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These are all popular opinions yes
Amazon: famously not evil ad giant.
Yes hi is this performance art or do you stay in character the whole time.

Is a 17 megabyte website "small" these days

Re:Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES on Sunday May 10, 2026 @02:20PM (#48086415)
do we really need both npm and nmp though
"disobeys robots.txt" is more of a feature
Re:Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @07:16AM (#46973989)
Rewrote it in Rust
Re:Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @12:23PM (#46515342)
Meet was discontinued; its functionality was merged into Duo and the resulting app renamed to Meet.
Ronald's Kryptosystem 4
Re:Don't push AI down our throats on Sunday November 30, 2025 @02:06PM (#46099407)
Yeah, my Windows rebooted and then bam, this web page opened itself.
Re:Help Us Raise $200k to Free JavaScript from Oracle on Friday September 19, 2025 @08:47AM (#45301076)
For example, low effort trolling, or self-propagating supply chain attacks.
Re:R-Zero: Self-Evolving Reasoning LLM from Zero Data on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @08:36AM (#45196732)
Good news everyone, you've passed the Turing test.
Re:HTML Is Dead, Long Live HTML on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @11:12AM (#44813100)
[reads the HTML Standard] this is hate speech, essentially
Re:The tools I love are made by awful people on Thursday April 24, 2025 @01:21AM (#43779485)
With the funds raised everyone can be assigned a Linux expert to sit next to them.
Re:A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @09:19PM (#42630193)
They usually spend a minute cursing my mother in a language I don't understand, but they aren't organized enough to note that my number is a huge waste of time.
Rust Evangelion Strike Force
Re:How concurrecy works: A visual guide on Friday December 20, 2024 @07:57AM (#42470715)
> concurrecy
In Chrome devtools, use WebAuthn > Enable virtual authenticator environment to see the result.
Re:Story of the two thousand stolen Playdate handhelds on Friday November 22, 2024 @05:33AM (#42212647)
And the jury's still out on that last bit.
Re:Optical PCIe 7.0 connection hits a blazing 128 GT/s on Monday June 17, 2024 @08:43PM (#40712903)
Eating all this popcorn while I read about people who are super deeply invested in AI or crypto.
He can't even invert a binary tree on a whiteboard.
Smart, there is no known upper bound to what the Dutch will pay for a tulip.
Google Earth still asks me to choose "64 bit .deb (For Debian/Ubuntu)" or "64 bit .rpm (For Fedora/openSUSE)", but I guess user agent sniffing wouldn't help that.
Re:W3C Leaves Twitter on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @03:55PM (#38549338)
Well, he grew up in an apartheid state.
By demanding a ransom, they've already notified the customer that the credentials have been stolen. The value doesn't lie in releasing them.

If they wanted to be paid to steal credentials they should have gotten hired as a red team.

Re:Ask HN: What are your most used Chat GPT prompts on Sunday November 12, 2023 @09:47PM (#38246321)
a highly downvoted comment on the hackernews thread "Ask HN: What are your most used Chat GPT prompts". how about a list of 10

1. "Prompt: 'What's your favorite color, and why is it the best?'"

2. "Prompt: 'Share your most boring daily routine in excruciating detail.'"

3. "Prompt: 'Why do you think pineapple on pizza is a culinary masterpiece?'"

4. "Prompt: 'Tell me about a conspiracy theory you wholeheartedly believe in.'"

5. "Prompt: 'Defend your unpopular opinion on a widely loved movie or TV show.'"

6. "Prompt: 'Explain why Mondays are the best day of the week.'"

7. "Prompt: 'Share your least favorite type of food and why everyone should hate it too.'"

8. "Prompt: 'Convince me that socks with sandals are a fashionable choice.'"

9. "Prompt: 'Describe the most uneventful dream you've ever had.'"

10. "Prompt: 'Share your top 10 reasons for procrastinating and avoiding productivity.'"

Re:What I learned getting acquired by Google on Thursday November 09, 2023 @04:37PM (#38211720)
> This app isn't available for your device because it was made for an older version of Android.

Not "killed off" exactly, no.

WeWork's innovation was "doing exactly that with vc money"
We should improve society somewhat.
Re:Dropbox Axes Unlimited Cloud Storage for Businesses on Friday August 25, 2023 @01:44PM (#37264713)
You could probably put the disks in an enclosure and then you'd only have 1, maybe 2 items to carry around.
Re:Fedora considers “privacy-preserving” telemetry on Friday July 07, 2023 @08:15AM (#36630535)
And those GPT-3.5 calls ain't cheap.

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