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sparky

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Lead administrator of federate.cc and its services. Please don’t DM me for support with federate.cc, make a post in /c/meta instead.

Originally from Fort Lauderdale 🇺🇸, lived many years in Vienna 🇦🇹, now living in Setúbal 🇵🇹. Software engineer specialized in Apple platforms. 🌎

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Wait what? So you can’t ever take a full day or days off?

sparky,
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The problem is that the only way to train an AI model is on real images, so the model can’t exist without crimes and suffering having been committed.

sparky,
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This is good news, but if I understand the article correctly, it sounds like the EU is not actually passing along the seized assets, but the interest generated on it - so e.g. a few billion per year in dividends and whatnot, as opposed to the underlying hundreds of billions they seized from Russia.

sparky,
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Okay, if it makes you feel better, we can call it premeditated mass-murder instead.

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What the fuck

https://lemmy.federate.cc/pictrs/image/205a25e6-c771-48df-af93-19a6781255e9.png

sparky,
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I’m a iOS developer just lurking here but, are paid features in custom ROMs common? Since they’re all downstream of AOSP, wouldn’t it be possible to bypass anything like that fairly easily by just commenting out the paywalls and building the ROM yourself?

sparky,
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🎶 Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me. We pillage, we plunder, we rifle and loot. Drink up me ‘earties, yo ho. We kidnap and ravage and don’t give a hoot. Drink up me ‘earties, yo ho. 🎶

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Why would anyone have thought otherwise? What are the odds that a world leader of a global power would meet with a regional official from one of the smallest and least politically relevant states in America?

sparky,
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Haha fair point. “M&Ms Macaroni? Ain’t he the pursident of England?”

sparky,
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The timing combined with her weird sociopathic nature make it all but a certainty that her decision to have kids was entirely driven by the possibility of a reduced sentence.

sparky,
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Isn’t it obvious, Joe?

“While I condemn Hamas, and supported Israel’s right to defend itself in the aftermath of the attacks, the use of force in reprisal has become excessive - beyond what is justified or acceptable. So effective immediately, I’m halting all arms shipments to Israel, and calling on President Netanyahu to withdraw IDF troops from Gaza and the West Bank.”

Problem solved.

sparky,
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R&D is cheap when you steal it from western companies!

sparky,
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It’s actually Argentina and Chile, which tips that calculus in our favour given they’re friendly western developed nations.

worldpopulationreview.com/…/lithium-reserves-by-c…

sparky,
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Definitely wise to pick an EU member state to escape the law. This guy has probably never heard of extradition.

sparky,
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lol yea, even in Russia the headlines are always “person falls mysteriously out of window” and not “Putin stabs opponent in face with knife, lets out evil laugh”

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I pay 15€ a month in Portugal for unlimited data, sms, calls etc and it even includes roaming in the rest of Europe 😊

sparky,
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It’s because “home” in this formation is an adverb, whereas school is a noun. You can be an adverb- I’m surprised, I’m exhuasted… - but you must be at a noun (or on, or in, or some other preposition).

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From another publication I would have said, it’s the same recycled bigotry trying to paint LGBT identities as being something wrong that needs to be cured - either a (wrong) choice, or a medical condition, etc.

From this publication I would have expected greater care to avoid phrasing that makes this kind of categorisation.

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Not surprising, but disappointing

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Imagine going on vacation to a foreign country and physically attacking the locals for something they’re doing. Nobody is forcing you to travel abroad. If you don’t like it, don’t go.

sparky,
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Unsurprising and it won’t be the last. This is what happens when you build a meme instead of a car.

sparky, (edited )
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There are a ton of other WebKit/Blink based browsers to choose from! Safari, Vivaldi, Brave… not to mention good old Firefox and Gecko!

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I mean… yes? If you’re saying that Chrome sucks now, then why would you want to switch on some platforms but not others?

sparky,
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Technically not really, I just said WebKit to avoid breaking down the whole fork situation in my comment. Blink isn’t that different in reality so, WebKit for simplicity. Safari and Chrome are much closer to one another than Firefox is to either, so 🤷‍♂️

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They are practically the same thing.

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