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by olliej 3y ago
cheers
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by olliej 3y ago
No, what we're saying is google made a free service that was accessible everywhere, which meant all the non-google options essentially died off (commercial paid apps were competing with free, non-commercial ones were competing with &
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by olliej 3y ago
Seatbelts are (sans children) something that only impacts the person making the choice. A better example is "people should be allowed to drive while drunk, because it's their personal choice".
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by olliej 3y ago
No. It's defamation because they know their information is frequently incorrect, that it is trivial for people to get outright fraudulent transactions attached to people's "credit report". Knowing that, they then present
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by olliej 3y ago
In what sense? C and C++ aren’t memory safe, so the specification has to say something about what happens if you’re dereferencing an invalid pointer (random value, out of bounds, frees pointer, etc). That’s what UB exists for: there’s no be
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by olliej 3y ago
#gasp Seriously, this is like the “open office” obsession despite literally every study showing it is bad for employee health, morale, and productivity. This is purely executives wanting to have and demonstrate power over employees, and m
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by olliej 3y ago
A core part of the problem of UB in C and C++, is that it is gratuitously over applied. Mercifully the article calls out the BS argument of "old hardware" justifying UB. It is simply a false argument. The overwhelming majority of
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by olliej 3y ago
Because congress has declared that it is legal for them to do it, so there's no criminal activity to prosecute. Is that bullshit: yes. Does that mean you should not prosecute it when it is illegal: of course not. I get that you're
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by olliej 3y ago
I assume the breach of trust ended the marriage regardless. It's more "don't report someone else breaking the law, keep your job as you're now single".
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by olliej 3y ago
I still love the whole "we know our data is wrong, but we sell it as fact, and know that that information is used to impact cost to you, but you're required to constantly check with us, or pay us to tell you when we're lying&
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by olliej 3y ago
But people demonstrably don't want things that last, they want cheaper. I'm not sure what appliance (or really at this point any) manufacturers are meant to do - if you're competing for the overwhelming majority of consumers
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by olliej 3y ago
The class keyword was added (as a functional syntax I mean) specifically because people understand class base inheritance but not prototype inheritance. It is literally just syntactic sugar on what you could do previously, so it’s not “need
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by olliej 3y ago
As I understand it, but to be clear I’m not involved in the wine community, codeweavers does a lot of the Mac contributions. I know apple has game porting toolkit or whatever they call it, which is essentially proton for Mac (built in wine
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by olliej 3y ago
Proton is Linux only and it seems crossover has a Big Mac focus so it’s seems reasonable for them to match proton. [edit: I’m leaving the autocarrot capitalization of Big Mac in place :)]
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by olliej 3y ago
Much like the abortion bans these states are enforcing today, and just as was the case in the past, these laws do not impact the rich. The rich could get abortions before roe v wade, they can get them today. The same applies to IVF, but now
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by olliej 3y ago
Because the people who claim "states rights" only ever do so when they're being forced to treat other people equally. Recall they vigorously opposed any state allowing same sex marriage, and even got DOMA passed so that if a
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by olliej 3y ago
Yeah the response of banning flipper zero is absurd, and would be like banning usb connectors in response to Kia’s terrible ignition flaw.
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by olliej 3y ago
Huh, does this mean they're going to oust all the executives that resulted in the environment that produced the 737max saga?
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by olliej 3y ago
(1) crimes happen, and have happened forever (2) historically people simply did not create a huge written record (texts etc) detailing their crimes, so there’s no change in available information (3) even before any of this tech police are n
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by olliej 3y ago
You don’t need (unencrypted) in this. RCS is not encrypted. It never has been. Google has a proprietary extension that puts encrypted blobs into RCS messages, but that would be no different from apple shoving iMessage blobs into RCS and cal
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by olliej 3y ago
There's "scam" in the sense of "it didn't do what they said"/"charged me more than they said", and there's a more colloquial "scam" where the UI is designed to obscure the cost of
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by olliej 3y ago
It's interesting that in the post there's a maintainer pointing out that there's a very tiny little checkbox that says "this will process X PB of data". Given that your account knows how much your queries cost per T
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by olliej 3y ago
No, they're not lying, they have a bunch of systems in place to prevent the kind of abuse that they're allowed to prevent. The fact that the law encodes legal abuse that cannot be blocked, doesn't mean google is lying becau
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by olliej 3y ago
I recognize that these massive memory GPUs are for "AI" applications, but it really is amazing (exponential growth, I know, I know) when I think back to being at uni when I was super excited to get a Real(tm) High performance(r) G
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by olliej 3y ago
> Who? Not Google, etc. First, I said "not directly consumer oriented ones", which are the minority of SV companies. That said: Digital, HP, Intel, Honeywell, AMD, etc (e.g I'd argue Xerox PARC was largely funded via Xerox
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by olliej 3y ago
Weren't the bulk of the original SV tech companies largely funded by the military? and haven't many (most?) or the not directly consumer oriented ones always had massive military contracts? This isn't new.
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by olliej 3y ago
Um no? Plenty of individual developers currently earn their living writing single apps. In the lack of copyright, a corporation can just directly include that developer's software in the products they sell. The only way for such a deve
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by olliej 3y ago
Ah, womp womp, you'd think that at least would be correct. My guess is they got enough shitty/badly done forms from real entities filing real reports and got threatened with lawsuits when they were rejected instead of the filers j
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by olliej 3y ago
No, google is doing what it can within the extremely tight confines of what the DMCA allows. The DMCA essentially prohibits companies from applying any judgement as to the validity of the complaint, so all google can do is try to identify f
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by olliej 3y ago
"The solution here is to abolish copyright" If you abolish copyright, then open source licenses cease mattering. The GPL only works because a corporation can only use GPL software if it agrees to the license, but if there is no co

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