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unwarlikeExtortion

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  • Why the PS5 ROM Leak Could be a Turning Point for Console Security

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  • The licence over 100 pages long, with deliberately convoluted language no one ever expects you to read. Some services even block you from accepting if you haven't scrolled to the end, but then most give a "Skip to bottom" button!

    And since most EULAs are not grounded in reality and as such unworkable, they're pretty much just a scare tactic.

  • Kristi Noem calls actions leading up to ICE shooting ‘an act of domestic terrorism’

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  • I have to say, I have my doubts about that.

  • Kristi Noem calls actions leading up to ICE shooting ‘an act of domestic terrorism’

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  • This is the way. Take their words at face value - but just the ones that you like. Repeat them like a parrot. Embellish them. Make up stories.

    Facts truly don't care about felings. But a lie repeated oft enough effectively acts like the truth.

    Use their weapon against them.

    To convince idiots, sometimes you have to play by idiotic rules.

    And for the bootlickers out there: No, I'm not saying OC is lying or an idiot by any means. I feel like I have to spell this out precisely because of the unreasonableness of the times we live in. Some bootlicking facehugger is bound to come and take the most unreasonable interpretation of my words and sink thei facehugging claws into my mouth. Maybe not right here or right now, but inevitably time and time again.

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    If the US destroys NATO, the former member countries could start their own without the US and call it the North East Treaty Organisation, spelling out "NEATO"

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  • Do you think US'ians don't think the US is "America"?

    I think non-US Americans are already used to it.

  • Home electricity bills are skyrocketing. For data centers, not so much.

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  • It's easier to screw over consumers than businesses.

    Busunesses like to complain. They have long-term contracts. They have a lot of purchase power. They're more likely tp swotch to a competitor. When they threaten, they're more likely to go through with the threats since they have both money to burn and employees to blackmail with pay cuts.

    Among other things.

    There's a lot of consumers, so those that do jump ship usually don't cause a big dent in profits when they do. Consumers are also less likely to jump ship in the furst place since they have only their extended family and their family lawyer to look out for them (if). They usually have "bigger" problems than the electricity bill: car payments, mortgages, school bills, you name it.

    Again, among other things.

  • I am definitely a bird me personally

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  • It's probably due to legal requirements. It'd be unisex if it could, but if not, pick a random gender for the bathroom to identify as. Pretty ironic.

  • I am definitely a bird me personally

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  • Bee if you want to get stung, bird if you want to get shat on.

    Either way, you're fucked.

  • It's probably not reasonable to expect this to improve in 2026.

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  • Obligatory "If they choose the 'Netflix Quick Picks' route, at least they should recommend 'The Terminal' starring Tom Hanks!"

  • 94.3° F

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  • And here I thought it was almost at boiling point!

  • iot

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  • Ironically:

    Internet of Thing = secure Internet of Things = insecure.

    Therefore, the 's' in IoT stands for insecurity.

  • 'Depraved Response to a Depraved Act': Netanyahu Blames Attack on Australia Recognizing Palestine | Common Dreams

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  • Look What You Made Me Do!

  • Will an anti advertisement movement ever materialize?

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  • Honestly, advertising is very dystopian. Online tracking being the obvious first example.

    But that's not all. How should I block physical ads in the city? Not only does it ruin the view, but roadside billboards surely caused at least one death by distracting a driver, and ads can get quite distasteful.

    Also, it's not just roadside - they're plastered everywhere! Buildings, bus stops, right in the middle of the sidewalk. Some are classic paper, some are of the TV screen type. Some are quite small and inconspicuous, but a lot are huge enough to be seen from at least half a mile away.

    Physical ads don't finance anything. They're just obnoxious. I don't know how succeptible to ads other people are, but for me it takes an actually good offer to entice me - and usually that's heard on radio or seen on TV (as far as ads go).

  • What's the most painfully obvious thing you've seen have to be written out?

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  • Some economist please corrcxt me if I'm wrong, but: Trickle down may not work. However, trickle up should.

    If you do say, UBI, people will spend the stuff. And the money will go to the big players. They'll buy their food at Walmart. Or meds at Target Pharmacy. Or get a loan at JP Morgan.

    Unlike, say Walmart, who won't buy their huge private jet collection from the swathes of less-than-well-off people across all of America.

    So even if UBI made people lazy, even if it made people less productive, the money will still disproportionately end up in the hands of the rich.

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  • Equally serious (and just a bit more deranged of an answer):

    Humans are not meant to do work. Physical or otherwise. This slavery thing where everyone, regardless of race, gender, orientation (and almost even age) we have going on is just degrading and nonsensical.

    Humans should live in tightly-knit families and tribes. Of course, the woman should do the simpler housework like cleaning, cooking and tidying, while the father should do the more manual stuff like fixing things, growing plants, keeping animals and hunting.

    Women should likewise be seperated from books because they are more likely ro succumb to the words of the devil. I'm sorry, but that's just how it is. Therefore men must educate their heirs (male, of course), while the wife should teach her daughters how to domthe chores.

    If you can't see how exposing a frail woman to the harsh reality of being the man of the house, try thinking of your own daughter.

  • Explaining Communism to an amerikkkan

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  • And I'd like one frozen-over coffee straight from the deep freezer, please.

  • Elon Musk wants to abolish the EU. He has a point

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  • Oh, he most certainly does. Although he got the supranational body that should be abolished wrong.

    It's the US.

    If someone were to tackle that little bureaucracy and let its people go their seperate ways, those people might actually feel a positive impact.

    And to top it off, the rest of the world won't need to listen to everything Mr. Orange Clown says!

  • Berlin: Police can secretly enter homes for state trojan installation

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  • Well, that sounds very undue-processy of them. Obviously what a same, civilized society would allow.

  • Welcome Dan Williams, new LibreOffice Developer focusing on UI/UX - The Document Foundation Blog

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  • I know I write essays which is a weak point of mine. One I should address, but I see the gist of my message didn't get to you.

    For one I use (and like) Inkscape and have strong negative feelings towards Adobe (and run Linux). Just like most of the folks here. That, however, should be pretty clear-cut from my original message.

  • Welcome Dan Williams, new LibreOffice Developer focusing on UI/UX - The Document Foundation Blog

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  • They have a point.

    I'm kind of the other way around:

    I'm used to Inkscape since forever. I'm no graphics design expert, but do know my way around Inkscape for simple SVG editing, mostly stuff shamelessly taken off Wikimedia.

    Way back in college, I enrolled in an elective "graphic design" course. Of course, being a course, they used Illustrator.

    That thing works nothing like Inkscape. It was a long time ago, but I remember being baffled by it, to the point of being unable of doing basic stuff.

    To be fair, I had no need for learning Illustrator and no wish to do it either, so I quit the course while I still could and exchanged it. I just felt like i'd be losing my nerves on switching, when I had better stuff to do than becoming dependant on Adobe and losing my minf in the process.

    Both programs may indeed sport menus in the same spots, but the menus aren't the same. They may look like the same thing, but they're really not.

    It's kind of like a bus and a train. Illustrator (the bus) sports all the nice stuff (i assume) from other Adobe stuff. Just like a bus uses the same road like cars do, with the same signalization.

    Inkscape is more like the train. It does things differently from say Krita or Gimp, but it also does other stuff than either Krita or Gimp. Which (dare I say) makes it more effective at what it's meant to do.