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Consumer Rights Wiki: 44 instances in which Sony says you own your games(tomshardware.com)
12 points by emptybits 4d ago|0 comments
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by emptybits 11d ago
“Personally, I'd very much rather hear it from you, blemishes and all, than hear it from an AI.” Yes! Well said. If I already know someone, reading their own words, technical or businesss or personal, is meaningful to me. Warts and all
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by emptybits 16d ago
Absolutely agree. And yet, complicity and acceptance of uncivilized behaviour is dangerous. If people normalize to lies, outrageous demands, lawbreaking, threats against allies and their sovereignty, etc ... if these behaviours are accepted
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Trump demands Canadian companies doing business with USA move there immediately(independent.co.uk)
10 points by emptybits 17d ago|4 comments
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by emptybits 18d ago
Glad it was clear to you. I felt it useful to provide a reliable source for such an outrageous national position. Lest some think it exaggeration or twisting of facts for humour or effect. It's not. Yikes. :-)
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by emptybits 20d ago
No need for your </sarcasm> tag. The United States makes repeated claims linking childhood vaccines to autism. https://www.factcheck.org/2026/08/trump-and-rfk-jr-repeat-fa...
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by emptybits 22d ago
“NOW Foods, which makes and sells supplements itself, bought 25 vitamin C gummy brands off Amazon and paid an accredited lab to test them. They published the results last week. Twelve had almost no detectable vitamin C. Five claimed 1,000mg
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by emptybits 23d ago
“Many parents say that, thanks to the hoax, their children now feel confused about historical facts, the Nanjing Daily reported” Great, lets make this useful … this specific nonsense will settle down and be proven to be a hoax and/or m
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by emptybits 24d ago
Good call. Done.
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by emptybits 24d ago
404media is paywalled for this article now. Here’s Tom’s version: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...
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by emptybits 24d ago
That article is blocked, telling me: “This post is for paid members only” So I posted this version from Tom’s.
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Tracker in rare book ends up in Amazon facility destroying books to train AI(tomshardware.com)
22 points by emptybits 24d ago|7 comments
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Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga(nnamgreb.de)
126 points by emptybits 1mo ago|26 comments
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Cyber vulnerability sweep picks up Royal Navy drones sending data to China(theregister.com)
7 points by emptybits 1mo ago|0 comments
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by emptybits 1mo ago
His trebuchet launched a 4 gram projectile at 776 miles per hour. That's obviously extremely lightweight for trebuchet payload, but for comparison, his projectile is approximately 62 grains so approximately twice as heavy as 30 grain h
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NVMe polishes its specs, brings virtualization to locally attached SSDs(theregister.com)
3 points by emptybits 1mo ago|0 comments
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Dijkstra: The End of Computing Science (2000) [pdf](cs.utexas.edu)
4 points by emptybits 2mo ago|0 comments
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by emptybits 2mo ago
Yes, and I'd include Cory Doctorow in the list of Canadians paying attention and writing about it. Back to 2024: "Holy CRAP the UN Cybercrime Treaty is a nightmare" https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralisti
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by emptybits 2mo ago
I'm not being flippant but I think part of your answer is in the first two words of the title. IME while LLMs may help delivery utility in a finished work, humans often value the absorption, mastery, style, or constraint of performing
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by emptybits 2mo ago
Fast forward... all the computer I need is now in my bag or pocket or least within the room. So what I'd enjoy on my wrist is an entry-level Seiko (or other) quartz with nothing but: 1) analog hands, and 2) a vibrating Bluetooth notifi
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by emptybits 2mo ago
Buying a used book sight unseen from Amazon or from a reseller who doesn’t have a reputation for reporting used condition reliably … that’s a buyer’s choice. It’s not left to (mis)fortune. Anyways, my point was to counter the parent post’s
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by emptybits 2mo ago
Aside from shallow, uncritical notes, consider that annotating in a margin is evidence that a reader is actively engaging with a text. Very often when I write in margins it's to question or argue against what's written (e.g. &quot
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by emptybits 2mo ago
Happy Birthday Z80! My first job out of university was in Z80 assembly. (Sega Game Gear.) As a kid, it was all about 6502 micros, but my early professional love was Z80 and it still warms my heart to think about. Sure, the “other” 8 bit CPU
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by emptybits 2mo ago
Perhaps: "If you find yourself re-arranging your life into a [car|AI|...]-dependent life, stop before it's too late?"
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by emptybits 3mo ago
It's not clear what a "US-aligned market" is anymore, and I think it's reasonable to question US hegemony on any front because of its mercurial treatment toward its "allies". Example... the USA effectively bans
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by emptybits 3mo ago
BC resident. I do look forward to not adjusting to a twice-annual time change. BUT, I would have strongly preferred sticking to Standard Time, year round, instead of DST. That option was apparently not on the table, and strangely got little
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by emptybits 3mo ago
At this point, many readers will be regionally thinking, "Milk ... in ... bags???? What's HE talking about?" But I'm with you, friend. Occlupanida securing the primary containment vessels housing the partitioned units of
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by emptybits 3mo ago
Of all the objective and subjective metrics a home coffee drinker is trying to optimize, never once have I heard anyone care in the least about the watt-hours consumed during the brew process. "I really wish I could drink coffee at roo
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by emptybits 3mo ago
Dunno. Brands definitely change their ingredients to conform to national health/drug regs so I’d inquire via their US site. kinesysactive.com
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by emptybits 3mo ago
Bemotrizinol is the ingredient being discussed. If you're looking for a specific product to try, check out Ombrelle and also La Roche-Posay's Anthelios line. I share this as a Canadian (bemotrizinol has been available here for yea

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