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by qualeed 1y ago
> Harder for banks and the Federal Reserve to block payments That will vary by country, and the Federal Reserve is also US-specific. There are gamers in more countries than just the US :). But yes, I certainly agree that the duopoly of
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by qualeed 1y ago
Coins, maybe. FedNow is US-specific, though. In any case, as it stands right now, Steam losing Visa/MC processing entirely would be catastrophic to their business.
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by qualeed 1y ago
Visa/Mastercard can, conceivably, just tell Steam " if X content is available on the platform at all, regardless of payment method, we will no longer process your payments. "
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by qualeed 1y ago
They do what they say on the tin (i.e. not a "massive scam"). If people think they do other things, that's not a "scam", that's people being misinformed about what a VPN is and does. That's on them.
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by qualeed 1y ago
I mean, if your concern is government, your already shit out of luck between your cellphone pinging cell towers, license plate readers, CCTV cameras, Ring cameras, Wi-Fi pinging, etc. (I would agree that I wouldn't necessarily want fin
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by qualeed 1y ago
If it is a business scenario, in my experience it is typically because of support contracts as opposed to just "does it work or not". For example, QuickBooks may run just fine with Wine (not sure, haven't checked), but it wou
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by qualeed 1y ago
> For business users I'd say the biggest thing is Active Directory Also QuickBooks (online does not come close to replacing desktop enterprise) & CAD, in my experience.
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by qualeed 1y ago
> But I'm not. But... you're trying to correct their statistics? I agree with you that in the context, your stats maybe make more sense. But if you're going to correct someone, you generally should recognize what they wer
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by qualeed 1y ago
Your stats are for murder victims. I assume that the parent poster was talking about all causes of death. I have no idea if their number is correct for that either.
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by qualeed 1y ago
Thanks! I figured it was something along those lines, but couldn't find the actual words to go with the acronym.
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by qualeed 1y ago
Ah, makes sense, thanks!
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by qualeed 1y ago
> the dnr has been nore and more effective What is "dnr"? I tried googling, but I just get "do not resuscitate".
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by qualeed 1y ago
> The only solution is you download stuff and it remains runnable and usable without any connection or authorisation to any service. I agree, but that could still be done even when using a centralized distribution platform. I would say
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by qualeed 1y ago
I'm curious, what do you imagine as the better alternative? I guess every publisher could just sell direct to customers on their own website, but that wouldn't address this issue at all (it would make it even easier for payment pr
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by qualeed 1y ago
> just use your brain and don't upload your face and driver's license to a gossip website. It isn't just gossip websites requiring this, and it isn't just gossip websites suffering breaches.
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by qualeed 1y ago
When I can, I try to do the same, but that's not very practical for many trips and/or travelers.
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by qualeed 1y ago
This seems to be operating on the premise that everyone knows of every exploit that exists. There's also an enormous incentive to hide working exploits.
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by qualeed 1y ago
Is/will there be any discussion on how initial triage of potential security issues will be handled in the future? It was disappointing to see the responses in the post. A curt "It's a feature" to a valid security concern
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by qualeed 1y ago
> it’s a problem of monopoly not censorship. It is both. The monopoly (or duopoly) is what enables the demands for censorship.
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by qualeed 1y ago
> As a result, membership will never be open, and we will never have enough connected LANs to deal with the technical and social problems that start to happen with scale. This is a feature, not a bug. > This is a call for you to do t
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by qualeed 1y ago
Or, hear me out, it's just a group of nerdy friends that wanted to hack something together.
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by qualeed 1y ago
In a complete vacuum, sure, it's not a great measurement. But it can provide some information when you look at it in context and with other information. Practically any comparison between a 10-person hedge fund and walmart is going to
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by qualeed 1y ago
That's very much not the point I was making, at all. There could be tons! Or not many. It's completely irrelevant to my comment.
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by qualeed 1y ago
You started with saying it was " essentially a UX wrapper ", it was explained that there is a lot more to it, so you immediately shift into (paraphrased) " well there's other options and most people don't use the ot
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by qualeed 1y ago
In that case, mind providing a more appropriate ballpark?
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by qualeed 1y ago
> I am not sure why I am getting down-voted though. My guess is the ambiguous use of "they", interpreting "they" as GrapheneOS instead of the police. That makes it seem like you are criticizing GrapheneOS rather than
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by qualeed 1y ago
I think people are misinterpreting your comment? Or I am. What I think you are saying is: The police are arguing both sides (in typical fashion). On one side, the police say that GrapheneOS is for criminals because of its privacy, etc.
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by qualeed 1y ago
> (all) european governments are terrorist organisations I'm all for criticizing government actions, trust me, but can we try to make thoughtful criticisms that represent reality? Or, at the very least, if you're going to use
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by qualeed 1y ago
You have two main points, it seems. 1) The internet is heavily influenced by capitalism now. 2) The younger generation as a whole interacts with the internet in a certain way. I don't see why it's a problem to agree with one and d
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by qualeed 1y ago
Despite the disclaimer, I do find (at least some of this) very "old millennial yells at zoomers". Maybe it's just the way it's written, because I do agree with some of the points (e.g. the pressures and stress created

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