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by grotorea 3y ago
Half-devil advocating here, but is this the end of the world? Right now, we have software that we expect that keeps being updated, but the company gets a one time payment. With a subscription, things get more stable financially and the comp
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by grotorea 3y ago
Wikipedia is already quite a bit of a battleground for a wide variety of interests. Linux seems like the obvious path to avoiding depending on and trusting Microsoft, although I don't know if China cares that much right now.
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by grotorea 3y ago
Is it just me or is this strong cryptography export control again?
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by grotorea 3y ago
I don't know about China but Russia explicitly plans to keep its internet working even if the cables are cut at the border.
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by grotorea 3y ago
If you leave marketing spam on, you get notified on cupons and deals, seems fine for me if you want to. I don't have a problem with stores notifying me on deals on my wishlist.
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by grotorea 3y ago
The Black Sea is smaller than the Pacific through. The theory I heard is that in an hypothetical US-China war the US Navy would be able to stay in the Pacific but far away from the coast.
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by grotorea 3y ago
From what I got from the article the McKinsey survey, this is the actual revenues from transactions fees including but not limited to UPI. Not the adjacent revenues. > Even with a free public utility, India’s payment revenue swelled last
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by grotorea 3y ago
Why would the AI answer, then censor itself?
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by grotorea 3y ago
The price to produce text without caring if it's true has gone down, leading to more production.
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by grotorea 3y ago
Not disagreeing, but that's the end of anonymity. But yeah, maybe the idea that you can even 1% trust random content on the Internet without having a source doesn't really make sense if you think about it IMHO. Either you do this
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by grotorea 3y ago
I heard that before and have trouble believing this is the cause at least for Internet recipes. Sure for a recipe book in 1950, but are recipe content farms going to sue each other? Isn't the lawyer costs way more than could be gained?
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by grotorea 3y ago
Yes, but it's reddit monetizing, not the users. The users can be astroturfing, but there's no point astroturfing some types of content like game guides I hope.
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by grotorea 3y ago
Doesn't that meme also mostly applies to other search engines? Is everyone doing this?
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by grotorea 3y ago
It's a solved problem if the app developer wants it to be. Else it can just throw everything into the same category.
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by grotorea 3y ago
Is it? Really?
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by grotorea 3y ago
That is still a subsidy, no? It's money that materially improved the health of the company. Does everyone and every company who wanted 466 millions had it available? And was the interest and other loan conditions market rate?
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by grotorea 3y ago
I really wish Google would enforce proper categorization. Risking missing something on any (somewhat) important app because of the occasional marketing notification seems not worth it to me.
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by grotorea 3y ago
Fashion is cyclical? Or is it just that these simpler icons were more adapted to the simpler video there existed at the time?
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by grotorea 3y ago
> I can't speak for Mastodon as I've never used it, but I was an avid user for a long time of many forums and boards on many topics back in the old Internet. And while we certainly had our share of flamewars about shit related
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by grotorea 3y ago
It's a bit of a joke that doesn't have universal support. Works on my phone. Apparently you can also try en_IE (Ireland). https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/62316/why-is-there-...
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by grotorea 3y ago
This is not the only use of those apps. There are plenty of large channels that are either broadcasting from a central source of a sort of forum sorted by new of people who don't know each other but share some type of interest, specia
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by grotorea 3y ago
Two things: First, does the problems still happen in places that aren't financially motivated like a hobby forum some guy hosts or on volunteer Mastodon servers? And don't internet forums broadly speaking also have problems even i
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by grotorea 3y ago
> Practically, as "English-World" was not available in the past (and still wasn't available on platforms other than Windows the last time I checked), I have always been setting the locale to En-US even though I have never
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by grotorea 3y ago
But the 51% attack would cost more than the value of the Bitcoin you could get by doing it, which is presumably ~0 since the only node is a museum computer.
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by grotorea 3y ago
They can ultimately change the code if needed. Luna also tried that IIRC.
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by grotorea 3y ago
Haven't we be trying since the beginning?
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by grotorea 3y ago
Well, there's always the possibility that this time it will be the last. Maybe the last peak is when it reaches global awareness and there's no new people to bring into the system. And I suspect it already reached that in the la
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by grotorea 3y ago
Frankly is this important? If the NSA is a threat to you do you have any business trusting MS?
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by grotorea 3y ago
I wonder if the Justices themselves have accepted that they hold a de-facto partisan position and should act as such. I mean, the system clearly was not designed like it was one.
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by grotorea 3y ago
(Closed-list) proportional system wouldn't stop an unfit party insider being put at the top of the list.

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