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Uber broke laws, duped police and built secret lobbying operation, leak reveals (www.theguardian.com)

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SSD will fail at 40k power-on hours (2021) (www.cisco.com)

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Lichess: The free and open source chess server (github.com)

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Postgres 15 improves UNIQUE and NULL (blog.rustprooflabs.com)

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New in Calibre 6.0 (calibre-ebook.com)

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Working in the software industry, circa 1989 – Jim Grey (dev.jimgrey.net)

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Experian, You Have Some Explaining to Do (krebsonsecurity.com)

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Love Song to Costco (longreads.com)

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Assassin’s Creed Liberation delisted, unplayable even to owners starting Sept 1 (mp1st.com)

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4

CS101: Introduction to Computing Principles (web.stanford.edu)

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8

Show HN: Ants Sandbox - an ants simulator (www.ants-sandbox.io)

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As TikTok grows, so does suspicion (www.economist.com)

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People from elite backgrounds increasingly dominate academia, data shows (www.washingtonpost.com)

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On-device browser translations with Firefox Translations (www.ctrl.blog)

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Irwin – the protector of Lichess from all chess players villainous (github.com)

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How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself (2014) (www.themarginalian.org)

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New Arizona law makes it illegal to film within 8 feet of police (www.axios.com)

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Triangle Grids in Games (kvachev.com)

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Show HN: Colorvote.io – ranking all 16,777,216 sRGB web colors by popularity (https://www.colorvote.io)

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Show HN: Lldap, a Simplified LDAP Server (github.com)

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Replibyte – Seed your database with real data (github.com)

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Microsoft researched what made employees happy, collaborate less, more autonomy (www.zdnet.com)

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A new trade and liberal arts school: “College of St. Joseph the Worker” (https://www.collegeofstjoseph.com)

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Medicare Could Have Saved $3.6B on Generic Drugs (www.drugs.com)

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Running an Open Source Home Area Network (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)

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GoKey – A simple vaultless password manager in Go (github.com)

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Ultra-flat timepiece, the RM UP-01 Ferrari, is 1.75 millimetres thick watch (www.richardmille.com)

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8

Beginner's Guide to Error Handling in Rust (www.sheshbabu.com)

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7

When Coal First Arrived, Americans Said ‘No Thanks’ (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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8

IETF Draft: Centralization, Decentralization, and Internet Standards (www.ietf.org)

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Fluxus – 3D game engine for livecoding worlds into existence (www.pawfal.org)

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Apple II Documentation Project (mirrors.apple2.org.za)

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14

Show HN: Typewaiter, the typewriter that doesn't wait (oisinmoran.com)

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Show HN: Evryca – fractal thinking tool to brainstorm and organize thoughts (www.evryca.com)

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13

Is the Smart Grid All Hot Air? (austinvernon.site)

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A mysterious cult that predates Stonehenge (www.bbc.com)

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Why is there no semantic ontology of sentiment in academic citations? (shkspr.mobi)

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Russian Gas Flows to Europe (berthub.eu)

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Whose breath are you breathing? (www.rnz.co.nz)

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Guile Steel: a proposal for a systems Lisp (dustycloud.org)

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Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 14 (www.infoq.com)

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Can the 64 and 128 survive? (1988) [pdf] (annarchive.com)

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The Problem with RISC-V V Mask Bits (www.computerenhance.com)

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95% of employees say IT issues decrease workplace productivity, morale (venturebeat.com)

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The Continuous Delivery Test (sourceless.org)

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Emmanuel Macron aided Uber lobbying drive in France, leak reveals (www.theguardian.com)

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Spotify doesn't use the Spotify model (2020) (www.jeremiahlee.com)

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Put That There [video] (1983) (www.youtube.com)

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The Unix API is more than just system calls or Posix (utcc.utoronto.ca)

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We Need to Stop Pretending we can Limit Global Warming to 1.5°C (bylinetimes.com)

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University Profs' Criticism Led to Retraction of Math Paper on Gender (2018) (www.chicagomaroon.com)

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How the Chili Pepper Conquered China (www.sixthtone.com)

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There are 2¹⁰²⁴ things you can do with a kilobit (twitter.com)

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Mapy.cz – Lesser Known but Awesome Maps (mapy.cz)

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Lofi Girl radio streams taken down due to copyright claim (twitter.com)

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Study: Association between mask mandates and Covid infections in North Dakota (www.researchsquare.com)

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Logging Performance Comparison (blog.sebastian-daschner.com)

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Air France Announces End to Research Monkey Transport (www.the-scientist.com)

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Today I Deleted Notion (twitter.com)

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Exit, pursued by a bear (viscosityredux.substack.com)

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Breaking the warp barrier: solitons in Einstein–Maxwell-plasma theory (2021) (iopscience.iop.org)

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Who Blew Up Mare Island? (www.usni.org)

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Perl is still relevant (stackoverflow.blog)

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There are 2¹⁰²⁴ things you can do with a kilobyte (twitter.com)

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Breaking the Warp Barrier: Hyper-Fast Solitons in Einstein-Maxwell-Plasma Theory (arxiv.org)

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The secret stretch of coastal France that's nicer than Nice (edition.cnn.com)

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Will GPU mining end after the Merge (formerly called ETH 2.0)? (bitproit.com)

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External ballistics of Pleistocene hand-thrown spears (2019) (www.nature.com)

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Uber told staff to use ‘kill switch’ during raids to stop police seeing data (www.theguardian.com)

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Surging supply and softening demand weigh on chipmakers (www.economist.com)

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Transport System Bögl: a new magnetic rail system (transportsystemboegl.com)

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Ask HN: Tips on Trying to Be Serious? (item?id=32050963)

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MIT scientists think they’ve discovered how to fully reverse climate change (bgr.com)

