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uxjw

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    Comment #48834639

    Yeah its unfortunate there's an AI app on the apple store with the same name

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    Comment #48361168

    I've had movies I've "bought" disappear from the Apple account. I guess they lost the license and I'm supposed to download all purchases and manually copy between devices. I contac…

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    Comment #48037752

    Or it could give regulators an excuse to come out with more big brother tech if age verification isn't up to par

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    Comment #48014026

    The most recent updates says it includes the 147 security fixes too "[Chromium] Update to 146.0.7680.218 ESR (includes security fixes from 147.0.7727.137/138)" https://vivaldi.com/…

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    Comment #47826605

    It loves to hog disk space for some reason. An hour after installing, service workers are using 7gb. I have very few files uploaded so I don’t know what it’s caching.

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    Comment #47755957

    Found more info about this article at https://picower.mit.edu/news/complete-rethinking-how-our-bra... and https://neurosciencenews.com/predictive-brain-categorization...

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    Comment #47446976

    I'm using Brave and Vivaldi - still the same chromium engine as Google's Chrome but both support ublock origin for now.

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    Comment #47036595

    Less than a month after Microsoft announcing this for Windows https://www.theverge.com/tech/870045/microsoft-windows-11-is...

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    Comment #46356676

    Yes, the cheap engineered "foods" don't help, and they're everywhere. This part of the article really hit home: > He is worried that without additional support for people making th…

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    Comment #46223398

    https://archive.is/ZvjZH

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    Comment #46165646

    I'm 42 in Canada and just got the first shot yesterday. Doctor prescribed it because I'm getting psoriasis and I guess that puts you at a higher risk of developing shingles. With t…

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    Comment #45748085

    Meta uses the in app browsers to inject trackers on every site you visit. https://krausefx.com//blog/ios-privacy-instagram-and-faceboo... Probably others doing the same. I always o…

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    Comment #44829904

    ActivityPub for Wordpress just posted about a bridge with Bluesky https://activitypub.blog/2025/08/07/bridging-the-gap/

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    Comment #44676405

    Cloudflare has free AI Labyrinths if your goal is to target AI. The bots follow hidden links to a maze of unrelated content, and Cloudflare uses this to identify bots. https://blog…

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    Comment #44350745

    TL;DR: Some code looking for Windows 95 or 98 only looked for "Windows 9" to match both, and would have matched Windows 9. Now Apple has the year in the OS version we'll have peopl…

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    Comment #44101495

    Even if you buy aluminium cans, there's a thin layer of plastic lining to prevent reactions with the metal. I've also noticed lots of paper/cardboard packaging have a plastic coati…

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    Comment #43547902

    They have had spherical chickens in a vacuum

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    Comment #43156135

    I found this similar project recently as well: https://danielpecos.com/2022/12/25/mastodon-as-comment-syste...

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    Comment #42965043

    They may mean funny as in odd

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    Comment #42855700

    I've had some registrars lock the domain from transferring for a few weeks after changing whois.

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    Comment #42771203

    https://archive.is/oT62t

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    Comment #42580426

    Accidentally recording is one thing, but I haven't been able to find much on how the recordings were sold for targeted advertising. Found this in another article about the settleme…

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    Comment #42474310

    Seems similar to the updated Reeder app for mac/iOS. Its an RSS reeder that now works with Youtube channels, Reddit subreddits, Bluesky, Flickr, etc. https://reeder.app/