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hypothesis

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    Comment #44378828

    > So you stop and resent the companies for ripping you off/manipulating you It will probably work for both sides, as the only people left are either ok with that or clueless, perfe…

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    Comment #44318547

    Just looking at a few previous issues: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/905#note_243...

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    Comment #44232615

    > modifications or misuse by an operator could nevertheless turn the ADS into a more damaging weapon which could potentially violate international conventions on warfare Safe? When…

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    Comment #43407857

    > they just need to find a local young person that is willing to help them handle the requirements online Is that an officially published guidance? Because it sounds awfully close …

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    Comment #43407776

    Another sus thing about this Password app is what “App Privacy Report” shows. Sometimes it would increment counters for visited sites without you using the app, which likely means …

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    Comment #43407683

    Facebook is now Meta and no one cares about the supposed titular product anymore.

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    Comment #43385907

    That’s a “$1.56 billion” question…

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    Comment #43381204

    That would be news to people on mac with Rosetta Stone / Crossover.

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    Comment #43381042

    > I can't imagine a world where we only have one x86 manufacturer. Does it even matter? Some people won’t notice even if there are zero x86 manufacturers. In fact I would say lots …

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    Comment #43380960

    > tomorrow the President could proclaim that we are being invaded by, say, the Yakuza, and send any non-citizen Japanese person to a prison in El Salvador Why would he do that? Man…

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    Comment #43328107

    > It was not a "kill switch". Software is famously a munition, so maybe call it lack of ammunition…

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    Comment #43262740

    This is high and mighty, but didn’t they fire security team a year or so ago (couldn’t afford pay for higher ups)? I like how everyone just memory-holed that part and moved on… why…

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    Comment #43262078

    Was it a blind trust instead? Which mismanaged the farm so much that Carter had to sell it…

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    Comment #43238750

    > concerns about US companies (especially in the last months) have led many to migrate to Signal And then, footer at the bottom of signal.org says “Signal, a 501c3 nonprofit” which…

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    Comment #43236973

    > Bye bye US prime beef. It might be a blessing in disguise, given the shit they fed them cows: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-diseas...

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    Comment #43234840

    Initial attempt was unsuccessful… https://www.npr.org/2025/02/24/nx-s1-5305269/tesla-state-dep...

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    Comment #43233383

    > remote work can be pretty bad for the younger end of a company Not to worry, AI is going to rapidly solve this issue, according to tech CEOs that it.

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    Comment #43226868

    Congratulations on hitting 5k posts on a Fyre-level topic!

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    Comment #43226855

    That only works for things that have immediate impact, less so for things that take time to blow up. But then all people involved have moved on and you’re left plugging AI, I guess…

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    Comment #43226825

    > I've seen Propublica cherry pick quotes Wait until you see Twitter Files or whatever Elon is going to drop from DOGE.

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    Comment #43226790

    You technically have a point, even Russia has elections. But that doesn’t matter because they are just for show. In US you generally gerrymander to the max or throw all sorts of ro…

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    Comment #43226690

    Heck, you can even document deployment procedures and still lose them due to some wiki migration mishap or something like that, without anyone noticing. At least someone might noti…

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    Comment #43226655

    Certainly a steep price to pay. I recall that some states were happy to deice roads next to schools with radioactive brine, which might come back now with EPA being dismantled. htt…