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by Mindwipe 5y ago
App stores are always about rent seeking, and do not deliver safety or security - merely put you at greater risk by having you assume they do.
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
Ah, another Wikipedia policy designed to exclude sex workers from financial services. I notice this wasn't even raised in the RFC.
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
That isn't something schools can buy several hundred of (with a stable platform) and not worry about electrical testing liability etc. Which is the main intended use case of the Pi.
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
> Fairly sure it's the card processors dictating that, not Square. Not really, no. The card processors hoist a bunch of restrictions, arbitrary and stupid, on adult businesses, but they do ultimately not have a flat ban on transacti
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
I imagine it was that apps were doing it anyway, and it was better to use the system browser that might actually be up to date security wise than have the apps bundle their own which was was based on nine month old code and horribly insecur
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
> At least in my neck of the woods Square is everywhere and helps small business owners make a living. Unless they're sex workers or queer artists, who are banned from the platform.
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
> It's very recent, wich is the point of my post, we lost so much time with meaningless things But again, outside of the US it isn't. Contactless payments have been common in Europe and had widespread usage for a decade. Chines
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
> there is a lot to learn from china, we already copying them with contactless payments, even though our "market" doesn't want it because they want to make sure business are subscribing to service with insane fees first Co
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
It's a perjury offense in the US under the existing DCMA. You basically suggested the current practice.
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
> Perhaps Congress could modify 512 to require proof that you own the copyright / etc instead of just a signature. Given there is no requirement to register a copyright, and the US is subject to international treaty commitment that
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
It is crazy how dumb and basic keyword linked FB Marketplace moderation is. Got a GI Joe figure and want to say he includes the guns? Instablocked. Mention Netflix? Same. Like I understand a legitimate desire to control the reselling of pro
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
> I don't feel like I need protecting by the EU. Overall I'm very happy with the products produced by the US tech sector. I do. Apple repeatedly discriminates against sexual minorities in the App Store, and it's appropriat
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
> It’ll also long-term enable more dark patterns. Oh you signed up for this $14.99/month app? Well gotta call if you want to unsubscribe. Hell maybe even have to send a letter! The same EU legislation explicitly bans this. > Any
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
A quick reminder that study wasn't "suppressed", it wasn't released because it's confidence rate was so poor that none of its conclusions would have passed peer review. It admitted a 45% error margin in its own conc
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
> Music is booming despite massive piracy for decades Music's "booming" is pretty closely correlated with the uptake of DRM streaming services versus non-DRMed files. Remarkably so, in fact.
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
This is unambiguously untrue. Some people want it to be, but it isn't. There was one (not replicated) study suggesting that people who consumed more music tended to pirate more, but that's a correlation not a causation, and it doe
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
Efuses are not uncommon nowadays. Most TVs have efuses to stop software rollback.
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
Proton and VR are currently not happy bedfellows.
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
> And what if my kid brings their tablet to a friend's house? What if they cast their tablet to the TV? Then the streaming is being done by someone who lives in your household and is permitted under the terms and conditions. And wil
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
That doesn't say that you only get one adult profile on the base price. It says that you can add two additional households, and those get additional profiles. It remains to be seen but I imagine those households will get fully separate
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
> Plus you'll have two problems with Profiles. One, each user could have their own profile and therefore machine learning isn't going to detect abnormal viewing patterns. Two, some people choose to share a single Profile and so
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
> Plus, what if you have a family with multiple residences so now you need to have an password for the timeshare, a password for the weekend apartment, a password for the vacation home. No you don't.
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
> Netflix became popular because it was easier then piracy. It really didn't. Lots of people do not pirate. It became popular because it was cheap, and sold content for less than it cost Netflix to acquire or make it, and subsidised
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
The linked article doesn't say it charges per profile, and nor does the Netflix document. It says the additional household subs get an extra profile for them, and that there will be facilities to transfer profiles. There's nothing
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
> Why would I need four concurrent screens for myself. If you have kids. Which is, y'know, not uncommon. The four screen plan has always, since it's inception, stated that is for four people who live in your household in the te
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
They haven't explicitly said, but there are multiple established products in the market that use machine learning to detect the patterns of account sharing and throw up roadblocks such as strong 2FA checks that get stronger the more th
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
Yup. Apple does the same thing.
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> I don't get this argument against proprietary software. People building software should be able to expect payment for their work and effort. Vanced is literally a cracked version of Google's software though, to remove all the
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> And again… it’s a perfectly valid approach. It's a valid approach in certain markets. But if you're FAANG and launch that sort of MVP going against mature products from your competitors, often replacing a more feature complet
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
> also to note that it is companies that act illegally in preventing fair use of copyrighted content. No, they're not. Law on copyright does vary from country to country significantly, and you're citing "fair use" (a

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