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Hype is a weaponized form of optimism (www.niemanlab.org)

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Can a Biologist Fix a Radio? (www.cell.com)

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Fired Employee Claims Facebook Created Secret Tool to Read Users' Deleted (gizmodo.com)

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Talon – Powerful hands-free input (talonvoice.com)

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Confidence in U.S. Institutions Down; Average at New Low (news.gallup.com)

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Decarbonisation of grids requires long-duration energy storage (www.economist.com)

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Caught in an avalanche two days ago in Kyrgyzstan, everyone survived (old.reddit.com)

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Boeing threatens to cancel Boeing 737 Max unless given safety exemption (www.independent.co.uk)

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Apple's Business website is blocking Firefox (www.ghacks.net)

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Code in Database vs. Code in Application (brandur.org)

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The first dating app made for developers (https://meetwith.dev)

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Ask HN: Are you hiking? How old are you and how many kilometers can you Hike? (item?id=32044296)

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Show HN: Whatcha – the social network for digital media (apps.apple.com)

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Dark matter: it’s time to ditch it in favour of a new theory of gravity (theconversation.com)

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On GitHub as a Social Network (erock.io)

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The Uber Files (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Wages climbed 5%, a still-rapid pace as Fed awaits slowdown (www.nytimes.com)

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Developer Salaries Report Germany (cult.honeypot.io)

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DDWFTTW Vehicle Analysis (2013) (web.archive.org)

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Six Ground-Breaking New Linux Laptops Released in the Last Two Weeks (linux.slashdot.org)

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Arctic temperatures are increasing four times faster than global warming (www.sciencedaily.com)

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Liberalism According to The Economist (www.newyorker.com)

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Ask HN: Weird SSH Probes from Cloudflare IPs (item?id=32053650)

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NASA names first five targets for Webb images (arstechnica.com)

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Monads are a class of hard drugs (ix.io)

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U.K. considering abandoning metric system (www.wsj.com)

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Renewables remain cheapest, but cost reductions on hold (www.csiro.au)

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Darwin Among the Machines (1863) (en.wikisource.org)

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Apple responds after woman describes ‘nightmare’ of being ‘tracked’ by AirTag (www.independent.co.uk)

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Emacs Lisp Functions for Easy BibTeX Recording (www.erichgrunewald.com)

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A Virtual Brainfuck Machine in Go (2017) (thorstenball.com)

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Plan Composition Using Higher-Order Functions (blog.brownplt.org)

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A Former Spotify Exec Explains Why Artists Get Paid So Little on Streaming (www.digitalmusicnews.com)

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Ask HN: Easy language/runtime to distribute to desktop users? (item?id=32044298)

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Death, Nothingness, and Subjectivity (1994) (www.naturalism.org)

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Ask HN: How do you guard against ransomeware? (offsite backups not possible) (item?id=32051538)

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Microsoft rolls back default macro blocks in Office without telling anyone (www.theregister.com)

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Ten people decide how many F-bombs a film can have before it gets an R rating (www.cnbc.com)

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A fast accurate code counter with complexity calculations and COCOMO estimates (github.com)

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Tech Is Not Representative Government (www.nytimes.com)

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Internet Archive Seeks Summary Judgment in Lawsuit Filed by Publishing Companies (www.eff.org)

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Ask HN: What are some examples where users are inventing new uses for a product? (item?id=32053539)

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86

Oral vancomcyin for primary sclerosing cholangitis (thecomicalcolon.com)

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Show HN: A USB-Rubber-Ducky Blocker (Clarified) (penteract.net)

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Assembly Theory: A New Way To Describe The Complexity Of An Object (twitter.com)

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New Protestware Found Lurking in Highly Popular NPM Package (medium.com)

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Six Ways to Boost Mental Immunity (ctosmind.substack.com)

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Locating and Editing Factual Associations in GPT (rome.baulab.info)

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Growing ‘culture of extremism’ among UK and European police forces, report warns (www.theguardian.com)

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America's chip land has another potential shortage: Electronics engineers (www.theregister.com)

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Revenue per hour per employee of the big tech companies (twitter.com)

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Car Repos Are Exploding. That’s a Bad Omen (www.barrons.com)

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Ask HN: How to Finish a Side Project? (item?id=32050573)

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Does the internet have a 1 star review problem? (item?id=32052666)

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Governor Ducey Signs Most Expansive School Choice Legislation in Recent Memory (azgovernor.gov)

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DIY Vacuum Tubes (www.youtube.com)

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Telstar 1, first TV satellite, launched 60 years ago today (ourplnt.com)

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Rogers customers increasingly frustrated on 3rd day with out cell, internet srv (www.cbc.ca)

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UK school Latin course overhauled to reflect diversity of Roman world (www.theguardian.com)

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How much money to be considered financially comfortable in 12 major U.S. cities (www.cnbc.com)

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How I Would Learn to Code (If I Could Start Over) – 2M views (www.youtube.com)

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Religion and Fertility: Will the Religious Inherit the Earth? (medium.com)

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Self-perceived empathy of autists toward living beings mostly differs for humans (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

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Stanford publicly releases first-ever entire course on Transformer AI Models (twitter.com)

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Vim Vixen (ueokande.github.io)

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Show HN: Find Snippets from Stackoverflow for VSCode (marketplace.visualstudio.com)

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ICIJ investigation into Uber based on leaked documents (www.icij.org)

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An intellectual starter kit (www.nationalreview.com)

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Uber Files: leak reveals how top politicians helped Uber (www.bbc.com)

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'Thermal event' causing outages in AWS EU-west-2 (twitter.com)

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Librex: A privacy respecting, free as in freedom meta search engine for Google (github.com)

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Björk – All Is Full of Love (vimeo.com)

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