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  1. Comment on What's a setting that you'd recommend? in ~tech

  2. Comment on What's a setting that you'd recommend? in ~tech

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    Wait, what should we be using instead? My workplace is still working on replacing XML with Json.

    That's terrible. Using JSON in 2025?

    Wait, what should we be using instead? My workplace is still working on replacing XML with Json.

  3. Comment on What's a setting that you'd recommend? in ~tech

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    I think they're easier to learn when I make them myself rather than looking up which existing ones DuckDuckGo has. And one less character to type since I don't need the exclamation mark.

    I think they're easier to learn when I make them myself rather than looking up which existing ones DuckDuckGo has. And one less character to type since I don't need the exclamation mark.

    2 votes

  4. Comment on Jimmy Kimmel pulled “indefinitely” by ABC after Charlie Kirk comments in ~tv

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    Musk has offered to pay the legal fees for anyone fired from their job over something they've said in public, right? Holding my breath to see him rush to Kimmel's defence, as well as the defence...

    Musk has offered to pay the legal fees for anyone fired from their job over something they've said in public, right? Holding my breath to see him rush to Kimmel's defence, as well as the defence of everyone else who has been fired over voicing their opinions of the recently killed fascist.

    18 votes

  5. Comment on Oracle, Silver Lake consortium to control 80% stake in TikTok in US in ~finance

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    Let's talk about this for a moment. Is this a common thing for consortiums like this one? Any other noteworthy examples of board members representing the U.S. government?

    The company would also have an American-dominated board, with one member designated by the U.S. government.

    Let's talk about this for a moment. Is this a common thing for consortiums like this one? Any other noteworthy examples of board members representing the U.S. government?

    8 votes

  6. Comment on Russia claims iskander strike targeted Ukrainian forces, hits Danish demining mission instead in ~society

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    No worries. I figured if it happened to you it probably happens to others at well, so more people would find the archived link useful.

    No worries. I figured if it happened to you it probably happens to others at well, so more people would find the archived link useful.

  7. Comment on Russia claims iskander strike targeted Ukrainian forces, hits Danish demining mission instead in ~society

  8. Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of September 8 in ~society

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    Congress Reveals Epstein Birthday Note Trump Said Doesn’t Exist (Rolling Stone)

    Congress Reveals Epstein Birthday Note Trump Said Doesn’t Exist (Rolling Stone)

    Donald Trump sued The Wall Street Journal in July over a story about a lewd birthday note the paper reported he sent to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in the early 2000s. The president insisted the note did not exist, calling it a “fake thing.”

    Well, the note does exist, and the Journal published a picture of it on Monday, noting that Epstein’s estate provided it to Congress. House Democrats released an image of the salacious birthday note shortly after the Journal published its story.

    15 votes

  9. Comment on Russia claims iskander strike targeted Ukrainian forces, hits Danish demining mission instead in ~society

  10. Comment on Norwegians go to the polls on Sunday and Monday in a tight race to decide whether to continue with a Labour-led government or turn to the centre right in ~society

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    The latest polls indicate we may get a pure minority Labour government, with support from the communists, the socialists, the environmentalists, and the centrists. It'll be kinda stupid, but less...

    The latest polls indicate we may get a pure minority Labour government, with support from the communists, the socialists, the environmentalists, and the centrists. It'll be kinda stupid, but less so than the minority Labour-Centrist coalition we got last time, and much less so than the majority Conservative-Populist-Liberal-Christian mess we had before that.

    13 votes

  11. Comment on Russia claims iskander strike targeted Ukrainian forces, hits Danish demining mission instead in ~society

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    Russia Reportedly Moves Tanks in Biggest Redeployment Since Kyiv Offensive Fail (United24 Media)

    Russia Reportedly Moves Tanks in Biggest Redeployment Since Kyiv Offensive Fail (United24 Media)

    Russia has begun its largest military redeployment since the failed assault on Kyiv in 2022, shifting tanks, armored vehicles, and infantry from southern Ukraine to the Donetsk front in preparation for what OSINT-analysts describe as a decisive showdown, according to the Kriegsforscher on X on September 3.

    5 votes

  13. Comment on Ukraine admits Russia has entered key region of Dnipropetrovsk in ~society

  14. Comment on Kazeta: Retro 90s style gaming operating system in ~games

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    I admit, I'm tempted, as I do sometimes long for the insert-cartridge-and-play days. Has anyone here tried it yet? What's the actual user experience like?

    I admit, I'm tempted, as I do sometimes long for the insert-cartridge-and-play days.

    Has anyone here tried it yet? What's the actual user experience like?

    2 votes

  15. Comment on Deep in the Swedish forest lies one of Europe's hopes for a spaceport that can ultimately compete with the United States, China and Russia in ~space

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    They neglect to mention why. The closer you are to the equator, the less fuel you need to get into orbit. Which is why the US and USSR and EU all built their space centres as far south as they...

    Currently, Europe’s only space base capable of launching rockets and satellites into orbit is in sparsely populated French Guiana, an overseas department of France in South America that’s roughly 500 kilometers (310 miles) north of the equator.

    They neglect to mention why. The closer you are to the equator, the less fuel you need to get into orbit. Which is why the US and USSR and EU all built their space centres as far south as they reasonably could. So I admit I'm a bit confused as to why we're now launching rockets from the arctic. The large empty land is of course an important part of it, but if we want to launch rockets from the mainland, wouldn't it be a lot easier to launch them from southern Spain or Italy over the mostly empty Mediterranean?

    5 votes

  16. Comment on Ukraine admits Russia has entered key region of Dnipropetrovsk in ~society

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    FSS Facility in Crimea Hit by Flamingo Missiles, Not Neptune — Sources (Militarnyi)

    FSS Facility in Crimea Hit by Flamingo Missiles, Not Neptune — Sources (Militarnyi)

    FSS outpost and patrol boats in Crimea near Armyansk were struck with new Flamingo cruise missiles, not Neptune missiles.

    After initial reports indicated that Neptune cruise missiles had struck the site, military sources shared with Militarnyi that the damage was caused by Flamingo cruise missiles, correcting earlier claims made by Astra.

    The strike took place on the morning of August 30, 2025. A video of the salvo on targets in Russian-controlled territory was published on the Telegram channel Nikolaevsky Vanyok.

  18. Comment on Ukraine admits Russia has entered key region of Dnipropetrovsk in ~society

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  20. Comment on Ukraine admits Russia has entered key region of Dnipropetrovsk in ~society