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Comment #49103867
Agreed - and it lives on today in some of my friend groups. When we see some random, chaotic image and it can be read as "TITOR" it's always shared!
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Comment #48604065
This is a horrible straw-man of the situation which somewhat conveniently manages to sidestep any real acknowledgement of the genuine harm and its scale. Terrible article.
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Comment #47322683
I might be missing something obvious but there only appears to be the option to draw something in predefined places - where the bubbles appear on the map. I'm trying to mark up som…
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Comment #47322489
Ok, I give up. How am I supposed to draw something?
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Comment #47038177
hmmmmm... 2006, sat in a job interview. Interviewer says he'll Bluetooth over a file to me - what's by phone's name? 2006, the year that Tool's 10,000 Days had been released, which…
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Comment #46367002
the linked Github repo shares the name
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Comment #46105630
As the default simulation played out beautifully on-load, I immediately started to question: "hang on, I thought there wasn't a solution for 3 bodies, but this looks stable". Befor…
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Comment #45559771
We've recently come to this conclusion with our Cockapoo. His mother was a working Cocker Spaniel. When the weather is poor we have often tried to get shorter walks in dry spells b…
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Comment #44212405
Isn't a better question: why would it matter? Whichever is true, we all benefit, so why agitate over it? Conflating the two issues will not generate a single iota of good so drop i…
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Comment #43514266
Mr Jenkinson will be here any minute now, chasing ambulances.
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Comment #43218665
100% bullying. Something that isn't seemingly being commented widely on either is that Vance started hitting Zelenskyy with bursts of multiple questions and as soon as he started a…
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Comment #43218615
> Europe's defence should not be entirely on the American tax payer True. However. The US has wanted to play a major role in Europe for 80 years because it meant they controlled th…
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Comment #42897448
Speaking as a worker this seems like a positive move. Stepping outside that though - how is this going to impact the wider economy? The UK is in a tough spot. Partially self-inflic…
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Comment #42614669
Cookie Clicker taught me this about Destiny and Destiny 2 as well. I got a lot of enjoyment out of those games - and they were partly the backdrop to socialising online with IRL fr…
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Comment #42573295
> I remember the first time I picked up a Wired magazine and couldn’t tolerate the insane lack of continuity. I've never been able to articulate why I couldn't stand Wired so succi…
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Comment #42436707
The problem is you’re simultaneously arguing two points and relying on whichever point gives you the most leverage at each juncture. If .gov == bad guy then you’re screwed whether …
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Comment #42436624
The card you might have paid with is though. I can’t remember any instances of a card hack revealing transactions of customers though (I might be wrong, just doesn’t ring a bell). …
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Comment #42434401
>Parents should be the ones that should be controlling their children's social media usage. I guess we should stop checking age when buying alcohol in pubs (_Parents should be the …
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Comment #42361626
Totally agree with this - when it popped up asking me if I wanted to use my fingerprint to do ..._something_... I felt like I was at risk and noped out.
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Comment #42348530
Gong back about 20 years we had to introduce a "pre-screening" interview for infosec roles because of the calbire of candidates we were getting through. They'd made it through the …
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Comment #42281636
I think this is probably correct on the balance of probabilities but I have 2 concerns with it. Firstly the “it would be illegal to listen” argument feels absurdly naive. Whilst al…
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Comment #40798293
There was also an application that took a screenshot of your current desktop and then gave you a bunch of weapons - bats, guns, bombs - and allowed you to smash it to pieces. That …
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Comment #38805218
Compare with "Prosecco" recently starting an advertising campaign on the London Underground[0] telling people to stop calling whatever generic, non-region protected sparkling wine …
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Comment #38335373
It's mixed. On the plus side, if I book out the family holidays and school holidays and and some time at Christmas and a few days for gigs or whatever, then as soon as something un…
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Comment #38000019
My PiHole resolves off to Quad9 and Cloudflare. Never had any problems with either - I have both selected in case one has issues so that I don't need to immediately deal with "Daaa…