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18107

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  • FBI warns Iran aspired to attack California with drones in retaliation for war: Alert

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  • I'm not from America.

    The rest of the world is watching the orange idiot and wondering what he'll destroy next.

    I just tried to send a package to another country (also not America) and the entire process has been made far more complicated because his tariffs exist. I can see the politicians in my country trying to follow his lead and destroy this country too. I hear about the holocaust level of kidnapping on the news, and watch people trying to fight back on social media.

    America is on the front stage of the world, for all the wrong reasons. Most of the world is aware of America, and really does care about it's politics.

  • Lutris is AI slop now

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  • Technical debt is a very real thing that has been around for a long time and is well documented.

    AI code is not old enough for the technical debt to have really hit hard yet.

  • FBI warns Iran aspired to attack California with drones in retaliation for war: Alert

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  • This just sounds like another excuse for a "preemptive strike". Why would Iran attack a state that is generally opposed to war?

    The government lies. We've seen them lie. We've seen so many cases of the CIA lying. Why would I believe the FBI about this.

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  • I wonder if they would ever understand this, or just think it's a cool fact.

  • Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own

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  • Are they going to sue to operating system owners next? What about the web browser that offers the steam installer download?

  • Numbers don't lie

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  • sloppy one

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  • I heard there was a person hired specifically to keep Elon away from the critical areas so he doesn't try to overrule a decision and destroy the company.

  • Fairphone posted 83% year-on-year growth in Q4 2025 - A journey away from Big Tech to a more sustainable alternative

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  • It sounds like a faulty device to me. I recommend reaching out to customer support at a minimum.

  • Fairphone posted 83% year-on-year growth in Q4 2025 - A journey away from Big Tech to a more sustainable alternative

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  • I didn't know you could use different launchers until a few weeks ago. I'm so much happier with Lawnchair.

  • Fairphone posted 83% year-on-year growth in Q4 2025 - A journey away from Big Tech to a more sustainable alternative

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  • Yes, microG is on /e/OS by default. I believe my bank uses some of the security features from Play Services that aren't in microG.

    I'm not 100% sure that it can't be fixed, but it's such a minor nuisance that I don't think it's worth my time to investigate.

  • Fairphone posted 83% year-on-year growth in Q4 2025 - A journey away from Big Tech to a more sustainable alternative

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  • Fairphone 6

    My bank app will install, but I can't login unless I also install Google Play Services. The website works fine without.

    No issues with other apps. I do prioritise installing from F-Droid whenever possible.

  • System76 on Age Verification Laws

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  • if the AI breaks something it will be apparent.

    No, it isn't usually apparent. Most bugs from AI are subtle edge cases that will only show up later. One of those "later" instances night be when you try to run it on a different computer, or when another user presses buttons in an order you didn't try, or when you try to add a new feature, or worse, when someone tries to hack your code and finds all the common security vulnerabilities because that's what the AI has seen most often and copied.

    AI can't think – it can only give results it has seen before or some combination of them. We already know AI can't produce an image of a full glass of wine, or tell you what year is next year on Jan 1st.

    The technology can't work. No matter the input prompt, it just isn't capable of producing code with no bugs or edge cases. That requires thinking and logical deductions, both disproven by the examples in the previous paragraph.

  • System76 on Age Verification Laws

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  • I tried it recently, it still doesn't work.

    You will get more logic errors than you could possibly imagine. Even when you've fixed the obvious errors and it seems to run, you still have an enormous number of edge cases not handled that make your project a buggy, insecure mess.

    It's the Dunning–Kruger effect again. If you can't do it yourself, you don't notice that AI can't do it either.

  • A tempting offer

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  • Fewer hours should be a good thing.

    Capitalism ruined that by taking the income from the people who were working and giving it all to the already rich people.

    With adequate distribution of wealth (such as universal basic income), people will rejoice when their job is replaced by automation, because then they'll have more free time.

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    TIL owning a dog was associated with a 24% lower risk of dying from all causes over the course of 10 years

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  • That's correct. It's an example of why assuming that "correlation = causation" can lead to some bad decisions.

    Drinking wine and living longer are correlated, but it is not likely that one causes the other. It is more likely that there is something else (such as disposable income) that causes both.

    In a similar way, ice-cream sales and drownings peak at the same time every year. The ice-cream is not causing people to drown, and neither are drowning people buying a significant amount of ice-cream. Both can be attributed to the higher temperatures of summer.

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    TIL owning a dog was associated with a 24% lower risk of dying from all causes over the course of 10 years

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  • A random magazine comparing average lifespan of different countries.

    Another possible explanation would be that most of the high lifespan countries had universal healthcare.

    I doubt any efforts went into fact checking as the magazine just used the fact to promote wine drinking.

  • What's the browser(s) you use?

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  • Waterfox

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    TIL owning a dog was associated with a 24% lower risk of dying from all causes over the course of 10 years

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  • People who drink wine live longer.

    It's not the wine that's extending people's lives, it's the healthcare and lower stress from having enough money to afford wine.

  • I'm stuck

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