Comment on: Florida's First 3D-Printed Home Under Construction Amid Housing Affordability Crisis - Activist Post
I want to see how it performs under Hurricane conditions
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24 Jul 2021 15:31
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Comment on: Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a "metaverse" - software will be everywhere
I think you forgot to convert the Quest 2 to CAD, as it shows as $629.99 CAD according to the Oculus website. I based my prices off of USD, which is Index $999 USD (which comes with Alyx, so a better deal than I bought it for a couple years ago, damn) and Quest 2 at $399 USD.
Like I said, I understand. It was my first foray too but I preferred to get something that I knew the tech would still be current a few years down the road (which it is, it's still way ahead of the games right now) plus the added bonus of supporting a company that does things I like (usually, I didn't like that they built an alternative steam client for China, but I get it), but to each his own.
That's good that you're finding ways to block facebook out of your life. I hate everything that company does and stands for.
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24 Jul 2021 01:30
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Comment on: Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a "metaverse" - software will be everywhere
Index costs 2.5x as much (although it's far superior) as the quest2 and mounting the sensors is easy even in a small room. However, if you don't have a PC than I guess I don't blame you much, but people keep buying into the Amazon/Facebook bullshit out of mere convenience and then complain about it. Drives me a little nuts tbh.
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23 Jul 2021 23:27
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Comment on: Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a "metaverse" - software will be everywhere
Sell it and buy an Index and support the only gaming company honestly working on trying to bring linux to the forefront in gaming.
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23 Jul 2021 21:20
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Comment on: Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a "metaverse" - software will be everywhere
Not in my house.
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23 Jul 2021 20:00
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Comment on: Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a "metaverse" - software will be everywhere
Gotta be in it to win it, no thanks!.
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23 Jul 2021 18:27
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Comment on: Framework Laptop Review 💻
>I’ve yet to see anything which suggests his customers are unsatisfied.
Of course you haven’t. Why would he tell you something that contradicts his arguments about Apple.
>They only have access to screens and batteries
And boards if they are an authorized shop. You don’t seem to know the difference between board level and component level repair. The important thing to know is that no factory repair shop for any brand does component level repair. The time it takes and the expertise required don’t add up when compared to replacing the board or device. The real truth about shops like Rossman’s is he pays his techs a fraction of what they are worth and can barely do repairs for less than the cost of replacement. His own videos complain about this. Apple doesn’t provide their own factory shops with components because the cost in time and labor is too high. They only provide boards to anyone, Rossman ain’t special. I don’t repair TVs anymore because the diagnostic fees were half the replacement cost.
>Modular phones and other tech have been tried and failed because it’s niche, I’m aware of this but I have hope that it finally takes off.
Help me out here, what’s it called when you do the same thing over and over and expect different results? That’s what this modular laptop is.
>Apple restricts their chip manufacturers from selling to anyone but them.
So does every other manufacturer with custom chips. This is in no way unique to Apple. Rossman is trying to make a business model work that died 20 years ago and blames everyone but himself. No one, and I mean no one does factory authorized component level repair on any device from any manufacturer.
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23 Jul 2021 18:15
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Comment on: Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a "metaverse" - software will be everywhere
The deep-state will try to create a new substrate for all software upon which nothing uncensored is possible.
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23 Jul 2021 17:59
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Comment on: Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a "metaverse" - software will be everywhere
And yet people will complain about this... On Facebook.
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23 Jul 2021 17:52
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Comment on: Framework Laptop Review 💻
You’re the one who gets his info from a YT channel, so it’s pretty rich that you just take his word for it and accuse me of lying.
If modular laptops were viable, we would have had them 20 years ago. Further, Apple doesn’t do component level repair at any shop including the factory shops so Rossman’s shop is one of the unauthorized shops that doesn’t tell you how many devices become unrepairable and leaves a customer in the lurch because Apple won’t touch it once it’s been “repaired”.
I’ve done component level repair on TVs and sound equipment so I know what this business is about. Rossman peddles outrage videos on the thing he makes a living from. I wouldn’t take your apple junk to him if someone else paid.
