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blahyawnblahon Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS

You should probably edit your original comment to be updated to remove both things you were wrong about

Can you tell me about your engine?

blahyawnblahon DIY Home Solar System for under $5000 (2025)

They way that site automatically updates the hash, makes it super annoying to use the back button. Every section on the site changes it. User hostile.

blahyawnblahon He saw an abandoned trailer, then uncovered a surveillance network

I don't like it but I can kind of understand hiding it. People change their behavior if it's obvious.

blahyawnblahon Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app

Can't they just link out to their site to do billing?

blahyawnblahon AI coding assistants are getting worse?

2022. When chatgpt first came out. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/why-one-man-is-archiving-...

blahyawnblahon NYC Spends $200 Million on Cell Service for School Chromebooks

The company they leased it has already made their money back

blahyawnblahon Days since last GitHub incident

Yes I would image the issues are due to doing a migration period. Not the fact that it's moving to Azure in and of itself.

blahyawnblahon Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine

What are they actually accused of? That article doesn't mention any specifics.

blahyawnblahon Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy

It loads fine for me. Maybe you have some other problem?

blahyawnblahon Apple has a private CSS property to add Liquid Glass effects to web content

Microsoft doesn't punish you for using those though.

blahyawnblahon CVC acquires majority stake in Namecheap for $1.5B

Typically you just need to unlock the domain, obtain an authorization code from your current registrar, and then initiate the transfer process with the new registrar.

blahyawnblahon FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support

The stock chrome browser Google news uses

blahyawnblahon Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship

I don't keep track of my serial numbers. No one does except banks. Banks don't know who gets what serial number when you withdraw cash.

blahyawnblahon U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites

No. The president is the commander in chief. I can't remember the president or the situation but a long time ago a president attacked and said "I'm sending the troops" then senate/congress had to approve it or troops would be stranded.

blahyawnblahon Airbnb is in midlife crisis mode

I'm not a huge fan of Airbnb but having a spot where 8 people can all hang out together without having to walk across a hotel can be nice.

blahyawnblahon Default styles for h1 elements are changing

I've always been under the impression that there was only one <h1> per page

blahyawnblahon Drag Racers Are Ditching Superchargers for Scuba-Style Tanks and Compressed Air

People like to go fast and they like the challenge. And newer race cars have a good bit of technology in them.

blahyawnblahon MLB says Yankees’ new “torpedo bats” are legal and likely coming

You'd have to make the playoffs first

blahyawnblahon Netflix to invest $1B in Mexico over next 4 years

What was their boom based on?

blahyawnblahon Blue Origin New Glenn Mission NG-1 – Live

Job failed with transient error with 23 seconds to go

blahyawnblahon AI in the 80s? How a Simple Animal Guessing Game Pioneered Machine Learning

It can be difficult to find hero images for articles like this, so people generate them. Why is that bad to you?

blahyawnblahon Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge

They're not saying they're the bad guys

blahyawnblahon Hit men aren't what you think

You have to wait at least 8 months (it varies) to get a suppressor when you buy one. You also have to submit passport photos, get finger printed by either the sheriff or police chief, and then wait. This is in addition to a regular NICS type check.

blahyawnblahon Every V4 UUID

Same for me on Firefox windows

blahyawnblahon We outsmarted CSGO cheaters with IdentityLogger

10 years is a limited duration

blahyawnblahon What is the history of the use of "foo" and "bar" in source code examples? (2012)

It's clear. Fucked Up

blahyawnblahon IRS Direct File adds 12 additional states, covers more tax situations in 2025

https://www.freetaxusa.com while not exactly free has been cheap and great for me

blahyawnblahon Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30? (2017)

You can't really expect that old of a version of Debian to be up to date