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Unfortunately unless a revolution falls into our laps and magically solves all our problems, the modicum of control we have over the steering of this ship is limited to voting and advocating for others to vote

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Netplay isn't exactly ideal, as from what I understand it generally requires the syncing of all players emulated console hardware simultaneously (basically, every emulator tricks the game into thinking they're all being played on one single console), which is a lot harder to reliably achieve than having native netcode to handle multiplayer

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If only there was a way to know who removed the code

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Unless they've changed it very recently, Paypal still limits your password to 20 characters

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Air Canada's online account system required a 6 character password, which was secretly converted via T9 to 6 numbers on the back end, meaning "aaaaaa" and "bbbbbb" were effectively the same password, and this was only fixed in 2018

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That's normally my assumption too but surely PayPal has proper security, right? Right??

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My personal theory is that it's a remnant of an old system that was only accessible by phone (hence the 6 digit pin), and they simply grafted an online component on top of it

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The irony of a diverse set of people from around the world talking about an American cartoon and in the same breath saying that American only knows war is not lost on me

The US cultural victory'd so hard that it's hard to recognize it sometimes

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Sorry it seems you may have forgotten one of the cardinal rules around here, you can only say bad things about America, everything else is bigotry

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I can't tell you how many times I've looked up some feature or low-priority bug only to find the answer is "there's a PR for this that will be added in 10.9", commented like a year ago, glad to see the future plan is more frequent but smaller feature releases!

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If I ever have a device connecting to open networks by itself I'm snipping its wifi antenna

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Don't underestimate how dumb and greedy corpos can be

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No, we're going from "a different cable for every device" to "a different cable for every device but you need a label maker because they all look the same", and you're going to like it

Roku TV bricked until agreeing to new terms of service

See title - very frustrating. There is no way to continue to use the TV without agreeing to the terms. I couldn't use different inputs, or even go to settings from the home screen and disconnect from the internet to disable their services. If I don't agree to their terms, then I don't get access to their new products. That...

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At this point I just refuse to ever connect smart TVs to wifi, it's not worth it

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USB C seems like a good idea but in reality all it really did was take my 5 different, not interchangeable, but visually distinct, cables, and make them all look identical and require labeling

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If the implementation is so broad that I have to break out my label maker, can we even really call it a "standard"

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That's basically my thought

"You used AI to get an image that infringes on copyright? Cool I've been able to do that with Google images for 20 years now"

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They drastically increased production after covid, and then with inflation and the economy slowing down, demand crashed, meaning they had a fuckton of NAND and nobody to sell it to. They needed to get rid of it so they sold it all at a steep discount below the break even mark, losing billions of dollars in the process (I don't think any NAND manufacturer had a profitable 2023?). Now, they're cutting back production to profitable levels that actually meet demand, so prices will increase and return to normal.

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They lost billions of dollars due to production being way higher than demand during 2023, it's only collusion in the sense that they all want to actually make some money on the NAND they manufacture.

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To put into perspective just how unimportant Twitter is in the grand scheme of things, Mr Beast's most popular YouTube video has 40 million more views than Twitter has total monthly active users (500m or so), and 100 million views is frankly a pretty underperforming video for him

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"OKAY, BUYING MORE PREPARATION H"

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Strong public housing would put most of the ratfuck kinds of landlords out of business by itself, if an affordable non-profit apartment is basically available to anyone who wants one, the private companies jacking up prices for pure profit now have to compete with that, and we solve the inelastic demand issue

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Nazi Germany actually had a more liberal view of abortion than the laws that a lot of Republican states are now passing (for reasons that you can probably imagine, but still)

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I'd consider paying a few bucks a month, but not $10 or more

Get rid of shitty YouTube music and give me a tier that's no ads only

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I don't think that was ever available in my country

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Google banned 4chan from using recaptcha at the time because everyone was just typing swear words in place of the scanned word that Google couldn't OCR

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The old two word captchas were one word that Google knows in order to test if you're human, and one word scanned from Google's book scanning program that their algorithms failed to properly OCR, meaning for the second word you could type in whatever you wanted and you would pass the captcha

Sites were allowed to use recaptcha for free because their users were actually doing work training neural nets to read books better, if a large percentage of their users are saying every unknown scan is the n-word, I could see why Google wouldn't want them having access to it

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It's almost like conservatives refusing to teach their children to have a healthy relationship with sex (sexual health, importance of consent, etc) is fucking them up, and banning porn is a shitty attempted bandaid solution for their inability to properly raise their children

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