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Obligatory xkcd link: https://xkcd.com/2030/

Well, I proactively quit both my Amazon and Ebay accounts. The occasion was trouble with Chinese dealers, in which both Amazon and Ebay weren't helpful at all, but the main reason …

Before the Internet, there was Fidonet, and before that, there were mailboxes. And you know what? All that shoot that's going on today was already happening back then: Shitstorms, …

Any reason why the F-Droid version is behind the official one? I mean, you should now have learned that you can't rely on one single distribution channel.

The USA had always had a tendency towards witch hunts. And that's exactly whats happening now. I'm not saying that there aren't people that had it coming, but it's never a good ide…

And nobody is concerned about running an obscure third party binary blob, that is only meant to annoy you, on an otherwise open source OS?

Fortran is still popular in scientific computing, and modern compilers are pretty good.

We now know that light pollution also kills insects, which will in the long term also kill us. Reducing it should therefore be a priority. Instead, it's increased worldwide, mainly…

CircuitPython is a toy language made for running on Adafruit's halloween/cosplaying gadgets. It doesn't even support interrupts. Better use Micropython.

I bet that future Raspberry Pi boards will have a RP2040 or successor chip onboard, to do the bit banging/realtime jobs on the I/O port. Or they will even integrate it into their S…

That's rich, coming from a company that tramples over everybody's privacy.

Amazon sellers keep complaining, that more and more users only bother to write reviews when something is wrong with the product, but not when everything is OK. Well, I wrote three …

I recently suspended my Ebay account. One of the reasons was the fact that, although I used 2-factor login, Ebay forced me to solve captchas every second login. What am I? A traine…

Please die a screaming death. All of you captcha services. I hate you.

More for young developers with eagle eyes, that can't afford it, not for elder developers with enough money, but presbyopia.

Finally, spring powered Trains and rockets like in Syberia.

Can I try PureOS, as it runs on the phone, in a simulator? I can't seem to find it anywhere.

Please turn JavaScript on and reload the page. DDoS protection by Cloudflare They probably know what I think they can do to themselves.

Seems that Mint also inherited this vulnerability.

The main reason why companies like SMS 2FA: It costs next to nothing, and it shifts the responsibility to the customer. Your account got hacked? Not our problem, we have 2FA. Must'…

(cough)Trump(cough)

What a dick move. I can understand that they won't accept any new apps, but also not accepting updates? A lot of apps for media playing and social media for the Go are still under …

I stopped trusting reporters about 35 years ago, when I personally witnessed an occurrence, where a reporter was at the scene, and later read what he had written about it in the ne…

Do they also ban apps that show public transport schedules, because you can't buy tickets through them?

Of course not, why are you even asking?