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Google quietly changes privacy policy so your Gmail and Photos could be used in targeted ads - Dexerto

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Yes! Or even just any limits on targeting granularity. Like "show ads for my nail salon to all the women in a 3 mile radius" seems fine. But "show this ad to women aged 33 who have 3 cats and who have been to Kohl's twice in the last month and have watched at least 30 seconds of videos about Charlie Kirk" is just fucking insane, and they go even farther than that.

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Bernie Sanders floats AOC as potential 2028 presidential contender: ‘Very good politician’

I'm a big fan of AOC, but I think I'd rather her wait until 2032. The next presidency (if there even is one) is going to be a fucking shitshow trying to clean up Trump's messes. I'd rather her get the opportunity to be a "get shit done" President, instead of having to spend all her time rooting out Trump's traitors in the government while getting villainized in the media.

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The Hunt For The Perfect Laptop Continues

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Walk into class

Pull laptop out of bag, put it on the desk

Whip out mechanical keyboard

Mouse, small set of stereo speakers

Pull out a large object wrapped in a blanket

Everyone else watches confusedly

Take off blanket, unveiling a 28in monitor

Whip out power strip

Put power strip on the adjacent desk, no one is sitting there anyway

20ft extension cord

The outlet is on the far wall, run the extension cord between the desks

Apologize to everyone bumped into a long the way

Play World of Warcraft the entire time

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The day Return became Enter

Fun read!

And even today, anyone who has worked on a project where some developers are on Windows and some are not has probably encountered the fun that is configuring autocrlf in Git: Windows uses CRLF ("carriage return, line feed") as a line ending in text files, while other systems just use LF.