today's leftovers
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Audiocasts/Shows
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Open Hardware/Modding
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Water Cooling Kit for Raspberry Pi 5 Review: The zenith of cooling for your Raspberry Pi 5
Seeed and 52Pi have created the ultimate in cooling for the Raspberry Pi 5. The Watercooling Kit offers a simple, yet expensive, means to water cool your Raspberry Pi 5 for the ultimate performance.
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Hackaday ☛ Pi 5 And SDR Team Up For A Digital Scanner You Can Actually Afford
Listening to police and fire calls used to be a pretty simple proposition: buy a scanner, punch in some frequencies — or if you’re old enough, buy the right crystals — and you’re off to the races. It was a pretty cheap and easy hobby, all things considered. But progress marches on, and with it came things like trunking radio and digital modulation, requiring ever more sophisticated scanners, often commanding eye-watering prices.
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K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt
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Plucker/Palm support removed from Okular for 24.05
We recently remove the Plucker/Palm support in Okular, because it was unmaintained and we didn't even find [m]any suitable file to test it.
If you are using it, you have a few months to step up and bring it back, if not, let's have it rest.
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Python
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TecAdmin ☛ Why We Use if __name__ == ‘__main__’ in Python
Python, known for its simplicity and readability, harbors a small snippet of code that, despite its frequent appearance in scripts worldwide, often puzzles newcomers: if __name__ == '__main__':. This line, far from being mere boilerplate, is a powerful construct that offers control over your code’s execution.
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Microsoft
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Microsoft Conveniently Shifts All Blame to Activision After Massive Layoffs Leave Call of Duty Fans Fuming
In 2023, Microsoft was able to acquire Activision Blizzard King after trying for a very long time. There were a bunch of hurdles in their way too, namely Sony, FTC, etc. This deal didn’t come cheap either; they had to shed $68.7 billion for it. Many Xbox fans might have expected a bunch of exciting new things to follow after this deal’s closure, but the first thing that followed was a bunch of layoffs.
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Microsoft executives encourage employees to commit felonies... and then they get promoted.
Which brings us to a question worth pondering: How could Microsoft -- a company with a quarter of a million employees (across all 50 states) -- actively encourage blatant, criminal activity?
Any functional Human Resources department would put a stop to that. The same goes for executives, board members, or internal legal teams. Any company advocating for their employees to commit crimes (regardless of our personal opinions on said crimes) is heading for disaster.
That is, quite simply, obvious.
So how on Earth is this happening? Is no manager, executive, board member, or part of the HR team objecting to this? Is the Microsoft management team really pushing for criminal activity?
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