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mass_and_energy

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    Comment #44875903

    Amen. Also, forcing us to tie our local OS into their cloud nonsense is a travesty. Hearing that they will soon disallow updates to those of us that don't capitulate to their cloud…

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    Comment #44858214

    "[...] porn sites have been seeding boobytrapped .svg files [...]" I see what you did there ;)

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    Comment #44638156

    "Last month, Meta-owned WhatsApp said it would join Apple’s legal challenge, in a rare collaboration between the Silicon Valley rivals". Apple makes home computers, mobile devices,…

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    Comment #44581945

    This might be a bit of an oversimplification, but, if a bank robbery was committed and it came to light that an individual or party was the financier, they too would be investigate…

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    Comment #44576187

    What's so different between this and the other sites that already do this?

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    Comment #44576175

    Shoulda never sold Virtual Game Station, they'd hold the gaming market in their palm today

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    Comment #44573018

    Gen Z as well, I'm not excluding anybody in this

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    Comment #44572966

    If you're an American, you're living in the "before times". You need to take action to preserve your freedom, or you'll find yourself in an Orwellian hell hole wondering why you di…

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    Comment #44570424

    This is a pathetic example of what happens when entire generations are attention-starved from never not having a screen in front of them...

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    Comment #44509816

    Fun fact: since an SVG is technically code and not a binary image file, LLMs are capable of writing them! I tested this with Claude Sonnet 4 and within 7 minutes I was able to desc…

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    Comment #44110681

    This isn't reddit. Please kindly take your anger, ad homonims, and bad-faith arguments back over there. I'm sorry you had a bad day but nobody in this thread caused it, so take a d…

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    Comment #43972346

    Edit: before you -1 this out of homophobia, ask yourself what drives you to do so. Yeah this is clearly another way that they're trying to make the LGBTQ+ community invisible and i…

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    Comment #43449440

    Agreed, there's a reason most of the world uses it.

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    Comment #43334210

    Is there a strong reason people still support HP's printers after so many horror stories?

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    Comment #43233001

    In fairness to Apple? Did they port it? I think you mean "in fairness to the maintainers"

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    Comment #42612148

    I mean... The gold rush ended about 200 years ago but if you really think Dawson City is worth fighting NATO for, then I suppose that's a choice you can make.

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    Comment #42612105

    YSK that the people who had their accounts frozen weren't simply protesting in Ottawa; they were blocking international borders to our largest trading partner, effectively holding …

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    Comment #42591982

    What is this "remote system which keeps installing new stuff" that you speak of?

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    Comment #42591959

    This reeks of insecurity

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    Comment #42542104

    > Allow this device to privately match places in your photos with a global index maintained by Apple so you can search by almost any landmark or point of interest. Couldn't they ju…

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    Comment #42391683

    Why are we so quick to defend AI?

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    Comment #42265201

    Why not shut it off in the bios?

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    Comment #42258664

    Can we get a source on this?

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    Comment #42258651

    Its only frightening if it's true, and there's no source, so I wouldn't sweat it