Articles by HotGarbage
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[flagged] Force-Fed by ICE (theguardian.com)

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Morality filters have arrived, dear peasants (dedoimedo.com)

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Trump administration drafting ban on Chinese fiber transceivers (reuters.com)

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When You Reject Cookies, You Might Be Agreeing to Arbitration (ericgoldman.org)

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EPA says [dedicated] power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws (reuters.com)

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Teacher Arrested for Clapping in Support of Anti-Data Center Activists (futurism.com)

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More Data on Online Age Authentication Balk Rates (ericgoldman.org)

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What Happened When Flock Came to My Town (404media.co)

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Mullvad and Daniel Berntsson's Failed Cleanup (markwrites.io)

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On Ethics and Usefulness (manuelmoreale.com)

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Hating AI in 2026 (eamoncaddigan.net)

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The Lies They're Telling Towns and Tribes About the Benefits of AI Data Centers (karlbode.com)

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Can't Read Slop Anymore (imraniqbal.org)

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Google Discontinues Google Earth Pro for Desktop (pxlnv.com)

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[flagged] Yes, AI Will Take Your Job (calebjay.com)

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Man sues DHS after agents tracked him down for sending a scathing email to ICE (npr.org)

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The Last Quiet Thing (terrygodier.com)

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Musk demanded proof people died from USAID cuts. He got it – and lost it (oligarchwatch.substack.com)

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CEO of Palantir suffers a bit of a meltdown during live interview (msn.com)

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What Happened to the Fight for the Internet? (dustycloud.org)

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Stop Killing the Internet (stopkillingtheinternet.com)

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ICE Tracks Down Woman to Force Her to Delete Instagram Post (newrepublic.com)

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Zuckerberg's war on whistleblowers (pluralistic.net)

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A Bit of Tedious Drama at Bluesky (popehat.com)

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Windows ME released June 19, 2000 (dfarq.homeip.net)

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AmigaOS 2: The Greatest Upgrade (datagubbe.se)

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Dillo directory – Directory of useful sites that work reasonably well on Dillo (dillo-browser.org)

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When Can Amazon Block an Agentic AI Service?–Amazon vs. Perplexity (ericgoldman.org)

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AI is the greatest money-wasting scheme humanity has ever invented (telegraph.co.uk)

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Hammers Without Handles: Linux UX Sucks (gardinerbryant.com)

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The Nvidia Tax (cringely.com)

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The Enshittification of History (antipope.org)

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HP QuickWeb, Singular and Pointless (gekk.info)

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Signal – Deleted, but Not Forgotten (sintonen.fi)

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Prevent cross-site tracking in Safari breaks Cloudflare challenges (lapcatsoftware.com)

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Marc Andreessen Egg Game (eieio.games)

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The Open Social Web Needs Section 230 to Survive (techdirt.com)

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DHS demanded Google surrender data on a Canadian man over anti-ICE posts (wired.com)

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The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility (xogium.me)

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I Do Not Recommend Bitwarden (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)

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Federation Has a European Legal Problem (connectedplaces.online)

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Emergency First Responders Say Waymos Are Getting Worse (wired.com)

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The Day I Logged 1 in Every 2000 Public IPv4: Visualizing the AI Scraper DDoS (vulpinecitrus.info)

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Tell HN: Spam from Fridayaicore.in

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What Will It Take to Get A.I. Out of Schools? (newyorker.com)

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France Keeps Breaking the Internet to Stop Piracy, Even Though It's Not Working (techdirt.com)

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Privacy Setup for Android 16 with GrapheneOS (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)

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Fighting Internet Contracts One Library at a Time (techdirt.com)

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At long last, InfoWars is ours (theonion.com)

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Why I De-Googled (kevinboone.me)

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I Will Never Respect a Website (wheresyoured.at)

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The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason (theverge.com)

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DOJ Is Using a Grand Jury to Force Reddit to Unmask an Anonymous User (techdirt.com)

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Native Raspberry Pi 3B version of the Oberon System 3 (github.com/rochus-keller)

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A Secret Grand Jury Is Seeking the Identity of a Reddit User Who Criticized ICE (jezebel.com)

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It's open season for refusing AI (bloodinthemachine.com)

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AACS Encryption Key Controversy (wikipedia.org)

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Unmasking the Paramilitary Agents Behind Trump's Violent Immigration Crackdown (wired.com)

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Google, Cloudflare, Cisco Lose Pirate Site DNS Blocking Appeal in France (torrentfreak.com)

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Accessible UML Diagrams (ragman.net)

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The Two Worlds of Programming (baldurbjarnason.com)

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Tech's Empiricism Problem (deadsimpletech.com)

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Stop Trying to Hand Trump a Censorship Weapon (techdirt.com)

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AI Isn't People (todayintabs.com)

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I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Handed Over (thelocalstack.eu)

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Why are they forcing it? (imraniqbal.org)

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt Gets Section 230 Completely Backwards (techdirt.com)

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Exploring a Modern SMTPE 2110 Broadcast Truck with My Dad (jeffgeerling.com)

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It's time for the world to boycott the US (aljazeera.com)

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Protecting Our Right to Sue Federal Agents Who Violate the Constitution (eff.org)

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The AI Dirty List (aidirtylist.info)

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Selfish AI (garfieldtech.com)

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That's not how email works (danq.me)

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5 Misconceptions about Data Protection (noyb.eu)

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Microsoft ordered to stop tracking school children (noyb.eu)

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Tim Cook Attends Screening of Propaganda for Authoritarian's Wife (pxlnv.com)

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Apple 'Honours' Martin Luther King While Working Against His Legacy (pxlnv.com)

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A Canadian's Call to Arms, Being Pissed Off at the State of Computing (vegh.ca)

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How much can a city take? (theverge.com)

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What it's like to be banned from the US for fighting online hate (technologyreview.com)

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Memphis Press Turning Blind Eye to Grok's Creation of Deepfakes (512pixels.net)

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Why doesn't Superman punch out ICE? (lytagold.substack.com)

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Trump's 'Free Speech' Presidency Has Racked Up 200 Censorship Attempts (techdirt.com)

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Every data centre is a U.S. military base (policyalternatives.ca)

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French Court Orders Google DNS to Block Pirate Sites (torrentfreak.com)

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2026, Our Rotting Future (thegist.ie)

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The Post-American Internet (pluralistic.net)

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Finding a broken trace on my old Mac with the help of its ROM diagnostics (downtowndougbrown.com)

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Appeals Court Accepts That the "Water" Emoji Can Be Slang for Methamphetamine (ericgoldman.org)

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Brazilian Criminal Court Convicts American Yout.com Owner in Stream Ripping Case (torrentfreak.com)

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We Lost Communication to Entertainment (ploum.net)

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Where are you? A look at GeoIP (apnic.net)

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You Have Billions Invested in Generative AI (woe-industries.itch.io)

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Tell HN: iOS 18.7.2 in Lockdown Mode is unable to load many websites

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Let's See What's Going on Down at the Piss Factory (todayintabs.com)

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Canadian data order risks blowing a hole in EU sovereignty (theregister.com)

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Slop Evader – Search the Internet Before AI (tegabrain.com)

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Web browser status bars are nuts (lapcatsoftware.com)

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LGTM Culture: A Short Story (alt.management)

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So Long, Firefox, Part One (hackaday.com)