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Can we just eliminate bad actor nation states like China and Israel from the Internet? Filter all packets coming from or going to there, have the backbone spyware sever proxy conne…

It's all gotten too complicated, clearly the direction of Linux is controlled by big companies who are mainly interested in the datacenter. I used OpenBSD because it's still Unix, …

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I always run the water in the bathroom and kitchen until it's super cold, letting me know I've gotten to the stuff fresh out of the main. But I was trained to do this because when …

I don’t like the idea of acidic coffee inside the aluminum, it seems like your average consumer just doesn’t know, or care, about exposure to aluminum through this vector though.

The long line support improvement could be a game changer. I’m less interested in tree sitter and pixel-scroll seems like a nightmare - emacs users know how screwed up scrolling is…

Brave just shifts the spying from one company to another, it doesn't actually enhance your privacy.

Canon and Nikon both sell verification kits which can be used to cryptographically prove that a photo wasn't tampered with. Although these kits cost money, it seems it's just a fla…

Tim Cook's 250 billion dollar China deal was never really scrutinized though it was reported in the press, briefly.

Nobody here had a Hero Jr. growing up in the 1980's?

I keep my passwords on an old HP-200LX.

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Most of us don't run Windows, this is HACKER News not PEBKAC News.

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Careful, AI has been known to lie.

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It can be made with no moving parts from water. I would contend that petrol is hydrogen with massive amounts of extra steps.

I think you've misunderstood - the social contract is a fiction, that's why it's purposely undefined in my opinion. It's just something we're told exists so we can feel like the fo…

I always chuckle a bit when I hear the term social contract. It's not legally enforcable, isn't codified, people can't choose to partake in it, and has always been intentionally va…

Nothing wrong with hating Microsoft, it's a multiple felon.

Hydrogen makes much more sense than battery powered cars. Japan's going for it in a real way, which means they will have a big head start in this field and dominate the next centur…