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ashildr

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    Comment #43982280

    IIRC even LASER was seen as a novely demonstration of quite an obscure effect…

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    Comment #43176330

    Maybe someone with a really interesting voice?

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    Comment #43176322

    Yes, you should have a medical tricorder. It’s a scandal these don't exist.

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    Comment #42635896

    The EU can comply with its own regulations, it’s just that EU citizens (sometimes) can force it into compliance if it does not. That’s a nice feature.

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    Comment #42620153

    So your point is that even with a IFR of less than 2.6% bodies had to be stored in freeze trucks? Ugh.

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    Comment #42310130

    I really like this one because it’s a valid question about an odd thing that would take a while to answer properly: > I have a huge text on my sat nav in my car where, among other …

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    Comment #42244300

    So Google is rewriting what your online banking site is showing on the fly?

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    Comment #42244271

    “I am sure” of many things I have no idea about, too. It’s called Dunning Kruger effect.

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    Comment #42192459

    If you don‘t seriously talk about politics but consider it sports and entertainment and about “winning”, you get Dr. Oz and RFKjr to decide about your health and Matt Gaetz oversee…

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    Comment #42182491

    That’s an interesting point to add to the feature list of a future product: “Proof” of deletion that is plausible to laypeople. Of course one has to delete according to the law, to…

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    Comment #42182454

    Interestingly the only people who are not supposed to “push a political agenda” are usually accused of being “woke” in one of the next sentences. “Keeping politics out” brought the…

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    Comment #42153572

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    Comment #42153524

    > Threads was immediately political and I assume bluesky is too. Life is political. Believing that it’s not only means that someone who is also pretending that life is not politica…

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    Comment #42153427

    Oh, you’ll be hearing it for much longer. Greetings from Germany.

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    Comment #42153385

    What is the average life expectancy in India compared to the US?

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    Comment #41976351

    The US will stay the country that voted for Trump (and is close to doing this again) and the Washington Post will stay the newspaper where the billionaire owner decides what is pub…

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    Comment #41950070

    Her name was Breonna Taylor, she was an emergency medical technician until police shot her. #sayHerName https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Breonna_Taylor

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    Comment #41927217

    > What are you doing that actually benefits from gluing the screen to your face? For a start you get multiple very large virtual screens that are a lot bigger than the screen in a …

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    Comment #41871825

    Your one man company definitely is not safe, you’ll be responsible for all damages done by the full stack you’re providing. Each library / OS / whatever software is part of your pr…

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    Comment #41865661

    I know it’s a lot of work but this would be great and it may give readers a deeper understanding into security in general.

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    Comment #41862763

    Even when I‘m logged out I expect at least information on my geographical location to seep into the archive via URLs addressing specific CDN endpoints or similar mechanisms.

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    Comment #41862409

    I was about to post a link to the same URL but archived using singleFile, which looks like the original at amazon. I didn‘t because I realized that I have absolutely no idea what a…

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    Comment #41671506

    So even if your company has its own mailserver everyone is locked out of email if some Microsoft services are down, again. Brilliant.

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    Comment #41519045

    It’s an abstraction that makes people focus on the part that is relevant for the discussion at hand, and not on implementation details.

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    Comment #41482671

    Too bad if the DRM-server that knows that you paid for Apple CarPlay/Google Auto is turned off…