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rixthefox
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Comment #48177755
I think one of the major reasons why it’s not here is because most AI tools are great for getting a prototype built up but undertaking a program like Photoshop which we can assume …
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Comment #47716830
lol, Microslop shooting themselves in the foot once again. At this point people will move to MacOS or Linux because so much damage to their brand can’t simply be ignored anymore.
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Comment #46648822
Starlink by virtue of being your ISP would have access to any DNS queries you send over the Internet over UDP port 53 in plain text. Starlink is also able to redirect those queries…
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Comment #46558144
Amateur Radio has entered the chat..... Even as a licensed ham it's getting increasingly difficult to even get hardware that allows utilization of frequencies I'm duly licensed to …
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Comment #46556147
In this economy? /s The other more compelling reason why people would have a rooted phone is to run ROMs that may still be providing OS support where the stock OS has been abandone…
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Comment #46555282
This is the way. Widevine is a cancer that only serves to lock down the browser market to a small handful of web engines that have been approved by Google. If your browser isn't ba…
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Comment #46555222
> Am I right in this assumption? Yes. I tried using Chrome on Linux just to watch movies that I purchased on Youtube at HD/4K and watched as the stream was limited to 240P. IMHO re…
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Comment #46290340
I think the difference is really more noticeable if you're on a limited connection. For example, on Starlink I only have 50 GB to play with. It's entirely ineffective if the browse…
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Comment #46290061
Oh I agree 100%. I also play for my search engine so it's definitely not a lack of interest in doing so. I agree with your point as well. Get rid of the money vultures in the C-sui…
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Comment #46289556
Unfortunately this is not unexpected because Mozilla needs to continue receiving money to survive and unfortunately nobody wants to have the tough conversation about paying for a b…
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Comment #45292474
Fuck that noise. The places that shadow ban and encourage self-censorship do not deserve your traffic nor your content. Start voting with your voice and your (digital) feet. Don't …
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Comment #44261177
Those contracts will be monitoring their service availability on their own. If Google can't be honest you can bet your bottom dollar the companies paying for that SLA are going to …
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Comment #43896115
> but it would seem a reasonable protection for consumers in general. The final say may ultimately come from the Cox vs Record Labels case from 2019 that is still working it's way …
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Comment #43783978
Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say…
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Comment #42920027
The article is exactly right. Tech Bros aren't building communities but the people trying to build communities are being suffocated by the same platforms they attempt to use to bui…
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Comment #42807068
It is not my job to tell Microsoft to correct their behavior and follow standards. There are standards for a reason [1] and if you break them, no matter how good your intentions yo…
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Comment #42783910
Yeah, all our pollution and climate change is disrupting ecosystems. Our only way to ensure survival on and off the planet is to mimic their actions (in this case pollination) to e…
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Comment #42781275
It is well known that people change how they act when they know they are being watched. Even if they can't see it, just the threat of surveillance is enough to make people change t…
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Comment #41913888
Half the US has already deployed it and 100% of the mobile carriers. I would say the detractors who continue to stomp their feet about not deploying IPv6 are holding a fake title o…
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Comment #41511162
That was not my intention at all. My concern is groups who do that kind of red team testing on open source projects without first seeking approval from the maintainers risk uninten…
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Comment #41511010
Yes, getting through the article I was happy to see that wasn't the case and was just vulnerabilities that had existed in those programs. Definitely they could have worded that bet…
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Comment #41510922
> We recently performed research that started off "well-intentioned" (or as well-intentioned as we ever are) - to make vulnerabilities in WHOIS clients and how they parse responses…
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Comment #41333603
> It’s just easier to ban you rather than spend the time and money to see if you’re legit. It’s even easier to just not release anything officially on the Play Store and go 100% in…
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