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bastard_op

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    Comment #49228073

    They must love giving their personal information to Microsoft. Mac users are used to it with the icloud "privacy" proxy they default enable on macos/ios users to slurp everything t…

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    Comment #49223610

    Google is an ad company, ad blockers are bad. Why are you using a browser from an advertising company and expecting different results? Microsoft repurposed Google's adware in Chrom…

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    Comment #49124240

    They turned themselves into whores for sale to the highest bidder. I imagine if they could, cocaine brands would be on everyone's shirts and tattoo's on players foreheads. Silly pe…

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    Comment #48808980

    I always find it hilarious CNN as the last bastion of democracy will slog Polymarket in their "numbers" segments constantly. Way to jerk off the president still CNN, can't turn dow…

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    Comment #48807984

    It's probably going to come down to a whale bet on Polymarket, and Trump owed someone a call back.

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    Comment #48807860

    These are basically paid soap operas like American "professional wrestling", and they have quite the following, so what does it matter fake or not?

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    Comment #48790824

    I tried to look, but the google captcha wouldn't let me, finally gave up trying.

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    Comment #48694225

    China will just buy a "trusted partner" one way or another. It's like the epidemic of scam nvidia cards being resold without gpu or memory - where do you think those are going?

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    Comment #48669153

    I'll wait for the Fitgirl digital download special edition.

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    Comment #48559445

    This is every few weeks, I cancelled Anthropic and now use Codex only. Anthropic has been a hot mess since at least december in my usage, and has only gotten worse in 2026.

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    Comment #48542884

    Either you drink your Microsoft poison, or you leave.

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    Comment #48484960

    Developers should spend more time being network engineers before writing network code. I saw this title and my first thought was, "What, mtu?" If you've ever had to support vpn's i…

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    Comment #48299617

    Is it just me or does the back of it look like the goatse.cx guy?

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    Comment #48284296

    It ought to be illegal everywhere, the only reason it won't be in the US is the president is on the grift with his kids operating on the boards of them.

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    Comment #48270756

    >> SteamOS could still be affected Steam itself does age verification, which when you first boot a steamdesk, afaik it forces you to log into steam before you can do much of anythi…

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    Comment #48078696

    Even more so, just like meta removing end to end encryption. "Nah dog, we like watching everything you say and do."

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    Comment #48078598

    Just like manifest v3, it's not in their best interests to disallow snooping. It hurts their business model.

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    Comment #48053264

    >> it seems that Signal's team is actively working on linking additional Android devices, and very soon we can simply solve this by using Signal for Android. Wishful thinking, this…

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    Comment #47989302

    Roblox has long been known as a pedo farm, and talks with friends actually with kids all know it, so I don't know how it's still even around.

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    Comment #47988061

    It sounds like the great firewall of god that is meant to prevent all sins. In theory it's probably just a content filtering service, same as most enterprises do, but with a spin f…

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    Comment #47743342

    Tim Apple always does what is right! Next he'll give an Apple Peace Prize to Bibi.

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    Comment #47704781

    I wonder what would happen posting these ads to truth social and twitter.

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    Comment #47698008

    Their support is non-existent. It's NOT suitable for enterprise.

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    Comment #47577026

    I have a similar issue, where normally I use claude-code in an srt or bwrap direct sandbox, but when I don't, claude-code will call gh _every_ time I backspace out of a /command or…

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    Comment #47391744

    I don't really feel it's taking anything away, and in fact, it is providing me with something I've never done after 25+ years in IT doing everything BUT - development. I've always …