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    Comment #49170047

    And indeed that's Python's calendar: 'A date object represents a date (year, month and day) in an idealized calendar, the current Gregorian calendar indefinitely extended in both d…

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    Comment #49068369

    The malicious compliance aspect is that they're not offering a choice between "tracking" and "no tracking", but bundling "no tracking" + "painfully degraded functionality" (like re…

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    Comment #48630391

    They acknowledge that it's odd, and give this justification: "Using runtime panics has the nice property that inline assembly in dead code doesn't get in the way of porting softwar…

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    Comment #48567814

    Ah. That makes sense. Maybe the polite fiction would clash too obviously with accounting standards once the (de facto) lowered rent payments roll in: https://news.ycombinator.com/i…

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    Comment #48567653

    How come this obvious workaround isn't used much more often: >> If the system allows you to pretend that the vacancy is temporary, why doesn’t it allow you to lower rents on the pr…

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    Comment #48344777

    Ok that one looks legit :) I was thinking more about his experience with e.g. the last one on the page, Roof Garden at The Post Building: > I still don't understand why it's here n…

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    Comment #48344617

    > more likely to get planning permission if their new skyscraper included a free public roof terrace If that's the deal, it's crazy that some of those places are getting away with …

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    Comment #48014678

    https://kycnot.me/?categories=aggregator https://kycnot.me/?categories=exchange

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    Comment #47867991

    Tor Browser is always quick to rebase on the latest Firefox ESR. They released an update the next day: https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-15010/

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    Comment #47779419

    They are not affected (except through second order effects, e.g. some FOSS app developers might give up on development)

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    Comment #47659558

    He posted it at 8:03 AM though... (12:03 PM UTC, and he was in D.C.) https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1163519987825...

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    Comment #47566035

    Isn't type 1 a circumcision (removal of the clitoral hood, but not other parts) very rare? At least that's what the Wikipedia article claims, referencing a 2008 WHO report.

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    Comment #46565610

    At the bottom of the page there's a link to the pdfresurrect package, whose description says "The PDF format allows for previous changes to be retained in a revised version of the …

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    Comment #46546064

    Right, I should have written "IPv4 bridges" (which can be obfuscated and distributed out of band), not "IPv4 entry nodes": https://bridges.torproject.org/ But you can reach the IPv…

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    Comment #46545389

    Tor can reach IPv6 destinations through IPv4 entry nodes, if that's what your asking.

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    Comment #46392509

    > Does anybody know if Bluesky block people without account by default, or if this user intentionally set it this way? It's the latter. You can use an app view that ignores this: h…

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    Comment #46217473

    Probably by the phone number used for account verification, in many cases The anime avi posters will have to level up their OPSEC

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    Comment #46217233

    What happens if you declare that you don't have any social media accounts? There are already forms that ask for social media info, e.g. student visa applications. Surely some of th…

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    Comment #46199538

    Bandcamp is huge

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    Comment #45759507

    No part of hosting or visiting onion services involves exit nodes. Onion service traffic stays within the Tor network instead of exiting to the clearnet.

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    Comment #45719443

    A dirty intended use case... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_desiccation#Systemic_desi...