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I'm not so sure about that. If Microsoft actually removed all the cruft, then they would need around 5% of the employees currently working on it. They'd all be unemployed.

Legally speaking, what is stopping someone from just reverse-engineering the specification and publishing it online somewhere?

This last line is concerning: >The Light Aircraft Association (LAA) said it now intends to take safety actions in response to the accident, including a "LAA Alert" regarding the us…

I took it for one week. I haven't taken any antidepressants since.

When I was a teen I was put on Prozac because I threatened to commit suicide. The drug absolutely destroyed me. Within a few days of taking it, I was in a bizarre state of delirium…

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Realistically, what can be done to stop this? In my eyes, Google is violating my rights because I did not agree to them stopping independent installation. I view them pushing this …

My takeaway from this announcement is that are going to ruin Arduino's current IDE and replace it with... something called Arduino App Lab? They didn't go into specifics as to what…

Qualcomm did not need to buy Arduino in order to do that.

Why do I keep seeing news stories about Bluesky here? It really feels like there some kind of campaign to shill Bluesky on this site. Does anybody else get this vibe or am I going …

Can it run the most recent version of SolidWorks? Can it run any version of SolidWorks? If it can, I am switching to Linux immediately.

It seems I lost my faith in Raspberry Pis a lot sooner than most people. I gave up on them around the RPi3 days because it stopped working with the random chargers I had just layin…

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for a short time, he was monitoring the referral header and made his website display an offensive message if you clicked the link from HN. HN's mods then edited links to his domain…

I thought Asahi Linux's sole developer didn't allow discussion of his project here? I remember there being quite a lot of fallout from that, what happened?

...but that is what happened. Ford designed a car that bricked itself if that failure mode occurred. Whether it was born out of malice or incompetence does not matter.

So let me get this straight: The site is being shut down because the owner didn't want to deal with the constant spam of CSAM? Is there a list of websites that have been shut down …

I did not call Elon a criminal and I do not think he is. I was specifically referring to Warren Buffett and a saudi prince, among other individuals on Twitter's former board of dir…

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Let me ask a simple question: What can be done about this, other than violence? I do not see a legal path going forward where all these corrupt individuals get removed from their p…

He won't, but this article does [0]. It was written by an unbiased third party of KF and has a section that goes into detail about the three people that supposedly died by the hand…

I use an ad blocker and I haven't gotten any such notifications about this. Are they only deploying it on certain devices and not others? I exclusively watch Youtube through the br…

Around mid 2018 I was working on a personal project that absolutely needed a custom PCB. KiCad 5 had just launched, and so I flipped a coin to decide if I should make it in Eagle o…

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