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    Serendipity, idk it sounds cool, "serendipitous" moments happen a lot irl (e.g. forgetting to bring ur wallet with u to the supermarket but minutes later, you end up finding a coin in a random pocket from your jacket to unlock a shopping cart), but it almost only sees its use in fiction, like.....

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  • Capitalist development vs Socialist development
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    our civilized and altruistic IMF lending vs their horrifying Chinese extortion schemes!!! 😱

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  • de_dusting
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    beautiful

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  • Top 5 Features Coming to GIMP 3.0
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    Send in a pull request.

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    Employee Retention
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    is that a yes?

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  • Looking for an Android app that serves as both a vault and a PDF reader
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    Yep, I searched for "Safe Place" as was originally in your comment and found "Safe Space" seconds later, which I assumed what you were referring to

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  • Looking for an Android app that serves as both a vault and a PDF reader
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    Perfect, this is exactly what I was looking for, ty!

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  • Hello there, are there any FOSS Android apps out there that serve as both a reader and a vault for PDFs? I want to be able to encrypt the PDF files and decrypt+read them with a single vault password. I could just encrypt PDF files separately using the same password, but it's not really that convenient having to go through several PDFs tbh. I want to store the PDFs on the storage of my phone. UPDATE: [Safe Space](https://f-droid.org/packages/org.privacymatters.safespace/) is exactly what I needed, ty [@chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de](https://discuss.tchncs.de/u/chemicalwonka), will provide a review of the app later

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    Frustrated Polish white supremacists group up to march through streets for a "citizen patrol", more marches planned.
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    same (In addition, I'm a foreigner). It was already bad, but it sure as hell is getting worse by the day. They also feel entitled to move around the world freely but at the same time talk about how immigrants are problematic, not "integrating into our culture properly" and chant shit like "Polska dla Polaków".

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    Frustrated Polish white supremacists group up to march through streets for a "citizen patrol", more marches planned.
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    Their Facebook group:

    PATROL OBYWATELSKI POLSKA

    Their Projection of White Insecurity Cultural Department ™ :

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    Frustrated Polish white supremacists group up to march through streets for a "citizen patrol", more marches planned.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgMfET17IC4

    This comes as a result of a scuffle between South Americans and Poles, with two ending up hospitalized in Śrem. Followed by this, stupid questions like "[Have open borders brought gang violence to Poland all the way from South America?](https://rmx.news/article/diversity-strikes-small-polish-town-foreigners-arrested-after-bloody-brawl-involving-broken-bottles/)" (Blood) are seriously being asked and discussed. Pictures of the situation's aftermath: [Atak ostrym przedmiotem na śremskiej plaży. Są poważnie ranni [AKTUALIZACJA]](https://tydzien.net.pl/2024/09/08/atak-na-sremskiej-plazy-sa-powaznie-ranni/) (CW: Blood, albeit censored) Latest statement the Śrem Police, Google Translated: > Yesterday, September 7, just after At 11 p.m., the Śrem Police officer on duty was notified about a fight that took place on the beach at Lake Grzymisławskie in Śrem. Police investigations into this matter were and are currently ongoing throughout the night. The police are explaining the situation and determining the course of the event in which several people took part. Two men, residents of Śrem, were taken to hospital with injuries. The police detained four men as suspects of involvement in the fight. One of these men is an Argentine national and three are Colombian nationals. They were all taken to police custody. Today, at 09.40, policemen from the Śrem Implementation Group detained a fifth man as a person suspected of participating in a fight. He is also a Colombian citizen. This man was also taken into police custody , said the deputy inspector in the morning. Kasińska. To no one's surprise, this is a clear-cut scapegoating of all immigrants for the actions of a few, looking for any excuse to wage racist, xenophobic actions on less than 3.69% of the population of Poland. Source: [Size and demographic-social structure in the light of the 2021 Census results](https://stat.gov.pl/en/national-census/national-population-and-housing-census-2021/final-results-of-the-national-population-and-housing-census-2021/size-and-demographic-social-structure-in-the-light-of-the-2021-census-results,6,1.html), page 114-115 ![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/82079520-bbd4-48c5-9126-9236e9b5df5d.png) Nationalities outside of Europe are so small, they are all relegated to the "other" row on the census .-. ![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/6b62537a-dd7e-46f5-a9c3-ba93c43864ac.png) Proponents of these lynch mobs will say that the data above may be a bit outdated, since there's been a bump-up on the non-Poles population (as if it justifies the proliferation of these mobs), [but will omit the fact that after 2021, most of them come from Ukraine.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Poland#Census_data). So that still doesn't change much of anything. [Citizen patrol scheduled in Warsaw @ 21 September](https://www.reddit.com/r/poland/comments/1fjrahf/citizen_patrol_as_a_foreigner_what_should_we_do/?share_id=2icr-b1LYQcxNPlRqGcbb&utm_content=1&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1): ![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/5595b9b0-63ff-4bb1-a386-ee124cefe712.png) [Citizen patrol planned in Katowice from 20-22nd September](https://www.reddit.com/r/poland/comments/1fjrahf/citizen_patrol_as_a_foreigner_what_should_we_do/?share_id=2icr-b1LYQcxNPlRqGcbb&utm_content=1&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1): ![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/8fbd95ab-4988-453d-b418-30333f5ed778.png) The patrol policy: ![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/ceeac8e0-3900-47f4-b981-2a2407ffb6cc.png) The patrol will supposedly be followed by police monitoring, as if that'd make it any better.

