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herghost

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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…