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by noirscape 1y ago
The point of this story is that open source can't protect you against a bully with a legal department at his command, and neither can it protect you against bad contract clauses. Frivolous legal threats may be frivolous, but you have t
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by noirscape 1y ago
In most board games, proxy pieces are generally forbidden in official play. For say, a card game it's because the game store owns the cards and would really prefer it if you didn't dillute the value of the cards they're also
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by noirscape 1y ago
I think people will sooner just start hard breaking Windows ISOs just to get rid of MS's garbage (arguably already the case if you use Rufus, which customizes the OOBE setup to already reject checks and tracking if you tick the boxes.
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by noirscape 1y ago
They're almost certainly doing this to put the screws on Gmail users. Data export compat isn't great with Gmail to begin with, but at least with a vanity domain you could have the option to use that instead and if Google went bad,
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by noirscape 1y ago
Placing the fines is pretty easy; they just go through their legal system, finish up the case and get their judgement. Russia has a giant outstanding fine against Google for example since Google is not censoring things the Kremlin doesn&#x2
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by noirscape 1y ago
In terms of blogs, for selfhosting comments, the main ones that seems interesting for selfhosted setups are probably remark42[0] and utterance.es[1]. Remark42 is a low barrier Disqus clone with social logins (as well as just plain usernames
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by noirscape 1y ago
The issue for Apple is that in the EU, they're still mainly characterized as the company that dragged their feet on using standardized chargers, leading to there being a law on the books that mandates USB-C. (As in, it's obvious t
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by noirscape 1y ago
I don't think they will. This is significantly less scary for upholding the DMA than the current US government threatening the EU with fines for having it in the first place. (And the DMA is the one thing the EU is entirely unwilling
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by noirscape 1y ago
Keep in mind that Apple's choices to postpone features for the EU as a punishment for the DMA aren't always related to the actual contents of the law, and reek more of trying to find any excuse to block a flagship feature if compl
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by noirscape 1y ago
While I can't speak to anyone else, back when I did tech support as a job for the elderly, one of our policies was to always install uBlock Origin. Our docs even had warnings to remove ABP and similar stuff because they let ads through
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by noirscape 1y ago
Moreso giving a reason why you'd want an app to force DoH instead of trusting the OS to do it "correctly". Google has already shown to have a habit of not properly respecting privacy focused settings, and DoH is intended to b
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by noirscape 1y ago
Android privacy tools are leaky (which is bad given it's privacy tooling, you don't want that to leak!) Their VPN tools on OS level are pretty notorious for not properly respecting kill switch settings[0]. That alone makes a nat
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by noirscape 1y ago
For me the big blockers for GrapheneOS are still pretty much the same: * The community is unnecessarily toxic from what I've seen: there's a lot of following dogma without asking "why". It leads to this very insular user
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by noirscape 1y ago
The goal behind the EU is to represent Europe as a single unified economic bloc capable of being a world power. It's not meant to make the European Union into a superstate. You can pretty directly tie this as a natural consequence of m
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They probably won't, the 2 character space is reserved for ccTLDs by their existing policies. Only 3 characters and up can be gTLDs.
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by noirscape 1y ago
As a rule, yes. Both Apple and Google are horrendous stewards of their respective storefronts. Their review processes are infamously capricious and black boxes, in the case of Apple they put additional moral rules on what the app is all
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by noirscape 1y ago
> ICANN periodically lets anyone with $1 million create random new generic TLDs like .top and .win and .google and .hiv and .amazon and .zip - it's pretty clear there aren't any real rules or standards for TLDs apart from havin
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by noirscape 1y ago
Because "uk" isn't in ISO 3166-1 alpha 2, "gb" is, and the formal designation for The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is "gb". It wouldn't be nonsense for northern Irish businesse
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by noirscape 1y ago
It should eventually get removed by ICANN, since the country code TLDs are managed by ISO 3166-1 alpha 2 (it's however not an exact match), and the transfer will mean the British Indian Ocean Territories will no longer exist. ISO is go
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There's exactly three reasons for people to stick to Twitter: * They don't care/agree with the policies of the guy running it. * Legacy reasons; either they have no reason to leave (automated org accounts keep running until s
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by noirscape 1y ago
To be fair, the sites resorting to extreme anti-bot measures are also often not the ones that are a clientside JavaScript hell. Thinking of the most extreme option (throwing proof of work checks at browsers), the main stuff that jumps to mi
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by noirscape 1y ago
Most of the US's power is contingent in part on them not rocking the boat too much. That's what the current US administration is destabilizing; by harming its own allies, those allies in turn are starting to look for other options
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by noirscape 1y ago
The problem with game pass is that it takes the Spotify model to games. In practice, it doesn't seem to scale well - Microsoft has seemingly hit a market cap of ~35 million users because of a lot of existing aversion to subscription se
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by noirscape 1y ago
I had issues with similar things for a couple years too. The reality is that there's remarkably little existing advice for maintaining a soft fork that doesn't intent to upstream patches. (For reference, probably the most notable
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It's a different model of development, leading to different expectations. BSD ties the kernel and the software on top of it together pretty heavily, creating the expectation that the documentation should cover all of it. Linux is meanw
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In the case of Debian, they have a pretty different stance when it comes to what the role of a distro is compared to Arch. Arch is essentially completely freeform; you, the user, are going to be making a lot of technical decisions on what y
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by noirscape 1y ago
Do keep in mind that the EUs approach is very different from the UK one. The UK law is basically a "go figure it out", which inevitably leads to making shady deals with third parties that are now handling the data of citizens... p
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by noirscape 1y ago
Obtainium assumes that the app developer is a trustworthy entity, when the reality behind the mobile ecosystem being as fucked up as it is primarily comes from the app developer. (Due to bad incentives made by mobile platform makers, mainly
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by noirscape 1y ago
Very unexciting stuff; it's just your typical long-running FOSS project issues as I understand it. Lead maintainer of F-Droid is entrenched in his ways "cuz it works for me", which leads to stonewalling any attempts to change
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Cory Doctorow has a good term for what those big American tech companies do; rather than too big to fail, they're too big to care [0]. Because they've muscled all their meaningful competition out of the way (or at least think the

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