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by nolok 5y ago
> Let's see, will fly with them tomorrow. Faro->Porto (550km). 9.95 euros. 50 minutes flight > Train-> 6 hours, which is usually 7+ due to delays (last one I did in December was 7.20 making me late for a training) and costs
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by nolok 5y ago
It's my understanding that for major brands like Coca Cola, the goal of their advertising is not to convert users but instead to remain ubiquitous in the users mind when thinking about cola, so that you basically "coca cola, and t
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by nolok 5y ago
Agreed, Aukey is actually a good quality brand I like to buy since they appeared on amazon.fr, along with Ugreen and a few others. I don't know why they let their image be damaged like that, that's so not needed.
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by nolok 5y ago
The really funny part being of course that there is an actual business out there out of fb likes, instagram followers and retweets
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by nolok 5y ago
Given the details in the tweet, it might be simply translating GC run from emulated to host context. Not what you would ever want to do but it's abandonware from years ago after all, it might have been "slow but bearable" bac
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by nolok 5y ago
They knew he got the domain name, not that he claimed to own the rest and the users data. They had his promise that he would not involve himself in the governance. Said promise is in writing, but only has a few chats message, nothing offici
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by nolok 5y ago
They tried to monetize on the website and the staff rebelled, and kicked out the staff member that got PIA inside the doors. So now PIA tries to clear the house of them.
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by nolok 5y ago
Freenode was a very popular (for its target) irc server used by a lot of open source projects and communities over decades. Freenode was managed by volunteers without any official organisation. A couple years ago, the person that the volunt
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by nolok 5y ago
Naivety on the internet, and people believing what they read on a web page without checking. Google doesn't require a gmail adresse to publish.
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by nolok 5y ago
It's not making it look better, it's making it run faster.
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by nolok 5y ago
Warsow is also quite good and very close to late 90's shooter's idea of multiplayer https://warsow.net/
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by nolok 5y ago
I am not familiar with the github sponsors, patreon and all ... I would like to sponsor them in the name of a company I run, do any of those options give me an actual invoice ? Zulip is such a joy to use after other solutions. Threads are s
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by nolok 5y ago
It's not four, the fact that the others applications are reliably detected as not present are additional bits.
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by nolok 5y ago
> I'm not sure why it would be so inaccurate, but I feel better... I don't think you understood the core of the issue: it's not about identifying which applications you have installed, it's about always getting the sa
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by nolok 5y ago
You completly missed his point. You seem to complain about it being more based on a PR angle rather that facts and truth, but the whole point of what parent is saying is that this is a game Musk himself is pushing.
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by nolok 5y ago
> There are other more sophisticated methods which I can't mention here I found that very funny in a austin power kind of way, like this is some sort of giant secret technology. The most efficient methods of watermarking pictures in
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by nolok 5y ago
"Transparency breeds trust. We’re in the business of asking customers to trust us with their data. It seems reasonable to demonstrate why we’re worthy of your trust." - Blackblaze
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by nolok 5y ago
It's not just google as a corporation, it's google as a legal entity. Have your own site in your own individual name with no corporate entity nor search for profit offering to host people's videos for free, and I guarantee yo
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by nolok 6y ago
Hey come on that's unfair, the jokes on that one will forever remain in the history books
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by nolok 6y ago
> Verizon [...] combined [Yahoo] with AOL under the umbrella Oath. Starting years of confusion for people searching oauth and making a typo.
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by nolok 6y ago
You are weirdly confused trying to compare two different things. Apple's financial results are public and you should check them because you will see that they make a massive amount of profit on their iphones, and they actively separate
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by nolok 6y ago
Margrethe Vestager (the european commissioner for competition since 2014) is not that kind of fool, if you look at her history since she got that job. And since 2019 she's also been named "President of the European Commission for
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by nolok 6y ago
Ah yes, developing APIs wouldn't be possible if every software maker didn't give them a 30% rent on their revenue ! Except Windows had already proved it's false. Those APIs are investment, you factor their r&d costs into
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by nolok 6y ago
Nobody stops Apple from offering an alternative "if your app is 100% free then there are no fees for you at all", beside the 100$/year they already have to pay.
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by nolok 6y ago
Paypal also support the SEPA bank direct debit I mentionned above as a source of funds, meaning you don't even have to initiate a bank transfer they do it for you and it's instant. Bank account -> paypal -> spotify, in one o
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by nolok 6y ago
Vast oversimplification: it's because of chargebacks and fraud. It works kind of like an insurance, someone needs to take the loss at some point and fixed amount doesn't work for that (or would massively hike the fees for cheap sa
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by nolok 6y ago
I did, the EU did, and as a result their fees got massively regulated in the EU, below 0.5% ; on top of other reasons why this comparison is not fair and equal as discussed in many comments below (no market monopoly associated, and percenta
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by nolok 6y ago
> the total cost of operating the App Store would be equally distributed amongst all apps No it would not, it would be distributed by usage. If you wonder "would that possibly work ?", welcome to the internet, it works that way
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by nolok 6y ago
FYI: Apple disallow you to redirect your users to subscribe outside of their app without their fee. You cannot tell your users "go to our website to subscribe by check for 30% less", that gets you banned. So yes, you are forced to
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by nolok 6y ago
That will be a crucial point of the ruling to come yes, as the full version is "You're not forced to use them to sell on the market", and it depends on what you define as "the market". If you consider selling apps t

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