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wds··on Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion
If you say so.
wds··on Hit men aren't what you think
"Anyone famous" in the vast, vast majority of cases is completely detached to the cause of anyone's death or further suffering as a health insurance CEO would be.
wds··on UK counter-terrorism unit demands Steam withdraw controversial shooter from sale
Completely untrue.

>In this game, the player does not shoot Israeli civilians, women, children, elderly, only soldiers.

wds··on UK counter-terrorism unit demands Steam withdraw controversial shooter from sale
Neither follows. Of course the UK is nowhere near Iraq in terms of censorship. Yet, here the UK prescribes to their standards on grounds just as hollow.

Think about what makes this case different, why it was treated as such, and what the motivations were (Hint: Not related to counter-terrorism).

wds··on UK counter-terrorism unit demands Steam withdraw controversial shooter from sale
> based on playing as bad guys.

You gave it away.

wds··on UK counter-terrorism unit demands Steam withdraw controversial shooter from sale
Completely untrue.

https://counterstrike.fandom.com/wiki/IDF

https://counterstrike.fandom.com/wiki/SEAL_Team_6 https://counterstrike.fandom.com/wiki/GSG-9 https://counterstrike.fandom.com/wiki/FBI

wds··on UK counter-terrorism unit demands Steam withdraw controversial shooter from sale
It's comparable to most Call of Duty games at the minimum, many of which have maps in completely residential and commercial areas. Russian airport terminals, Ukranian apartment blocks, etc.

Also- considering the plotline of the game, in which the protagonist is fighting off an invading IDF military, is that flag you see Israel (Israel) or Israel (Occupied Palestinian territory)?

> Missions across real places in Palestine

Seems like the latter, with no evidence for the former.

wds··on UK counter-terrorism unit demands Steam withdraw controversial shooter from sale
Video game NPC killed using a sword- the bad, horrible kind of killing, versus if he had used an assault rifle or other firearm- the ethical, humane way of killing.
wds··on UK counter-terrorism unit demands Steam withdraw controversial shooter from sale
So, should the UK be considered to be on the same level as Iraq for freedom of expression now, or?
wds··on End of an era: Apple's SuperDrive has sold out after 16 years
Doesn't flash storage need to be plugged in occasionally, or else it suffers data loss from the cell charges dissipating?

I thought a mechanical hard drive was the go-to consumer-level way to backup long-term (tapes being higher but harder).

wds··on MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5
Why not store emulated RAM on disk and get the full 512KB experience? Killing the drive from overuse? Surely the flash speed of the RP2040 surpasses the RAM speed of the original Mac.
wds··on Former University of Iowa hospital employee used fake identity for 35 years
We're all dirt under the boot of cancer patients and orphaned animals
wds··on DEF CON 32 Was Canceled. We Un-Canceled it
Now you're thinking like a hacker!
wds··on Database of artists used to train Midjourney AI garners criticism
As opposed to real jobs like looking at some resumes emailed to you and clicking yes or no on your MacBook
wds··on The I Hate AI License
It would, but this license was developed over a blanket fear of AI and not to solve any specific problem.

It's a social statement, not a true legal document.

wds··on A New Look for Bluesky: The Social Butterfly
I've preferred it to Mastodon so far. Way too many abilities to it; BlueSky is just Twitter but open and not much more, which really, is all I want anyways.
wds··on HTML, the Programming Language
Everybody's so creative!
wds··on Add dark mode to your website with a single line of code
Add movement to your vehicle chassis with a single piece of whole engine
wds··on Fail2Ban
I like occasional discussions on these things. People sharing tips, experiences, pitfalls, etc. It gets everyone in one place at around the same time to do it, like a small digital convention.
wds··on Celebrity Flights
Yes!
wds··on Raspberry Pi 5
I highly doubt that brand-new Raspberry Pis and used PCs on eBay have anywhere close to comparable failure rates.
wds··on iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus
If one breaks, then the other cable can carry both.
wds··on Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge
Digg is 'still around', too.
wds··on Organic Maps
Can't trust Apple/Google, can't trust OSM, can't trust paper maps...

What's the right answer here?

wds··on Google’s Plan to DRM the Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood For
Thankfully, there is an apt definition for evil nowadays: Google.
wds··on How to find a street in 2 minutes [video]
The tool is banned.

Legitimate users no longer have access to it, Bad actors continue to use the software on their own hardware anyways.

wds··on Reddit Strike Has Started
>Tildes is currently in invite-only alpha

Worked great for Google+!

wds··on SafeGPT: New tool to detect LLMs' hallucinations, biases and privacy issues
If you used some sort of plugin system, you could just make a solver for your specific task and drop it in. Doesn't ChatGPT Plus do this now?
wds··on The US-Canada border cuts through the Haskell Free Library and Opera House
well i have a DOZEN dozen times!

what value to the discussion does one-upping bring here?

wds··on Enhance Speech from Adobe – Free AI filter for cleaning up spoken audio
Whatever happened to Voco, their 'photoshop for voice'? I'm not a frequent HN poster, so I don't know how to 'properly' cite the presentation, but I remember them showing it off years ago and... nothing came of it.
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