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by milderworkacc 4y ago
Whether or not you agree with the demands, it’s probably disingenuous to call this a strike. It’s much closer to cartel conduct, and a flagrant antitrust/competition law violation. While the “number of small labourers team up against l
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by milderworkacc 5y ago
This is funny, you've got half mathematically, but logically you've got the second, fourth and sixth sixths of the feature! When I was still working as a projectionist, for big releases (like Twilight) the film courier would often
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by milderworkacc 5y ago
>> CDA230 where are you? Right where it has always been, ensuring that online services are not held liable for third party content regardless of moderation choices. If you’re referring to being banned from twitter or not appearing on
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by milderworkacc 5y ago
Calling the CBC “Government approved journalists on the government payroll” is an extremely misleading description of what is an overwhelmingly common situation in English speaking democracies. Canada has the CBC, the UK the BBC, Australia
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by milderworkacc 5y ago
I get the feeling that as consumer goods get “smarter” that this is going to happen more and more frequently as various dependencies are retired or shut down or part of a messy M&A transaction that leads to them being forgotten. Right t
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by milderworkacc 5y ago
In many cases yes, it is the result of binning, but the 486 SX (my first comment incorrectly said 386) was an intentionally disabled 486 DX. From memory, you could then purchase a 487, which was actually just a full-fat 486 DX to slot into
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by milderworkacc 5y ago
As a sibling comment notes, Intel can (and has a history) of doing this physically. Where a manufacturer price discriminates by offering two products, a normal one and an inferior one, it may be the case that the cheapest way to do that is
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by milderworkacc 5y ago
Roads here aren’t really paid for by motorists at all, it all comes out of general revenue (local rates, state revenue and commonwealth grants where appropriate). Fuel tax is just another tax, same as the Medicare levy doesn’t actually fun
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by milderworkacc 5y ago
My thinking has always been that yes, targeted surveillance of a target in public is easy, but is it “every trip in a searchable database” easy? Facial recognition is the one here that actually does make it that easy, hence my strong opposi
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by milderworkacc 5y ago
Prepaid single purpose cards like Oyster (and Opal and Myki in Sydney and Melbourne which I’m more familiar with) have a huge advantage in not being linked to your legal name and address in the way your credit card is. Removing that option
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by milderworkacc 5y ago
The telcos bear the cost of retention, and so consumers of telco services are paying more as a result.
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by milderworkacc 5y ago
That’s a good point, but the behaviour I’m talking about is enforcing the optionality of those functions in order for the app to work. I might be wrong about this (not a dev, just play one on the internet) but Apple has the power to say tha
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by milderworkacc 5y ago
I love this idea - I paid a grand for this thing, I should be able to run whatever I like on it. However, this does make it significantly more difficult for Apple to dictate terms to every random app that your network of friends and colleag
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by milderworkacc 5y ago
If we're doing the 'showstoppers on the Linux migration', I must yet again ask why no other file manager on any other operating system can do as Finder has been able to do since the 90s and display the total recursive size
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by milderworkacc 5y ago
Slightly off-topic, but as much as I love ncdu and install it everywhere, I wish it didn't need to exist! By this I mean: why are both Windows Explorer and all major Linux file managers incapable of showing total recursive directory si
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by milderworkacc 5y ago
https://archive.is/AHMK7
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by milderworkacc 5y ago
While I agree that the trade in these tools is reprehensible, I worry about creating a new class of software that is prohibited to possess or trade in. It wasn't so long ago that strong encryption was labelled a 'dual use technolo