Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users — and UK air traffic control meltdown

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Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users ctrl.blog \| points: 701 \| comments: 421

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UK air traffic control meltdown jameshaydon.github.io \| points: 533 \| comments: 274

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Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads theconversation.com \| points: 477 \| comments: 380

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Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale (2014) dougseven.com \| points: 437 \| comments: 265

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A group of open source Android apps without ads and unnecessary permissions simplemobiletools.com \| points: 363 \| comments: 135

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The Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection marhamilresearch4.blob.core.windows.net \| points: 298 \| comments: 121

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HDMI ISA graphics card for vintage PCs by improving the Graphics Gremlin yeokhengmeng.com \| points: 252 \| comments: 48

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The Awk book’s 60-line version of Make benhoyt.com \| points: 240 \| comments: 59

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In Germany, 27 are in ’preventive detention’ b/c they might do climate protests mastodon.energy \| points: 237 \| comments: 301

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Japan launches rocket carrying lunar lander and X-ray telescope phys.org \| points: 236 \| comments: 84

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The right to data ownership is the only way to take on Big Tech telegraph.co.uk \| points: 221 \| comments: 169

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Why is the ocean salty? (2022) usgs.gov \| points: 219 \| comments: 172

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RestGPT github.com \| points: 212 \| comments: 80

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How could the early Unix OS comprise so few lines of code? retrocomputing.stackexchange.com \| points: 208 \| comments: 145

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Ask HN: Why did Visual Basic die? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 207 \| comments: 296

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9/11 in Realtime 911realtime.org \| points: 203 \| comments: 139

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Calculate the difference and intersection of any two regexes phylactery.org \| points: 195 \| comments: 70

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The SHA256 for this sentence begins with: one, eight, two, a, seven, c and nine. twitter.com \| points: 192 \| comments: 95

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Chronic fatigue syndrome may have a post-viral infection origin medicalxpress.com \| points: 191 \| comments: 265

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Webb Discovers Methane, Carbon Dioxide in Atmosphere of K2-18B nasa.gov \| points: 175 \| comments: 91

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