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by shp0ngle 3y ago
HBO uses Captcha to prevent bots stealing accounts by brute-forcing passwords/reused passwords from other sites. In other words. It's not anti-piracy mechanism, it's protection against account stealing.
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by shp0ngle 3y ago
If your threat includes nation states then DNSSEC is double-useless?
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by shp0ngle 3y ago
You cannot publish libel even if you preface it with “this is a libel”.
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by shp0ngle 3y ago
I do take it personally, how can you not. But take it as an opportunity to become better. Nobody became good at first try.
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by shp0ngle 3y ago
Looking online, it looks very 90s/2000s. Which might be a good thing for someone. Maybe it is from 2000s? I see they link to "sourceforge". Which is 2000s thing to do.
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by shp0ngle 3y ago
Microsoft is pushing all these trashy tabloid articles everywhere on Windows now, I think they can start generating them by GPT-4, they will save money for the news companies and people won't tell the difference anyway
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by shp0ngle 3y ago
The new CEO is a guy who pushed hard for Spotify Podcasts investment to them as a CFO. I don't know if that is a good credential honestly, given how much money Spotify poured into podcasting with not that much return. This is about the
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by shp0ngle 3y ago
> China is doing the same thing with manufacturing in Vietnam, all the money still flows back to China in the end Eh they do a lot in Vietnam in reality. And yeah Chinese own a lot of these factories directly or indirectly, but a lot of
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by shp0ngle 3y ago
Google the list of questions. It’s bizare and it’s also real (apply to one of their job offers and they will send you the same )
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by shp0ngle 3y ago
For some reason, I started laughing uncontrollably when listening to the actual example linked there. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Ithkuil_...
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by shp0ngle 3y ago
When loot boxes came to Overwatch (the old one), I thought "hm what a great idea, it helps monetise the game, while offering just un-important cosmetics", it did not affect gameplay, you did win them through actual gameplay too (a
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by shp0ngle 3y ago
While Foxconn has... good history?
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by shp0ngle 3y ago
What is the current status of Asahi? Seems to be still in Alpha
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by shp0ngle 3y ago
Is there something I can actually download and run? I am very confused from the website. There is some github page... should I download and compile myself? I am really really confused
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by shp0ngle 3y ago
I'm not sure if you are ironic or not. What's bad about pension funds? People need, you know, to live off something when they are old. The old model "we have a lot of kids and they will take care of us" no longer works a
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by shp0ngle 3y ago
"value"
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by shp0ngle 3y ago
I don't think I will need it for anything. That said, I thought the same about iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. I still do think that about Apple Watch, I still don't get why would anyone buy those, but now everyone has them, so what
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by shp0ngle 3y ago
Just offset the lack of new people being born by opening up borders to everyone, problem solved!
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by shp0ngle 3y ago
All of those crazy videos are always from Isobel Yeung. I saw her travel to Xinjiang, Ukraine, Taliban's Afghanistan, Syria before and after Assad...
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by shp0ngle 3y ago
> mixing serious reporting with trash, jackass plain nonsense That has been their modus operandi from almost day one, though. I just think they haven't figured the financing out. These reportings are still quite expensive, they don&
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by shp0ngle 3y ago
Vice is... well, Vice. I will miss their dispatches from war zones (I want to say "unfiltered", but they are filtered of course) and their Motherboard (Joseph Cox himself carries Motherboard on his back)
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by shp0ngle 3y ago
It endangers the public safety of Baltimore.
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by shp0ngle 3y ago
Look at the latest Pokemon game, it runs horribly on Switch. Even they don’t pull it off…
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by shp0ngle 3y ago
It doesn't get the wealthy especially rich either, looking at the losses. Who gets rich on Uber and similar apps are all the programmers that visit this website, we make good money on all those schemes. We get paid really well. We are
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by shp0ngle 3y ago
Ahh that gets me nostalgic for the pre-VSCode days. How is TextMate doing these days? I know they spent forever for TextMate 2.0, and that somehow fizzled out...?
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by shp0ngle 3y ago
PHP has types now??
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by shp0ngle 3y ago
Good point.
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by shp0ngle 3y ago
Missing all the constant Edge, Bing and OneDrive pop-ups and ads. (Speaking of which. Why is MS allowed to do all that stuff when they got record fine in the 90s for less? Eh, better not ask.)
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by shp0ngle 3y ago
I like to read comics and I’m too lazy to bring tablet with me. I am thinking about buying foldable. That said, not at this price point and with Pixels not known for their hardware quality. Maybe I’ll wait for when Apple inevitably does the
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by shp0ngle 3y ago
It does seem weirdly detailed about someone I would mark as not really encyclopedically significant; but it has the citations and quotes so what do I know. It's one of the better Wikipedia articles in general However, it is not self-au

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