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48 Million Gmail Usernames and Passwords Leaked Online

Are we sure someone just didn't ask Gemini for 48 million Gmail credentials and immediately get them?

I'm holding a grudge because I was arranging a Craiglist sale and when I sent the buyer my phone number to text my account was suddenly disabled for "unusual activity" signing me out of everything. I was able to re-enable it right away, but I'm pretty sure whatever AI-trash system is in place to monitor accounts did it.

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"'I don’t like that he made this donation' — Mullvad CEO reacts to co-founder’s donation to controversial Swedish populist party"

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Are you contending unless otherwise specified, people should be mandated to continue spending money with companies?

I'm allowed to do business or not do business with any company for any reason I like. Cofounder funding a political party with one of their goals being to brutalize immigrants? No thanks. Contractor wearing a company shirt was rude to me on the elevator? I'll check the competition. Maybe I just don't like the color of their logo?

I'm allowed to define my morals and what I would consider violating those morals would be with monetary support and no half baked slippery slope argument is going to change that.

What exactly is the allowed reasons for doing or not doing business with people?

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"'I don’t like that he made this donation' — Mullvad CEO reacts to co-founder’s donation to controversial Swedish populist party"

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The co-founder publicly stated he made the donation on social media. What made him obliged to disclose this? He seems rather proud of it, in fact.

As a result, people feel they may have a moral obligation to not funnel money to him. Your stance also doesn;t really line up with your examples like

Or say your customer base for any reason is in large part Vegan, should you tell your employee's to stop buying meat? Should they stop taking money from the non-vegan customers? How is anyone going to navigate this?

You don't mention the specific problem you have with this, which would be mandated disclosure. By your own words, this is perfectly fine since people can chose the reasons "Anything, including having no reason at all, obviously." to not do business with someone so I'm not sure why it's a slippery slope to you.

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Are you gonna be buying a Steam machine?

I already have a full n gaming PC, but I also played a bit over the last month and built a Steam Machine for under $400 using an AMD BC-250 crypto mining card. From bc-250.info: A cut-down PlayStation 5 APU with 6 Zen 2 cores and 24 RDNA2 compute units, sharing 16GB of fast GDDR6 memory.

It takes some tweaking and it's not top of the line, but it's a fun project that can play most games. There is also a script that can let you unlock disabled compute units to increase performance assuming they are not damaged.

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