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Google is now putting product ads on the home screen of my Sony Bravia TV
Rule one of a smart TV is to never connect it to the internet.
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Google is now putting product ads on the home screen of my Sony Bravia TV
Rule one of a smart TV is to never connect it to the internet.
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Former Harvard disinformation scholar says she was pushed out of her job after college faced pressure from Facebook
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Or the oil industry hiring economists to refute other economists conclusions when it comes to damages from oil spills (see Exxon Valdez)
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FFmpeg Lands CLI Multi-Threading As Its "Most Complex Refactoring" In Decades
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Maybe this?
Every instance of every such component was already running in a separate thread, but now they can actually run in parallel.
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Eggs
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The prices went back down right after the federal government announced a price fixing investigation and a bunch of news coverage came out about how their claims were bogus.
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Arch and other Linux operating systems Beat Windows 11 in Gaming Benchmarks
Three gaming-focused Linux operating systems beat Windows 11 in gaming benchmarks
Arch is a gaming-focused Linux OS now lmao
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Who are you talking to?
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I bet you thought you were so woke for this.
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Google has agreed to pay $700 million in an antitrust settlement with U.S. states and consumers
Google will expand billing options for in-app purchases and simplify direct app downloads from developers.
Sounds like a win actually. Nice.
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Americans are asleep, post European windows
People act like you can't just order these kinds of windows in the US. It's not the default, but you can just ask about them if you know about them.
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Kentucky man admits to faking own death to avoid paying child support
Kipf then “infiltrated” other states’ death registry systems using credentials stolen from other people to infiltrate private businesses, government and corporate networks (allegedly the booking systems of a number of hotel chains), and then tried to sell access to the networks to potential customers online.
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Japan schools move to protect cheerleaders from upskirting at sporting events
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I expect nothing less from someone whose profile picture is an anime child smelling feet.
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A Proclamation on Granting Pardon for the Offense of Simple Possession of Marijuana, Attempted Simple Possession of Marijuana, or Use of Marijuana | The White House
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Imagine not reading anything and thinking you know everything. Lmao. Yikes.
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It's not a pyramid scheme, it's a pyramid-shaped scheme
Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.
A phrase that would bounce around when I was in grad school.
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Hawaii rules against public carrying of guns without permit citing ‘aloha spirit’
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I was just in Hawaii a few weeks ago. Both touristy and non-touristy areas. I can concur, would be a weird ass vibe if I saw someone open carry
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what is mental outlaw's real name?
Nunya, last I heard.
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YouTube just made it harder to avoid ads with a tiny skip button
I would pay for YouTube Premium, like I had been when I was a student ($7.99/month), but I'm not a student anymore and they want $19 a month. Fuck no.
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It's never been a better time to switch to Firefox
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Yup! They have what they call sync. Works the same I believe: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/sync/
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ditch discord!
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Had to see it to believe it. On their website, under Support > Forum, you're redirected to their Facebook group. This is criminal.
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A billionaire wrote this letter to Google a year ago. How likely is that Google's layoffs and actions since then are at least partly because of this?
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He does not eat meat, he advocates urgent action on the climate crisis and has given over billions to children’s investment f (don’t know if this is a good charity or not).
None of these make you a good person. You can do all these things, believe in them, and still be a bad person.
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Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission
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Checkmate, consumer.
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Is TV Dead? Global TV Shipments Hit a Decade Low in 2023
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We have also seen the budget range improve in quality and affordability. There will always be cheap junk TVs and overly expensive TVs, but that midrange, where most people buy, has become rock solid. There just isn’t much region to upgrade at the moment.