Final note, if his shop was so successful, why did he have to move out and find a cheaper place? He would have you believe it was the rent going up, but the truth is more likely that he’s getting outcompeted by authorized repair shops because everyone’s rent goes up over time. He isn’t special and no one is picking on him. He just blames his failure on apple and new york and not his own business decisions.
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23 Jul 2021 17:32
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Comment on: Framework Laptop Review 💻
I don’t know why you’re trying so hard to convince me this is a good idea. I don’t dispute that. My point is that this has been tried several times before and they all failed for the same reason. A laptop isn’t a desktop. For the price point these devices are at, they are gonna get their teeth kicked in by the rest of the market. If the top end machine was $1200-1300 they might have a chance, but hardly anyone is going to spend more than a MBP for less than half the battery life and middling performance.
That’s my point, it’s not that a modular laptop is a bad idea, it’s that these will fail for the same reason as all the other attempts. They are way, way too expensive for what you get. The final nail in their coffin will be that by the time these get any market penetration, everyone will be moving to Arm64, especially laptops. They are moving the wrong direction, way too late, for too high a price point. A niche market won’t keep this company going.
Also, Louis Rossman is a huckster that wouldn’t agree to Apple’s repair shop terms so he makes videos talking shit about his failed repair shop and makes no mention of the dozens of other shops that have no problems getting Apple parts and are cheaper than Apple factory repair.
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23 Jul 2021 16:38
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Comment on: Framework Laptop Review 💻
>So like with every other laptop?
Yeah, and pretty much every one of them is cheaper.
>Wait, you mean if I break my Apple MacBook, I can take it to any Apple store only?
Hardly. There are tons of authorized repair shops that are cheaper than apple.
> Their(sic) schematics will be available to repair shops (meaning not shops with framework written on the outside) and these places will be able to order chips from suppliers.
That’s the same for any device, only you paid way more to be in that same boat.
>I would gladly pay a premium if it meant I own the hardware and don't lease/ rent it from the manufacturer and if the rest of the parts are perfectly serviceable I can just upgrade the mainboard every 4 years to keep up.
The jury is still out on that and will be until these part become obsolete. I don’t know where you get the notion that you don’t own other devices. Finally, one thing that sets apple apart is you can trade your devices in and they hold value. For less than an entry level laptop each year, I can have the newest MacBook with coverage. The cost of entry is the same for an equivalent business grade laptop with software.
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23 Jul 2021 16:03
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Comment on: Framework Laptop Review 💻
It is what it is. You’re paying for a laptop that only one company makes parts for and you’re dependent on them for all future support and upgrades. At least with Apple, if you have AppleCare, you can take it to any service center. What will you do if this company folds due to poor sales and you need to replace one of the components that only they sell?
You’re really just choosing a different walled garden and it’s a tiny one with little sunlight. Maybe it’s a good idea, but people have been trying to make modular laptops for years and they never get anywhere because you can always get the same specs for way cheaper and the market rewards cheap, not modular. MacBooks are hindered by their price and these laptops are more expensive than that.
Edit: they are also breaking it off in you with that licensing cost. It shouldn’t be more than $100 for Pro.
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23 Jul 2021 15:12
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Comment on: Framework Laptop Review 💻
You understand that if it ships with windows, then you pay the licensing fee whether you use it or not? If they don’t offer a version without windows and lower the price accordingly, you’re throwing money away.
Any laptop that mandatory ships with windows is ripping you off if you can’t get it without. On top of all that, it’s a middling laptop with MBP prices. All these things combined mean it won’t last a year.
There are plenty of windows laptops that will eat that one’s lunch on price at the same performance and if I’m paying a premium, I should get to choose if I have a $100-$200 dollar license attached.
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23 Jul 2021 13:53
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Comment on: Framework Laptop Review 💻
As I’ve said many times, you have to read the article.
AGREE TO CONTINUE: FRAMEWORK LAPTOP
Every smart device now requires you to agree to a series of terms and conditions before you can use it — contracts that no one actually reads. It’s impossible for us to read and analyze every single one of these agreements. But we started counting exactly how many times you have to hit “agree” to use devices when we review them, since these are agreements most people don’t read and definitely can’t negotiate.
