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gafage··on Fntastic announces shutdown four days after releasing "The Day Before"
The second paragraph clearly states that it is a game.
gafage··on Beeper Mini is back
I don't see any practical difference between whatsapp and imessage. iphone has so many apis such as callkit that make apps that use them feel like first parties. I think the only real difference is that you can use the built-in messages to read and send sms... which nobody uses anymore.
gafage··on Beeper Mini is back
This has nothing to do with android. iphone comes with an app store and that app store contains lots of messenger applications. Users overwhelmingly download one or several messenger applications from the store and use them instead of imessage. What's the similarity to IE here? IE had over 90% of browser share at some point.
gafage··on Beeper Mini is back
It is less of an issue because of market share. MS crushed Netscape with IE. imessage is not used in the EU
gafage··on Eleanor Cross
What privileged? What do you mean?
gafage··on BSD on Windows: Things I wish I knew existed
What's that irc client?
gafage··on Austin sees mass exodus of ex-Silicon Valley tech companies, here's why
And there must be people who feel exactly the opposite.

As long as there are options then we can all be happy. I guess.

gafage··on Single-Dose Psilocybin for Major Depressive Disorder: Randomized Clinical Trial
Not all depression is "I have no will to live".
gafage··on Is Grok Basically Just an OpenAI Wrapper?
It makes no sense to me that one would train a chatbot on chatgpt conversations and not filter strings that literally say "openai" and "chatgpt". Extreme incompetence.
gafage··on New York approves the first congestion toll in the US: $15 to enter Manhattan
>owning a car already puts you in the upper tier of wealth in the world

In the context of Greater London this is absurd.

gafage··on New York approves the first congestion toll in the US: $15 to enter Manhattan
Low emission zones should be called instead "no poor people zones" which is what in practice they are.
gafage··on Spain expels two US spies for infiltrating secret service
>The Spanish right wing establishment isn't comfortable when not confidently in power, either by directly being in power, or by being sure whoever is in power wouldn't dare to change course on certain policies.

Could say exactly the same about the socialist party. Or any other party, really.

Also: the party that you call right wing is as progressive as the socialist party. They have never done and will never do any change that is not progressive. Last time they were in power they raised taxes, did nothing to the homosexual marriage, abortion, and domestic violence laws, etc etc.

gafage··on Spain expels two US spies for infiltrating secret service
It's not the same when you do it because you need it to be the president.

I don't agree with pardons; it's something that simply shouldn't exist in this day and age. It doesn't matter to me what brand of progressivism does it.

gafage··on Spain expels two US spies for infiltrating secret service
That's a bit of an over-simplification of what actually happened these weeks. Or a tremendous over-simplification, rather.

Not that I really care about the outcome (two parties could've won, and they are both progressive, so I will be unhappy either way), but the methods have crossed a few red lines.

gafage··on Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access
So basically you are making my own argument: we use tons of different apps. What would be the selection screen useful for?

Going further: if we download different messengers, it stands to reason we can download different browsers, therefore if safari is the most used it's because it's the one we choose.

gafage··on Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access
>And a default messenger selection screen.

What for? Everybody in the EU already uses whatsapp. That shows how unnecessary these selection screens are.

gafage··on 5Ghoul: Unleashing Chaos on 5G Edge Devices
You don't need a baseband exploit for that, just a jammer.
gafage··on Amazon's humanoid robots will eventually cost only $3 per hour to operate
What's the point of automating stuff for Amazon if then the gains are taxed?
gafage··on Hot Dog Linux
Spanish is one of the most widely spoken languages and accents can be removed and the result is perfectly understandable.
gafage··on Swedish court rules against Tesla in dispute with postal service over deliveries
Tesla should leave the market and let Swedes buy automobiles from their own brands... like... err... Saab which no longer exists... or Volvo, which now belongs to a Chinese conglomerate...
gafage··on Nanoplastics Likely Worse Than Microplastics; We Know Almost Nothing About Them
I read it and it says that we have no idea of what they do.
gafage··on AMD leaps after launching AI chip that could challenge Nvidia dominance
One side of this claim: https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/shopping/amd-leaps-after...

The other side of this claim: sales numbers of GPUs.

gafage··on AMD leaps after launching AI chip that could challenge Nvidia dominance
According to the news and tech blogs AMD is always ahead of nvidia in all regards. But then, you have real life...
gafage··on The Eval Game
It's made with flutter, that's why it's so laggy and looks odd.
gafage··on AN/PSQ-42
What's the price the army pays for each one of these?
gafage··on Watch electricity hit a fork in the road at half a billion frames per second [video]
The video is half an hour long. Does anybody have a timestamp of when the event in the title happens?
gafage··on W3C Leaves Twitter
It always was political. Only that the politics of Twitter changed and now they do not like them.
gafage··on EU Integrity Watch
"revert the EU to its original purpose, before it was taken over by overreaching bureaucrats: A free trade area."

That seems completely reasonable.

gafage··on EU Integrity Watch
It's likely to get much, much worse: https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/eu-parliament...
gafage··on Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications
Both Apple and Google have root access in the devices. They do not necessarily need to do this.
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