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by gnfargbl 3y ago
How do you believe Apple's overall market share is related to the (pre-DMA) monopolistic nature of their App Stores? I can't see a clear connection between the two things.
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
It might be hard to imagine in a world where open source mostly won, but in the 90s Microsoft essentially had a de facto monopoly over the computer industry. Mac OS was a thing, but it was different and expensive enough that it was not re
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
I found a little more on the incident at https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/-/media/royal-navy-responsive/i... (page 14).
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
The lack of use of a non-corp domain, the typos and the use of shortened links does sound like a form of incompetence, probably at the management layer. However, the password rotation requirement was until relatively recently something that
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
"TBs scanned" is the number of tebibytes of stored data that the system had to scan to serve your query. This is how BQ is billed, in the on-demand model. The console shows you this number (in very small letters) after you have en
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
The real issue here is that you didn't quite understand what BigQuery was when you pressed the button. What it is, roughly, is a publicly-accessible data supercomputer. If you lost $14k in a blink of the eye, then I would think you con
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
Seems like a fairly standard personality test. I just ran through it and got the same kind of answer I usually get on these tests. I don't really see the value in these tests but, apart from the weird avatars, this one seems to be just
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
Software authors, like other authors, can protect their creations through copyright. That's as it should be. Allowing patents on software is about as sensible as allowing JK Rowling to patent the concept of a storyline about a boy who
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
I find the bit about employees being permitted to use their own computers almost astounding. However small an organization is, it should be insisting on providing a company-owned machine and having all company business be conducted on that
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
That's pretty much how the private rental market worked in the UK, for a two or three decades at least. The game was to buy a house with a small deposit, break even on the running and loan costs, and benefit from the huge leverage in
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
There are three possible backstories here. First option: the lawyers genuinely believe they have a winnable case, or at least a case they can drag out into something approaching a draw in their favour. Second option: they are so used to int
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
A better analogy would be a general who had never been a junior officer.
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
The glibc team could certainly have been a little less guarded, but I'm not sure they were wrong . If CVEs are to be something other than a stamp collection, then they need to facilitate remediation. To do that, CVEs need to identify
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
No, we just have a habit of putting up with needless inconvenience. It's ingrained in us somehow, possibly as a result of the deprevations during and after WWII. At some point you just have to accept that there are certain things the A
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
Golang doesn't typically use OpenSSL: there is a BoringCrypto mode which can be enabled, but it's unsupported outside Google [1]. Instead, they have a policy of implementing well-known cryptographic algorithms themselves, in Go. T
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
I have no ability to judge the quality of this algorithm or implementation, but I do thoroughly approve of the usage of unicode in variable names: ρ, σ := G[:32], G[32:] Somehow much better than seeing "rho", "sigma&
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
Or: you stop after you train your classifier on extortion, because society is capable of having and maintaining standards and because not every slope has to be slippery? There are many other cases in which we allow limited intrusions into
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
NSA dealt with cases of espionage via the introduction of simple electronics into secure areas decades before [1] [2], so awareness of the risk was likely widespread. The issue here seems to have been that in 1999, it was a relative novelty
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
Possibly long enough for the person opening it to think twice about the consequences of the action they were about to take? Same concept as putting high barriers on bridges, or selling paracetamol (acetaminophen) in smaller packs. These cha
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
If you mean the changes declared in https://artists.spotify.com/en/blog/modernizing-our-royalty-... , then I find it hard to reconcile the description given there with your editorialization.
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
YouTube pays less per stream to the rights holders than Spotify, however.
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
They thought they went with the cheaper option, but in fact they only considered the value of a life as estimated by the NHTSA ($0.2M). In reality, the damages that juries tended to assign for each needless loss of life turned out to be m
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
I really struggle to understand the mindset of people like Manuel. He was already obscenely rich, to the level where gaining additional resources must have been useless to him. He had surely already discharged any responsibility he might ha
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
> Can you believe people pay money for "web application firewalls"? I think it's like a lot of things in computer security, in that system owners just don't want to be the slowest gazelle in the herd. If an attacker
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
> ingress/egress isn’t probably too problematic It's problematic to me. I run a system partly on GCP and partly on another provider. I'd like to move some of the stuff that's on the other provider over to GCP VMs, but
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
So on the one hand Google now accepts that egress fees are outrageous. Great! On the other hand, they're only reducing (removing) the fees when you leave them. If this move were really about acting in customers' best interests,
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
> (Takes picture of the contents of his fridge.) This is what I have in the fridge, can you make me a nice dish that’s low in calories? (It then pulls up a recipe without citing its source.) That sounds like... something that would mak
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
Is that a $25 recharging fee, or $25 for the electricity? A full tank of electrons is around $25 equivalent in the UK. (I realise it's cheaper in most of the US.)
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
They can, but the CPS can always choose to take over the case -- and they are allowed to take over with the express intent of dropping the prosecution. https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/private-prosecutions
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
In this case you only allow people to sit at your table who have bought a $1000 device from you, and you are also claiming that the food is free.

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