**To use the Framework Laptop, you *have* to agree to:**
Request for your language, region, and keyboard layout
**Windows 10 License Agreement**
**Sign in to a Microsoft account**
PIN
The following agreements are optional:
Connecting to Wi-Fi
Set up the fingerprint sensor
Privacy settings, including Find My Device, inking and typing, advertising ID, location, diagnostic data, and tailored experiences
Customize your device for gaming, schoolwork, creativity, entertainment, family, and / or business
OneDrive backup
Microsoft 365 free trial
Let Microsoft collect and use information including your location and location history, contacts, voice input, speech and handwriting patterns, typing history, search history, calendar details, content, and communication history from Microsoft services, messages, and apps, as well as your browsing history in Microsoft Edge, to help Cortana provide personalized experiences and relevant suggestions
That’s six mandatory agreements and 12 optional ones to use this product.
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23 Jul 2021 13:00
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Comment on: Framework Laptop Review 💻
You need the account to buy the computer.
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23 Jul 2021 09:50
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Comment on: Framework Laptop Review 💻
>requires Microsoft account
>costs more than a MacBook for worse specs and battery life.
D.O.A.
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23 Jul 2021 03:22
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Comment on: The University of California (UC), Davis scientists are inventing a prototype for an ‘anti-solar panels’ that would work opposite to a classic solar panel.
>hurr durr i was only pretending to be a retard
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22 Jul 2021 17:06
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Comment on: The University of California (UC), Davis scientists are inventing a prototype for an ‘anti-solar panels’ that would work opposite to a classic solar panel.
My bad. I expect grown ass people to read a post before commenting on it, especially if they want to correct something in the article.
This circle jerk of celebrating being retards is the same shit reddit does. For a site that talks so much shit about reddit, it shouldn’t be excusable to do the same ignorant garbage here.
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22 Jul 2021 16:26
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Comment on: The University of California (UC), Davis scientists are inventing a prototype for an ‘anti-solar panels’ that would work opposite to a classic solar panel.
It’s fucking lonely here for sure.
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22 Jul 2021 16:22
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Comment on: The University of California (UC), Davis scientists are inventing a prototype for an ‘anti-solar panels’ that would work opposite to a classic solar panel.
It must be lonely being the smartest person in the world.
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22 Jul 2021 14:54
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Comment on: The University of California (UC), Davis scientists are inventing a prototype for an ‘anti-solar panels’ that would work opposite to a classic solar panel.
Anti solar panels turn heat into electricity instead of light into electricity. LEDs don’t make electricity at all. That’s why his comment is retarded.
This celebration of ignorance has to stop.
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22 Jul 2021 14:33
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Comment on: The University of California (UC), Davis scientists are inventing a prototype for an ‘anti-solar panels’ that would work opposite to a classic solar panel.
Why not just use nuclear.
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22 Jul 2021 13:10
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Windows Defender July Update - Will delete legitimate file from famous copyright case (DeCSS)
5 1 comment 22 Jul 2021 01:46 u/None (..) in g/technologyComment on: Are Attack Drones the Next Global Arms Race? - Activist Post
damn. that would have been cool
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21 Jul 2021 21:14
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Comment on: Netflix bleeds subscribers in US and Canada, with no sign of recovery | Ars Technica
Personally there have been some TV shows they've made that I've enjoyed, but they only do 1 season which basically sets up the series and then... nothing. It's getting irritating.
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21 Jul 2021 17:38
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Comment on: Are Attack Drones the Next Global Arms Race? - Activist Post
I look forward to drone hunting season. That would be a real challenge and fun
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21 Jul 2021 15:07
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Comment on: Nvidia paves the way for RTX GPU Chromebooks with new Arm demo
I would have prefered amd buy arm. Nvidia and it's closed source drivers really screw over the linux community.
Watch there be a big push to more open source Risc architectures by big companies to get around working with nvidia.
