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A year or two ago I personally encountered scraping bots that were scraping every possible resultant page from a given starting point. So if it scraped a search results page it wou…

Seems like they didn't even read the headline...

That's not at all what the article says is happening. "Immigration Judge John P. Burns has been using artificial intelligence * to generate audio recordings of his courtroom decisi…

> requiring internet access to access local media Good news! You can whitelist exceptions by IP/subnet Go into Plex Settings, then Settings > Network (show advanced). Scroll down t…

> Would be nice if Integer(nil) worked like Array(nil) though. How would that work, though? A value of 0 is conceptually different from not having a value

Do people really believe that Meta isn't correlating/linking Meta accounts to Facebook accounts regardless of user consent? I don't understand why we should trust this company to n…

I didn't say Musk was being a hypocrite, and I don't appreciate the smug sarcasm of your response

Clearly she needs to charge enough for the sweatshirt to at least cover costs, and she provided reasons why the costs here would justify that price. She could charge less if she us…

Musk waived his right to exercise internal due diligence https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/05/twitter-board-te... https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-17/elon-…

The part that confuses me the most is that the two 'vaccine side effects' in question are the swelling of muscles in or around the heart... But side effects of (even mild[1]) COVID…

...well, yeah; that's what executives are hired to do

The Taliban in Afghanistan isn't/wasn't listed officially as terrorist group by the US government. The Taliban in Pakistan, however, is a terrorist organization, according to the U…

On yeah? So how do people run iOS apps on instruction-executing machines that weren't made by Apple?

> The iPhone is an instruction-executing machine. That's what people buy. That's not what people buy; that's the hardware they receive as part of their purchase.

I had that issue when upgrading from 3.x->4 -- I was so cocky from years of ST's insane consistency that it honestly didn't even occur to me that my unsaved documents might be lost…

Completely agree; Robinhood seems to give us a new reason to distrust them each week. The guy who allowed his service to store passwords as plaintext[1] says “There is no reason wh…

I have an iPad Pro with the Magic Keyboard. The magnetic attachment is fantastic. I can hold the palmrest on the keyboard, turn the whole thing upside down, and shake it without th…

I tried doing that just moments ago and it wouldn't let me proceed without providing a phone number.

Fwiw, COVID-19 is the disease caused by the "2019 novel coronavirus". Afaik the most accurate and succinct way to refer to the virus itself is SARS-CoV-2. Please someone correct me…

That's a great link! Thank you, very much

I wasn't aware. Do you have some specific examples, for my own edification?

Is the article wrong in saying that the metadata isn't encrypted?

Instead of instructions for how to use PGP to you could give instructions on how to use Signal. A new SIM card isn't free, but it seems like it would be easier to reliably cover yo…

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