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  1. Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account in ~tech

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    That's actually a great way to quickly filter out certain issues. BSOD renders the computer unusable, so people tend to take a picture. Now without reading a single letter, you'll already know if...

    Surely there's a better way to track bug reports other than "Is your screen blue or green?"

    That's actually a great way to quickly filter out certain issues. BSOD renders the computer unusable, so people tend to take a picture. Now without reading a single letter, you'll already know if this is a normal Windows machine or not.

  2. Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account in ~tech

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    I used this loophole trick, I suppose you could use an old installer and then update from there?

    I used this loophole trick, I suppose you could use an old installer and then update from there?

    5 votes

  3. Comment on US government workers and military planners love Signal now in ~tech

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    I think that's fair, however I dislike the way in which Signal is portrayed throughout the article. Laymen don't know the ins and outs of encryption, or why this particular e2e configuration would...

    I think that's fair, however I dislike the way in which Signal is portrayed throughout the article. Laymen don't know the ins and outs of encryption, or why this particular e2e configuration would be less than ideal.

    Wholly agree there's a better way to handle this. (I'd actually like more developments in this area)

    6 votes

  4. Comment on US government workers and military planners love Signal now in ~tech

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    What a ridiculous way to try and demonize encryption. That the communication itself is encrypted has nothing to do with it whatsoever. Government issued devices should still be archived, signal or...

    When you have “secrecy on each side,” Harper said, “the public has no way to understand what is happening inside the government.”

    What a ridiculous way to try and demonize encryption.

    That the communication itself is encrypted has nothing to do with it whatsoever. Government issued devices should still be archived, signal or not. Which is entirely feasible.

    13 votes

  5. Comment on Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing on Steam soon in ~games

  6. Comment on Why is everything binary? in ~science

  7. Comment on Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones in ~tech

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    This is wild lol

    Getting a Javascript engine to run in PebbleOS forced us to go through many hoops due to iOS — creating a compiler inside the Pebble iPhone app that in itself needed to be written in (cross-compiled to) JS to work with Apple's restriction on downloadable code can only be JS

    This is wild lol

    19 votes

  8. Comment on Thor Bjørklund's ostehøvel, a popular cheese slicer which developed into an important Norwegian export, celebrates 100 this year in ~engineering

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    Most important kitchen utility in the Netherlands

    Most important kitchen utility in the Netherlands

    11 votes

  9. Comment on Bethesda’s Oblivion Unreal Engine 5 remake could be releasing sooner than you think in ~games

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    If it's not the creation kit, it's not going to have that level of mod support. I doubt there's any mod support whatsoever, but then, I'm skeptical it'll be any good to begin with. I'll skip and...

    If it's not the creation kit, it's not going to have that level of mod support.

    I doubt there's any mod support whatsoever, but then, I'm skeptical it'll be any good to begin with.

    I'll skip and wait for Skyblivion.

    2 votes

  10. Comment on Is it wrong to use AI to fact check and combat the spread of misinformation? in ~tech

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    Bit lazy if you also make it come up with the evidence and conclusions, that's been tried and has failed horribly (lawyers arguing with non existent, hallucinated cases in their arguments). But if...

    Bit lazy if you also make it come up with the evidence and conclusions, that's been tried and has failed horribly (lawyers arguing with non existent, hallucinated cases in their arguments).

    But if you've got a less agreeable personality and want to more effectively write a response which puts all the facts in, l don't see a problem with it.

    2 votes

  11. Comment on How I hacked my company's SSO provider in ~comp

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    Don't tell me they lack input validation on the backend- sigh

    The email field was uneditable on purpose to prevent users from changing the email to anything besides the company-owned email address.

    Don't tell me they lack input validation on the backend-

    And it worked!

    sigh

    20 votes

  12. Comment on US President Donald Trump cuts short talks with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy after Oval Office blow up in ~society

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    Vance; "I'll respond to this, so look-" And from that moment it all went south real fast

    Vance; "I'll respond to this, so look-"

    And from that moment it all went south real fast

    7 votes

  13. Comment on Firefox's new Terms of Use grants Mozilla complete data "processing" rights of all user interactions in ~tech

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    I think that's a pretty good explanation, It'd be nice if it wasn't all so implicit though.

    I think that's a pretty good explanation,
    It'd be nice if it wasn't all so implicit though.

    13 votes

  14. Comment on US President Donald Trump threatens to impose 25% tariffs on EU goods in ~society

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    Didn't Trump say he liked EU's policies on agriculture whilst signing executive orders lol

    "[...] They don’t accept essentially our farm products, they use all sorts of reasons why not"

    Didn't Trump say he liked EU's policies on agriculture whilst signing executive orders lol

    13 votes

  16. Comment on Tildes homepage is down? (2025-02-25 4pm UTC) in ~tildes

  17. Comment on Who's afraid of Hasan Piker? in ~society

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    His popularity worries me, I'll just say that.

    His popularity worries me, I'll just say that.

    4 votes

  18. Comment on In the past days, several projects advocating tolerance and equal rights on Codeberg have been subject to hate attacks, such as massive spam of abusive messages in their issue trackers in ~comp

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    From the looks of it, it's abuse of the issue tracker on repositories, triggering spam emails, using posts mentioning various users in batches.

    From the looks of it, it's abuse of the issue tracker on repositories, triggering spam emails, using posts mentioning various users in batches.

    3 votes

  19. Comment on Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says in ~tech

  20. Comment on H.R.1161 - To authorize the President to enter into negotiations to acquire Greenland and to rename Greenland as "Red, White, and Blueland". in ~society

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    There should be repercussions congressional shitposting of this caliber. Someone got paid to write this lmao

    Red, White and Blueland

    There should be repercussions congressional shitposting of this caliber. Someone got paid to write this lmao

    3 votes