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19 Jul 2021 18:10
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Comment on: Revealed: leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon
The only way this article would be unusual is if they weren't abusing it. The world has gone to shit.
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19 Jul 2021 04:55
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Comment on: 10 Reasons Why Brave Browser Is Becoming So Popular
The guy who made brave was basically one of the founding developers of Firefox. The inventor of JavaScript who came on to help make Netscape the precursor to Firefox . In my mind brave is the spiritual successor to Firefox. Brave search is pretty good too
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17 Jul 2021 19:00
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Comment on: Fleek makes it easy to build websites and apps on the new open web: permissionless, trustless, censorship resistant, and free of centralized gatekeepers.
“No centralized gatekeepers”
“Get started for free”
So, decentralized gatekeepers that accept credit cards which circle back around to normal banks? How is this better?
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17 Jul 2021 18:22
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Comment on: 10 Reasons Why Brave Browser Is Becoming So Popular
I disagree, the chromium engine is superior to Mozillas... is it Gecko nowadays?
I stayed with Firefox/Fennec for two decades out of principle because I'm against browser monopolization but left when they gimped the mobile browser and killing parity extension features and the Mozilla organization became political.
Remember, it is not enough to simply deplatform the "evil" people according to them. If you're on Ruqqus, you're unwanted.
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17 Jul 2021 17:56
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Comment on: 10 Reasons Why Brave Browser Is Becoming So Popular
Have used brave for like 2 years now love it.
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17 Jul 2021 17:42
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Comment on: Intel in talks to buy GlobalFoundries for about $30 billion
You know nothing of how foundries work. TSMC has a monopoly on high end chips right now. Intel buying this foundry will bring it under US control. This is a good thing since if China follows through on Taiwan, no one will be getting advanced chips.
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17 Jul 2021 12:41
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Comment on: SpaceX Will Start Offering WiFi from Satellites in August Despite Opposition, Risks, and Warnings
Imagine believing that 5G causes all these problems when it's been around for a year already and everyone is fine.
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16 Jul 2021 21:31
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Comment on: SpaceX Will Start Offering WiFi from Satellites in August Despite Opposition, Risks, and Warnings
>And it is the radiation of (so far) more than 5 megawatts of combined power, focused into (ultimately) millions of powerful beams, that is radically disturbing the electromagnetic environment that we live in, that we evolved in, that surrounds and nurtures us, and that generates the electricity that runs through our veins, guiding our growth, health and life.
This is the dumbest fucking thing I think I have ever read. Of course I had to copy paste this to inflict it on others. If 5 megawatts spread across the entire sky doesn’t make you retarded, reading this garbage article might.
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16 Jul 2021 20:17
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Comment on: SpaceX Will Start Offering WiFi from Satellites in August Despite Opposition, Risks, and Warnings
The article claims this is bad because "muh 5G".
>Written by Arthur Firstenberg
Cant give goys access to information! Can't give goys a work-around government internet blackouts! The biggest redpill is uncensored internet.
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16 Jul 2021 19:27
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Comment on: The next big social network trend? Shortform audio
Lol this will be a flop. This would be like tiktok without the hot girls dressed like sluts. Kind of missing a key component to the success of tiktok.
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16 Jul 2021 17:01
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Comment on: Tesla patent reveals Elon Musk's 'table salt' lithium extraction process that could slash costs
Yeah but fuck Musk because he’s stealing our table salt and he’s not paying taxes. Get rekt billiontards.
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16 Jul 2021 16:22
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Comment on: Intel in talks to buy GlobalFoundries for about $30 billion
Do you even know what a foundry is? Your comment is stupid as fuck. If they could just “pack it up”, they wouldn’t spend $30 billion buying existing foundries.
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16 Jul 2021 16:18
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‘Hubble is back!’ Famed space telescope has new lease on life after computer swap appears to fix glitch | Science | AAAS
6 0 comments 16 Jul 2021 15:11 u/None (..) in g/technologyComment on: Steam Deck is Valve’s Switch-like portable PC, starting at $399 this December | Ars Technica
At least two hours of low fidelity gaming...
