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kbal, to piracy in I Know What You Download (via torrent)
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Could be worse. Someone sharing my IP is into really freaky stuff like "kubuntu-23.10-desktop-amd64.iso"

kbal, (edited ) to piracy in Visits to piracy websites have increased 12% in the past four years
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12% over four years? Damn. Somehow I had the impression that there'd been a significant increase.

Netflix revenue is up by roughly 60% in the same four years.

kbal, to news in Elon Musk says Ireland's Leo Varadkar 'hates Irish people'
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Yes but what did Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, and Ben Shapiro have to say about it? What about David Duke? Was he unavailable for comment? You can't just go to Elon all the time, let's get some diversity of opinion in there.

kbal, to privacy in The Irish government wants to pass a law that could see you or your loved ones jailed for possession of memes, cartoons or any content that could be deemed "hateful".
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It's too bad you couldn't find a link to somewhere other than x.com. Just going by the headline though, this could lead to great new career opportunities for Irish black market contraband meme dealers.

kbal, to risa in "I'm Rick Berman, and I'm a piece of S%^#"
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Apparently some doctors are of the opinion that keeping your mouth shut can also be helpful in severe cases of Rick Berman disease.

kbal, to linux in Mozilla Firefox 122 Is Now Available for Download, Here's What's New
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will finally ship with a DEB package for Debian-based distributions

That's good news for the more specifically Ubuntu-based distributions and their users. I trust that Debian will continue to build its own packages.

kbal, to privacy in Am I running the risk of getting my Google account banned for logging into the Aurora Store or a custom rom like GrapheneOS?
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Nobody will be able to give you a definitive answer. Google's ways are unknowable. You are running the risk of losing your Google account by having a Google account.

kbal, to news in China is slowly erasing Tibet's name
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It's remarkable that Tibetan culture has been so tenacious that there's anything left of it today. If the government of 50 years ago had been able to exert the kind of control over its people that they do today, it's hard to imagine that it wouldn't have been fully eradicated by now.

kbal, to piracy in FBI and Austria's C4 Hit Z-Library with a New Wave of Domain Seizures
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Ah right, there was a book I've been meaning to download. Thanks for the reminder, FBI!

kbal, to privacy in FTC bans one more data broker from selling your location info
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When it comes to location tracking and many other things, data retention and use policies are just a useful distraction from the real problem which is that they're able to collect the data at all.

kbal, to risa in You grew up in Minsk, Worf. Did you never go outside?
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By the mid 23rd century most cats had chosen to return to their home planet.

kbal, to linux in The magic behind configure, make, make install - How it works in Unix
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Make is simple, easy, and effective. It's just "configure" that's full of black magic.

kbal, to news in China's Xi says reunification with Taiwan is 'inevitable' in New Year's address
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Sure, it's inevitable. China is so great and prosperous that one day the people of Taiwan will see reason and enthusiastically petition to join it. This will obviously happen some day, so there's no need to do anything but sit back and wait for it, President Xi.

kbal, to privacy in Paris Olympics Host a New Event: Algorithmic Video Surveillance
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I for one will be ready to do my civic duty and walk around randomly making stabbing and punching gestures (aimed at friends who've agreed to it) while holding a banana or some other vegetable that might more closely resemble a knife, should such a system ever threaten this part of the world. After all, I have nothing to hide.

kbal, to risa in historical materialism moment
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There is a kind of political power that grows out of the barrel of a gun. That thing must be destroyed.

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