Comment on: How can small and mid-sized travel businesses boost their sales?
build a time machine and return to a point in history before the internet and cell phones where a travel agency wasn’t *just* an unnecessary middleman scamming couples and sending them through your gauntlet of vendors that you collect kickbacks from. Also try not spamming generic walls of text to dying link aggregation sites since that kind of makes you look a bit sketchy and out of touch
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01 Oct 2021 01:33
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Comment on: The chip shortage could turn into a chip oversupply by 2023 states analyst firm | PC Gamer
The chip shortage is already completely artificial; why stop?
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21 Sep 2021 09:22
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Comment on: Samsung seemingly caught swapping components in its 970 Evo Plus SSDs
Samsung could learn a few things from chi-fi companies; when they do component swaps on existing products they proudly jack the price back up to launch msrp and parade it as new
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29 Aug 2021 09:54
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Comment on: Boston Dynamics Drops New Video Of 5-Foot Atlas Humanoid Robot Effortlessly Doing Parkour - Activist Post
> Effortlessly doing parkour
Ignoring the other video they posted at the same time showing it repeatedly falling, breaking, spraying hydraulic fluid, and generally taking an extreme amount of effort and luck to successfully do parkour.
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19 Aug 2021 01:47
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Comment on: Cybersecurity giants NortonLifeLock and Avast merge in $8.1B deal – TechCrunch
Makes sense really they all offer the same service aka spyware, adware, and scareware for a monthly or annual fee
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17 Aug 2021 04:33
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Comment on: Today is the World Wide Web's 30th birthday
> *This anniversary is particularly meaningful in China where, according to a poem by Confucius, a 30th birthday means one’s feet are firmly planted upon the ground (三十而立). China has been on the internet on a permanent basis since the 1990s. Since 2000 when there were only 22.5 million internet users in China, that number has multiplied nearly 38 times in two decades. CNNIC reported that the number of Chinese online users has now reached nearly 1 billion. Web technologies have been playing an indispensable role in people’s daily life, and in the rapid development of China’s digital economy.*
> *The web should be a platform that helps people and provides a net positive social benefit… The web should empower an equitable, informed and interconnected society. It has been, and should continue to be designed to enable communication and knowledge-sharing for everyone. In the 30 years since development of the web began, it has become clear that the web platform can often be used in ways that subvert that mission. Furthermore, web technologies can be used to cause harm, which is not in keeping with the spirit of this social mission. The web should be a platform that helps people and provides a net positive social benefit. As we continue to evolve the web platform, we must therefore consider the ethical implications of our work. The web must be for good.*
> *Our vision is for a World Wide Web that is more inclusive, and more respectful of its users: a Web that supports truth better than falsehood, people more than profits, humanity rather than hate.*
> *We will improve the fundamental integrity of the Web platform. The Web will not only grow in scope and importance in our lives; it will grow in respect for its users, grow in the trust of its users, grow in its inclusion of all humanity as its users.*
> *The Web is for all humanity. The Web is designed for the good of its users. The Web must be safe for its users. There is one interoperable world-wide Web.*
100% concentrated weapons grade AIDS
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08 Aug 2021 21:17
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Comment on: With help from Google, impersonated Brave.com website pushes malware | Ars Technica
Your PC would have warned you; just because the site had a valid cert doesn’t mean the installer itself has been signed or that it would be ignored by built in malware detection
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01 Aug 2021 06:20
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Comment on: Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a "metaverse" - software will be everywhere
Isn’t Facebook boomer central at this point though? Just under a decade ago it was already becoming uncool and people were leaving en masse for other platforms
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24 Jul 2021 08:48
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Comment on: OpenAI disbands its robotics research team
What'd they do to AI dungeon I am not up to date on the juicy drama
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17 Jul 2021 20:55
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Comment on: 10 Reasons Why Brave Browser Is Becoming So Popular
Because:
1) Google sucks but their browser tech is performant and modern.
2) Mozilla when full retard antifa on top of spending all of their dev efforts on ruining the Firefox UI every year as the browser becomes less and less viable for modern devices.
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17 Jul 2021 19:38
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Comment on: Steam Deck is Valve’s Switch-like portable PC, starting at $399 this December | Ars Technica
Starting at $399 but jumping to $2499 after 5 minutes and remaining that way until 2023
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16 Jul 2021 01:20
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Comment on: The Webcrawling Robot Swarm War is On!
> Unfortunately, I do not record the user agents of robots that do not contain one of the following special strings: "bot", "Bot", "rawl", slurp", "pider", "oogle", "rchive", "acebook", "earch", or "http". This is because I don't log user agents that I think are coming from real people. This speeds up my script and reduces the wear on my storage media
Wow you’ve potentially saved literal microseconds and increased the lifetime of your drives by the same amount.
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10 Jul 2021 16:40
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Comment on: GitHub Copilot · Your AI pair programmer
Oh boy I can't wait for a left pad implementation that calls out to 3 different web services and acquires a lock on a file descriptor because the "developer" didn't know how to succinctly express their goal to the ai.