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16 Jul 2021 08:07
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Comment on: Steam Deck - Steam's portable gaming console is shipping this December
That's true. Controller support is growing and does well. A lot my friends play on controller but I'm always mouse and keyboard. I'm just imagining playing games I normally play on PC on a beefy switch with extra buttons. Most would be good enough I'm sure. We'll see. I like the competition and it feels like an okay way to reach out to someone like a dad who wants to play while his kid is on a switch or something like that.
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16 Jul 2021 05:09
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Comment on: Steam Deck - Steam's portable gaming console is shipping this December
I wouldn't get one myself but it is nice that option is available for people. I wonder how well it works for games where a mouse and keyboard work better.
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15 Jul 2021 20:35
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Comment on: Job vacancy
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15 Jul 2021 19:39
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Comment on: Job vacancy
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15 Jul 2021 19:34
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Comment on: Steam Deck - Steam's portable gaming console is shipping this December
Hands on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLtiRGTZvGM
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15 Jul 2021 19:28
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Comment on: Steam Deck - Steam's portable gaming console is shipping this December
oh shit, my dick was not prepared for this strong of an erection today.
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15 Jul 2021 19:25
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Comment on: Job vacancy
I'm interested, but I live in Europe and would be willing to move over to US to work for you. Unfortunately I'm very poor and if you could just send me 3000$ to cover the travel expensed I could be there next day ready for work! And I would work for minimum wage, it's my duty as an immigrant to bring down value of labor.
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15 Jul 2021 19:24
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Comment on: Discord acquires AI censorship company
"Too much free expression," as though that's a bad thing? How can a service provide "too much" free expression anyway? What does that even mean? As though expression is this weaselly, slippery thing that needs to be kept firmly wrestled down lest it escape and accidentally get people to think in a different way, god forbid.
It's the normalization of censorship. They're making restriction of speech the norm and freedom of expression the outlier because their end goal is the abolishment of Freedom of Speech in the US and likely many other first world countries around the world. And once that's gone, anything is possible.
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14 Jul 2021 23:31
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Comment on: Discord acquires AI censorship company
No laws against it yet! We just need to make sure it stays that way.
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14 Jul 2021 19:21
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Comment on: Discord acquires AI censorship company
That's server prerogative. I've never seen any censorship on any place I've been on discord and I have no qualms about saying offensive shit.
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14 Jul 2021 19:15
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Comment on: Discord acquires AI censorship company
Except when you message your friend with a video of someone getting hurt from a vaccine and it's auto deleted.
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14 Jul 2021 18:55
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Comment on: China tightens control over cybersecurity in data crackdown - Tech experts in China who find a weakness in computer security would be required to tell the government
STOP POSTING PAYWALL ARTICLES WITHOUT COPY PASTING THE CONTENTS.
Ffs, it takes 5 seconds.
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14 Jul 2021 18:10
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Comment on: Discord acquires AI censorship company
Kids need to get on Element/Matrix and stop installing corporate surveillance in their bedrooms.
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14 Jul 2021 17:54
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Comment on: Discord acquires AI censorship company
Most communities I'm in have a telegram and matrix version now. Discord is on the way out.
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14 Jul 2021 17:45
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Comment on: Quantum Computing on a Chip: Brace for the Revolution | Tom's Hardware
You could potentially gain a massive increase in computational power, if utilized properly.
Prime number generation is notoriously slow in classical computers. We have a ton of ways to mitigate and prevent re-solving, but it's still slow. This slowness is what grants our encryption so much security, taking centuries or millennia to crack with current hardware. But with quantum computing, where you could potentially generate all of the combinations simultaneously, and remove the options that don't fit... There's a possibility we change the complexity from "Please write a word for word match of the thesis I have before me... without ever seeing the thesis or knowing the subject" to the complexity of multiple choice.
Your GPS could suddenly find top three routes across the united states in a matter of micro-seconds instead of minutes. It could find the routes while considering all of the suburban and back roads instead of just highways and freeways.
The knapsack problem might be solved.
