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  • Whats the worst book anyone has ever recommended you?

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  • Have you read the original? It's half book, half bible study. There are modern copies with most of the religious context removed or shortened which are great.

  • Whats the worst book anyone has ever recommended you?

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  • Yeah the Netflix show was a good watch, agree. Didn't even try the tencent one, I saw it coming...

  • Whats the worst book anyone has ever recommended you?

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  • Yeah agree. I was living in China when it was recommended to me since it was super popular with the locals, but really couldn't get through.

    I did enjoy the Western series though despite the mixed reviews, they reduced all the political clutter to the bare minimum to provide historical context, so maybe that's something to check out instead.

  • Whats the worst book anyone has ever recommended you?

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  • I didn't even make it through the first few chapters, Chinese writing style is just terribly convoluted and full of unnecessary pathos. Reminded me of some early 1700s literature from Britain, like Robinson Crusoe.

  • Their goods just got a whole lot less appealing

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  • Nah the UK adopted EU food safety standards in full and didn't get rid of them post brexit.

    ...yet.

  • Samsung smart fridges have started displaying ads

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  • And probably some Google analytics tracker in the background as well.

  • Samsung smart fridges have started displaying ads

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  • ...yet

  • Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead

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  • But do you know about Windows 10 IoT LTSC?

    Supported until 2032, and comes without copilot and any other garbage, fully supports local accounts, etc.

  • Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn

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  • All it takes is Firefox with some tweaking. Or simply use it with chameleon (browser plugin) that throws fingerprinting off big time.

  • Passenger deaths per 1 billion passenger miles (2000-2009)

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  • The extra passengers make the ferries go down in the first place, so there's that...

  • Passenger deaths per 1 billion passenger miles (2000-2009)

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  • Quite a few crappy ferries sink weekly in South East Asia, usually overloaded way beyond safety margins.

  • Thunderbird Adds Native Microsoft Exchange Email Support - The Thunderbird Blog

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  • I've been using Nine as exchange client since 2014, it's working great. Didn't receive any updates in well over a year though, but that's hopefully because there's nothing needed.

  • Cloudflare is down this morning

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  • If you're stuck with Windows at work, you might have. I couldn't log on to our domain remotely and was unable to open some documents and emails that were signed as "internal use only".

  • Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices

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  • OnePlus, Pixel, Sony, Sharp.

  • US Government Urges Total Ban of Our Most Popular Wi-Fi Router

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  • I used the volume controls for the website in my phone's pulldown menu to stop it, then the music player resumed. Still very much unwanted behavior. Will dig into the page source and see if there's anything hidden.

  • US Government Urges Total Ban of Our Most Popular Wi-Fi Router

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  • I'll do some digging in the code and see if I can come up with a custom filter for ublock.

  • US Government Urges Total Ban of Our Most Popular Wi-Fi Router

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  • Nope there wasn't anything visible, I've been scrolling up and down to verify. Unless the video was somehow truncated or scaled to 1x1 px or something.

  • US Government Urges Total Ban of Our Most Popular Wi-Fi Router

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  • It's a clone of the official Firefox repo stripped of all telemetry.

  • IRS lawyer starts hot dog stand during shutdown, says he’s “never felt so free and fulfilled” - Dexerto

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  • Never heard of that website, looks like a bunch of gaming related stuff without proper sourcing outside of twitch and tiktok. Are they in any way reliable?