There used to loads of magazines like this. 'Everyday Practical Electronics' was from the merger of Everday Electronics and Practical Electronics IIRC, separately just in the UK there was Practical Wireless, Wireless World, Electronics International and many others (I may be getting the names a bit wrong here, but I have Practical Wireless dating back to 1963 or so - mostly valves then of course!). Elektor [0] is still around (online), also see things like the ARRL Handbook and associated publications (plus RSGB [2] in the UK, plentyof others out there).
> all under the guise of helping users who want to save money (poor people) even though this category lacks the skills and the interest to repair their devices anyway outside of a rare few exceptions
This is simply not true. At least in my country, poor people generally have interest and the skills to repair their devices (or to pay someone to do so, as it's cheaper than buying a new one)
> If the book is available in the district libraries, that means it was approved by a media specialist and can be made available to students again. But any book not currently held in the district libraries must be individually evaluated and approved by a librarian.
So... It's an allowlist and not a denylist. Even worse.
I remember reading a description of denylists (everything is allowed except for...) as "American style" and allowlists (only these things are allowed) as "Soviet style".
AppImage is just a handy single-file solution for the very standard "tarball of executable + dependencies" which is good enough for such complex projects as Firefox and Blender. You don't need to integrate with the OS, and you don't need to put everything in a container either. Just include all the binaries and libraries you need, and make sure everything looks in the correct path. That's it.
Sounds like just the sort of task to throw some machine learning at, call it BiasBot and train it on all ideological angles - no matter whether you happen to agree or disagree, the thing needs to know about all angles - and let is loose on whatever source you want to check for bias.
> Fungi are central to every terrestrial and many aquatic ecosystems, but the mechanisms underlying fungal tolerance to mercury, a global pollutant, remain unknown. Here, we show that the plant symbiotic fungus Metarhizium robertsii degrades methylmercury and reduces divalent mercury, decreasing mercury accumulation in plants and greatly increasing their growth in contaminated soils. M. robertsii does this by demethylating methylmercury via a methylmercury demethylase (MMD) and using a mercury ion reductase (MIR) to reduce divalent mercury to volatile elemental mercury. M. robertsii can also remove methylmercury and divalent mercury from fresh and sea water even in the absence of added nutrients. Overexpression of MMD and MIR significantly improved the ability of M. robertsii to bioremediate soil and water contaminated with methylmercury and divalent mercury. MIR homologs, and thereby divalent mercury tolerance, are widespread in fungi. In contrast, MMD homologs were patchily distributed among the few plant associates and soil fungi that were also able to demethylate methylmercury. Phylogenetic analysis suggests that fungi could have acquired methylmercury demethylase genes from bacteria via two independent horizontal gene transfer events. Heterologous expression of MMD in fungi that lack MMD homologs enabled them to demethylate methylmercury. Our work reveals the mechanisms underlying mercury tolerance in fungi, and may provide a cheap and environmentally friendly means of cleaning up mercury pollution.
About the creators:
THC (The Hackers Choice) is a well known hacker group active since 1995. One of their most famous project is Hydra[0].
> "We research and publish tools and academic papers to expose fishy IT security that just isn’t secure. We also develop and publish tools to help the IT Security movement."[1]
How could there possibly be assurance of that? People who get coerced and turned into being informants don't go around advertising it to everybody else.
