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Spotify caught hosting hundreds of fake podcasts that advertise selling drugs
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Clearly most people care more about other factors than they do about audio quality that isn't even discernable through their Bluetooth earbuds.
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Spotify caught hosting hundreds of fake podcasts that advertise selling drugs
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Clearly most people care more about other factors than they do about audio quality that isn't even discernable through their Bluetooth earbuds.
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Democrats have a plan if Trump prematurely declares election victory
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"We cannot leave the security of Europe in the hands of voters in Wisconsin every 4 years" says France's Europe Minister.
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Samsung phones can survive twice as many charges as Pixel and iPhone, according to EU data
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This comment says otherwise:
https://lemmy.world/comment/18057099
How is battery life measured under this new EU regulation?
One interesting detail is that the battery endurance rating in the new labels is tested using the same software used by many tech reviewers: SmartViser. This French automation company works with labs and manufacturers to simulate real-world usage. So now, the battery performance you see on the label is based on consistent, lab-tested data, not just marketing claims.
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Steve Bannon Says U.S. Has to ‘Increase Taxes on the Wealthy’ Even if They ‘Start Squealing’
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PSA: Stop Using These Fire-Prone Anker Power Banks Right Now
Do note that only certain serial numbers are affected.
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"Old and quite weird": Democrats finally discover new effective attack — and Republicans hate it
Yes, but doesn't he look tired?
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Jake Paul beats Mike Tyson in manufactured mismatch as Father Time comes calling
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Clevo reseller wants get coreboot ported, ends up throwing a temper tantrum and banning Germany, Poland, Texas and AMD over unsatisfactory experience
We originally reached out to 9Elements last year along with several other coreboot consultants, but all of their prices were so outrageous ($50k-$100K per board) that we decided to try porting our laptops ourselves. After hitting a sticking point, we reluctantly contacted them again for help debugging our code.
From the start, our interactions with Christian Walter were awful. We repeatedly stressed how important and time-sensitive this project was, but he seemed completely indifferent. In fact, he made a snide remark about us coming back after trying to do it ourselves.
We never received a quote for the actual porting, but they said the evaluation cost is typically 10% of the total cost, which would mean the porting would have cost around $33,000 for Dasharo-branded coreboot, and $66,000 for unbranded coreboot. Even their highly discounted Dasharo-branded porting comes out to around $250 to $330 an hour, and that’s if they started from scratch. We had 80%+ of the job already complete. We just needed to debug our code.
Sometimes people take their vehicle to mechanics and don't like the quotes for the repair costs. Some of those people then choose to try to do the work at home. Sometimes one of those people will then reluctantly take the car back to the mechanic after they screw up the work.
And then they balk, because they discover that (A) the mechanic will outright refuse to work on the vehicle due to it being in a dismantled state, or (B) the mechanic will give an even higher quote since they now have to diagnose and clean up the mistakes too.
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Lebanese girl becomes most notable victim of pager blasts
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That would make it the most precise military strike of all time.
Pretty sure that honor still goes to the R9X Slap Chop. The pager explosions, on the other hand, injured thousands.
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So they're going to pay for college then, right?
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Calls for J.D. Vance to resign after he admits that he created pet-eating story about immigrants
He thinks it's okay to make up harmful stories because the late night comedians won't leave the couch thing alone. What a maroon.
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Anyone else already exhausted by 2025?
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You forgot:
slams
decimates
goes to war with
blasts
fires back
drops a bombshell
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Judge rules that DOJ can release Jack Smith's final report on his Jan. 6 case against Trump
Leak it, Jack. What are they gonna do, fire you? Leak it. I double dog dare you.
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Hyundai and Kia car thefts fall sharply after software upgrade, study finds
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Can confirm. Happened to a friend within the past month. Theirs wasn't even on the list of affected models.
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Why do OpenRC, runit, Sysvinit not Use Config File as Their Init Script Like Upstart/systemd?
The script-based systems came first. They had to evolve into the amalgamation of pitfalls that they have become for someone to abstract out their important concepts into something that could use configuration files.
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Surely it couldn't be reading the \0 null terminator at the end of the string...
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First Router Designed Specifically For OpenWrt Released
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The included MT7976C wifi can theoretically saturate the 2.5 Gbps uplink on its own. The use case is overall throughput for a mixture of wired and wireless devices.
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how to properly enrage four fandoms at once
You can't not use the version with the Stargate in the background. Not with that shirt!
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ICQ, One of the Oldest Instant Messengers, Is Shutting Down
#Uh-Oh!
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It's actually driven moreso by the point-of-sale vendors. They enable it by default, because they make a percentage of the transaction as a processing fee. The merchant has to request that it be disabled.