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www.thedrive.com 5d ago

Flock Safety had a car journalist stalked, wrongly accused, and detained

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www.youtube.com 5mo ago

Someone made an live version of BMO from Adventure time (Local LLM) [video]

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theexceptioncatcher.com 6mo ago

Is This the Future of Software Development? (2026 Predictions)

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theexceptioncatcher.com 10mo ago

Beyond Single Commands: SDKMan's Hidden Environment File Feature

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theexceptioncatcher.com 10mo ago

Open Ports- lsof doesn't always give you what you're looking for

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theexceptioncatcher.com 1y ago

Web Serial: The Only Reason I'll Admit JavaScript Isn't All Bad (But Mostly Is)

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theexceptioncatcher.com 1y ago

Remotely Accessing Your Local AI Services with Wake-on-LAN and a Web Proxy

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theexceptioncatcher.com 1y ago

Kafka in 2025: A Clean Docker Compose Setup Without ZooKeeper

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doing-stupid-things.as59645.net 1y ago

New Nextcloud v31 default setting might leak out user data

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theexceptioncatcher.com 1y ago

Antipatterns

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flaviuspopan.com 1y ago

The Elixir Year: A Technical Sabbatical

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www.wired.com 1y ago

Almost unfixable "Sinkclose" bug affects AMD chips

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theexceptioncatcher.com 2y ago

'The good days' of software engineering in 2020-2022

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sfstandard.com 2y ago

Reddit Taken to San Francisco Court for Firing Worker with Anxiety

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www.wired.com 3y ago

German Government abusing Face Recognition to catch private nudes

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cla-assistant.io 3y ago

Open-source projects are demanding legal agreements to create PRs

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blog.jetbrains.com 4y ago

JetBrains/Intelij is increasing their prices

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github.com 4y ago

Major perforamnce enhancement to Wiremocks via removing duplicated parsing

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twitter.com 4y ago

Think you've had a bad week? Try losing 24$mil

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www.scientificamerican.com 4y ago

We Need to Upgrade Our Face Masks–and Where to Get Them

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

The Crunch Culture Conundrum /Software Engineering

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twitter.com 5y ago

Google Bans Parler from the Google Play Store

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www.infosecurity-magazine.com 6y ago

City Blocks Email Account of Alderman Who Refuses Cybersecurity Training

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twitter.com 7y ago

CloudFlare Enables Domain Hijacking

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www.gatesnotes.com 7y ago

Bill Gates endorses silicon valley

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faq.whatsapp.com 7y ago

Whatsapp Backups no longer count against your Google drive quota

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www.wired.com 9y ago

Project Jigsaw seeks to re-educate people with “wrong views” through ML

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theexceptioncatcher.com 9y ago

Response To: Quality vs. Quantity and the Ceremantic Art Students

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www.marketwatch.com 9y ago

Intel buys 15% stake in mapping Company HERE

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theexceptioncatcher.com 9y ago

My Christmas Wishlist for Groovy/Java/Scala (2016)

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We're running into situations where the usage of smart phones and apps are becoming mandatory for using services.

For example: The UK has a digital ID requirement which is required for you to be employed in the UK. Additionally the EU digital identity services have a hardware/software attestitation that is required to run their apps. (Many of those which 3rd party software can't run).

Another example of this is the Australian eTA - (Everyone has to have a visa to visit Australia.. but the real only way to get a visa* is you have to get an electronic travel authorization which only works via an App)

https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-gu...

Apps that ban graphene-os being used:

    myGov (Australian government app)
    gov.br (Brazilian government app)
    Ticketcorner
    Authy
    Chyrpe Dating
    TextNow
    mada Pay (Saudi NFC payment app)
    McDonald's (International app used for many but not all countries not including the US)
    Dott
    My SEAT (Connectivity for SEAT cars)
    SwissID
    Volkswagen
    BKK Faber-Castell & Partner
    TK-Doc
    TK-Ident
    TK-App (Blocks access to TK-Safe, TK-GesundheitsMessenger, fingerprint login)
    IO (Italian government app which uses it to gate access to the digital wallet feature)
    PosteID (Italian postal service’s app used to access the national digital identity system "SPID")
    Singpass

Oh I agree with you. However, the stress does add up, and the businesses escalate to get worse.

I.e. costco introduces self checkout, don't use it, then they start putting people to pester you to use it/try to check your card before you get to where you need (because non-members use self checkout), then they introduce door checking of membership.. all of this is over their desire to reduce staff in the store and force self checkout.

I mean that's super easy.

Go to a restaurant. Oh you better tip 20-30-50% (Because thats how they hide the bill, and put the lowest value on there). Bad service? YOU MONSTER YOU TIPPED 15% (15% is standard, and on top of higher prices- that is more money.. service+restaurant owners basically forced a 5%+ pay raise for no value). On top of that.. oh no menus.. get your own device so you can order from us.

Walk into a grocer.. no cashier so you can avoid the stupid self checkouts, oh wait now they want you to comply to scan to get out. Don't do that you'll get some employee trying to lecture you about "required behavior". (That was in the Freiberg (Germany) grocer) Not doing that. (Also apparently thats in the Edeka in the Munich airport as well)

Go to Walmart, they brought back receipt checkers at times. And they get pissy when you tell them to go pound sand.

Overall, security guards at these places have such an ego and power trip that affects the average honest customer.

Removing checkout staff for self checkout machines that grade and judge you on your cashier role. Yet you don't get paid.

Let's not forget that Walgreens over exagerated the loss.. and then ramped up their money recovery systems to lock up items + raise the prices. Then they admitted they were crappy.

Don't forget to send your congress person a reminder about what their vote for age verificiation systems does.

Find your rep at congress.gov. Email or mail them this article.

So.. https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7757...

Find your rep on congress.gov, and write them.

Sponsors: Brett Guthrie (R-KY) CoSponsors: Frank Pallone (D-NJ)

Find and write your congress member: https://www.congress.gov/

Guthrie is sponsored by: (Alpahbit is the biggest) https://www.opensecrets.org/profiles/brett-guthrie /us_congress/summary?mpid=1048046

Frankie: (AIPAC, Anthropic and Comcast) https://www.opensecrets.org/profiles/n00000781/us_congress/s...