There are a lot of potential applications. From security to networking, probability to chemical structures, mathematics to art. We don't really know the limits until we explore them.
> "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
>
> Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943
What use would billions of computers be? Why would people want them when they don't need them?
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12 Jul 2021 22:06
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Comment on: Amazon.com Wants to Monitor You in Your Sleep, for Your Benefit | bloomberg.com
How long until they decide to put a chip into people "for the sake of security"?
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12 Jul 2021 21:10
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Comment on: Quantum Computing on a Chip: Brace for the Revolution | Tom's Hardware
What’s the real world application though? All the claims of supremacy have been from academic exercises that don’t have a real world corollary.
If it can do calculations that no classic computer can, how do they know they got the correct answer?
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12 Jul 2021 17:07
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Quantum Computing on a Chip: Brace for the Revolution | Tom's Hardware
12 6 comments 12 Jul 2021 16:44 u/None (..) in g/technologyComment on: Google boss Sundar Pichai warns of threats to internet freedom
How amusing.
> The free and open internet is under attack in countries around the world, Google boss Sundar Pichai has warned.
>
> He says many countries are restricting the flow of information, and the model is often taken for granted.
The moral high ground was lost when Google decided to censor searches made in China for the CCP.
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12 Jul 2021 02:41
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Comment on: Google boss Sundar Pichai warns of threats to internet freedom
Just cant believe anything coming from a corporation head.
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12 Jul 2021 02:30
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Comment on: The FTC has reportedly opened an investigation into Amazon’s MGM acquisition
I am glad the FTC cares...finally. I doubt they'll do anything - of only because Amazon has probably paid off officals in many gov't positions. This country has gone to shit and hasn't enforced anti-trust or anti-monopoly laws in soooo long. Washington, DC is full of whores, sell-outs.
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11 Jul 2021 23:10
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Comment on: Adaptive social networks promote the wisdom of crowds
Interesting way to say 'Mob Rule'.
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11 Jul 2021 22:58
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Comment on: The FBI’s honeypot Pixel 4a gets detailed in new report
im pretty sure the randomized pin code is normal android feature on most custom roms
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11 Jul 2021 18:37
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Comment on: The FBI’s honeypot Pixel 4a gets detailed in new report
If it warns you about a modified ROM on bootup, yes.
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11 Jul 2021 18:28
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Comment on: The best Android web browser: 6 Google Chrome alternatives
No Bromite but Samsung Internet? Naw mang
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11 Jul 2021 17:23
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Comment on: The best Android web browser: 6 Google Chrome alternatives
Brave and Quant
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11 Jul 2021 17:06
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Comment on: Solar Is Dirt-Cheap and About to Get Even More Powerful | bloomberg.com
And still not capable of supplying power needs for the whole country or city or even a home fully
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11 Jul 2021 17:05
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Comment on: Solar Is Dirt-Cheap and About to Get Even More Powerful | bloomberg.com
Good for being used on individual buildings and homes but not useful in any other way. As soon as it only costs about $3000 or less from my local companies is when I'll go for it.
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11 Jul 2021 17:02
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Comment on: FCC is asked to restore net neutrality rules
GOOD! Should've happened faster.
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11 Jul 2021 02:55
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Comment on: FCC is asked to restore net neutrality rules
We need to check up on any changes to it from the original version though. That's a tactic they'll do some times where they take something away then bring it back with differences that they can take advantage of while at the same time try to take credit for its existence after that.
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10 Jul 2021 16:00
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Comment on: M1 MacBook battery life so good Apple thought it was a bug
This is why Mac is raping the tits off the laptop sector right now. The performance is great, and it lasts all day while doing actual work. Intel/AMD laptops got nothing even close.
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09 Jul 2021 17:31
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Comment on: Steve Wozniak endorses the right to repair
Good ol’ Woz.
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09 Jul 2021 16:35
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Comment on: PayPal withholds funds for alt-tech messaging app Panquake
I hadn’t heard of this before Reclaim The Net posted it but it caused me to donate. Fuck PayPal. Crypto when.
