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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Will somebody please think of the shareholders?
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
The game requires a PlayStation Network account, and those cannot be created in the banned countries. The controversy was caused by the fact that the PSN requirement and country bans weren't enforced on launch, so people bought a game
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Not really, it’s 100% business reasons. Facebook and especially Instagram used to be much more open to logged-out users in the past.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
The parents would be paying?
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
You can convince your company to switch to Workplace, a corporate version of Facebook.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
> What if I want to go straight to the channel? This was possible, once. What if I want to highlight and select some of the text from the preview? I can’t. Instead, the entire preview, rather than acting as an integrated combination of g
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
So you want to introduce even more urgency and FOMO into social media just to save some compute costs?
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
The original Windows 10 wallpaper. In a later release, it was replaced by a brighter and cleaner version that was drawn on a computer. I personally prefer the later revision.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
XMPP never died. A more modern open standard is Matrix. The problem with open/alternative chat apps is the network effect — everyone is already on iMessage/WhatsApp/Messenger/etc and they aren't going to install Ele
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
> in-case they were found to be in-violation of the GDPR Oh, they definitely are. Those geo-blocks still exist, not only for small mom-n-pop businesses.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Corporate tax doesn't go to the EU, it goes to the government of the country you're incorporated in. Countries like Ireland and the Netherlands have very low tax rates, and big tech companies benefit from that.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
There's an EU parliament election in a few weeks or so, how is that undemocratic?
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
> Some seem to think that if iMessage goes away, people will just switch to WhatsApp or Signal. NO, they'll fallback to SMS/MMS. In the US? Maybe. In Europe, where many people have Android phones and iPhone users need WhatsApp&
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Chinese coworkers with code review and visibility are more trustworthy than Chinese open-source developers.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Self-driving taxis are available in only a handful of cities around the world. This is far from progress. And how often are those taxis secretly controlled by an Indian call center?
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Is it really AI-enhanced, or is it just a handful of features for AI interaction (like a snippet repository for "prompts" or sending the same query to multiple chat pages) invented by someone who does not have the resources to do
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Accounting software might have used ISO 4217 currency symbols (DEM, USD) instead of local symbols (DM, $).
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Maintaining an entire separate OS (like Solaris) is hard. Maintaining a fork of a Linux distro is easy.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Apart from Hyper-V and WSL, some Windows 11 security features also depend on virtualization. Did you measure the performance hit? How often did you encounter driver trouble?
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Internet Archive says this is at least from 2008: https://web.archive.org/web/20080915042719/https://gopher.fl... The arguments feel quite weak. Gopher doesn’t bring much to the table IMO, the simplicity
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Well, this OpenSSL bug was caused by Debian maintainers messing with the code they package too much…
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
The extension appears to also produce an explanation of its decision, so there is potential to bullshit: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Future_Audiences/Experiment:... Also, if you look into their “wrong” example
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
The burden of the proof of no bullshit is on the LLM proponents.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
> the ad farms will just copy the content How would that be legal?
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
I don't recall ever seeing that on Debian and derivatives.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
What do you propose instead? Why should users always accept and agree with the Debian maintainers' choices, even if they're dumb and produce insecure software? Why should being a volunteer give you a get out of jail free card?
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
INSTALL.md [0] recommends passing -DWITH_XC_ALL in the Build Steps section. This build option exists. If you're building from source and don't need any of the extra features, you can use it to get a leaner binary. But the Debian m
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
It uses AI to parse the selected text to choose search keywords, and to parse the related Wikipedia article to decide if it agrees with the selected text. It obviously can bullshit in both cases.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
It is trivial to make the Bootstrap 3 global package install into a different folder than Bootstrap 2. It isn’t so trivial for shared libraries without different sonames, for example.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
We ship a copy of bootstrap within our data files. They could just leave it as-is and have it working. Bootstrap is a CSS/JS library, there is no global /usr/lib to be concerned about.

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