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by janc_ 5y ago
Careful what you say about copyright. While this might be true (up to some degree) in the USA & Japan, it’s definitely not true in many other countries (e.g. Germany, France, Russia & the UK). In the US it might also be possible to
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by janc_ 5y ago
There are GUI clients for IRC that don’t need any “command line options” (some don’t even support them). And there are (and certainly were) plenty of people on IRC who aren’t very technical. Seriously, around 20 years ago it was often used
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by janc_ 5y ago
You mean IRCv3? It’s not all ready/implemented yet, but some of it is already in daily use. https://ircv3.net/ For example a server can tell the client that it only accepts UTF-8: https://ircv3.net/spec
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by janc_ 5y ago
Fortunately that’s easy to override with some custom CSS, but I also don’t understand the reasoning behind that…
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by janc_ 5y ago
Maybe it’s a cover-up for a company-paid party week in Ibiza? Who knows… ;-)
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by janc_ 5y ago
I really doubt that’s true. It would mean that a foundation that owns any goods (buildings, rolling stock, etc.) would not be able to sell them, ever, except to other non-profits. Are there any non-profit car wrecking companies in Spain?
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by janc_ 5y ago
If they would just spend time to fix the copy/paste bug instead, for example…
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by janc_ 5y ago
The well-known laundry symbols are trademarked apparently, and while there is a proposal to include them into Unicode, this might in fact be blocking it… These are trademarked for other reasons than a company logo though, and I don't r
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by janc_ 5y ago
If they would want to remove "zombie channels" after 6 months or so, that would make sense, but doing this while they still have a function (informing people about the move) is simply against the stated purpose of the Freenode IRC
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by janc_ 5y ago
Most IRC networks actually advertise this on every login, so it seems like you failed to read that…
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by janc_ 5y ago
From what I understand, PIA never acquired the IRC network (which is running on servers owned by other companies, and operated by volunteers without any contract tying them to PIA), but only the name and some activities outside the IRC netw
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by janc_ 6y ago
Didn’t make them obsolete though… if you look at almost any construction site or gardener, “hand drawn carts” (aka wheelbarrows) are still used a lot.
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by janc_ 7y ago
They could always block you from doing business with your customers (or suppliers) in the EU. Obviously it would be much easier to enforce against companies that do have some presence in the EU.
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by janc_ 7y ago
There is no 1:1 relationship between cookies and data collection (they can collect data about you without cookies, and cookies are often used for legitimate & useful purposes).
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by janc_ 7y ago
That has nothing (or not much) to do with Europe, but everything with the website owners/makers.
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by janc_ 7y ago
And there are/were several other car brands that made bicycles before they made cars (e.g. Triumph, Rover, Minerva, Opel, ...).
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by janc_ 8y ago
I don't know any jurisdictions that don't recognize the concept of “public domain”, but there are some that define “public domain” differently than it is defined in the US. In the US “public domain” means “without copyright”, whil
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by janc_ 8y ago
That's not important; you disable that “autopilot feature” and sound an alarm in the cockpit explaining what the exact error is. Should be enough for the human pilots to react properly.
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by janc_ 8y ago
Only if you bought something from from them based on those promises. Be sure to collect & notarize proof.
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by janc_ 8y ago
Oracle sales means promising everything and delivering half of that at best. Are you sure you want to use that as an example?
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by janc_ 8y ago
If you already have it, you can do that with e.g. uMatrix or uBlock Origin too; no need for an extra extension.
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by janc_ 8y ago
(Large) companies & publishers have had their own typefaces designed since long (centuries) before that. It got cheaper since the same electronic font can be used for (almost) all sizes, design purposes, etc. though, so it's also h
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by janc_ 8y ago
Typeface designs are protected in some countries outside the US, and even within the US the font _code_ is protected.
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by janc_ 8y ago
I am certain they don't want to pay that per mobile CPU it runs on… But usually web & (mobile) app licensing is separate from designer workstation licensing.
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by janc_ 9y ago
Here in Northern Belgium, some people might be able to pinpoint your origin down to a 10-20km region. :) Over a 200km distance, people definitely would have trouble understanding each other without using a common standardised language (&qu
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by janc_ 9y ago
I think you are comparing with "business English" instead of actual locally spoken/written English here...
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by janc_ 9y ago
You can disable fast boot permanently (and something like it existed on some pre-UEFI BIOS firmwares too, so it's nothing new).
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by janc_ 10y ago
Every company that handles monetary accounts should be subject to the same regulations as a bank. And: too many complaints about those monetary accounts not resolved in time? ⇒ suspend their license to operate a "bank".
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by janc_ 10y ago
"Most" implies "not all"…
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by janc_ 10y ago
That's mostly country-specific, I think; many countries have strict (consumer) protection rules on mortgages, which doesn't allow such changes.

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