InsomniacL

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by InsomniacL 2y ago
> WordPress.org has to pay for their servers and WP Engine is a for-profit company that is using WordPress.org's services, free of charge, for their own gain. Mutual consideration here seems warranted. WPEngine allege > > &quo
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by InsomniacL 2y ago
w.org infra was said to be owned by the foundation for the community. Automattic's lawyer told the community the same thing. Volunteers built in to WordPress core dependence on W.Org infra on that understanding. there are over 1500 har
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by InsomniacL 2y ago
> In the lawsuit the judge asked Automattic to come up with a price for access to Wp.org and Matt did not provide an estimate. Automattic and Mullenweg argued that WP Engine should be required file a bond of $1.6 million to ensure that t
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by InsomniacL 2y ago
> But being a jerk isn't a crime and doesn't forfeit your rights. The court case isn't about Matt being a jerk, it's about crime. > WordPress.org has to pay for their servers Wordpress.org was sold to volunteers as
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by InsomniacL 2y ago
> But I believe it is possible to both “protect” your trademark (or whatever you think this is) and not treat people like this. They probably do not like the way they are treated by having their artwork/maps/trademarks taken wi
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by InsomniacL 2y ago
> Chumby’s kernel did a total of 5 reads of the CVWR register. The other two kernels did a total of 3 reads. > I opted to use 4 as a middle ground reminded me of xkcd: Standards https://xkcd.com/927/
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by InsomniacL 2y ago
> I just think it's a mistake to talk about the very latest Thunderbolt 5's bandwidth vs legacy Lightning as if Apple were still promoting it. Apple are still promoting it https://www.apple.com/uk/shop&#x2F
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by InsomniacL 2y ago
Apple never used Lightening for laptops. The market i'm talking about is phones. > saying the market has moved on without them is silly Given they've produced nearly 2 billion phones with Lightening and are still producing&#x2F
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by InsomniacL 2y ago
And yet they're still producing and selling iPhone 14 Plus 512GB on apple.com for £1000 in 2025 with USB2.0 speeds from the year 2000.
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by InsomniacL 2y ago
USB4 20 Gbps: Also known as USB4 Gen 2x2 USB4 40 Gbps: Referred to as USB4 Gen 3x2 USB4 80 Gbps: Known as USB4 Gen 4 USB4 Version 2.0 120Gbps I guess if you're required to support 120Gbps on even cheap small electronics then USB 4 supp
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by InsomniacL 2y ago
People were upset about Apple being forced to switch to USB-C, but just look at how the market moved on without them. Apple Lightening: 480 Mbit/s Thunderbolt 5: 120,000 Mbit/s
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by InsomniacL 2y ago
> You are obviously rewriting a lot of the law Feel free to address any specific points. Have you looked at the Ofcom guidance? > penalty seems to still be "up to 18 million pounds". Fines "up to" a certain amount
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by InsomniacL 2y ago
> It's insane that they never carved out any provisions for "non big-tech". There's only 13 provisions that apply to sites with less than 7 million users (10% of the UK population). 7 of those are basically having an
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by InsomniacL 2y ago
> I think wordpress had every right to cut WPEngine off Even though wordpress.org is built/maintained by volunteers such as WPEngine who were all told it's a "community asset", "nobody owns it but wordpress"
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by InsomniacL 2y ago
Everyone now has to ask the question, should i continue paying for product that does XYZ from VMWare's competitor when i'm already getting a product that does XYZ as part of the VMWare licence. Chances are if you're a vmware
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by InsomniacL 2y ago
So many people misunderstand what is actually happening. Broadcom aren't hiking the price 10x for everyone. If you previously used: - VMWare Vsphere - Cloudify Automation - CISCO ASI Software Defined Network - Splunk log
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by InsomniacL 2y ago
Broadcom aren't charging 10x for the same thing. They are just not selling products individually anymore. If you previously only licensed a single product, your only option now is to buy everything under a single license. We are alread
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by InsomniacL 2y ago
I'm not knocking anyone, but i bet there were people who showed the same level of scepticism to a electric motor being attached to the throttle cable as people do today to electric cars
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by InsomniacL 2y ago
There are no competitors to Apple for IOS App distribution.
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by InsomniacL 2y ago
> definition of a market They are both markets in and of themselves, Apple themselves refer to it as a market place and it's a place where trade in particular goods occurs. You can argue it shouldn't be a market subject to anti
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by InsomniacL 2y ago
> The relevant market for them is smartphones and smartphone apps The relevant markets includes, but is not limited to that. > Anticompetitive behavior would be if they used their power to make it more difficult for people to buy Andr
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by InsomniacL 2y ago
> Android exists, and as long as its a viable choice, Apple isn't a monopoly. Not only is Apple a monopoly, they become one, and maintain it illegally. US Justice Department Sues Apple for Monopolizing Smartphone Markets[1]
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by InsomniacL 2y ago
> Apple doesn't have a similar position in any space though, or do they? Apple has exclusive control over a market (AppStore), which has almost 2 million different products (Apps), 820,000 suppliers (app publishers) and over 1.3 bil
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by InsomniacL 2y ago
I'm a cynical person. The actor looks and acts a little bit weird, even their mannerisms. The other Actors are being dup'd by the Actor and her AI. I think this add is targeted at the people being dup'd in the ads. People ass
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by InsomniacL 2y ago
Given that Tesla are under investigation by the U.S. auto safety regulator, I don't think you can say it's 'over regulation' yet.
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by InsomniacL 2y ago
> Just by phrasing I assume you’re referring to the old FSD I find it very confusing with the multiple versions of FSD, Auto-pilot, enhanced Auto-Pilot, supervised etc, but yeah I'm in Europe. I got the car new from Tesla last year.
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by InsomniacL 2y ago
As I come over the top of a crest, there was suddenly a lot of sun glare and the my Model Y violently swerved to the left, fortunately I had just overtaken a car on a two lane, dual carriageway and hadn't moved back to the left hand la
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by InsomniacL 2y ago
"People with roots in the Chagos Islands have criticised what they called their "exclusion" from negotiations leading to the UK government's deal to give up its sovereignty of the region." https://www.bbc
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by InsomniacL 2y ago
Hawaii then, 3,200 km away from the US mainland, home to one of the largest US navel bases and only part of the US for the last 126 years when they annexed it?
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by InsomniacL 2y ago
215 years of British sovereignty? The United States of America has had sovereignty of itself for 248 years, should the USA give up it's sovereignty in North America or do you draw the line between somewhere between 215 and 248? At what

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