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craftyguy

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About craftyguy

jwz was right.

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    Comment #31939342

    that might be the "Court's job", but that doesn't mean they will be doing their job without extreme personal/political bias that allows them to bend the lens to their liking. They …

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    Comment #31435063

    > Do you want privacy on your phone? lol. There is no privacy on your phone if you have Google's spyware on it. So your point is complete bullshit.

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    Comment #31252309

    > The only solution I can see is buying a burner phone to avoid these situation Or, you know, stop fucking using google.

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    Comment #31162305

    Meh. He's not the only person on Earth pushing for a Mars mission. > I can bet car manufactured will return to same-old same-old in no time. I'd bet against you. Not sure if you no…

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    Comment #31162261

    > He's already said that he'd follow all local laws so it would be interesting to see if he can find the elusive path of maintaining free speech, following the law and not having T…

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    Comment #31162228

    > This is after we had CORPORATE control of twitter (which they apparently applaud) ... they aren't aplauding it. They are offering suggestions now that twitter is under new owners…

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    Comment #30872197

    As someone why buys a lot of cycling parts online, there are many mom/pop bike shops with web storefronts, that are very reasonably priced and often include "free" shipping. Stop g…

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    Comment #30872181

    > I was blown away that Amazon would transfer me to a scammer You shouldn't be. The amazon store's core business model is allowing scammers to sell garbage to unsuspecting buyers.

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    Comment #30034622

    canada isn't even in the top 10 countries with the smallest population density: https://wikiless.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies...

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    Comment #29870571

    you don't need to go to shitter... it's right there in the article (that you and OP read... right?? lol...)

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    Comment #26103512

    All of that 'telemetry' collection isn't free. OS choice definitely matters, some OS vendors will insist on default sevices and 'require' the ability to arbitarily enable more for …

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    Comment #25648222

    The text of the bill hasn't been submitted yet, so we don't know what 'other purposes' is. So in typical 'hacker' 'news' fashion, this has been upvoted based purely on title alone!…

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    Comment #25648192

    > unpopular opinion - I like daylight savings. lol. the title is literally about making DST permanent. What's 'unpopular' about that?

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    Comment #25510183

    They mean 'free' as in freedom, not 'free' as in beer. There's a (huge) difference.

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    Comment #25270431

    They're so focused on privacy, they only tested it on a browser that spews 'telemetry.'

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    Comment #25270402

    It appears to be another silo for (as the 'owner' put it elsewhere) reducing 'complexity' (i.e. mastadon is too hard because users have to choose an instance). Instead they want yo…

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    Comment #25016559

    Because, like donald's tweets, it's a lying sack of shit.

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    Comment #24992266

    I don't feel sorry at all for Microsoft. They have a long history of harassing developers (e.g., [1]. It's nice to see them bear some of that for once. 1. https://www.infoworld.com…

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    Comment #23989197

    The title doesn't mention feelings or thoughts, so I have no idea what you are going on about. OP is correct, this title this title tries to masquerade opinion as fact, and is tota…

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    Comment #23670437

    Society generally gets more out of research than a bunch of gainfully employed physicists.

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    Comment #23670406

    They didn't say 'all', they said 'many'. So your one example doesn't 'beg to differ' much in the way of OP's point.

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    Comment #23660259

    > We therefore made the difficult decision to pay some portion of the ransom, approximately $1.14 million, to the individuals behind the malware attack in exchange for a tool to un…

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    Comment #23659693

    It's pretty obvious that the answer is 'no backup'...

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    Comment #23533287

    > Anger and outrage are valuable, and it's important that we channel them in the right directions. It's important to channel them in all directions that could have impact. You neve…