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  • Netanyahu's son 'highly vulnerable target' while living in Miami as he dodges IDF reserve

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  • No he wasn't. Although there was a clickbait article recently that implied it in the title, while in the actual article just saying that in theory it's possible it could happen.

  • racist ai

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  • Even with ChatGPT, when I wanted to play around with it, it was always free. I was never asked to pay for anything and never saw a reason to seek out a way to pay for it.

  • Conversation Starters

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  • A friend asks you: hey, my Windows 7 laptop is getting old, the new ones are all on Windows 10, would you recommend it? Or should I consider a MacBook instead? I really like that Mac has virtual desktops, which my laptop didn't have.

    This is the situation they are asking about. Are you answering:

    "Actually Windows 10 has virtual desktops, so if that was the only reason for you to learn a new environment and move to Mac, then it might be simpler to choose Windows 10".

    or

    "Nah, they put a lot of spyware in Windows 10, pick something else".

  • Videogames you always wanted to play but they did disappointed you?

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  • Yeah, Blackwater is inaccessible for Arthur, you never go there in the game. I don't know what quest they are talking about.

  • Because apparently JPEG-XL is still unsupported nearly everywhere

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  • WebP is super useful. I developed an offline hiking map app and it contained 900MB of PNG map tiles. Way too huge for a mobile app. I converted them to WebP and now they take 50MB while looking the same. It's amazing.

  • Good lord

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  • Flashing firmware to many devices at once maybe.

  • The bathroom terrorizers! 😱

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  • Is someone who believes there are only two genders, and that's it's perfectly valid to transition between the two, a transphobe?

    They are certainly wrong, but I feel like that's an incorrect classification at that point.

  • Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades

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  • You are in luck, I already explained this very article! Copy pasting my old comment below:

    Notice how even the article you linked doesn't give a full quote? It just quotes someone saying "last version" without any context of the sentence it was used in? I will give you the full quote where that comes form. Someone asked a Microsoft developer what they are currently working on, and the answer was:

    ”Right now we’re releasing Windows 10, and because Windows 10 is the last version of Windows, we’re all still working on Windows 10.”

    It is obvious from context "last version" meant "latest version" here. And that misreading of a quote, conveniently not included in most articles, is the only source for all these news. No announcement. No journalist actually asking Microsoft about it. Just a fleeting comment by one Microsoft employee that obviously meant something else, in an answer about something else, but why let that get in the way of a good story.

    And this was an answer to an audience question in a "Tiles, Notifications, and Action Center” presentation by a single Microsoft employee, on a developer conference. The absolute last place to look for a ground-breaking announcement about Microsoft's future.

    The company said it had yet to decide on what to call the operating system beyond Windows 10.

    And the exact same article you linked confirms Microsoft is still deciding on the name for the next Windows? Which would make no sense if there was no next Windows?

    "There will be no Windows 11," warned Steve Kleynhans, a research vice-president at analyst firm Gartner.

    There will be no Windows 11, says some guy who doesn't work at Microsoft.

    And then a bunch of cherry picked quotes about continous updates and a service model being a good thing. Yep, continous updates, just like we got in Windows Vista, and that have nothing to do with there not being new Windows versions, but that's what the article attempts to imply.

    Modern journalism is useless. Someone made up a thing, everyone else copied it. And not a single media outlet actually asked Microsoft about it. No one. Or maybe they did, but the answer meant there is no news, so let's ignore it.

  • California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup

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  • All right, then your argument relies on the licensing difference, not any technical differences between Linux root / Windows admin or source code access. Which makes sense, but it's all hypothetical since neither company addressed this yet, either in the product or in the licensing.

  • Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades

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  • No, media did say that at over point, but it was never based on any announcement from Microsoft.

  • California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup

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  • What does the comparability of root/admin access change in this situation?

    Suppose Microsoft adds this capability to Windows, and you edit the registry to disable it. How is that any different?

    I can see the argument for something like iOS. But on Windows you would be able to add or remove such functionality. What is the difference that makes the user the OS Provider on Ubuntu but not on Windows, in your eyes?

    Let's say you own a computer store in California, you sell Windows laptops, and you setup your preinstalled Windows image with the registry edit made, because customers don't like the silly age prompt. How are you not the OS Provider?

  • California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup

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  • They only have access to the functions that Microsoft has provided.

    And a user of Ubuntu only has access to the functions that Canonical has provided.

    Unless they have root access and modify the OS. Or they have administrator access on Windows and modify the OS. Which is the case for both by default. I don't really see the distinction. There is clearly a provider company behind both, and in both cases the user could add this age check functionality by themselves by installing an utility that provides it.

  • California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup

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  • Great, but how does that help? 99.9% Linux users use a Linux distro that has, ay the very least, a website behind it, with a domain name, that has a registration info.

    That the 0.01% of people that use an OS only hosted by anonymous devs on a Russian website does not make this law any better for the rest of us.

  • California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup

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  • You are right, it just says whoever "controls the OS", which is very vague. Even without going to open source, a user still controls the OS even on Windows or macOS. To a lesser degree of course, but in the same way a driver controls a car even if they can't or won't try to modify it.

  • Why is the USA attacking Iran?

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  • OP posed two main questions:

    • why did Israel become an ally of USA
    • why did Israel attack Iran right now

    Saying that Israel is an ally answers neither. That's information OP already came in knowing. Are you playing dumb?

  • Why is the USA attacking Iran?

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  • How does that answer any of OP's questions though? You haven't answered either.

  • Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features

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  • GrapheneOS would definitely not support Motorola making some secret changes to the OS before installing it so this news is the complete opposite of such situation.

    I completely agree, I am answering the hypothetical you brought up:

    How would Motorola lock it down?

    I don't believe they will lock it down, but you asked how could they do that. And the answer is they could easily do that, deals or not. I don't think they will, but there is nothing preventing them from doing so.

  • Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features

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  • We meant the same thing then. Nothing prevents Motorola from making changes to GrapheneOS, making it closed source, and blocking software/firmware changes on their phone so that you can't install the open source original.

  • Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features

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  • What does it mean to you?