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My S7 battery pillowed on me. Didn't burst into flames thankfully, lol.

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No. The download link was never compromised. What was compromised was the built-in auto-update feature.

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The issue isn't Notepad, though. The issue is PEBKAC

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My philosophy as well

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bloc*

Trump’s racist post about Obamas is deleted after backlash despite White House earlier defending it ( apnews.com )

President Donald Trump’s racist social media post featuring former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, as primates in a jungle was deleted after a backlash from both Republicans and Democrats who criticized the video as offensive. ...

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the O’Bamas

They aren't Irish 🤣

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Considering I don't see a captcha at all and the page works fine, sounds like a you problem. Get off your VPN and try again.

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Well...what are you waiting for?

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🎻

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The future is electronics warfare packages, not stealth.

The fact that you're talking about the F35 and you said this kinda suggests that you don't actually know much about the F35.

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Well do something. Organize a nationwide general nursing strike. Remain on that strike until ICE is off the streets nationwide.

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Pricey, yes, but you get what you pay for.

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Users.

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They literally don't even try.

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Truly insufferable.

India proposes forcing smartphone makers to give source code in security overhaul ( www.reuters.com )

I think that this would be great, since source code auditing would provide insight into anti-consumer additions like malicious backdoors, hidden spyware capabilities, unintended vulnerabilities, etc. However, this could be very bad if this passes and then escalates to mandatory source code modification at the request of a ...

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100%.

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Also makes me wonder who finances them.

Wonder no more, It's the Chinese Government.

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fuck American tech for one again operating in a country and refusing to follow their laws

Fuck government overreach. And fuck anyone defending it.

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Literally fuck-all.

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I would hate to be forced to live in that negative noggin of yours. What a depressing existence that must be.

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In the old car, it was an analog system. These systems are digital in newer cars. So while you may get a knob or button, it's still sending digital signals. That's why there's no distinction when you turn the knob, because there literally isn't a distinction.

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That was a federal regulation that Trump undid. Won't get rid of it on your car, but it will for future cars.

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Touchscreens are wonderful in a car, just not for basic functionality. You can pry my Android Auto out of my cold dead hands.

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Seems even more distracting than a touchscreen.

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Not like I can watch movies on the thing, bub. It's navigation and 99% of the time my audiobook player. Which, guess what, I control from my steering wheel. And it's an audiobook. What's there to be distracted by?

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I had the exact same thoughts when I first started seeing this story pop up on my news feeds. Like, this person will see the inside of a prison cell for this, especially given the type of content hosted and the current make-up of the Justice Dept. What they did was, quite literally, cyber-terrorism. Hope it was worth it, I guess, given that these sites are all back online now like it never happened.

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gaytheist*

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Not if you actually step into the 21st century and use a fucking adblocker.

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Like IMDb won’t load content with the ad elements blocked, so IMDb is just blocked as a whole.

You seriously must be doing something wrong. I run uBlock Origin in addition to a pihole for dns and i have no issues using imdb.

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Those people don't stream their gaming sessions from remote servers. They have their own gaming PCs.

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All that would require is a DMCA takedown request by the license-holder. Don't pay the license fee, you're effectively pirating the engine.

GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You ( www.gog.com )

So... Is this a good thing? Bad thing? Gut reaction says that probably not the greatest for GOG, being detached from a huge publisher like CD Projekt probably isn't great for a niche marketplace. In their faqs it states that GOG had a strong year financially but they would of course bill it that way. The question about why the ...

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Nobody from CDPR is on this thread, lol. This isn't Reddit.

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None of the above are on or anywhere near this thread.

Bernie Sanders criticizes AI as ‘the most consequential technology in humanity’ ( www.theguardian.com )

US senator Bernie Sanders amplified his recent criticism of artificial intelligence on Sunday, explicitly linking the financial ambition of “the richest people in the world” to economic insecurity for millions of Americans – and calling for a potential moratorium on new datacenters. ...

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That took gov't intervention. Corps certainly didn't choose to stop using those ozone-damaging products out of the collective goodness of their hearts. The current gov't either doesn't have the spine or has no desire whatsoever, depending on which side you're talking about.

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Yes.

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100%

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If they consolidated it all into a streaming service that was 30, even 40 bucks a month, I'd seriously consider it. Provided it was ad-free at that price point.

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Surely you have an example of one such toy on the market?

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And how does it look if not like that?

Very much like our sun, only much larger and muuuuch redder.

Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline ( www.tomshardware.com )

An engineer got curious about how his iLife A11 smart vacuum worked and monitored the network traffic coming from the device. That’s when he noticed it was constantly sending logs and telemetry data to the manufacturer — something he hadn't consented to. The user, Harishankar, decided to block the telemetry servers' IP ...

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I wonder if that's something they sell to designers so they can then see what's trending

Or to law enforcement so they know what they're walking into layout-wise before they raid a house

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I think I made it 5 minutes. Linus (S) can't be professional to save his life.

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Specifically referring to Linus's fan-girling all over Linus.

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Why do you people oppose using a proper adblocker so hard? Know what I had to agree to in order to read the article? Nothing. No ads, no cookie popups, just a clean website. Learn how to browse the web in 2025 before you complain, please.

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Not a guy. Fucking sexist bullshit.

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Maybe read the article before commenting?

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Android?

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Install uBlock Origin on Firefox. Have Voyager open web links in your actual browser.

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Hard to blame the Amazon worker though, they don't get paid enough to care.

That's where you're wrong. If they don't get paid enough to care, they need to find employment somewhere that they'll actually do the job they're being paid to do.