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gccs··on Guantánamo Detainee Agrees to Drop Call for CIA Testimony
They also let billionaires rape thousands of kids because it gives them blackmail material.
gccs··on Should I Stop Trying?
Yeah I wish more people were brutally honest to me
gccs··on Should I Stop Trying?
If a filter for interest in specific animals was in demand by users, why wouldn't one of the big dating apps giants added it already?
gccs··on Irish health service hit by cyber attack
The crypto-revolution and its consequences were a disaster for the human race...
gccs··on Ask HN: My dentist prescribed me a toothbrush that wants to track me forever
Honestly the more I think about this post the more hilarious it becomes. The first round I contemplated the internet of things and found it hilarious how a toothbrush would come with a smartphone app. The internet of toothbrushes. Hahaha

My second round of thought was that OP blindly followed his doctors advice, thinking his doctor was acting in his best interest, and spent a whopping $180 on a toothbrush. I love the comments pointing out how the doctor is likely paid by the toothbrush company to push a product.

The most interesting part is people are having the realization that people in authority that are usually seen as trusted (such as doctors) are capable of acting in their own best interest at the expense of their clients. It reminds me of a YouTube video I watched recently about starwars Lego figures. For years, Lego claimed they were unable to sell starwars figures individually because of licensing issues, and their fanbase believed them. But recently it came out that they were legally allowed to, but decided not to because it would be more profitable for them to force their fans to buy entire Lego sets just for the figures. The realization process that this youtuber goes through is comforting. He realizes that an authority figure (Lego) was takin I'm too fuking lazy to type this shit out. You get the point. Connect it to your government representatives on both sides and realize they don't care about you.

gccs··on Ask HN: My dentist prescribed me a toothbrush that wants to track me forever
I would demand a refund and make a fuss on social media if he refused. I would post negative reviews either way. People in the medical business that are paid to push products are disgusting.
gccs··on Show HN: We wrote a book about building business applications in Go
Can someone just post a PDF of the book so I don't have to give them an email?
gccs··on Swiss spy chief exits after reports of row over CIA-linked firm
The government does not persecute itself. That is how it is able to continuously break the law.
gccs··on Apple hires former Facebook exec Antonio Garcia Martinez to ads team
"Most women" could be replaced with "most people" and it would be a fair statement. The modern western man/woman has become physically weak and lacks the basic skills you'd want in those sorts of situations.
gccs··on Reddit aims to double in size as social news site invests for growth
"News" is nothing but entertainment. Reddit "news" is just as much propaganda as traditional TV/newspaper "news"
gccs··on Amazon Fake Reviews Scam Exposed in Data Breach
When you roll the dice on amazon, you can return it if you don't like it. Its harder to do that on ebay, and impossible to do on aliexpress.
gccs··on Ask HN: Drives for a Home NAS?
Buy 8-10tb easystores. They have white label WD red drives inside. See /r/datahoarder
gccs··on Car Is Spying on You, and a CBP Contract Shows the Risks
The first thing I did when I bought my new car was unplug the cellular module. Sadly, it disabled two of the speakers when it was unplugged. I had to do a bit of research but I was able to reenable the speakers with two bypass wires. I haven't plugged in my phone and I'm not going to. If you car is connected to the internet, you're the product.

This is a favorite incident of mine. https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/google-geofence-locatio...

gccs··on 1 in 5 EV owners in California switched back to gas because charging is a hassle
>but all this "i can fill my SUV in three minutes" stuff is... dumb. know what's even more convenient? never stopping at a stupid gas station ever again. i wait 0 minutes for my car to charge because i plug it in when i get home and then go inside and forget all about it.

If all you life consists of is driving around locally, then yes an EV would be convenient. Luckily, there is way more to life than that.

gccs··on We applied for a job with a ransomware gang
Yes, a fully public ledger was "designed" to be used by criminals.
gccs··on We applied for a job with a ransomware gang
Ah, just like the CIA smuggled cocaine to fund the contras. Intelligence agencies are fun.
gccs··on Anxiety is in your body, not your mind
That is a very interesting event. Its like she knew exactly what was going to happen to you. The stopwatch and everything.
gccs··on 8-bit Turing complete computer that I made in Factorio (2019)
Its funny because 1000 hours isn't even that much in the video game world. I have over 10,000 hours in team fortress 2 from back when I was in high school.
gccs··on One woman's struggle to remove all traces of videotaped sexual assault
If you've been paying attention to the news in the past few years, its been increasingly obvious the lack of research and effort put into new posts. We live in the era of social media where the headline is the only thing that 99% of people read. The actual content of the article is irrelevant. People will be outraged for a second and then continue scrolling and completely forget it existed 5 minutes later. There is no economic incentive for journalists to do any real journalism.
gccs··on Polycloud: S3-compatible object storage
Change it to: exgress is free as long as you don't use it
gccs··on U.S. intelligence community increasingly involving itself in domestic politics
Seeing as senators were aware of Epstein and didnt care, I don't see anything like that happening in the near future. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/cindy-mccain-admits-...
gccs··on Closing web browser windows doesn't close connections
If you open a page, close it, connect to a VPN, then open the page again it will not go through the VPN.
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