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Comment #49218988
Or any folder. Most of my apps are in sub folders organized by category. :)
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Comment #48622636
So a fake ID but using your face? How would they know? Does the US government expose their database to private businesses? I always wondered how these things work. I normally run a…
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Comment #48500913
Well Anthropic did not ask for permission before they distilled copyrighted material. At least the Chinese have the decency of giving back the model weights and not put BS censorsh…
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Comment #48131550
That’s the most puzzling part to me. What’s the point of the PIN then? I was assuming it was mixed with the TPM secret somehow but if it can be bypassed then it shows it just an IF…
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Comment #48118762
They are? Nobody writes JavaScript anymore. Everything is Typescript. Even PHP and Python have sort of back ported type annotations. What major language is still purely dynamic the…
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Comment #48093497
Same here. Potholes in England are part of the tourist package.
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Comment #48072973
Too easy to dunk on the EU. The UK, USA and Australia seem to have reached the same conclusions. In UK all young males now have a VPN rather than do whatever you’re supposed to do …
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Comment #47737160
Isn’t this “high level rust” idea similar to swift? Everything is ARC. Clones are cheap. But you still have a reasonable sound type system and no garbage collection. I get it. Tool…
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Comment #46867896
Besides being racist this is kind of dumb. If you’re going to bring down the plane you’re defo not going to look like someone who gets randomly selected 100% of the time. Even the …
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Comment #46066706
Is there any videos of this thing or maybe just the OS?
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Comment #46065802
Oh you can declare anything… but the minute you don’t pay you taxes you’ll realize it’s just words.
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Comment #46065750
I think this was explained before. But basically the processing takes so long (over a year) that you are guaranteed to overstay most visas and leaving the US is considered as aband…
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Comment #46065652
So the right process is to request for a K1 fiancé visa which takes over a year?! I can see why people were tempted to cut corners, especially given past tolerance…
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Comment #45884897
The UK (same as the US) has lots of extra territorial laws. Enforcing them is another matter. It’s easy to make Apple budge because they have money ties to the Uk. This works less …
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Comment #45863772
The UK has no problem asking their ISPs to block the Pirate Bay. Why can’t OFCOM do this? I don’t understand the attempt to pursue this in a foreign country. It’s fairly obvious th…
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Comment #45822565
The problem is that these private companies have taken a disproportionate place in public discourse. You are absolutely right that freedom of speech does not guarantee the right to…
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Comment #45822318
The article has a very long list of alleged Israeli violations of international law and human rights. Here's a quick summary. Genocide in Gaza. It is described as a "genocidal camp…
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Comment #45822169
The irony is that JD Vance lectured the Europeans about their lack of freedom of speech in Europe while invited in Germany.
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Comment #45572979
I’d be curious to know how the UK going to enforce its extra territorial law against a company with no ties to the UK?
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Comment #45410856
No doubt it’ll be an open source app you’ll be able to recompile for your non Android/iOS computers. Otherwise I really hope to government gifts me an ID computer.
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Comment #45036009
Don’t cars and ropes and drills occasionally kill people too? Society seems to have accepted that fact long ago. Somehow we expect the digital world to be devoid of risks. Cryptogr…
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Comment #43956693
I remember doing that for some custom installer I wrote. It felt like a good idea for 5mins until it got flagged by a bunch of anti virus software… had to sign the installer in the…
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Comment #43956598
I’m surprised it’s that big to be honest. I was expecting it to be smaller or half the size to be taken by some app icon. I remember writing this kind of stuff back in the days and…
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Comment #43814930
I did not realize that worked so well. I gave up on Safari a while ago. Will give it another shot with AdBlock Pro then. Is it with the free tier? I just use ublock Origin with Fir…
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Comment #43750805
Oh thanks. I missed that. I guess that works pretty well too!