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TimeSquirrel , to Technology in Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising
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What's your distro?

TimeSquirrel , to Technology in Bill Gates says not to worry about AI's energy draw
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And make paperclips.

TimeSquirrel , to Technology in Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising
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For what, may I ask? Can you give an example? I'm on Debian, arguably a less friendly distro than most, but I haven't had to touch the terminal in two weeks. And it was just to ping a server somewhere, something you need to do on the command line in Windows as well.

TimeSquirrel , to Technology in Elon Musk Openly Advocates for Overthrowing the Government of Bolivia, The Country with the Largest Lithium Reserves in the World
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I knew it was gonna be Adam Something, lol. That dude has the best Elon roasts.

TimeSquirrel , to Technology in Elon Musk Openly Advocates for Overthrowing the Government of Bolivia, The Country with the Largest Lithium Reserves in the World
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Or a train. He realllly hates trains. If they're not in stupid-ass evacuated tubes and separated into pods, that is.

TimeSquirrel , to Technology in Music industry giants allege mass copyright violation by AI firms
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TimeSquirrel , to Technology in Music industry giants allege mass copyright violation by AI firms
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They're usually always propping up their whole operation on a series of open source wooden carts they picked up off the Internet. Those carts are the foundation that makes everything work.

As we saw a couple months ago, a core part of how Internet security works had a giant hole in it, and it was all because one dude had some kind of mental breakdown and handed off development to an attacker.

TimeSquirrel , to Technology in Microsoft employee accidentally publishes PlayReady code
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I can imagine what they felt like. Like when you accidentally hit "reply all" and send a porn link that was in your clipboard to your entire company while you meant to paste something else.

TimeSquirrel , to Technology in CATL battery successfully powers electric plane with 1,800-mile civil aircraft expected
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And, no more tedious fuel calculations, just charge it all the way up, it doesn't add any extra weight to do so.

TimeSquirrel , to Technology in China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report
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I've seen what's inside the speed controllers and battery monitoring circuitry for Chinese EVs. I don't think I want to be anywhere near them.

TimeSquirrel , to Technology in Music industry giants allege mass copyright violation by AI firms
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How do you feel about other tech-based tools making an artists life easier, like sequencers, VSTs, DAWs, and the like? I see it as maybe another tool to use.

TimeSquirrel , to Technology in [Gamers Nexus] "Google is Getting Worse," ft. Wendell of Level1 Techs
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Is it still viable in 2024 to run a home email server? I used to have a personal Postfix box back in the day.

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