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georgiecasey

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    Comment #35720817

    this is the answer, Stremio is the easy-to-use solution that I setup for my parents and forgot about. the comments above with their complicated usenet setups reminds me of the famo…

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    Comment #35543483

    should you not have disclosed that you're a Hex employee in the blogpost?

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    Comment #33444869

    poor dang

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    Comment #33195271

    everyone giving their opinion in this thread should disclose whether they've tried cocaine. proper fishscale cocaine, not stepped on washing up powder. the problem is it's too damn…

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    Comment #33012789

    all things aside, it'd be a great ego-boost if someone thought me good enough to impersonate on Upwork

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    Comment #32899938

    surely they're talking about the opening only, where the best moves have been analyzed to death. once you're in the middle game and it's a position that's new, you play the best mo…

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    Comment #32841917

    I wouldn't be surprised if someone responsible for verifying accounts in Indonesia took a bribe.

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    Comment #32837852

    so Apple and Samsung get most of the profits, and Google has to pay a huge fine for doing the open source thing and letting 3rd parties build handsets. If Google just built their o…

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    Comment #32736266

    That's a serious lichess rapid rating. Are you a titled player?

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    Comment #31346990

    > What is broken is installing a custom CA into the system store on a rooted phone and making it work with all apps (apks) and Chrome. yep, that's what I do. still seems to work he…

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    Comment #31342311

    so this breaks charles proxy HTTPS sniffing as well? I haven't encountered the problem yet even though my Android Chrome is version 101

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    Comment #30901839

    Surprised nobody's mentioned the Telegram Android app yet. Their ChatActivity.java is 27, 720 lines! https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DrKLO/Telegram/master/TMes... Thing is, there…

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    Comment #30249070

    I always wonder why Google don't start charging for Gmail accounts for non-OECD countries or other countries where the ad rate means they make a loss.

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    Comment #28556420

    > You'll rarely win in the court of public opinion and you'll probably never get hired anywhere again I thoroughly disagree with both these points.

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    Comment #27179235

    I'm kind of shocked, I know Gates was a ruthless businessman but I always had him pegged as squeaky clean in his private life.

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    Comment #27095636

    Was this because license revenue dropped? They want to do the same in Ireland

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    Comment #27058510

    It taught me to never get involved in the drugs business in Mexico or Brazil or never drive in Russia.

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    Comment #27058505

    I notice Ogrish.com redirects to this new vanilla site as well. What a relic from the turn of the century Internet.

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    Comment #27033266

    the youngest is 18 now. maybe the marriage is gone for years and they were waiting for the kids to come of age? pure speculation

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    Comment #26890578

    > since it is the de-facto SMS standard in my country. Same in my country, I don't think Americans (or the American tech culture) realise how ubiquitous WhatsApp is in Europe and a…

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    Comment #26890313

    I like it as well, whenever there's some breaking story of some scandal and I want to see 'pics', DailyMail always seem to have the pics first. Like a kid, I look at the images mor…

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    Comment #26849762

    I think they compromised Teamcity, or at least I've heard a lot of mentions of Teamcity related to this hack, I could be completely wrong. But it's possible they just got admin acc…

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    Comment #26822947

    New Google accounts start off with little trust. New apps start off with little trust. Established apps should have good trust along with Playstore verified developers. Android is …

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    Comment #26820756

    We don't need a security standard for apps from bluechip companies, we need better vetting of apps uploaded by nobodies to the app stores. And the Chrome plugin store while we're a…

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    Comment #26634211

    Looks great but these services have a tendency to come and go. Bad actors just end up hammering it. But I've been using icanhazip.com for years and it's still going strong.