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Vortigaunt

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    Comment #49234671

    companies that sell plug-in systems argue that safety risks are minimal or nonexistent. Mr. Scherer of Craftstrom said his company’s systems would not shock electrical workers beca…

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    Comment #46675150

    Yeah some form of google's Web Integrity API will be forced one of these days https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrit...

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    Comment #46021227

    From what a quick google search told me, RHEL caps out at 13 years.[0] I'm curious what caused Canonical to offer 2 more years of lts support than Red Hat? [0] https://access.redha…

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    Comment #45177046

    The FBI also makes a good argument that adblockers prevent scammers from directing people to malicious sites. https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/22/fbi-ad-blocker/ https://web.archive.…

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    Comment #44608723

    Looks like someone archived the page of firefox-patch-bin[1] and the only thing that stands out about the package itself is that it's supposedly the "Extended Support Release." Bes…

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    Comment #44370456

    Isn't it interesting how this post has more votes than anything else on the first page, is one hour old, and is currently on page 4. Seems like there's some interesting censorship …

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    Comment #44195292

    First thing that pops up on google: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/25/elon-mu... Anyone still swayed by his vision is painfully naive

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    Comment #43853304

    I ctrl-f'd Oregon State and didn't find it in the link you provided. I think you found UofO's endowment: University of Oregon - $1.651 Wikipedia states that OSU's endowment is $829…

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    Comment #43799739

    "Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone." https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman

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    Comment #43790287

    If we were back in the 1930's would you be worrying about the rate[0] of people being diagnosed with left-handedness?[1] [0] https://media.springernature.com/lw685/springer-static/…

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    Comment #43440924

    Glad you reminded me of this: ZUCK: yea so if you ever need info about anyone at harvard ZUCK: just ask ZUCK: i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns FRIEND: what!? how’d…

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    Comment #43106845

    Every time I see this pop up it reminds me of this part of an epsiode of This American Life [0]. At parts its quite difficult to listen to, however it seems like an important thing…

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    Comment #43043415

    From what I've read the Fedora project has an interest in providing solely open source and non patent encumbered software like codecs. Which sounds like something OBS may infringe …

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    Comment #42743631

    Thankfully this shouldn't become a large problem, because websites simply don't load that quick

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    Comment #42161116

    It'd be neat if you could create conditional blocklists. Like only whoever X person AND Y person block will be blocked from my feed. And so on... I don't think that'd solve the pro…

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    Comment #41843528

    Like with everything else, the dosage makes the poison. I personally intend to stay vigilante to dihydrogen monoxide poisoning.

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    Comment #41807566

    Oh hey I get to copy paste a list of times elon said FSD would come out next year![1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] [1] https://fortune.com/2015/12/21/elon-mu…

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    Comment #41546156

    Another one to be added to the list: https://killedbygoogle.com/

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    Comment #41335148

    But elon told me FSD would come out next year![1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] [1] https://fortune.com/2015/12/21/elon-musk-interview/ [2] https://x.com/elon…