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Little Bobby Tables we call him.
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Little Bobby Tables we call him.
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Putin critic and Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny ‘fainted’ in jail, not heard from in 5 days
Navalny is an exceptionally brave man, and is paying the price for speaking up. The fact that this man is still alive tells of the power he holds over Putin, which is the support of a non-trivial amount of the Russian people. My most sincere hope is that his sacrifice is not in vain, and we keep these stories in the public eye.
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Protect. Moderate. Purge. Your. Sever.
Everyone is talking about how these things won't work. And they're right, they won't work 100% of the time.
However, they work 80-90% of the time and help keep the numbers under control. Most importantly, they're available now. This keeps Lemmy from being a known easy target. It gives us some time to come up with a better solution.
This will take some time to sort out. Take care of the low hanging fruit first.
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Android 14 blocks all modification of system certificates, even as root
If I don't have the ability to control which CAs I trust, things become useless fast. This is why I fully ditched chomeOS.
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Vizio settles for $3M after saying 60 Hz TVs had 120 Hz “effective refresh rate” | Vizio claimed backlight scanning made refresh rates seem twice as high.
Hell, I bought a 4k 60 hz TV from them and inputs are limited to 30 hz. I'll never buy a Vizio anything again, sounds like this is their business as usual.
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Hospital staff get baked potato as a 'Christmas bonus' from work (and got taxed on it)
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The potato is actually worse. They're paying far more than the value of the potato in taxes, as it's considered a gift.
I'd rather have nothing than pay some else's taxes for a gift I didn't want that is way over-valued.
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Vanishing power feeds, UPS batteries, failover fails... Cloudflare explains that two-day outage
This is interesting. What I'm hearing is they didn't have proper anti-affinity rules I'm place, or backups for mission-critical equipment.
The data center did some dumb stuff, but that shouldn't matter if you set up your application failover properly. Architecture and not testing failovers are the real issue here
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[US] Congress is trying to pass a number of bills which will restrict online speech, the use of encryption, and online privacy. Make your voice heard!
The old bags don't know where they are, let alone how a computer works. How are they possibly going to enforce any of this?
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If you purchase 12 months at a time, you can save a lot on the power steering subscription.
BMW cancelled plans for this heated seats subscription based on memes like this. Keep up the good work!
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It’s “shakeout” time as losses of Netflix rivals top $5 billion. Disney, Warner, Comcast, and Paramount are contemplating cuts, possible mergers.
The last thing I want is services merging and combining into a giant cable package.
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That's what I was thinking. Like, I have kids and a high stress job. This sounds like a vacation.
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Google app being flagged as a virus by Huawei phones
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Beat me to it, it collects an ungodly amount of PII
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Retiring House Republican says $174,000 isn't enough money for members of Congress: 'Most of us don't have money'
If they did the same for their constituents I don't think anyone would have a problem with this. They bring up a valid point of needing to maintain two residences, and one is certainly in an expensive area.
The infighting and inability to do much for the people they represent really do bring their value into question.
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Google to weaken ad blockers on Chrome in a push for security
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Extensions by definition are a security issue. For that matter, so is being connected to the Internet in the case of a browser.
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Linux too mainstream for some 🤷
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You can blame IBM for that...
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It’s “shakeout” time as losses of Netflix rivals top $5 billion. Disney, Warner, Comcast, and Paramount are contemplating cuts, possible mergers.
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I prefer having the choice. That's what was bad about cable - you had to buy the bundle for one channel, and they lumped a bunch of other stuff you didn't want in with it.
Have it been so long that people forgot how shitty this was?
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British nurse refuses to appear to be sentenced for murdering seven babies
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I can't believe you can just opt out of that after murdering someone's children. Incarceration would be mandatory. Why is this not?
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Washington state Sen. Jeff Wilson arrested at Hong Kong airport over gun in bag
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He's from Longview, so that tracks better than you realize.
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The Rise and Fall of the Five-Cylinder Engine
The 5 cylinder engine is underrated. Also, it's one of the best sounding engines on the planet. I'll be sad when they disappear.
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Dev sets up “goatse” trap for sites that steal his free web game
I'd love to see the code as implemented for the iframe feature. Sounds like a good way to protect your intellectual property.