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papermacheteon Dr. Fauci Backed Controversial Wuhan Lab for Risky Coronavirus Research

Can I watch some CCTV footage? See the background and qualifications and assignments of every worker there? Get a spreadsheet of the budgeting?

papermacheteon Dr. Fauci Backed Controversial Wuhan Lab for Risky Coronavirus Research

You mean the taxpayer? The people who make labs and research financially possible?

papermacheteon Dr. Fauci Backed Controversial Wuhan Lab for Risky Coronavirus Research

Sure, right after they keep all operations transparent and data public.

papermacheteon We need more video games that are social platforms first, games second

Those fail. Battlelog failed, Autolog failed, Second life is a disaster, VR Chats are great for memes. So no, the market has decided we don't need more but better such games.

papermacheteon Why is the latest Intel hardware unsupported in libreboot? (2017)

Libreboot is blob-free.

papermacheteon Why is the latest Intel hardware unsupported in libreboot? (2017)

System76 sells coreboot and ME-disabled computers at quite a mark-up. Yay free market.

papermacheteon The cost of a 1TB SSD drive just dropped below $98

You are not realistically going to be bottlenecked at 500MB/s unless you load few large files.

papermacheteon SUVs parked on cargo ships reveal scope of U.S. auto market glut

You can also try ChrisFix for when fit hits the shan or general maintenance. It's really simple...

papermacheteon I don’t want to be patronized and much less by a software vendor

If you keep getting downvoted, why don't you get a clue?

papermacheteon Pop OS 20.04 LTS

It's also irrelevant it was a AMD-shilled CPU.

papermacheteon Please get your parents off Facebook

Sure it's their fault, Facebook moderation is lax at best and discriminatory at worst.

papermacheteon CO2 emissions set to fall nearly 8% this year, the largest drop in history

People want to live their lives and let politicians handle global warming, as it should be.

papermacheteon Google Play has been spreading advanced Android malware for years

Fdroid, ubuntu store, Discover, etc are all graphical interfaces to these. There is no reason to have one authority over packages.

papermacheteon Google Play has been spreading advanced Android malware for years

That's why you have package managers to work with thousands of repos for you.

papermacheteon German government to bail Lufthansa out of bankruptcy with nearly $10B state aid

Thanks for your taxes.

papermacheteon Apple aims to sell Macs with its own chips starting in 2021

For the same price as a macbook, you can get a more powerful Dell that will run bloated apps faster than macbook runs "lean". Then again you can also slightly tweak Linux for any low latency scenario that is needed.

papermacheteon Apple aims to sell Macs with its own chips starting in 2021

Or run virtual machines like Android users do.

papermacheteon Employees refuse to return to work as long as they’re getting extra $600/week.

They cannot as the President put immigration on halt.

papermacheteon Team Fortress 2 source code has leaked

There was (is?) also remote code execution on counter-strike 1.6 servers valve didn't act upon for 10+ years.

papermacheteon Coronavirus may mean automation is coming sooner than we thought

That's currency, not money. USD is not money in the theoretical sense.

papermacheteon Plan for 5 Years of Lockdown

At worst, some countries get communist revolutions forcing distribution of wealth. This is the path of least death.

papermacheteon Why US outsourced bat virus research to Wuhan

You don't just publish a study and have it cemented as fact to end all other studies.

papermacheteon 73% Of Inmates At An Ohio Prison Test Positive For Coronavirus. 0 deaths so far

Would politicians go so far as human vaccine testing on inmates?

papermacheteon The NSA called me after midnight and requested my source code (2018)

If we are to trust anything on the web, then social engineering is a basic part of NSA education.

papermacheteon The NSA called me after midnight and requested my source code (2018)

Are you being naive on purpose, friend?

papermacheteon Supreme Court says criminal convictions require unanimous juries

Why is there a racial functional difference between jurors in your mind? Why should black people be judged by black people only?

papermacheteon Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far

Do nvidia profile inspector and reshade work in Linux?

papermacheteon Employers who use software to take screenshots of workers’ computers

Paywalled article, please post the full version.

papermacheteon Kiwi Browser - Android Chrome based browser with extensions support

How did they check and verify that?

papermacheteon Kiwi Browser - Android Chrome based browser with extensions support

Beware, the binary .apk's have unreleased patches you can't get from compiling yourself.