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They should stop pretending they aren't shills, and link directly to "nytimes.com/subscription".

I see electron in the repo but there is no mention of it on the main page. Providing desktop builds is essential, as Discord communities based around desktop activities may have li…

Maybe you could do a post on... remote attestation. That is, the thing that people are actually talking about when they use that term: The means for companies and governments to us…

Sibling comments are right. Refusing to hurt people is a crime against money.

Grieving parents clamor for laws that will allow surveillance companies to surveil even harder, and for laws that force all people to be subject to their schemes. Apparently compan…

This construction of wind and solar has nothing to do with renewable, and everything to do with China's desire to get as much electricity generation as possible, which involves inc…

The ideal is the owner being able to use TPM/SecureBoot/etc to ensure that the device is in the configuration they want. That means resisting tampering, and making any successful t…

Let's not hand-wave field of view. Glasses cannot display anything outside the bounds of their frames, and therefore cannot have a field of view as large as a headset. No amount of…

There are several gaps in capability between headsets and glasses, which cannot be filled by any existing technology. For example, consider field of view, which is a critical measu…

Screwing customers with sabotaged crap is standard Nintendo behavior. See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30773214 But I wonder if they have run afoul of the EU Radio Equ…

To get AI to fix a specific issue, simply have a human fix it first. If that doesn't sound very useful, well...

> NEITHER DISCORD NOR ITS AFFILIATES, SUPPLIERS, OR DISTRIBUTORS MAKE ANY SPECIFIC PROMISES ABOUT THE APIs, API DATA, DOCUMENTATION, OR ANY DISCORD SERVICES. The existence of terms…

There are lots of details about the technology, license agreements, service history, comparable platforms, and whatnot, which all form reasonable support for botghost. None of that…

https://zalgo.org/ Zalgo and unzalgo text Configurable craziness level

> It needs to be screened by someone The people using this stuff want plausible deniability. If there's a problem with the slop, the computer did it, not me. Screening it is contra…

> Anyone can stop using gmail at any time True, and applies to many other things as well. Anyone claiming otherwise is shirking responsibility for their own actions. Every single s…

Stealing from children is the MO of Epic Games

There are garbage bins in NYC. Here's one: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7238555,-73.9968645,3a,75y,5...

A shameless betrayal of user intent. This article calls it "a genius move". Repulsive.

It's doom, so hell for everyone

A trillion dollar company is screwing me again. Any tips on how I can keep supporting them?

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