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04 Jul 2021 21:20
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Comment on: Qualcomm plans to design an M1 competitor for PCs—sans ARM
You say this like neither games nor desktop processors will scale to fill the headroom of a more powerful architecture. Just like batteries, more efficient tech just means more demanding hardware, not longer battery life.
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03 Jul 2021 22:06
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Comment on: Google Assistant Records Audio Even When You’re Not Using It, Company Reportedly Admits
Are people really so air headed that they don't realize a phone which can respond to voice commands AT ANY TIME is constantly listening?
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03 Jul 2021 07:04
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Comment on: Facebook now telling users that someone they know is becoming an extremist
What they really mean is the person isn’t becoming the kind of extremist facebook wants
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01 Jul 2021 22:24
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Comment on: The Tim Berners-Lee NFT that sold for $5.4M might have an HTML error
Maybe I’m misunderstanding NFTs but why “maybe”? Shouldn’t it be possible for anyone to just look and see what’s stored for that NFT
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01 Jul 2021 21:12
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Comment on: Google starts adding "no reliable sources" tag to some search engine results
Not really though they’re just as bad if not worse than google when it comes to shoving MSM in your face; you can’t even click the search bar on their homepage without getting a list of the talking points of the day
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29 Jun 2021 00:24
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Comment on: Google starts adding "no reliable sources" tag to some search engine results
Crazy how just a decade or two ago this legitimately orwellian and authoritarian information control wouldn’t even be entertained as a possibility by most people. You could probably even find some old interviews of the heads of these companies saying they’d never do anything like what we’re seeing now and laughing it off like some schizo conspiracy theory.
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29 Jun 2021 00:21
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Comment on: President Donald Trump has joined YouTube competitor Rumble
Rumble will be forced to shut down within the year I guarantee it
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26 Jun 2021 20:55
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Comment on: The windows 11 stream is so fucking bad
Your link changed to retard tech journos discussing politics
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24 Jun 2021 17:02
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Comment on: Effective immediately: You need a drone license before you fly in the US
whoa hey now why doesn’t the FAA want minorities to be able to fly drones
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24 Jun 2021 17:01
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Comment on: Snapchat Removes Speed Filter Blamed for Numerous High-Speed Crashes
Why would they not just make it a multiplier of your actual speed and/or cap it at something reasonably low
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21 Jun 2021 01:51
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Comment on: These creepy fake humans herald a new age in AI
New age? Woke video game companies have been making equally disgusting looking characters for years now
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19 Jun 2021 18:50
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Comment on: Cybereason: 80% of orgs that paid the ransom were hit again
Any organization that falls victim to ransomware deserves it if they can’t just restore from a recent backup. So many things have to be done incorrectly to end up in a position where you’re having to trust a hacker to give you your data back.
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18 Jun 2021 19:54
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Comment on: Protonmail Gets A Slick New Look, As Privacy Tech Eyes The Mainstream – Techcrunch
Maybe now they can take some time to improve the iOS app too >:|
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10 Jun 2021 00:05
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Comment on: Vivaldi 4.0 | Vivaldi Translate launches on desktop and Android
> We’ve long believed that everything you do in your browser is no one else’s business — which is why we’ll never track you, collect your data, or **willingly** compromise your privacy.
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
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09 Jun 2021 18:38
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Comment on: The FBI operated an 'encrypted' chat app for organized criminals
What I mean is that if you're going to use a third party to transmit the messages you'd want to do the encryption/decryption yourself on either end; I cant imagine just trusting a third party to securely handle your shady dealings
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08 Jun 2021 22:05
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Comment on: Apple to discontinue iTunes U after 2021
nobody:
apple: no u
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08 Jun 2021 20:50
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Comment on: The FBI operated an 'encrypted' chat app for organized criminals
You’d have to be a complete moron to rely on a third party to directly handle communication for your criminal organization
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08 Jun 2021 19:54
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Comment on: Apple, Mozilla, Google, Microsoft form group to standardize browser plug-ins
If it's anything like the web extensions standard it'll result in the removal of features and make ad blockers less effective
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05 Jun 2021 17:43
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Comment on: GitHub - Fmstrat/winapps: Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration.
A more accurate title would be “run” windows apps “on” linux by running them on a windows machine or vm and using remote desktop
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05 Jun 2021 01:50
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Comment on: Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors | Ars Technica
Imagine having any Amazon devices; kind of cringe bro
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01 Jun 2021 01:47
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Comment on: Freenode removes hate speech rule
inb4 banned from github
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23 May 2021 19:26
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Comment on: Microsoft Announces Upcoming Demise of Internet Explorer
Don't worry they are making a valiant effort to have Edge be just as shitty as IE.
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22 May 2021 20:22
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Comment on: YouTube Up Next Autoplay Blocker Greasemonkey Script?
The little slider button thing on the left side of the gear icon at the bottom of the video. Click it so it shows a pause symbol.
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09 May 2021 00:36
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Comment on: YouTube Up Next Autoplay Blocker Greasemonkey Script?
