saintfire

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by saintfire 3y ago
I think the competition can drive the standard to improve. People can see improvements in alternatives that still align with their principals and adopt them. So in that regard, I don't think they are disjunct ideas.
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by saintfire 3y ago
Males not contracting HPV stymies the transmission to unvaccinated females, if cervical cancer is the only concern for some reason.
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by saintfire 3y ago
The exclusive apps are other side of the coin, even. They show that making something that targets Mac is its own job if you're not using cross platform frameworks. With that in mind, it makes perfect sense that people don't want t
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by saintfire 3y ago
This is how I feel every time I see any mainstream news outlet copy-pasting any privacy related piece. All the outrage companies and people have is posturing in almost every case, in my opinion.
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by saintfire 3y ago
I suppose you, just like everyone else claims, are immune to marketing? The most insidious form of control is convincing people they are forming their own opinions without any outside influence. Regardless who you are, the content you are e
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by saintfire 3y ago
Given that product keys and activation servers are forms of DRM and not anti-cheat. I'd say that anti-cheat is effectively a subset of DRM, as it prevents unauthorized changes to the binary, typically.
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by saintfire 3y ago
That's pretty wild because its blocked for me in Canada, and usually we have the best parity with US content.
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by saintfire 3y ago
It used to be the case that they were all keys that aren't technically allowed to be resold per their agreement. Either OEM or business copies and the like. So really we're back to some form of piracy because Windows is too expens
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by saintfire 3y ago
I read it this way twice before I read it as the OP intended.
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by saintfire 3y ago
Isn't that a defining trait of a monopoly position? "If you don't like it then alternative is your target market is cut by over 50%" Not a great argument. When you essentially have the say as to whether a company can aff
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by saintfire 3y ago
It is sort of funny that such an innocuous thing was all I could think about while reading it.
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by saintfire 3y ago
AFAIK, and I could be wrong, beeper mini registers a new HWID with apple for each phone. Which is why they thought it was unpatchable, at first, as they would need to determine which phone is in fact an iPhone.
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by saintfire 3y ago
> Apple has the ability to control security issues on Android: they can release an Android app, like every other E2EE messenger out there. I'm surprised I haven't seen this mentioned more. They could even make a green (or whate