Vortigaunt

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by Vortigaunt 1mo ago
companies that sell plug-in systems argue that safety risks are minimal or nonexistent. Mr. Scherer of Craftstrom said his company’s systems would not shock electrical workers because they shut off automatically within one second of a powe
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Ads on Apple Maps(ads.apple.com)
63 points by Vortigaunt 4mo ago|77 comments
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Tim Cook Stepping Down as Apple CEO, John Ternus Taking Over(techcrunch.com)
52 points by Vortigaunt 5mo ago|1 comments
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Nandgame – Build a Computer from Scratch(nandgame.com)
9 points by Vortigaunt 6mo ago|0 comments
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by Vortigaunt 8mo ago
Yeah some form of google's Web Integrity API will be forced one of these days https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrit...
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CentOS Hyperscale(centos.org)
2 points by Vortigaunt 8mo ago|1 comments
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by Vortigaunt 10mo ago
From what a quick google search told me, RHEL caps out at 13 years.[0] I'm curious what caused Canonical to offer 2 more years of lts support than Red Hat? [0] https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates&#
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by Vortigaunt 1y ago
The FBI also makes a good argument that adblockers prevent scammers from directing people to malicious sites. https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/22/fbi-ad-blocker/ https://web.archive.org/web
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by Vortigaunt 1y ago
Looks like someone archived the page of firefox-patch-bin[1] and the only thing that stands out about the package itself is that it's supposedly the "Extended Support Release." Besides that it looks like it's depended on
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by Vortigaunt 1y ago
Isn't it interesting how this post has more votes than anything else on the first page, is one hour old, and is currently on page 4. Seems like there's some interesting censorship going on in this website outside the consistent fl
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by Vortigaunt 1y ago
First thing that pops up on google: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/25/elon-mu... Anyone still swayed by his vision is painfully naive
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by Vortigaunt 1y ago
I ctrl-f'd Oregon State and didn't find it in the link you provided. I think you found UofO's endowment: University of Oregon - $1.651 Wikipedia states that OSU's endowment is $829.9 million (2023).[0] [0] https:/&
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by Vortigaunt 1y ago
"Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone." https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman
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by Vortigaunt 1y ago
If we were back in the 1930's would you be worrying about the rate[0] of people being diagnosed with left-handedness?[1] [0] https://media.springernature.com/lw685/springer-static/image... [1] https:/&#x2
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by Vortigaunt 1y ago
Glad you reminded me of this: ZUCK: yea so if you ever need info about anyone at harvard ZUCK: just ask ZUCK: i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns FRIEND: what!? how’d you manage that one? ZUCK: people just submitted it ZUCK: i
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by Vortigaunt 2y ago
Every time I see this pop up it reminds me of this part of an epsiode of This American Life [0]. At parts its quite difficult to listen to, however it seems like an important thing to be aware of. If they're willing to do this to child
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by Vortigaunt 2y ago
From what I've read the Fedora project has an interest in providing solely open source and non patent encumbered software like codecs. Which sounds like something OBS may infringe on
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by Vortigaunt 2y ago
Thankfully this shouldn't become a large problem, because websites simply don't load that quick
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by Vortigaunt 2y ago
It'd be neat if you could create conditional blocklists. Like only whoever X person AND Y person block will be blocked from my feed. And so on... I don't think that'd solve the problem, but it would marginally help (and shoul
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by Vortigaunt 2y ago
Like with everything else, the dosage makes the poison. I personally intend to stay vigilante to dihydrogen monoxide poisoning.
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by Vortigaunt 2y ago
Oh hey I get to copy paste a list of times elon said FSD would come out next year![1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] [1] https://fortune.com/2015/12/21/elon-musk-interview/ [2] https:
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by Vortigaunt 2y ago
Another one to be added to the list: https://killedbygoogle.com/
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by Vortigaunt 2y ago
But elon told me FSD would come out next year![1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] [1] https://fortune.com/2015/12/21/elon-musk-interview/ [2] https://x.com/elonmusk&#x2F
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by Vortigaunt 3y ago
Yeah it's gotten so bad that the FBI recommends an ad-blocker as a means to protect yourself from malicious sites. https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221?=8324278624
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by Vortigaunt 3y ago
Yeah as long as they get to control the narrative around how to stay "safe" online stuff like this will be swept under the rug.
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by Vortigaunt 3y ago
Please read the article next time. >Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee in June proposed a budget rider that would prohibit funds to be used for the IRS to create a government-run tax preparation software, unless approved b
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by Vortigaunt 3y ago
Damn the weekly ""mistake"" that Musk makes. That reminds me of this quote by a famous hypocrite "The acid test for any two competing socioeconomic systems is which side needs to build a wall to keep people from esc
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by Vortigaunt 4y ago
Sadly this no longer works for Microsoft domains. Had Windows Defender mark my host file as having a 'severe' issue just because I copy pasted a list of Microsoft telemetry domains (1). Everything worked perfectly fine before that