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Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence
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Aaron bravely published the papers
I don't think he did.
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Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence
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Aaron bravely published the papers
I don't think he did.
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You know, this somehow completely fails to surprise...
Last year I made a fake twitter account using a temp email just to look at some tweets from an artist's account. The fake account had a random gibberish username, and I only used it for a few minutes and logged out. Then, about 6 months later I needed to use it again to check something, so I logged back in and noticed the fake account now had 200 followers.
Draw your own conclusions from that.
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YSK: Tesseract hides any post containing the phrase "censoring me"
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Another badmiral. Typical.
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No encryption is going to protect you when you just add a random guy
I think the meme is backwards. It should be one serious person in a meeting of clowns and puppets.
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Philips debuts 3D printable components to repair products
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Not to mention, if you have the model you can print it even long after the product support has ended. No company will support a product they stopped making half a decade ago, but you'll still be able to print parts the same way.
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Saddam Rulessein
You forgot to include the grandchild and the daughter that were with him and also died.
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LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps – Krebs on Security
Just an FYI to anyone looking, you can still actually buy mostly-dumb TVs.
I was looking for a TV to buy for my parents last year and it seemed like the only options available were "smart TVs," and I begrudgingly ended up buying a Philips ambilight unit. I was pleasantly surprised by how dumb the Titan OS on it was. Sure, it had WiFi, and the usual Netflix and other streaming apps, but I just didn't connect it to the WiFi, and from then on it was just a souped up version of their 15 year old TV. It did ask to be connected to WiFi, but stopped after being told no a few times.
I'm sure other manufacturers have similar "smart on paper, but dumb in reality" OSes, as it seems to mostly be a cost cutting exercise. The hardware in the TV would need to be more expensive to run an actual smart platform. So the manufacturers just make a low end thing that ticks the right boxes to be able to call it smart for marketing, thinking that's what people want.
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American arrested after leaving can of Coke for uncontacted tribe
He left them a coke can? That feels like peak 1980s jingoism.
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Feature parity or get out
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Gnome forced me onto Wayland a few weeks ago and I've been dealing with issues ever since. Some issues even affecting the most basic level tasks like typing text, imagine dealing with that in 2025. Following your analogy, if the Uber with the fancy new transmission came to a halt every kilometre, you'd care too.
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A necessary purchase
Well, you have to own one of these things when you're a king, you know.
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Oblivion "remastered"
The brown is bad, but to be fair to the right side, it's the left one that has bad reflections and is blurry - it was released when bloom effects were new and it used them way too much.
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MAGA melts down as Germany declares far right ‘extremists’
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Their slogan for the election was "Alice für Deutschland", meaning Alice for Germany with Alice being Alice Weidel, the party co-chairman and chancellor candidate. Seems like a predictable sounding nationalist slogan that also aligns well with their party name, until you realise it's actually a serendipitous pun on the Nazi slogan "alles für Deutschland", a phrase which is banned in Germany. The pronunciation of the two phrases in German is virtually identical. There's dog whistles, and then there's foghorns.
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EU Parliament votes to restrict 'steak' and 'burger' labels to meat only
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That's why they're called veggie burgers, or are you just unfamiliar with how language works? Would you accept a glass of body milk with your breakfast?
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Well it is pretty
Hosenseller, I'm going into battle, I need your puffiest hosen.
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Open Source CAD In The Browser
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As if the original comic wasn't reductive and unnecessarily dismissive enough, you've somehow made it worse. Let people make things if they think they have a shot at it, please.
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UN votes to describe slave trade as ‘gravest crime against humanity’
But James Kariuki, the UK chargé d’affaires to the UN, said Britain continues to disagree with fundamental propositions of the text and was “firmly of the view that we must not create a hierarchy of historical atrocities”.
This does indeed invite a whole flurry of what-about comments and resolutions: "Are the Slavs getting a resolution? What about X, what about Y?"
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First look at Android's slick new animations for its big expressive redesign
These are such minor changes. The first two videos merely change the animation curve - that's the animation equivalent of changing the colour of a button.
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Putin does not 'want to take all of Europe,' Witkoff says
Hitler, in a speech at the Sportpalast in Berlin, claimed that the Sudetenland was "the last territorial demand I have to make in Europe" and gave Czechoslovakia a deadline of 28 September 1938 at 2:00 p.m. to cede the Sudetenland to Germany or face war.
Sounds familiar somehow.
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Might be time to find another job
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The guy who peed in the can was scared to lose his job
It was a fucked up thing he did, but it did give all of you a really funny story to share. Except for the piss-drinker, he's not sharing that with anyone if he can help it.
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State Department terminates U.S. support of Ukraine energy grid restoration
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Don't be silly, anger isn't an emotion, duh.