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dizzy9

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    Comment #47803607

    An utterly insane idea for a law. Age verification inherently means identity verification. There's no way to prove your age without first proving that you are YOU, either by showin…

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    Comment #47550110

    Perhaps it can do 50Hz, which may be beneficial for emulating PAL systems.

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    Comment #47456770

    > In crafting its policy, Estacada incorporated feedback from parents. That led to some key decisions around the cell phone ban. Rather than use pouches or lockers, students are al…

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    Comment #47392485

    I remember in 2008, when Wizards of the Coast re-launched the official Dungeons & Dragons website to coincide with the announcement of the fourth edition rules. The site was someth…

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    Comment #47371087

    This may be a good alternative to the various web-based services, which suffer from various limitations (cost money, display ads, limited number of feeds, limited retention, annoyi…

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    Comment #47338390

    Facial scan is also identity verification.

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    Comment #47325889

    > presenting only ID to the cashier the same way as buying alcohol Selling alcohol to minors is illegal in the UK. Some do circumvent this by various means (e.g. fake ID or having …

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    Comment #47323936

    Age verification inherently requires identity verification. The UK's Online Safety Act originally had a proposal that would allow users to purchase an ID code anonymously in cash f…

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    Comment #47286926

    Some of us are old enough to remember when the RIAA sued children for downloading Metallica albums on filesharing networks. They sued for $100,000 per song, an absurd amount when y…

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    Comment #47232494

    Sadly, it's Mullvad VPN itself which may be banned in the UK. VPNs will require identify verification. Not a problem for companies which require credit cards for payment, but Mullv…

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    Comment #47088260

    Yes, all the episodes have now been set to private, and The Gathering was re-uploaded. Not quite "Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube" as reported. https://www.youtube.com/wa…

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    Comment #47037316

    This was discussed when Ghidra was first open sourced. To the best of my knowledge, nobody's found an NSA backdoor in Ghidra.

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    Comment #47037101

    Looks like AI slop and SEO junk. The Guide page you linked opens with an article on Dubai sports car rental. There are also .net and .org variants of the domain, which appear to be…

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    Comment #47013889

    Excellent news. Babylon 5 is underappreciated, but it has mainly good episodes and several amazing ones.[0] However, if I can be cynical for a moment: The article title is misleadi…

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    Comment #46803608

    In the past, expensive contracts like this were handed out as rewards to Tory donors. Help fund the party's re-election, and your company will receive a cushy reward. See also the …

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    Comment #46758551

    Another Deluxe Paint clone is PyDPainter. It's Python-based and available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The UI is very much reminiscent of the original. https://github.com/mriale/Py…

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    Comment #46710838

    Graham Scheper has a recent video on this topic. He also believes that "Hwaet" is not an interjection, but more like Red Riding Hood's "What big eyes you have!" https://www.youtube…

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    Comment #46607883

    I have seen at least one blog where the author updated his RSS feed manually, but it's one of the first pieces of busywork that you want to automate away, after applying the page t…

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    Comment #46576790

    How the mighty have fallen. A search on YouTube now pulls in 2.14 MB of HTML alone.

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    Comment #46575936

    That's what I first thought of too. The author picks CatchyOS as their first Linux distro, only to find it's more complicated to set up, and then the mouse buttons don't work. For …

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    Comment #46536772

    Unfortunately, both "amiga" and "vamos" are common Spanish words, making it difficult to search. So far it runs command-line Amiga programs only, but there's an open merge request …

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    Comment #46384817

    The Amiga has become a Ship of Theseus situation. After the 68000 CPU series was no longer developed, third-party expansion boards were developed to add a PowerPC CPU to existing A…

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    Comment #46305502

    Perhaps someone in the know can answer this: How reliable is SQLite at retaining data integrity and avoiding data corruption, compared to say, flat text files?