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You can personally avoid those websites, if you philosophically disagree with those terms. Good luck avoiding the operating system.

This is a very Western-centric way of thinking. The Japanese are culturally oriented toward "saving face" rather than directly confronting things like this. It's very likely that N…

During the initialize step, the client tells the server about its capabilities. Then the server remembers them for the session, so the client doesn't need to keep saying what it ca…

It's worth pointing out that Google's AI got its answer from this HN post and Tumblr posts referencing this post

This export ban follows Anthropic refusing to provide uninhibited use of AI to the US military, and the Pentagon subsequently listing them as a supply chain threat. That in turn le…

What about Mastodon or other federated platforms? If someone created a new Facebook, but it didn't have these corporate terms, it would still be social media.

Cuts very close to the Dunning-Kruger effect.

Early in the Artemis 2 Mission, Christina Koch's PCD (personal computing device, essentially a Surface tablet) completely failed to power on, and Houston had her attempt to perform…

`indy 500`

This site is flagged for some reason by BitDefender.

When I helped a friend set up his LG C2, we plugged it into Ethernet just long enough to update its firmware, then promptly disconnected it, never to even set up WiFi.

U.S. — United States (of America)

For what it's worth, writing good PRs applies in more cases than just AI generated contributions. In my PR descriptions, I usually start by describing how things currently work, th…

Your best bet might be one of the Pixel "a" series, which are Google's budget-oriented models. Stock vanilla Android with as little bloat as you can hope for.

What else are they going to use? A trampoline?

I've greatly enjoyed my Pixel 9 Pro Fold and would recommend it, with the following advice: I am very careful with mine. It's rated fairly well for water resistance, but not well f…

When the flush of a newborn sun fell first on Eden's green and gold, Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mold; And the first rude sketch that the w…

I'm assuming the same until informed otherwise.

Thanks for this. I've thought about building this exact thing ever since this vicious trend began.

Every amendment should be taken literally. How else should your rights be interpreted? Figuratively? I agree with you that people are much better off using constructive dialogue, a…

As an American who appreciates a strictly literal interpretation of the first amendment, it's very funny to me that a German not only takes pride in their government hunting down a…

This is the platform that led to the proliferation of newspeak terms like "unalive" to circumvent content restrictions. Such speech restrictions were never a thing on FB, IG, X, or…

SSI's were my first foray into "backend," if you can even call it that, sometime around the year 2000. Some benevolent commenter on Slashdot gave me the tipoff, and my growing frus…

Most 3D printed parts have a telltale texture resulting from the layer-by-layer deposit of material. The same goes for many milled/CNCed parts bearing evidence of tool marks. Once …