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    Instagram user fights DHS for the right to post ICE sightings anonymously

    I am still deeply confused about how ICE gets to go into communities wearing masks and hiding their badges in the first place? You should have to prove your authority before yoinking someone into a barely marked vehicle and racing away with them.
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    Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

    My understand of the way AI works is that they have no guarantee that it can't be tricked into revealing large passages of the ingested works, much like past AI's have been tricked into revealing their past (and usually stolen) training sources. The major difference between a single user...
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    All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week

    You look at this kind of terrible fragmentation and abuse of audience and you begin to understand why movies and TV shows are so readily available via "alternative" sources, while music really isn't. With music, people are shopping around to find the features they want from a streaming service...
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    Fate of the Furious may be fun, but it made my brain hurt

    The F&F series is one of the few that I have literally begged people not to see in theaters, but rather to steal if they absolutely must partake. All in the futile hope that if we can slow the economic impact of one of them, the studio will cancel the ones that come after. Alas, this is not to...
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    That’s a spicy Sentra: Nissan gives its mass-market car the NISMO treatment

    Argh, typo in the first paragraph. "and it marks the ****fist**** time the brand has given the NISMO treatment to a core US Nissan model"
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    iOS 10 reviewed: There’s no reason not to update

    The lack of separation seems like it could be a bit of a gotcha at some point or other. I am frequently known to have code in my clipboard while programming. Get a text message, get distracted, mess with the phone for a while and come back to your Mac and try and paste the code back in to...
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    Report: Apple’s negotiating tactics sunk its long-rumored TV service

    So his "list of demands" was basically asking the networks to allow Apple to build something that would function similarly to what people using Popcorn Time/Kodi/torrents get. Which actually seems kind of reasonable if that's essentially what you're competing with. (And all of the streaming...
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    If you kill the headphone jack, you need to replace it with something better

    This is a great, common-sense article. Would have loved to see it address the use case of trying to use your headphones while charging the phone too.
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    Company Town is one of the weirdest science fiction novels of the summer

    I finished this Tuesday and was not as impressed as I had hoped to be. I love the characters, I had a great time with the world she creates, but I felt that the ending got quite a bit too crazy and wasn't really foreshadowed enough to not feel somewhat out of left-field. If a lot of your...
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    Behind the scenes with DiRT Rally’s punishingly realistic road physics

    There are two possible ways you will be disappointed. First, the damage model is terrible. I don't mean how the cars look after a crash, but rather simulating things like taking a fence post through the radiator or hitting a tree at 60mph and only being down 10% damage at the end of the stage...
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    New Chrome for iOS is finally as fast and stable as Safari

    Unfortunately, still no ad blocker support. I honestly do like the way they present information better, but returning to a land of adware strewn everywhere and commercials before your YouTube videos, etc is not really an option at this point.
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    How the way you type can shatter anonymity—even on Tor

    Yeah but how hard would it be to make a "smoothing" dongle that essentially buffers all your kbd output and releases keystrokes at some predefined interval of ms? I am not an engineer but it sounds like a weekend project to me.
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    What we’d like to see in iOS 9 at WWDC next month

    I desperately want the ability to shuffle music by album in the Music app. It's only been a feature in the iPod since the gen 1, so why the hell did they drop it in the iPhone? Presumably because someone was too busy to implement it but it's insane it hasn't been implemented 8 iterations later.
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    OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review

    Worth noting in the Dock section that they NUKED Dock Pinning completely. No longer in the separator menu (like early OS X), no longer a secret defaults write command (like thru 10.9). But that's OK. Muscle memory only puts my mouse in the wrong area of the screen about 10 or 20 x a day…...
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    Google+ stops forcing all users to use their real names

    But (as of 7/16) they aren't bothering to unsuspend accounts suspended solely for naming policy violations. I was one of the original people to sign up for Google+ and my account has been in some sort of Catch 22 hell for years now. If I log in, it says it's suspended and I need to view my...
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    Epic announces crowdsourced dev model for next Unreal Tournament

    This. One thousand times this! UT99 was an amazing game. It was balanced for fun more than "competitive" gameplay. The further they've developed it, the more my interest in it has wained… (In particular, bring back the pipe bombs on the rocket launcher for those of us who aren't FPS Dougs.) ;)
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    My quest to learn the Dvorak keyboard layout, part 1

    I tried this experiment in the mid-90's. I actually found the DVORAK layout pretty soothing to use and not too much trouble after the first week. As for the holding two modes in your head, this is what eventually made me give up. Turns out that one of the myriad ways that Quark XPress...
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    PS4 owners will need PlayStation Plus subscription for online multiplayer

    What kills me on the PS3 is that you have to LOG IN to use Netflix. What the hell? The first version of Neflix (distributed on an NF DVD) didn't require it, so we know it's possible. By default, I use an account that doesn't link to an online Sony ID simply because it's the only way to keep...
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    Is it really so bad to develop on a production server?

    Back when I used to play a web developer in the late '90's, we used to develop live on the production server all the time--mostly because no one knew any better. Until the day when there was a miscommunication between me and a new programmer hire as to what a function he wrote for me was...
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    Walmart to sell iPhones with a $45 per month unlimited prepaid plan

    So does this mean if I buy one of the "real" nano sims I will get my ability to do MMS text messaging back finally? I just bought an unlocked GSM iPhone 5 this weekend. Did the trim your own nano sim trick successfully, tried to load from my old ATT-locke 3gs and discovered that the damn thing...