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oezon AI fan wikis riddled with errors are muddying the waters of games culture

Similarly, radioactive signatures are used to identify modern forgeries of classic oil paintings!

oezon Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability

People do this with ICE cars, so yes.

oezon Career Development: What It Means to Be a Manager, Director, or VP (2015)

I would like to know your definition of a hard asset if you consider bitcoin one.

oezon F-Droid Security Issues (2022)

I now use Obtanium[1] for my open source android apps, it grabs apks straight from the source (github, gitlab etc.). Once you get each app set up its a breeze and you don't have to deal with fdroids strangeness.

[1] https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium

oezon USB On-The-Go

Aren't you agreeing with TFA then?

oezon Arctic uses a fan to cool another fan

The title of this article really bugs me. It's only one fan, it's cooling itself!!

oezon Paraguay Loves Mickey, the Cartoon Mouse. Disney Doesn't

Peru?

oezon On Dromomania

Working for a PE firm probably helps a lot

oezon Banning open weight models would be a disaster

I'm not sure Facebook and a now Facebook owned platform are good examples for private communications. There was an article posted here a week or two ago detailing how Facebook sold access to the contents of users private messages to advertisers.

oezon Macs can now inform Apple if any liquids have been detected in the USB-C ports

We didn't let them go, they were taken from us by force

oezon Apple's Trademark Exploit

Why are you conflating third party parts with counterfeits? If you actually read the article the reason the shipment was seized had nothing to do with the screens, it was the logo on the reused original parts that Apple believed were counterfeit.

Besides, I'm not American so maybe my view is different, but if a company can pay money to a government agency for increased policing for their benefit, and that government agency raids businesses under the direction of that companies representatives, that is a private force. E: And the fact that it's open for any company to use does not make it better in any way whatsoever.

oezon Apple's Trademark Exploit

That's not at all what is happening though. It's more like if I was to buy crashed Fords at salvage auctions to take the genuine parts from them, and Ford's private stasi force shows up at my house to take everything and then sell them for their own profit.

oezon Scientists unveil fire-safe fuel

Hey now who said it can't be both of those things?

oezon Zadie Smith makes 1860s London feel alive and recognizable

For some reason using reader mode in Chrome/Vanadium on my phone only shows the preview now. If I open it in Firefox/Mull which has JS disabled it shows up fine.

That said I've been trying to avoid NYT due to this anyway.

oezon An Internet Canvas

If you turn on the experimental features you can edit the mobile viewport to be wider