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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I hadn't read this exact article but still commented because I've read about the same events in other publications.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I read somewhere that people who fork over money for a special visa to Saudis Arabia have access to air conditioned stations along the way. Most likely the Egyptians are doing it unofficially, which is likely easier to get away being in the general region already.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I both agree and disagree. I agree that there isn't going to be a single 'straw', because everyone's thresholds are different. For me it was back when Microsoft auto-upgraded my PC to Win 8, which was also when they started putting in hard-to-disable telemetry and bad UI. It sounds like Recall is the threshold for some other people.

Also don't discount that MS' market share is dominated by a ton of corporate users (who lack a choice) and casual users (who don't care / are unaware), but at least anecdotally they've been losing the power users in my life, which if true in general which will have negative downstream effects for them moving forward (IT departments working to support alternatives, software developers refusing to build on Windows Server / MS software stack, etc.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

He's a Florida resident though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

There may be a component that felons have to have finished their sentence which could exclude Trump.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That just means the DDOSer is taking Internet Archive down without any further work required.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Lol I'm neither Graeme Wood nor am I associated with Israel in any way. At the start of this conflict I was much more pro-Israel but it's been clear that they don't care one iota about minimizing civilian causalities (or worse, they do care but in the opposite direction). But being anti-Hamas doesn't make you pro-Israel - sometimes there are conflicts where both armed sides absolutely suck and civilians are stuck in the middle, and this is one of them.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I too use Kagi but it's worth noting that Kagi gets most of its results by paying and using other search engines including Google and Bing, so it's not 100% independent or immune from say Bing's outage. Still the best option by far though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Only to countries that are part of the ICC. Many countries, including the US, aren't a part so Netanyahu can safely travel to those places.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Cue them freaking out when bearded hairy trans men are forced to use women's washrooms because of this law.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Many condo projects take years to complete. Are you suggesting that years ago, when housing prices reached their peak, condo developers should have stopped development?

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