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Vodafone Finds Brits Keep Mobile Phones for 4 Years Instead of 2
Smartphone CEOs dumbfounded when no one wants to buy their $1999 xPhone 25 Pro Max XXL Z-Flip 4d-folding hextuple AI 8k camera with Bionic 10Ghz chip including real neurons
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Vodafone Finds Brits Keep Mobile Phones for 4 Years Instead of 2
Smartphone CEOs dumbfounded when no one wants to buy their $1999 xPhone 25 Pro Max XXL Z-Flip 4d-folding hextuple AI 8k camera with Bionic 10Ghz chip including real neurons
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Iceland allows whaling to resume in ‘massive step backwards’
Oh there's only like 200 whales left, might as well finish them off - icelandic gov.
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Google is already pushing Web Environment Integrity into Chromium
Ohnonono Well time to burn down google I guess ¯\(ツ)/¯
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Ron DeSantis Proposes Unprovoked War on Mexico
Psychopathic, how can a politician like this have any popular support
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UK Gvmt Say Mask Wearing At Protests Will Soon Be Illegal
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Starmer is like like 1 cm left of rishi
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Environmental protester halt the world championship in cycling... one of the best alternatives to fuel driven transportation....
I don't know the ideologies of the protestors, but I do agree with protesting against "big cycling". Cycling around on a trusty steel bike which you can repair yourself is environmentally friendly. Buying a new carbon fiber bike every few years because it is 2% more aero than the last is not. Instead of standardized parts, the cycling industry wants you to buy cheap ones that break fast, and can only be replaced with their specific parts. They sell this to you by including some upgrades in chains, cassettes etc. The cycling industry is the same as any other industry, it exists to make profits. Truly sustainable things do not come from making profits.
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US offers Poland rare loan of $2 billion to modernize its military
And let me guess, there is a clause saying they have to buy from US weapons companies?
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Macron calls Hamas attacks ‘biggest antisemitic massacre of our century’
If he means the massacre being carried out with his involvement of the semitic peoples of Palestine, he's right
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Remove the battery, take the motherboard out of the case. Plug the motherboard in, and voila you have a larger and more powerful raspberry pi. You could use it as a second node for control, management, observation purposes, etc.
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What is something that people think is dangerous but in reality is completely harmless?
Climbing, the gear is all rated to lift 2 tonnes, so a medium sized car. It won't snap with you on it.
Edit: sorry this is misleading, climbing is not harmless, and a lot can go wrong even with good equipment. The point I wanted to convey was that equipment failure is an unlikely cause of problems for climbing
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‘Autobesity’ on course to worsen air pollution caused by motoring
Of course they turn this into a plus for the "clean energy transition" and not into promoting fewer vehicles in the road
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Is all my privacy effectively gone if I visit China or South Korea?
YES you should not bring any technological devices with you. In fact it is better to abstain from digital systems for a period of 3 months before entering and after leaving China. (Viruses, etc)
DO NOT think your anus is safe. I had a friend who tried to smuggle in 3tb of Xi Jinping x Winnie the Pooh fanfics by encrypting it with AES-1024 and storing it on micro SD cards in his rectum. Little did he know, that day they had started doing mandatory anus probes on all foreigners. They found it. They cracked the encryption in a few minutes due to Chinese quantum supremacy and needless to say, he was executed on spot.
DO NOT think about the CPC. They have theta-brainwave detectors at the border and can detect revisionist and counter-revolutionary thoughts. Especially if you have any information that could lead to the downfall of the CPC.
Seriously though, what are you expecting to happen? What privacy are you expecting to lose? What laws for discrimination are you expecting to be missing?
When you travel internationally you already lose some privacy in that they have your passport. You are telling them exactly who you are, and where you came from. Some countries will take fingerprint scans (US, China too). Those are pretty big but are not specific to China. You should disable biometrics on your phone though, as that means they cannot force you to unlock it. But regarding the tech on your phone, if you are using any google or meta services, then all your privacy is already gone and Chinese authorities can just buy that information if they want. So I'm not sure exactly what you're worried about, some specifics might be useful.
It would also help to know what you want the cloud storage for. They can't suddenly hack into all of your accounts the moment you cross the border. If you already have sensible security steps like strong passwords and MFA in place, then I don't see what else you'd need to do.
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Vietnam seeks death for tycoon in $12bn fraud case
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Wtf are you on about? I've been to Vietnam several times and the progress they have achieved in such a short period of time is incredible. They have built megacities on the ground where the yanks firebombed. Have you been to Da Nang? Walked around HCMC? Spoken to the people? They are evidently working against the corruption, as we can see in this article, whereas where I live everyone knows the govt sends cash to their buddies and no one can do anything about it? (The UK)
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Threads leak teases a trending topics feature
Who honestly gives a flying shit? Leave these billionaire data harvesting playgrounds alone. Go live your life.
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Adding services to an existing Docker nginx container
Use new containers, that's what they're for.
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“AI took my job, literally”—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator
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This bot uses ML to summarise the article, however.
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Dutch gov't looking for ways to continue delivering F-35 parts to Israel after court ban
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Western liberal democracy is a facade
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Worldwide Smartphone Shipments Continue to Decline with 7.8% Drop in the Second Quarter, According to IDC Tracker
Oh no people aren't buying their magical glass rectangles to suck themselves into social media (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻)
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China’s fifth research station in Antarctica sparks concerns about its ambitions
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They found the stargate
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China is building its military on a 'scale not seen since WWII' and is on track to be able to invade Taiwan by 2027: US admiral
The current Chinese state did not exist before WW2, so I think that comparison is a bit odd