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torium

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    Comment #45184971

    Seconded. Few people alive have contributed as much to society.

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    Comment #45184949

    [flagged]

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    Comment #45173270

    Funny, because last time I said I thought it highly suspicious that GrapheneOS supports only hardware built by a surveillance corporation, I was told tinfoil hat.

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    Comment #45173180

    I am also one of those people who "don’t usually do a lot of networking stuff", so here's a question. The article contains this: #replace eth0 with the interface open to the intern…

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    Comment #45161931

    Yes, and why is it always furry garbage? Never seen quality stuff made by furries.

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    Comment #45161148

    Linus Torvalds, best living programmer. Change my mind.

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    Comment #45138804

    Powerful entities getting a pass, bad. Individuals getting a pass, good. See, it just depends on how you slice the Venn diagram. With a bit of imagination you'll be able to start c…

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    Comment #45138782

    If you don't see why this is oppressive, that's really a _you_ problem.

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    Comment #45137903

    Torrents are also a good thing on the internet.

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    Comment #45038778

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    Comment #45037901

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    Comment #45003188

    Would you share with us what kind of job you do? I keep seeing people saying how amazing it is to code with these things, and I keep failing at it. I suspect that they're better at…

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    Comment #45002935

    I think that technical people tend to see their area of expertise the most fundamental one, from which everything else derives. This guy specialized in security and so he thinks th…

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    Comment #44995146

    I use Obsidian every day, though I'm not a "poweruser" - I don't think I've ever installed an extension (presumably there'll be some default ones that are installed). Yes, I know O…

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    Comment #44994584

    Spoken like someone who's never been inside an assembly line.

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    Comment #44977218

    > Anki’s fatal flaw is that you think you are learning content, but you’re actually just memorizing rectangles. I totally believe this. It's 100% in line with my observations about…

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    Comment #44946890

    > The first sentence of the documentation already says it: "turn any set of notes into a powerful database No, horrible job at explaining. What does it mean to turn any set of note…

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    Comment #44936110

    Could you expand? How does using tor makes you stick out like a sore thumb?

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    Comment #44935379

    Sounds like the same argument that Russia uses to invades its neighbors. "There's Russians there, therefore..."

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    Comment #44935375

    Disgusting. If I access 4chan only through tor, will I be safe from these tirants?

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    Comment #44930011

    > Beyond that, Elon has a history of making claims and promises which don't pan out Unbelievably generous take, to the point of naivity. When describing his cars abilities, he said…

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    Comment #44911779

    > If you download software packages from the internet, you may have noticed that some of them are signed with a GPG key. This is done to ensure that the software package has not be…

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    Comment #44910095

    No one would contribute such an idiotic thing. This was obviously AI generated.

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    Comment #44897742

    > Is there any reason to run Debian as a user, as opposed to a sysadmin? I love running Debian on my servers, it's boring and rock-solid. Boring and rock-solid is also how I like m…

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