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08 Jul 2021 20:59
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Comment on: Russia's Yandex driverless robots to deliver food at U.S. colleges with GrubHub
The president of Russia goes to an Orthodox church regularly, openly declares Russia as a Christian nation, and they own their own central bank. You make your own judgement.
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08 Jul 2021 15:49
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Comment on: Russia's Yandex driverless robots to deliver food at U.S. colleges with GrubHub
If people could get business loans to make products that don’t have recurring revenue models, robots would be as cheap and plentiful as smartphones. We could have locked this down 10 years ago, but the profit margins weren’t high enough.
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08 Jul 2021 15:46
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Comment on: Russia's Yandex driverless robots to deliver food at U.S. colleges with GrubHub
>Why won't US build them, lol?
Nothing get financial backing here unless it has a recurring revenue model. No one is going to give you a loan to build these robots unless they come with a subscription. Case in point, motorcycle airbags that won’t work if you don’t pay the monthly fee.
Russia isn’t hindered by bullshit like that, so they can make and sell robots cheap enough that grubhub can afford it. If they were made here, it would be cheaper to just hire someone.
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08 Jul 2021 15:41
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Comment on: Russia's Yandex driverless robots to deliver food at U.S. colleges with GrubHub
What reasons? This isn’t high tech. Children build these kinds of robots all day. US companies refused to build these robots, so what does it matter where they come from? What if they were Chinese, or Japanese, or German?
>oh noes, da ruskies are gonna know what we eat.
All they have to do is watch a sportsball game to figure that out.
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08 Jul 2021 15:32
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Comment on: Russia's Yandex driverless robots to deliver food at U.S. colleges with GrubHub
How is it embarrassing? We have had this tech for years, but no one here would make a commercial product with it. A kid could build one of these robots with a raspberry pi, camera, and gps.
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08 Jul 2021 03:58
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Comment on: Russia's Yandex driverless robots to deliver food at U.S. colleges with GrubHub
Why?
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08 Jul 2021 03:53
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Comment on: Conservative social networks like Gettr and Parler keep making the same mistake
I love Minds. It's like what I thought I wanted when I signed up for Facebook
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07 Jul 2021 22:52
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Comment on: Microsoft urges to update in security warning
if its for a server OS they have not released the patch on yet you need to DISABLE & STOP the print spooler service IMMEDIATELY or if you cannot patch. At a minimum you need to do this on Active Directory domain controllers.
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07 Jul 2021 20:26
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Comment on: Conservative social networks like Gettr and Parler keep making the same mistake
> If you create a place for people to upload text and images, you have to moderate it — and moderate it aggressively.
Only if you are a retarded leftist cunt. Moderation will generate just another Twatter just with a different design. I don't recall any moderators moderating when I speak to people outside and online space should match that.
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07 Jul 2021 18:33
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Comment on: Conservative social networks like Gettr and Parler keep making the same mistake
I had nothing but bad experiences with Parler.
I probably can't even recall all of it but of what I can recall...
- They have "Delete" and "Deactivate" options. Both Deactivate.
- When they came back from being shut down, you could not delete your account. Support wouldn't respond to anything either. Eventually they did respond to me and claimed they would delete my account.
- About a month later I got an e-mail from Parler suggesting accounts to follow. I was able to log in an delete my account. But this means they did not delete my account.
- A few weeks later, I got an e-mail from Parler with announcements and encouraging me to follow Parler Support. My account is finally "deleted" (probably just not active) but their e-mail system is independent of the actual site and there's no mechanism to let them know who is and is not active on the site.
It's a mess.
I'm sticking with Minds and Ruqqus. MeWe seemed okay too. I just don't want too many accounts.
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07 Jul 2021 18:29
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Comment on: Android users might be interested in this useful iOS feature
What a nightmarish concept, imagine the smell.
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07 Jul 2021 15:59
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Comment on: How to download any video on webpage?
I just moved to a DeGoogled phone so I don't have access to most apps. The only app I use that has video download capabilities is NewPipe. It's basically a YouTube clone though so it's only good for stuff on YouTube. You can also download the videos as MP3s which is pretty cool.
