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mcsofake

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    Comment #36819834

    ChatGPT for iOS is available here in Germany, so I doubt they would restrict the Android version.

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    Comment #34146592

    > Also wild how this post is singling out Safari when Android seems to somehow be even worse My guess is that it is selection bias. Older people are probably more like to use iOS d…

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    Comment #30061823

    Edge shares literally every single website you visit with Microsoft, even in InPrivate (= Incognito) mode. [1] The worst part is that you have to disable a genuine security feature…

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    Comment #27535071

    This fully coincides with my experience. Every once in a while, I hear about how much DDG has improved and how its results are now better than Google. I switch to DDG for a few day…

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    Comment #25597591

    > I've skimmed a couple of books written by Fetullah gulen and what he preaches peace, love and cooperation amongst all. He's a lovely fellow indeed: https://twitter.com/kyleworton…

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    Comment #23305602

    > BSD peoples like the BSD2/MIT/ISC/FreeBSD-License, but have no problem too import the CDDL the Apache or the GPLx (at least in the pkg), whatever works. If by "BSD peoples" you m…

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    Comment #21236806

    Additionally, a report from Amnesty International: Syria: US ally’s razing of villages amounts to war crimes: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/10/syria-us-ally...

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    Comment #21228217

    Archbishop Hindo: violence and intimidation of the Kurd militias on Christians increase in Hassaké: http://www.fides.org/en/news/60791-ASIA_SYRIA_Archbishop_Hin... Kurdish YPG/Asay…

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    Comment #21228035

    Turkey has spent more than $30 billion on refugees and was already host to 2 million refugees in 2015 (i.e. before the deal) [1]. So, no, that deal hasn't brought any meaningful ch…

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    Comment #21218483

    > they seem to be doing ok Japan is not really doing OK. They are literally going extinct, have an awful and destructive work culture and have a ton of problems with sexism, to the…

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    Comment #21218323

    > The EU paid 6 billion to help Turkey with its migration crisis Turkey has spent more than $30 billion on refugees [1]. 6B just doesn't cut it, unfortunately. [1] https://www.aa.c…

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    Comment #21218276

    > It’s trifling for Europe as a whole, as shown by the fact that Turkey managed to process them alone. Considering the fact that 1 million refugees were enough to revitalize Neo-Na…

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    Comment #21036971

    > in the Middle East. FTFY: in the EU. Or to be more accurate: in whichever country you reside. Because the VPN is local.

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    Comment #20186338

    > Right, so the correct conclusion is to never use It depends on how you "use" GPL'd software. You _can_ run proprietary software on Linux. Clearly, using GPL'd and proprietary sof…

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    Comment #20186158

    useless to you != useless to everyone. Linux is GPL'd and very useful. Just ask Red Hat if you don't believe me.

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    Comment #18273426

    > Treating users like children, not listening to users, rolling releases without regard to stability or consistency, adding features nobody asked for instead of fixing bugs, incons…

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    Comment #16467461

    AFAIK, SUSE doesn't employ any KDE developers but they do donate to KDE e.V.

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    Comment #16467325

    Minor correction: It's the default on openSUSE. On SUSE (the commercial version of openSUSE), GNOME is the default.

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    Comment #14988069

    Not to mention that there are modern languages with fast compilers too. D is an example.

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    Comment #12508787

    I don't think that will help. After all Windows can patch the bootloader to cache the encryption password too. Even secure boot won't protect you since Microsoft has the signing ke…

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    Comment #12508772

    I don't think that will help. Windows can patch the bootloader to cache the encryption password. Since Microsoft controls the secure boot signing keys, they can sign the patched bo…

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    Comment #12358932

    > Compare the quantity of libraries available for Rust and yet another 'overly verbose' language, Go. We can find Go wrapper for almost anything, and often a few to chose from. Rus…