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In the UK , a country known for its lack of press freedom. And the plaintiff was Matthew Garret, who has a past record of changing the words of other people's comments on his blog.…

Stop trying to blame capitalism for your failure to jump out of the pot when they put ads in Windows 8. We very much do have options. I haven't had Windows on a personal machine si…

Isn't a simpler explanation that the FBI was co-opted in the same way as Adguard, rather than that the FBI is masterminding the scheme?

A set of airpods + the Minimum Viable iPhone to configure the them to work as hearing aids is way cheaper than standalone hearing aids. Regulatory fetishism around "medical devices…

That is an interesting perspective, but it doesn't actually change my point, which is that if you want to build a distributed system that cannot be shut down, you have to be willin…

Keeping the average citizen away is a dramatic improvement. The pre-legalized-gambling era is in living memory, and we know what it was like.

If you meme yourself into getting the ick around libertarians, you cripple your ability to defend liberty. Imagine that.

>For example, your average CPU might look fine at 50%, but in truth you're using 200% for 500ms followed by 0% for 500ms, and when CPU is scarce your latency unexpectedly doubles. …

>reverse-domain name Why do people keep replicating this terrible design decision? It puts the lowest-entropy part of the name at the beginning, so that you have to parse (or type)…

I think it kind of has to do with kubernetes, in that kubernetes embeds assumptions in its design and UI about the existence of a kernel capability which is almost, but not quite, …

Clown if you want, but he's absolutely right. There is exactly one sentence in that entire damn thing that comes close to touching on the question of why ventilation is desirable, …

Seeing as "(leaky and scrapped) refrigerators are damaging the upper atmosphere, allowing ionizing UV to reach the ground and cancering the everyone," actually happened and AFAIK i…

I've visited the App Store world, and my experience was that, weighted by how often packages appear in search results, the median is charitably described as "potentially unwanted",…

IIRC the issue is with cultures that leave rice out on the counter at room temperature, because of historical inertia from per-refrigeration times. In that case, it does support li…

Probably doesn't smell peppery, though, especially if it's pre-ground.

Only one measly paragraph on the obvious improvement, eliminating the microwaves. Instead, launch independent steerable mirror satellites of the most economically efficient size, a…

Is there a way to do file-level encryption without leaking the number of files and their sizes? Because that seems much worse than any known problem with block-level encryption.

s/tripple/triple/g

Good. Every dollar that buys an ad shown to a robot is not buying an ad shown to a human.

>Meanwhile, the rich, in search of a more varied diet, bought, stole, wheedled, robbed, taxed, and ran off with appealing plants and animals, foodstuffs, and culinary techniques fr…