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Re:Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone on Friday October 23, 2026 @12:45PM (#50211845)
It’s reasonable to like to hack things, but to want a phone that just works.
Look at this tyrant trying to ban popular ideas that he doesn’t like.
The US still generally has freedom of speech and association. We don’t ban political parties from organizing, nor do we tell voters who they cannot vote for.
“party is actively working, in a combative and aggressive manner, to damage or destroy the democratic constitutional system in Germany”

You declared it, so it must be true.

CFPB is inherently political, like all government agencies. Of course it ignored the debanking issue. CFPB was just serving its current masters.
ACA literally forced every person in the US to become a customer of health insurance companies.
Re:France's tax agency got hacked (in French) on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @09:26AM (#49433658)
We have a certain degree of financial privacy rights in the rest of the world.
It automatically saves and reopens whatever you previously pasted in there. Quite a shock the first few times it happens. It's not a safe temporary holding area anymore.
Marketing turds can't just block registrations from all of @icloud.com.
Re:Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker on Sunday August 16, 2026 @10:41PM (#49326001)
Wrong and defamatory. Ouch for your wallet.
Re:Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics on Friday June 19, 2026 @01:12PM (#48600711)
If only they could make an engine or transmission that doesn't blow up at 80,000 miles.
Increased demand will not drive down energy costs.
AdGuard DNS servers are excellent.
Re:Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @09:55AM (#47248372)
So nobody can ever hire someone better at particular skills than they are? Oh boy.
Re:Let's compile Quake like it's 1997 on Sunday February 08, 2026 @02:03PM (#46937371)
"luckily all my projects are now EOL as I am retired."

I doubt that everything you ever worked on is end-of-life. Some of it is still out there...

Re:TikTok's 'Addictive Design' Found to Be Illegal in Europe on Friday February 06, 2026 @09:22AM (#46913162)
Your short form comment is in violation of EU Directive 20.29A. Agents have been dispatched to your home to collect your devices.
Which transit effort did they derail in Nashville? There was nothing on the horizon.
Re:iPhone Pocket: a beautiful way to wear and carry iPhone on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @10:22AM (#45888303)
Who is “we?” Why are you preventing women from having pockets? I’m certainly not.
Re:Drilling Down on Uncle Sam's Proposed TP-Link Ban on Sunday November 09, 2025 @04:49PM (#45869530)
ASUS routers with Merlin firmware work well in a mesh configuration.
Re:NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @11:12PM (#45664540)
What does that have to do with H1B engineers, who typically end up writing crud apps for banks?.
Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications on Friday September 19, 2025 @08:40PM (#45308581)
Who else is going to pretend to rewrite my ancient CRUD apps?
Wikipedia eventually failed.
Re:Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team on Monday August 18, 2025 @03:26PM (#44944313)
FYI calling something "asinine" is not an argument.
The middle of the lane is where cars drip years of oil and coolant.
It’s the whole “forced to take them by the government” that scares them. Ridiculous, since governments have always been trustworthy.
Re:Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update on Saturday July 12, 2025 @08:23PM (#44546400)
Really? I turned off the crypto buttons once several years ago and it’s been just fine since.
Most P2P tools work in a way where you cannot download without simultaneously uploading.
Re:The New York Stock Exchange to Launch NYSE Texas on Friday February 14, 2025 @08:39AM (#43048125)
It’s cute that you think stock exchanges are only used by people who live in that city.
Re:An analysis of DeepSeek's R1-Zero and R1 on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @03:57PM (#42871067)
It's ok, they'll know it when they see it. Keep trying.
Re:Apple squandered the Holy Grail on Monday January 06, 2025 @07:52PM (#42617986)
You cannot install any apps on an iOS device without registering and logging in with an AppleID, which requires both an email address and a telephone number.

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