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    https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0MJBni0UzdnML1amikx0Rc lol

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    Do the British not rinse dishes after washing them?
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    civilized (garden) country moment

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  • The GeoGuessr World Cup Is the Entertainment I Didn't Know I Needed This Week
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    Good find, I had assumed people around here would at least have uBlock Origin with at least one Annoyances filter on (or similar), this is possible via Firefox mobile as well. I didn't get the prompt as well on desktop, probably because of the Annoyances filter that blocks the consent prompts anyway.

    Here's an archived link, not sure if that helps: https://archive.is/qHSPD

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  • www.makeuseof.com

    Archived link: https://archive.is/qHSPD I was just scrolling through my youtube recommendations out of boredom and then suddenly, out of thin air, youtube's algo comes in with a rare W: The Geoguessr World Cup 2024. This is the sort of entertainment I didn't know I wanted lol. I only managed to start watching when the semi-finals were happening and my god, it was way too thrilling than I expected it to be. **VOD**: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Llh4_h-vvKQ **Skip to Grand Finals** (honestly watch the entire thing LOL): https://www.youtube.com/live/Llh4_h-vvKQ?feature=shared&t=26823

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    How China’s first AAA game Wukong Became One of the Fastest Selling Games in History
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    I'm not sure I'm understanding this correctly, the prerequisite for a video game to be a "runaway success" is to do well sales-wise in the west? Why is the source of sales that important when the article mainly praises and discusses the game's launch figures, behind-the-scenes, the studio's lore, etc.... like any other video game articles do? The author isn't suggesting the sales are doing well in the west, so what warrants discussion of the games' sales in the west in the first place?

    The article's headline alone says it's "One of the Fastest Selling Games In History". If we take the revenue value in the article to be true ($852 million in revenue in 2 weeks), then it beats Elden Ring by around a $100 million, give or take, in the first 2-week period (I'm assuming each copy costed 59.99$, so 12 million copies roughly translates to $720 million in revenue, since actual figures were never revealed, I think).

    The article also states that it sold 10 million units in the first week, oh wait actually, that's 10 million in 3 days, beating other games that took at least a month to reach a similar milestone.

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  • How China’s first AAA game Wukong Became One of the Fastest Selling Games in History
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    love how commenters around here haven't wasted any time to downplay the success and zeitgeist surrounding this game.

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  • Dear Android users
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    Bingo.

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  • Dear Android users
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    what blind "brand loyalty" to Apple and sinking cost fallacy combined looks like:

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  • qz.com

    Lol. Sales stats for the iPhone 16 and Pro aren't out yet, or at least I couldn't find any. Will update this post once the numbers are out.

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    Did your country recognize Palestine before the Fairly OddParents?
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    simply put, i thought it'd be more interesting to do it that way

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  • Did your country recognize Palestine before the Fairly OddParents?
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    baited

    or should I say, Barbaited!

    it seems like they used the wrong colors if they intended to draw Barbados though, otherwise I couldn't find an exact match.

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  • Yes it's real: https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=AykLPesEHWc&t=1220 The countries in question: Source: [Wikipedia lol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_the_State_of_Palestine#List_of_states) ![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/b7a5b694-935a-4648-901c-c9fff9e834c4.png) ![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/d31a5d6e-e21f-4522-abde-cdcc1a11f0aa.png)

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    Hello, I bought my first used phone (Xiaomi Redmi Note 13 Pro) and was wondering what are the best practices taken before using it. I've read the reviews of the merchant selling the phone, looked into ratings and asked some questions about the condition of the phone, so I'm sure of my purchase on that end. What about after receiving the phone? I know I would run a factory reset, aside from that, is there anything else to do?

