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hurfdurf

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    Comment #49241635

    I stated that we should stop worrying about [X] consuming [finite resource]. Why would you ever say something like this? When was that ever true?

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    Comment #49207321

    A USB-C cable should be a USB-C cable should be a USB-C cable. There should be a single connectivity/performance spec, It's called Thunderbolt.

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    Comment #49207252

    OEMs removing bootloader unlocking at an increasing rate.

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    Comment #49179408

    Another big one is College Football, at least in the US. And in the latest edition they nerfed the offline single-player mode's XP progression. In return they added microtransactio…

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    Comment #49179365

    Grave danger of integer overflow (underflow?).

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    Comment #49152163

    Apple struggles to keep pace with human bug hunters too, no surprise.

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    Comment #49152070

    Is the EU going to create a great firewall like China and start blacklisting sites Welcome to six years ago: https://diginomica.com/eu-policy-doc-recommends-building-eur... https:/…

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    Comment #49120861

    None of the Minis ever had $200+ rebates within weeks after launch.

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    Comment #49107346

    Is this part of the new focus on quality and respect they announced a couple of months ago, or is that yet to come?

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    Comment #49045732

    Convicting an person who is not guilty, that's how good they are. /s

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    Comment #49018521

    Answered questions becoming unanswered is such an annoying thing. I'd prefer users who are willing to delete their comments day, weeks, months, years later to not reply at all and …

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    Comment #48976108

    I.e. Samsung Galaxy S5 was IP67, Samsung Galaxy Xcover 6 Pro was IP68.

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    Comment #48869528

    no options to delete content beyond a narrow window. Good.

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    Comment #48759515

    Installing via adb is not affected.

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    Comment #48758258

    Maybe not, but reading their blog posts about ADV next to the DMA text, that's certainly the angle they are trying. And it will be years if it ever comes to a court hearing. And th…

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    Comment #48758150

    Hundred billion would be a quarter's revenue, that can't be right. The lasest I've read is a threat of a fine of around 500mil wrt app store issues back in December, but nothing ha…

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    Comment #48757832

    You can switch ISPs. Can you switch away from Cloudflare when you are blocked from accessing a website because reasons?

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    Comment #48757694

    https://www.eu-digital-markets-act.com/Digital_Markets_Act_A... Art 6 (4). Read it to the end. That's how.

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    Comment #48757673

    But they did. EU formally allows all these measures by Google in the name of "security" as described in Digital Markets Act Art. 6 (4) fourth paragraph. https://www.eu-digital-mark…

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    Comment #48720882

    And that's how the HUMANCENTiPAD keeps growing.

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    Comment #48705214

    >loudness doesn't have a standard If you can't create, copy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBU_R_128

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    Comment #48641145

    MSFT growing to 10x the price it was when Nadella took over, everything done right.

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    Comment #48628044

    https://www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to-kill-burner-phones-by-f... https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-421309A1.pdf https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/35134-new-fcc-rule-requiri…

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    Comment #48627688

    https://snscratchpad.com/posts/frontier-ecosystem/