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Under the circumstances they were working in, Chen Ming maintained, a good journalist was not one who insisted on trying to provide the public with new information, but __one who consistently provided their newspaper with basically clear and reasonably readable news articles to publish.__
The Currency of Truth
Emily H. C. Chua
Big Sur is the first version of macOS which can make Time Machine backups to APFS volumes without using a virtual HFS+ file system on a sparse bundle.
APFS Changes in Big Sur: How Time Machine Backs Up to APFS, and More
eclecticlight.co
Release groups upload their releases to their private areas on their affiliated topsites and, when the material is present on all of these sites and has been dupechecked, the release is pred (pronounced “preed,” a verb referring to the prerelease nature of the material) in an organized and coordinated fashion. This action moves the content from the staging area to the publicly accessi- ble area of the site. Dupechecking is, as the neologism suggests, a mechanism for ensuring that the release is not a duplicate of material that has already been released by another group, showing Scene-wide coordination. Duplicate releases are not allowed and, if found, will incur a nuke by a site’s nuker. A nuke marks the release as problematic — this can be for duplication or contravention of the site’s content rules — and comes with a multiplier credit penalty on the site.
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