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Ombudsman

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    Comment #38740617

    You don't see how that's an even larger barrier to entry than just picking an existing home server?

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    Comment #34769817

    If 15 years ago you would have told me that we would be arguing with our computer in the future... I would have probably believed you

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    Comment #34662964

    TLDR: Author just likes C

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    Comment #34429223

    I'm not taking any pride in that statement. I'm just trying to highlight how because of the way our culture is, these sorts of texts are relatively tame. I'd actually like for us t…

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    Comment #34427538

    You also have to realise most lot of people here are not sheltered. We've experienced post election violence first hand in 2008, tribes killing other tribes, we also have a culture…

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    Comment #34426566

    To put it in perspective, the average income in Kenya is around $1.25 an hour and tbh (as a Kenyan) I really can't see it as a bad thing. A lot of people here live in abject povert…

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    Comment #32077628

    Bad stuff: 1. There will be a lot of infrastructure complexity in the kernel, just prepare yourself for that. Even worse bugs! You'll be fixing a lot of bugs, or looking at a lot o…

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    Comment #31781306

    Nice straw man you've got there. These employees weren't "incoherently yelling in all places at all times". They distributed a memo which criticized Elon. This should be very accep…

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    Comment #31781232

    > These are children that think they can just shout down leadership and suffer no consequences. Exactly. Although, it's hypocritical of Musk to fire employees who criticize him but…

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    Comment #31533331

    Halftone webgl tutorial here: https://weber.itn.liu.se/~stegu/webglshadertutorial/shadertu...

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    Comment #31358390

    This comment is insanely cringey

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    Comment #31189102

    Because ice is solid you can argue it takes less information because the particles aren't moving at all or in together in unison, so it will take less buts to encode. Furthermore, …

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    Comment #26999112

    This is usually how I fall asleep.

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    Comment #26999092

    GUIDs are extremely useful if you want to move and merge data around without having to worry about primary key collisions.

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    Comment #26895983

    Pretty sure WSL is a developer tool, so "normal" would still need native apps, unless they go through the hoops of activating WSL so that they can listen to Spotify.

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    Comment #26879563

    A Windows XP simulator without 3D Pinball?

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    Comment #26879477

    I think Microsoft is smarter than that, look at Github for example, people have largely forgotten it's owned by MSFT. They would have left Discord as a gaming platform and used it'…

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    Comment #26674450

    Yup, bravo, they got me too. I'm so angry. e: The JavaScript can be found on the section of the page btw

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    Comment #26485261

    4k will also absolutely destroy battery life, 3k is a good compromise

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    Comment #26169455

    If I understand this correctly, the unassuming image/jpeg/png/gif/pixel is embedded in the email, it's the same color as the background so the user wont notice it. The image itself…

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    Comment #26041758

    Lol if this is intended behaviour, no one should use Telegram ever again.

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    Comment #25003416

    I came from a third world country and internet was pretty expensive. For some reason, my provider made Facebook completely free. So in my free college days I used the Facebook deve…

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    Comment #23603516

    I assume the Air Pods spatial audio update is setting up the release of AR/VR goggles or to support iPad AR.