jfrunyon

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by jfrunyon 6y ago
"More equal"? The idea that YouTube deleted some random videos that no one has ever heard of and then lied about it, is "more equal" than the idea that an organization whose stated position is basically "Google bad
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
Such a service does, in fact, exist for cars. https://www.nadaguides.com/cars/articles/pros-and-cons-pre-p...
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
I highly doubt that an individual using software personally with their own API keys is against their policies. If that is the case, then why do they offer the API keys for "personal use" to begin with? It reads to me like they&#x2
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
Yeah, no, that's pretty much it.
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
And then even fewer people would use it. BTW, there's no out of pocket cost for preventive care for those with insurance in the US. There hasn't been since the Affordable Care Act became effective.
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
They already don't support Chromium. https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/... (I mean, they're Google, they don't support anything that doesn't require pay
817.
by jfrunyon 6y ago
> They want to prevent competitor browsers from using these APIs so people are forced to use Chrome That is not, in ANY way or by ANY stretch, their argument, although I'll agree it is clearly their intention. Their argument is very
818.
by jfrunyon 6y ago
Right, but their policy is that individual users can still get keys for personal use. So given that, how could individual users getting keys for personal use be a violation of their policy?
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
And these days no one would have the slightest clue how to use it if they could even find it.
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
> You could hook up a Mac to the internet in 1985-ish, transferring files using telnet. I'm sure you could. In 1985-ish. How much of the required hardware still exists? How much of the required software can you find? Is that softwar
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
Where do you propose to get a copy of WordStar in 2020, pray tell?
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
That's significantly more than my doctor - who is part of a major hospital/healthcare network and works primarily with insured patients - charges out-of-pocket... (I know this because they screwed up billing the insurance company
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
Because it's not valid. Ignoring routine and preventive care makes those catastrophic cases almost inevitable.
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
Generic manufacturers don't have anything to do with insurance companies, though, do they? Other than perhaps trying to convince insurance companies to put their drug on the formulary. It would be between the pharmacy & insurance.
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
- Charity is not the same as not-for-profit - Hershey is a public company. Most certainly NOT owned by either a charity or a non-profit. The only way a non-profit comes into the picture is that a significant portion of their 'Class B&#
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
Meanwhile, on a system from the 80s, you wouldn't have a word processor, you wouldn't have support for any of the filesystems supported by modern OSes (well, maybe FAT?), and you wouldn't have USB anyway. Heck, you'd nee
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
> > I am considering an alternative approach to just stopping with my Slackware packages - and that is to inform my users about the public availability of Google's own API keys, plus the fact that you just have to export them in
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
That would ruin their plausible deniability.
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
> To reiterate, the APIs were not designed to be used by third-party software, so short of a complete rewrite, there is no unfortunately no option. The unfortunate (for Google) reality is (as had already been pointed out to this fellow m
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
What "racial group" do "radical leftist circles" paint as the enemy, pray tell? And how does one bad thing justify another bad thing?
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
> The average YubiKey is £50. There are a few around the £30 price point. That’s a huge expense given the small number of sites that support them. A wide variety of sites support them. I'd estimate around 1/3rd of the services
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
Frugality is underrated in businesses . That said, not wasting too much time to save a few bucks is also underrated.
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
No one has an infinite supply of any of the three. They are problems. You say they "don't apply" but then you explicitly acknowledge that you lose "cheap" or "fast" in your examples. > problem (n) 1a: a
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
The BSD license does not require that you redistribute it under the BSD license. You can decide to instead license your modified version under any license you feel like, so long as you retain the original copyright notice.
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
Nope. There is an explicit exception for people who you know are not an Iranian national.
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/site-...
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
Iranian company uses VPN service to get around the block - VPN goes down and their requests to GitHub go directly - GitHub blocks those requests; the Iranian company continues using them once the VPN is back on - US government finds out - B
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
Does that mean that we shouldn't address any of the smaller problems?
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
> not conducting business with Iran > its employee tried to login while there Those two statements are incompatible with each other.
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
Money and skills are ALWAYS problems. Those are "cheap" and "fast" of the "cheap, fast, good, pick two".

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