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by belorn 2y ago
> I can’t see how Matt’s recent ideas on the rights to use the WordPress logo, the name or the wordmark requiring companies that he doesn’t like to pay up are in compliance with the GPL license. Trademarks and logos are not attached to t
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by belorn 2y ago
If you are a car repair shop, it would be fairly difficult if you could not name the brand of cars that you support. If you call yourself "Ford Repairs" you might get into trouble, but saying that you can change oil on a Fords see
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by belorn 2y ago
Yes, it is true. Websites built on wordpress do not generally use wordpress trademark to generate revenue. Its not recommended to have footers that says "built on wordpress", nor is recommended to keep the default website icon. If
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by belorn 2y ago
How would wordpress.org go after those in this scenario? The original trademark claim seems a bit far fetched in order those other hosting providers (are they using wordpress trademark and branding in marketing?). If they are, how much impa
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by belorn 2y ago
I can see how clients that have sites hosted on WPEngine can be a bit concerned. Did you receive any queries by people who do not have anything hosted by WPEngine, but rather simply have a wordpress site on some other hosting company/s
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by belorn 2y ago
As a hosting provider, getting into a conflict with people who you have a software and service dependency on could be described as non-recommendable, especially if there is no formal contract involve. There are a few historical examples of
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by belorn 2y ago
The free software movement and FSF in particular has always been very clear that free in this context does not mean that projects can't sell CD's with software on it. It is also this interpretation that allow for paid support, whi
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by belorn 2y ago
As a customer and user of WPEngine, what role do you see wordpress in that relationship? Generally when I buy things I try to take some consideration of the sub-contractors and suppliers to the supplier of service, but I am aware that I do
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by belorn 2y ago
How can you claim that there wasn't a single victim when they evacuated 180,000 people (including hospital inpatients and elderly people)? If we use the same evacuation-to-death ratio as Fukushima, the Oroville Dam crisis caused 2416 d
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by belorn 2y ago
The Oroville Dam crisis could have been avoided if the power plant did proper maintenance on the dam, and the power plant management was found as being the primary cause of the accident. Dams are in general man made and maintain multiple nu
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by belorn 2y ago
Germany was the country that pushed natural gas to be defined as "green investment" in Europe. They are also building new and fresh thermal power plants to burn even more fossil fuels in the future. There is no end date to when Ge
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by belorn 2y ago
Everyone has consistently treated mining waste as an unavoidable side effect of mining, which only economical solution is to dig a whole in the ground and put it there. The only minimum standard that get enforced is that the waste should no
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by belorn 2y ago
It is a bit strange that we don't see death counts from other evacuations. It is not that uncommon to see mass evacuations from flooding, like the one we had in Europe this year or 2021, but its only death caused directly by the floodi
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by belorn 2y ago
Randomly generated domains are a major red flag for abuse and malware detection, and seems to have become a rather large part of how the domain industry manage abuse. Domain "credit score" is also something that is used in the ema
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by belorn 2y ago
There isn't any major car manufacturer (that I know of) which isn't deeply tied to the government of their country of origin, enjoying everything from massive amount of subsidies to access to military intelligence networks. Someti
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by belorn 2y ago
The new California law is quite clearly illustrating that what digital stores do is illegal, unethical, and not a voluntary arrangement. When a customer buy a product in a store they expect ownership of the item, not a temporary and limited
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by belorn 2y ago
> "assuming I’m not discriminating in a way that has 14th Amendment problems" The Supreme Court decision to ban race-conscious admissions in higher education is based on the 14th Amendment. This law by California is made in lig
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by belorn 2y ago
Mostly this is not even about development companies, but the distribution platforms which are even further away from the game developer. It is the distribution platforms that makes policy and generally dictate the conditions on which a game
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by belorn 2y ago
Anyone who search for medical information online should always use a VPN and a browser that cleans itself before and afterward. Health status is one of the most valuable user data available to data brokers and is heavily collected and sough
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by belorn 2y ago
Now to add additional problems. 1000 tor nodes on a single platform would be very noticeable and geographically limited. Platforms also have different weight attached to them in the consensus, which adds further time requirements before a n
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by belorn 2y ago
The actually impact of every war since (a very long time) are that more civilians are killed and harmed than military personal. Looking at the statistics produced by the US military on the iraq war, civilian deaths was 3x of enemy combatant
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by belorn 2y ago
I suspect from a company perspective, it is all just different degree of relying on a supply chain. Any company that outsource production that goes directly to customers are relying on reputation and contracts, and the assumption that they
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by belorn 2y ago
Naturally the close quarters will results in multiple people being harmed. The question is more about the physics and if the explosives has enough penetrating power to go through the walls of the plane. The bigger risk to the plane (and pas
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by belorn 2y ago
I wonder if it would endanger the plane. A 20g explosive sitting in the pocket of a person will clearly cause serious injury, but I am unsure if it has penetration power to actually go through the plane body. I am reminded of mythbusters ex
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by belorn 2y ago
I would find it very interesting if there was a study done on second order impacts of porn producers. I suspect the outcome would be the opposite of the assumed, as in I suspect the average creator has an above average outcome compare to ot
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by belorn 2y ago
The given reason that the EU officials provided when they created the tariffs are major subsidizes from the Chinese government. Of course, I have yet to see a nation with car manufacturing that do not subsidize that industry. Tax breaks, ze
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by belorn 2y ago
I find that purpose of comments is to give context to the written code. Sometimes the context explains what the code does, and more often it explains why, but the best comments gives me the reader an insight so that I can have a intuitive f
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by belorn 2y ago
The policy that Mozilla ask providers to follow does not prohibit data-mining the traffic. Providers are requested to not store or share personal information, but any data-mining that removes personal identifiable information are allowed. F
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by belorn 2y ago
During the 2022 energy crisis, it was the citizens of practically every country in EU that declared in unions that the market had failed and that government had to step it to fix it. Multiple elections around that time was defined by politi
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by belorn 2y ago
Optimistic articles like this makes gives me a bit of hope that maybe we can start cutting down on current trend of increased total subsidies for the energy sector. Taking a European perspective like the article, subsidies are around €200 b

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