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    Some of the LinkedIn Responses are direct and on-point, and also hilariously/depressingly based depending on how you look at it: ![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/914b410d-7fd4-4e0a-a915-c7ac34222df2.png) ![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/cf39a1f2-2ba0-41e4-a176-6f5deaf08269.png) EDIT: In hindsight, I think I should've looked into posting this in a different community.. It's closer to a silly "innovation".. soo.. is this considered FUD? I also don't support smoking or vaping, especially among kids. Original title had "privacy-violating" before the "solution".

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    Finding an apartment is needlessly difficult
    https://skillissue.bearblog.dev/finding-an-apartment-needlessly-difficult/
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    Finding an apartment is needlessly difficult (e.g. Poland)
    https://skillissue.bearblog.dev/finding-an-apartment-needlessly-difficult/

    not sure which community to post this to but... this is my personal account on one of the many EU countries that are experiencing a lovely housing crisis.

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    Forged upvotes, generic trading bs, newly created accounts posing as real people
    https://lemmy.ml/c/forex

    Hello, I noticed this [trading community](https://lemmy.ml/c/forex) popped out of nowhere. It comes off as very, very fake to me (the first sign is the theme of discussing trading stocks at ALL in lemmy.ml). All of the accounts below posing as people seemingly interested in trading have been created on the same day (Jan 03): ![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/6a4bf2df-b63d-44df-a783-b47ddecf798f.png) Using reverse image search on one of their pfps results in multiple images (not showing it here since it shows other people that look similar but are not tied to the same persona). The upvotes are obviously forged because the number of Jan 3rd accounts match the number of upvotes. Lastly, there's a link to their telegram. I haven't gotten into it yet but that is for SURE a red flag, it's a common tactic to create separate communities in different platforms only to lure unsuspecting people into a telegam/etc.. community. Do I really need to say any more?

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    Here's the scene: I can only run PaintToolSai2 in preview mode and I've tried to run a crack (simply an exe file called "saicrack.exe" that patches the directory files) to have full access to the app itself. I'm straight up running the thing using ` wine "/home/.../sai2.exe" ` I tried to use the same command but for the crack exe, yet it's hitting me with the "sai2.exe doesn't exist. crack failed!" despite it being in the same install directory. I could just use Krita instead but I'm doing this for some1 else.

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    The forgotten piece of gaming tech that was ahead of its time. Here's to the PS Vita.
    blog.playstation.com

    Dramatic title but w/e :P

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    I know that the standalone RTX Voice application allows GTX cards to be used, but bear in mind it's only for GTX and RTX graphics cards. What about AMD graphics users? What of those that don't have RTX 5 Billion or AMD RX 8 Billion? The second thing that would be addressed in a hypothetical FOSS alternative would be the dataset the AI relies on. While it may not be useful for end-users, for developers this could be used for their respective projects, or maybe even a fork? Or maybe users could contribute to the dataset by recording random potentially unwanted noise? Idk, the possibilities may be considerable. [There is this project ](https://github.com/werman/noise-suppression-for-voice) though to be honest it's too much to take in at once for the uninitiated and time-constrained like me. What RTX Voice does right is it is simply one software and one separate virtual driver. Set the microphone you'd like to be suppressed and set RTX Voice as default. It's almost Plug n Play in a way.

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    https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=feEbhjeC-Pc

    OBS project on Streamlabs' use of their name: https://nitter.snopyta.org/OBSProject/status/1460782968633499651 Half-assed statement issued by Streamlabs: https://nitter.snopyta.org/streamlabs/status/1461044715634135046 The Streamlabs company tries to resolve its damaged public image by claiming that they've used Lightstream's webpage UI and text as "placeholder": https://nitter.snopyta.org/streamlabs/status/1460742180352450568

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    github.com

    I really love the minimalist and sleek design of this file manager, despite it being kinda barebones. It supports all three major platforms, which is a big plus. Could be useful for users of low-end PCs that need dual-pane file management.

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    https://translate.metalune.xyz/?engine=deepl

    Dunno if anyone noticed, but SimplyTranslate added DeepL as an option for translation through their frontend. Doesn't seem to work for me, seems to give me "error: Invalid Request" (it's in testing phase, that's probably why). **EDIT:** woops, turns out "Autodetect" was the culprit. Try choosing a language instead of leaving it default to "Autodetect".

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    lemmy.ml

    For those of us that have a Tutanota account

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    https://peerlibrary.org/

    PeerLibrary is an open source project for researchers and academic knowledge-seekers to read and discuss scholarly literature. Source code: https://github.com/peerlibrary/peerlibrary License(s): [CC0 (Public Domain) ](https://peerlibrary.org/terms) Anti-features: - [Does not encrypt contributed private data](https://peerlibrary.org/privacy) (private publications, private metadata, private annotations, private comments, etc..) - Data collection and statistics used to "improve user experience".

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