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by brainwad 1mo ago
> So the "trap door" here is just that you can't buy a phone and immediately start loading apps I'm sorry, I thought I owned the phone I bought, and had a right to decide what software I want on it whenever I want.
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by brainwad 1mo ago
The "convoluted" way is/was the default in the absence of a monopolist app store. Before centralised app stores, users downloaded or bought boxed software ad-hoc and installed it on their computers from installation archives,
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by brainwad 1mo ago
You can install from other stores (AnkiDroid is on F-Droid, for example), or from direct file download on Android already. The problem is rather thay most users just use the store preinstalled on their phone as part of Google's deal wi
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by brainwad 1mo ago
Dropping permanent cookies for any of this stuff is not strictly necessary; session cookies would be sufficient, so then to do anything convenient (e.g. persistent cart, Amazon-style) but not necessary you still need to request consent. GDP
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by brainwad 1mo ago
Yeah, I was more talking about ePrivacy cookie banners, which really are about storing data on user devices. The whole thing exists because the already implemented technical solution was deemed inadequate.
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by brainwad 1mo ago
You do need consent even for the necessary exemption in practice because of how that is defined; the user must have explicitly asked for the function that requires the cookie: > strictly necessary in order for the provider of an informat
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by brainwad 1mo ago
Most browsers in the 00s had a "always ask" option for cookies. Nobody used it, because it's as annoying as gdpr dialogs now are. But it existed.
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by brainwad 1mo ago
No cookie is strictly necessary, you can encode it all into request tokens in the URL, so this is a meaningless exception.
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by brainwad 1mo ago
Browsers already had a way to consent to cookies, since the invention of cookies themselves. But the EU didn't consider that _real_ consent.
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by brainwad 1mo ago
The cookie banners come from the earlier ePrivacy Directive, and while it was possible to comply by not storing cookies at all, if you want to store data on the user's browser you do need to get their consent, hence the cookie banner.
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by brainwad 1mo ago
How much of that margin is due to having long term contracts with fabs that locked in pre-boom prices? I doubt openai will be able to get similarly low costs now.
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by brainwad 1mo ago
With cash you can't overcommit - you can only spend what you have - with card you can. If you are poor, overcommitting is very tempting as otherwise you will be going without things you need/want. But that temptation leads to debt
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by brainwad 1mo ago
The beach? In winter? The actual thing that skiiers in NA do now is fly to Europe or Japan, where Vail has not yet ruined skiing.
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by brainwad 1mo ago
You can always use a credit card as a debit card. Pay it off to zero every day. Indeed with the very low limit cards people with bad credit can get, you kind of have to pay it down faster than the bill comes if you want to keep using it.
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by brainwad 1mo ago
Australia tried this, but it led to a different problem of payment processors being able to gouge card payers because merchants were allowed to pass on whatever their costs were, and consumers didn't really have a real choice of paying
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by brainwad 1mo ago
The issuer can opt out of the card network Forex and do it themselves. That's how Revolut and Wise work.
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by brainwad 1mo ago
The homework essay is dead. High schoolers in my home state were just relieved of any take-home assignments because it was pointless now, I guess universities won't be far behind.
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by brainwad 2mo ago
There's more to the environment than the greenhouse effect. Coconut plantations would compete with rainforest in much the same way palm oil ones do, since they have more or less identical growing climates. If you want to use biofuels,
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by brainwad 2mo ago
I presume that the market for coconut oil is far smaller than for jet fuel, so this solution can't scale without wreaking havoc on the environment. These sort of clever uses for exisiting byproducts only work when the market for the ma
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by brainwad 2mo ago
The developer (of the app or the app framework) does have to deliberately implement "merging" of a second launched process. The default would be for the two processes to run side by side in both Windows and Linux. It has been tha
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by brainwad 2mo ago
All the books being destroyed are modern enough to have deposited copies, or they wouldn't be still under copyright. The destruction is happening to satisfy judges that no illegal copying is happening, only a transformation of medium.
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by brainwad 2mo ago
The Library of Congress already has a copy of every book published in the US. How would this help?
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by brainwad 2mo ago
Well, they want to use the book they own in digital format. They own it, they get to decide what to do with it.
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by brainwad 2mo ago
Let us not forget they own the books. They bought them legally on the open market. Also, no modern book truly is destroyed forever, there are always libraries of record with a copy.
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by brainwad 2mo ago
The books being destroyed are not afaik those sort of books. They are just out of print modern books, that are still under copyright (and hence can't legally be scanned non-destructively).
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by brainwad 2mo ago
It is a shit idea. But that's copyright law for you - if you want to digitise the work for yourself, you according to latest precedents have to destroy the copy you digitised ¯ \ _ ( ツ ) _ / ¯ I don't blame the companies for
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by brainwad 2mo ago
Surely the people granted a legal monopoly to print the books will have kept a copy of the masters in order to reprint any lost works. Surely copyright works as intended for the public good and isn't just rent seeking. Surely.
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by brainwad 2mo ago
Because it's illegal. That's the whole reason they are shredding books in the first place, because copyright law forces them to do stupid things. Google wanted to share the whole of Google Books 15 years ago, too, but they were su
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by brainwad 2mo ago
Opening more than one instance is the default, developers have to actively work to block it. At least on desktop.
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by brainwad 2mo ago
The point is that just because you made something of value doesn't mean someone must pay you for it, and indeed modern tech is built on the non-compensated valuable labour of techies. Similarly just because you write an article doesn&#

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