuru Now 100%

    Depends on the effort.

    If you want a newbie friendly one with syncing: Feedly

    If you care about open source and controlling your own data (but don't care about syncing). Maybe liferea? There are tons of options.

    If you care about syncing and don't mind self-hosting: miniflux.

    I use miniflux, but requires some tech knowledge to set up.

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  • How do you spend your idle time?
  • orizuru orizuru Now 100%

    I have a RSS reader that I check everyday for articles / blogposts from websites I subscribe to.

    The interesting stuff gets saved in Wallabag to read later. It syncs with my phone, and I can read offline whenever I got some time to kill.

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  • Free software pioneer Richard Stallman is battling cancer
  • orizuru orizuru Now 100%

    Someone should keep an eye on Linus.

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  • People considering 'cancelling' new iPhone order after seeing comparison between older generation
  • orizuru orizuru Now 93%

    Why someone keeps chasing the latest gadgets when the old ones work just fine is beyond me.

    Nobody is waiting every year for the brand new line of washing machines. Why is there a need to swap phones this frequently?

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  • Top Chinese university scraps English tests in move cheered by nationalists
  • orizuru orizuru Now 83%

    Sounds like the best way to cripple your scientific and tech sector.

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  • What blogs do you follow?
  • orizuru orizuru Now 100%

    Not a blog, but a way of discovering new blogs. I subscribe to the unofficial best hacker news submissions RSS feed.

    https://hnrss.github.io/

    I found the blog on an IT guy that works in a research station in Antarctica.

    https://brr.fyi

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  • What are some great open source games?
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    • Nethack

    Yes the interface is a mess. But it's ridiculously deep once you get into it.

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  • Unity apologises.
  • orizuru orizuru Now 100%

    The CEO of Unity was also CEO, COO, and president of EA. So, is anyone surprised?

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Riccitiello

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  • Unity apologises.
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    Or even better: buy soon to expire put options just before the announcement. 10x your money.

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  • Websurfx - An open source alternative to Searx which aggregates results from other search engines (metasearch engine) without ads while keeping privacy and security in mind.
  • orizuru orizuru Now 100%

    You're welcome!

    I can have a look in my free time for fun. Will let you know if I manage to do it. 😅

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  • Unity backtracks slightly on plans to charge developers for game installs
  • orizuru orizuru Now 100%

    Damn... that's rough.

    Hopefully they'll backpedal on this decision for now (they are already getting a lot of flack). But I guess the message has been sent. Wouldn't be surprised if Unity starts bleeding users after this.

    Best of luck!

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  • Unity backtracks slightly on plans to charge developers for game installs
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    For the studios releasing a game in a few months, it's probably too late to ditch unity, but would make sense to start looking at alternatives for their next projects.

    Wouldn't be surprised if Godot explodes in popularity in the next 5 years.

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  • I'm looking for a privacy-respecting open-source android keyboard, and so far I've found: - [OpenBoard](https://github.com/openboard-team/openboard) - [AnySoftKeyboard](https://github.com/AnySoftKeyboard/AnySoftKeyboard) - [FlorisBoard](https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard) Does anyone have any experience with these (or other alternative keyboards)? Which one would you recommend?

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