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jacksilver

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  • Meta Is Dying. It’s About Time.

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  • Damn, I didn't realize it was still that high. I know that yahoo finance was big for a long time, but figured that had finally passed.

    I guess I wouldn't count that as dead then.

  • MAGAs Are Fuming After Email Confirms They Will Never Get Their $500 Trump Phones or Deposits Back

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  • Risks are only for those who play fair. I'm not sure if there is anything Trump and his family could do that would make them actually face consequences, besides maybe loosing the midterms.

  • MAGAs Are Fuming After Email Confirms They Will Never Get Their $500 Trump Phones or Deposits Back

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  • Anyone else find it hard to believe that there were 600,00 orders for this. That feels like another money laundering situation.

    Edit: 600K

  • Meta Is Dying. It’s About Time.

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  • Worldcom was more than 20 years, but I also don't know how "big" they were.

    Gateway and Compaq might count, although just around the cusp.

  • Meta Is Dying. It’s About Time.

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  • Yeah, I was kinda considering the phone part a separate business and it definitely died after MS bought them.

  • Alabama asks Supreme Court to clear way for Republicans' redrawn voting map

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  • They're talking about the federal Supreme Court effectively overturning the Voting Rights Act this past week - https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-louisiana-alabama-4e3225083caccda5ec73a98533a79add.

    This has caused Louisana to stop an election already happening so they could redistrict, and is what Alabama is referencing for their redistricting push.

    The VA case is different as their redistricting was never a federal issue. The VA Supreme Court said the legislation to kickoff a redistricting went against VA laws.

  • Alabama asks Supreme Court to clear way for Republicans' redrawn voting map

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  • This has nothing to do with first past the post voting. Even if we had something like ranked choice voting gerrymandering would still be a thing. This is about how they're drawing districts for house seats and dividing up voters.

  • What are your BEST tech purchases?

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  • I've been curious about them in the past, what's the quality of the picture on the?

  • What are your BEST tech purchases?

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  • How much work was it to set all that up and how much did it cost? I've messed around with home assistant, but found the upfront cost (in time and money) a bit high for automating a handful of things.

  • Meta Is Dying. It’s About Time.

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  • Yahoo and MySpace come to mind. Probably could count Nokia and Blackberry, although they were more phone/hardware.

    Possibly AOL, but their "death" may have been more than 20 years ago.

    And while technically some of those companies "exist" in some capacity today, I don't think we'd consider any of them except Yahoo as anything but a name/brand at this point.

  • In Huge Blow to Democrats, Virginia Court Strikes Down House Map

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  • I mean, they have biases in certain areas, but they're one of the few news sources that does any actually reporting anymore vs regurgitation. What sources would you prefer?

  • WHY the only men who approach me with amorous intentions are unhealthy, cigarette, alcohol, junk food men??

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    Shrinkflation Is Quietly Making All Gadgets Worse

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  • Besides using the term "shrinkflation" which is arguably a "clickbaity" term in this context, I don't think the article is terrible. It's a bit of a nothing article, as it's something that's been called out for a while, but a lot of new devices on the horizon are providing less (RAM/storage) for the same/higher price.

    Its not the most interesting article, but at least uses real examples demonstrating the effect, which is sadly better than most articles I've read on this topic.

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    RFK Jr. clears path for minors' use of tanning beds, much to the dismay of dermatologists

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  • MAHA is actually such a big part of Trumps base that he's been having a hard time balancing his own desire for money (supporting things like oil and big ag) with the MAHA people.

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    Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane.

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  • It's stated in the second paragraph:

    This week I discovered the same pattern, executed by Google. Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. The file is named weights.bin. It lives in OptGuideOnDeviceModel. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it.

    Its a separate file (as any 4GB download would be).

  • Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026

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  • Yeah, I don't understand how so many companies whiffed on the one vs two thumbstick design. Sony with the PSP, Nintendo with the 3DS, and Valve with the original Steam Controller.

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    Banks seek to offload risk to avoid ‘choking’ on data centre debt

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  • Maybe my memory isn't right, but I thought the big deal with the 08 crash was that few people saw it coming as the bad assets were bundled together with okay assets hiding their real risk. If AI takes down the economy, it's not going to be surprising to most people as many people are calling out how overleveraged some of these companies are.

  • What's Debian going to name their releases after when they run out of Toy Story characters?

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  • Toy Story 5 comes out this summer....... So, yeah

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  • Reading further into, it's a mixed bag. There are people calling it out, but some of the movement of funds is to free up more lending.