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07 Jul 2021 13:37
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Comment on: How to download any video on webpage?
I’ve used an app called “clipgrab” (on Mac). It works with most videos about 75% of the time, and it has an option to just grab the audio.
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07 Jul 2021 01:13
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Comment on: How to download any video on webpage?
There may be an easier way but I typically use browser debug to get a direct link to the video. Just right click and select "Inspect Element" then look for the actual video link.
Then I create a simple HTML file and open it with a browser. Even if you don't code the HTML is simple enough.
`Text To Click`
Example
`CLICK HERE TO GO TO RUQQUS`
Result: CLICK HERE TO GO TO RUQQUS
You just save the txt file with a .html extension then open it with any browser. You should be able to right click the link and save the video.
The link should end with a file extension like .mp4, .mov, .mpeg or whatever.
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06 Jul 2021 23:38
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Comment on: Bitcoin power plant is turning a 12,000-year-old glacial lake into a hot tub
sounds like a win-win scenario.
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06 Jul 2021 19:04
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Comment on: Underground fiber optics spy on humans moving above - Wired
Was a fiber tech, they do not. It works for them because the cable is lowly buried, largely completely non functional steady light, disturbed by deformation. Most cables run parallel to existing infrastructure. Light is used instead of electricity, there is no processing capacity within the lines, only repeaters have that ability, and in the conus, runs are typically not long enough to require them, as they can run depending on conditions, 40 to 60 miles without needing a repeater. Now whether your neighbor’s ring camera or not is carrying data of you shitting on his lawn over the line, that’s another thing.
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06 Jul 2021 11:58
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Comment on: Elon Musk just now realizing that self-driving cars are a ‘hard problem’
How about ping devices in those little road reflectors, stop/street signs and lights. All pinging different information and locations to the car and with each other. The biggest issue with current stuff is properly identifying and responding. Combined and adjusted with current software it sould develop well. That would also work as a secondary GPS.
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05 Jul 2021 23:29
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Comment on: Elon Musk just now realizing that self-driving cars are a ‘hard problem’
That's not entirely true. Compare like for like, Tesla AI is mostly just freeway driving so compare the safety record with that of OTR semi truck drivers. Their safety records are much better than Tesla's
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05 Jul 2021 22:50
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Comment on: Elon Musk just now realizing that self-driving cars are a ‘hard problem’
While I'm normally on the side of Elon being over hyped, he does deserve a fair amount of credit. His idea or not Tesla was dead without him. He is a very wise engineering focused CEO, but he isn't the premium engineer people make him out to be.
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05 Jul 2021 21:00
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Comment on: Elon Musk just now realizing that self-driving cars are a ‘hard problem’
This is likely true but human drivers are still in the mix. We are unpredictable
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05 Jul 2021 20:58
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Comment on: Elon Musk just now realizing that self-driving cars are a ‘hard problem’
Other people driving are the issue.I will never use self driving until all do
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05 Jul 2021 20:57
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Comment on: Elon Musk just now realizing that self-driving cars are a ‘hard problem’
I've had this conversation so much recently. People don't realize that planes can fly themselves from takeoff to landing, but they still fully staff them with pilots for a reason. AI someday will be better, but we are not anywhere close.
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05 Jul 2021 20:57
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Comment on: This is what 6G could look like
Well we are the original green energy. Nuclear
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05 Jul 2021 20:48
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Comment on: Elon Musk just now realizing that self-driving cars are a ‘hard problem’
Right, because success as a businessman is intrinsically tied to how safe your self driving vehicles are.
Fun side note, since it'll tickle your funny bone: prototype Tesla was not his invention, or even his idea, he just provided funding and marketing. Yet he's lauded as the next genius inventor rather than the sponsor he is. He's like Mark Cuban, except people give him all the credit because he made PayPal once upon a time.
Nobody is treating Jeff like he's a rocket scientist even though he built his book selling website from scratch, and Blue Origin has a NASA contract.
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05 Jul 2021 20:11
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