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zapttt

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    Comment #23066759

    > it shiped you completely missed the point of the comment and the article. yes, it shipped, completely broken. lots and lots of functionality was lost for a while (and some not de…

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    Comment #23059239

    that was forced on some cheap androids between version 3 and 4. after 4.4 they dialled it back to instead of required now they only apply some seven dark patterns to try to trick u…

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    Comment #23059220

    shhhh. silicon valey doesn't know there's life past berkley.

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    Comment #23058013

    it's funny how easily we see BS jobs all around us, but how the American civil religion blinds us in those cases.

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    Comment #23048548

    vim is a completely different class than tmux. vim is a text editor, tmux is a window manager. one is supposed to be used with the keyboard, the other the mouse (though vim have mo…

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    Comment #23047722

    I have no idea what you are talking. after 120 days you start to pay what you would normaly pay, the only difference os that will stop paying a little ity bit sooner because you wo…

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    Comment #23014614

    and none can reach any consumer in China.

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    Comment #23014579

    "For his disclosure of the Pentagon Papers, Ellsberg was initially charged with conspiracy, espionage, and theft of government property, but the charges were later dismissed after …

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    Comment #22969182

    the US economy cannot be compared to anything because no other country have (or had) the military world power ensuring the dollar as the only tender for internation oil markets. it…

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    Comment #22963690

    firefox should be fixing their privacy settings and adding all those new tech in the settings screen instead. but no, we get experiment addons installed, canvas fingerprinting even…

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    Comment #22963659

    amazon is a hellhole because of this. makes their search totally broken. and the funny thing is, amazon itself screws brands that have the same price restriction that they push on …

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    Comment #22933685

    just the same as they set the salaries for cleaners they hire from private cleaning co. via a procurement. should they also rebrand as federal cleaning?

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    Comment #22931183

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_civil_religion

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    Comment #22909011

    i'm with you. have been using the fdroid one. firefox android esl 68 + all security patches) with uMatrix extension (but for non-web devs I'd suggest gorhill's uBlock extension ins…

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    Comment #22872917

    or they reachead a sweet monopoly spot and those sales reps are competing among themselves.

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    Comment #22872439

    nice play. rigth out of Microsoft playbook. in a time where competiton is triving and github is not synonymous of opensource anymore, offer free stuff to embrace (fake you still su…

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    Comment #22866571

    read antrhopology and philosophy journals. everything else will be a validation of myths, like Sapiens suggested already. https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/youre-a-slave-to…

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    Comment #22865762

    people here will not realize this is not about the pennies saved by those early adopters, but the real damage was done years ago, when the now-proven-false advertisement of a stabl…

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    Comment #22861570

    I hope all their clients gets lots of non-refunded cancelations. always went out of my way to not pay their abusive service fee (sometimes more expensive than the ticket). until al…

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    Comment #22861548

    it's two different techniques to achieve the same goal: to run badly maintened, outdated software lacking security updates, no matter how well the user maintains and updates the co…

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    Comment #22851026

    "Despite its name, the geosciences university announced elsewhere on its website that it was carrying out coronavirus research." incredible journalists repoting on the academy does…

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    Comment #22848033

    I never had my credit card info stolen, so I guess I can use one without any password by your logic.

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    Comment #22840046

    so you'd say it's the base of the economy, like gold was? ;)

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    Comment #22833363

    and companies copying features no user asked for from the top competition is even more expensive and dumb. it's like gnome giving up all its good differentiating features during th…