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voytec

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    > Google shall not enter or maintain any agreement that > (1) conditions the licensing of the Play Store or any other Google application on the distribution, preloading, or placeme…

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    Comment #44938098

    > depositing a significant amount of electrical charge Unsatisfying description but I guess we don't yet know if it's any close to 1.21 jigawatts.

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    Comment #44923872

    With Netflix you pay for licenses and ongoing costs like bandwidth and maintenance. A better analogy here is having to pay Microsoft for unlocking Windows NT/Server's ability to us…

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    Comment #44851267

    > the country is the recipient of a huge amount of EU funds What shaped Poland into something acceptable as a NATO member was USAID - the program Musk and Big Balls axed. USAID all…

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    Comment #44350256

    > Taiwan, Japan, Poland, Canada, Spain, Australia, many others (...) have a great political and economic relationship with the US, and are currently at 0% risk of attack or invasio…

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    Comment #44265044

    > What's the alternative here? Do you want them to replicate their infrastructure Cloudflare adverises themselves as _the_ redundancy / CDN provider. Don't ask me for an "alternati…

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    Comment #44264841

    Weaseling out of SLA/SLO payments.

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    Comment #44262713

    > outage of a 3rd party service that is a key dependency. Good to know that Cloudflare has services seemingly based on GCP with no redundancy.

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    Comment #44262689

    Yeah. This service was presenting charts likely probed from inside GCP. I was on a call with a Google rep, someone pointed out that "AWS is also down" and I foolishly said somethin…

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    Comment #44261271

    > Why can't companies be honest with being down SLA agreements.

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    Comment #44212730

    It's not about living like a caveman. You can enable 1st party JS without JS from 20 ad/tracking hosts.

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    Comment #44212707

    > NoScript is indeed very effective at blocking tracking, but it also breaks a lot of websites. Sure, images may no be present without JS lazy-loading them. Accidentaly, NoScript a…

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    Comment #44212334

    Zen Browser works well for me. It's a Firefox fork but privacy-focused whereas Mozilla recently became an ad company and published hostile TOS changes. No issues I had when I was e…

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    Comment #44159512

    > The lack of cartels are perhaps a reflection of the lack of the international supply chains etc. No. Most of Europe (apart from Scandinavian states, Belarus and Russian Federatio…

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    Comment #44123853

    Fair. I apologize for my poor choice of words. I however stand by my point in general.

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    Comment #44117816

    > Mods: Consider adding to the title: A privacy focused search engine @dang No - please don't do it. This request is plain stupid. Apple and Google being "privacy-focused" is a sil…

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    Comment #44108742

    > Venture capital didn’t kill Arc. It gave us the chance to see what Arc could be. That’s more than most products ever get.

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    Comment #44080736

    Also, the quality of service is top notch. Not just the procedure execution but in private dental clinics (in Gdańsk) you lay down on a bed and there's a sizeable OLED screen at th…

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    Comment #43965908

    I'm flagging this submission. Look at the author[0], at the "Georgetown students..." (won't backlink again) post linked below stating that Cerca was 2 months old in April, and OP's…

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    Comment #43965782

    I've also hit this link trying to get any info on "Cerca". It's from April 2025 and praises app created two months earlier. It looks like a LLM-hallucinated garbage. OP's entry men…