... just turn off autoplay
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08 May 2021 17:26
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Comment on: LibreCaptcha 1.0 released, an open-source, self-hosted CAPTCHA service
\> current year
\> java
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02 Apr 2021 18:54
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Comment on: Red Hat (IBM) pulls Free Software Foundation funding over Richard Stallman's return
More like pink hat amirite
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27 Mar 2021 20:38
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Comment on: Is Brave a good browser?
> as Chrome fork its one of the best.
Because? In terms of customization and feature set it's nearly identical to Chrome and it's got prominent placement for Brave-related services all over the UI that are impossible to fully hide. And enjoy no HDR support and broken vsync on your firefox fork lol.
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27 Mar 2021 19:16
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Comment on: Is Brave a good browser?
It's alright but Vivaldi is nicer IMO. Brave's built-in TOR is really the only thing it's got going for it vs competitors.
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27 Mar 2021 18:41
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Comment on: Free speech friendly video sharing platforms
BitChute doesn't support free speech anymore. They recently partnered with some anti-hate org and have been purging accounts and videos
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26 Mar 2021 21:13
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Comment on: Phones and Apps Reduce Your Ability to Focus Even When They Don’t Distract You
So they distract you even when they don't distract you? 10/10 title maybe lay off the phone apps buddy
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26 Mar 2021 01:50
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Comment on: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey admits website contributed to Capitol riots
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26 Mar 2021 00:14
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Comment on: FDA Authorizes First Machine Learning-Based Screening Device to Identify Certain Biomarkers That May Indicate COVID-19 Infection
Inb4 "cases are again on the rise; lockdowns must be extended unless you want grandma dead"
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21 Mar 2021 09:30
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Comment on: The Internet Archive on the future of the web
Yeah yeah the internet archive wants to save it all *unless it's information about coronavirus that contradicts the current narrative in which case they'll censor, edit, and/or stick a giant banner at the top of the page telling you not to believe your lying eyes.*
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17 Mar 2021 22:44
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Comment on: Microsoft Teams is getting end-to-end encryption support
End to end with one end being Microsoft
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02 Mar 2021 18:21
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Comment on: The world’s second-most popular desktop operating system isn’t macOS anymore
100% of chromebook users don't realize they have a chromebook and will take it to tech support the first time they need to edit a word document
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18 Feb 2021 05:00
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Comment on: LastPass' free service will add a major limitation next month
yes, it's just better than lastpass in every way and it's free
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16 Feb 2021 20:29
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Comment on: VLC 4.0 sneak peek—a look at its work-in-progress new interface
Are they moving to GTK from Qt? Those screenshots look a whole lot like that horrible cancerous waste of space that is the current GNOME UI.
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16 Feb 2021 02:23
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Comment on: My network connection says I've used [2000 bazillion] GB of data this month; when I view by app it says 4GB of that was torrenting (yup, that'd be roughly correct) and then.....the rest was "OpenVPN" (I have basic ProtonVPN)...so since it doesn't seem likely shitposting on Ruqqus, checking email and five minutes of Youtube daily could possibly add up to that...wtf?
It does matter because something like 90GB is within a reasonable amount for just watching youtube over the course of a month depending on the quality of the videos you watch. That'd also be a reasonable amount if you've downloaded a couple of steam games. Windows update can also use a lot of bandwidth especially if you have delivery optimization enabled.
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12 Feb 2021 02:58
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Comment on: My network connection says I've used [2000 bazillion] GB of data this month; when I view by app it says 4GB of that was torrenting (yup, that'd be roughly correct) and then.....the rest was "OpenVPN" (I have basic ProtonVPN)...so since it doesn't seem likely shitposting on Ruqqus, checking email and five minutes of Youtube daily could possibly add up to that...wtf?
Might help if you give an actual number and not "[2000 bazillion] GB".
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12 Feb 2021 02:47
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Comment on: Microsoft Edge least private browser
Fun fact: installing firefox installs a background telemetry process that regularly tells mozilla what your default browser is even if you don't actually launch firefox.
https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/mozapps/defaultagent/default-browser-agent/index.html
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11 Feb 2021 02:09
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Comment on: Android barcode scanner with 10 million+ downloads infects users | Ars Technica
Hasn't android had a QR code reader built in for years now
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09 Feb 2021 07:07
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Comment on: Sony XM4 vs Bose 700 - pass through mode winner?
Passthrough on the XM4 sounds like you're listening to the world through a call with someone with a nice mic, if that makes sense. Definitely has a "compressed" sort of sound to it. Volume is a little high compared to whatever content you're trying to listen to.
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16 Jan 2021 00:51
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Comment on: Technologies And Tools For Virtual Christmas / New Year's Holiday Parties?
How about don't be a fucking hypochondriac pussy and just go have christmas with your family like you would any other year.
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20 Dec 2020 23:40
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Comment on: Wyze announces $20 smartwatch with nine-day battery life - The Verge
Cool renders would be nice to see the actual device and quality of the display 🙄
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02 Dec 2020 11:15
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Comment on: Energy firm says its nuclear-waste fueled diamond batteries could last thousands of years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzV_uzSTCTM
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30 Aug 2020 02:39
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