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by snackbroken 10mo ago
Not exactly the 19th century, but in 1980 Softsoap bought up a year's worth of manufacturing capacity of hand pump mechanisms in order to block competitors from entering the consumer market for liquid hand soap.
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by snackbroken 11mo ago
Seconding Fullmetal Alchemist. I hear the remake (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood) is usually regarded as the better version. More suggestions: Neon Genesis Evangelion, Death Note, Sousou no Frieren, Cowboy Bebop, Nichijou, Tengen Toppa Gu
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by snackbroken 11mo ago
With KDE Connect you can use your phone as a touchpad+keyboard. One less thing to get lost in the couch cushions ;)
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by snackbroken 1y ago
Functioning democracies do yank out their elected representatives. Not randomly or even arbitrarily of course, but when they step egregiously out of line. Votes of no confidence, recall elections, impeachment, general strikes demanding re
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by snackbroken 1y ago
People managed to keep trees in cities just fine prior to the mid 20th century so I can't imagine it's an insurmountable obstacle. Beyond cutting the trees down, other valid solutions include (but are not limited to) letting the l
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by snackbroken 1y ago
This blog post would fit perfectly into a "is it meaningless marketing drivel or meaningless AI generated drivel?" game.
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by snackbroken 1y ago
Someone who thinks Jerry Pallotta's "Who would win?" books are a good example of science communication directed at children should not be taken seriously. I'd go into why, but here's an actual zoologist doing a much
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by snackbroken 1y ago
Sorry, yes. To clarify, it's about withholding features of a product in one market from your competitors in the other market.
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by snackbroken 1y ago
Some observational humor is timeless. Consider this entry from the same collection of Sumerian proverbs: "The dog understands 'Take it!', but it does not understand 'Put it down!'"[0] later repopularized as &qu
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by snackbroken 1y ago
I'm generally opposed to that as well. Agreeing with Muromec's reply, I don't think it is necessarily anticompetitive in the case where the console vendor doesn't favor its first party games, but of course all three do
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by snackbroken 1y ago
I don't think it's an improvement , but having a GUI that matches user expectations is undeniably a business advantage.
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by snackbroken 1y ago
The key distinction is the withholding from your competitors part. WinAPI may have a ton of features labelled "pls no use thx" but MS doesn't block you from distributing a program that uses them anyway.
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by snackbroken 1y ago
Providing an OS feature only to first-party programs is a plainly anticompetitive practice. Using your privileged position in one market (cell phones/cell phone operating systems) to gain an advantage in another market (smart phone app
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by snackbroken 1y ago
I can't speak for GP but the number one reason I prefer my distro's repos over flatpaks has nothing to do with Flatpak as a technology. Most distros have a fantastic track record of defending the interests of their users. Meanwhil
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by snackbroken 1y ago
Less than 2.6% of browser users (with telemetry enabled) are using Firefox. Should the web drop support for Firefox? Seems sensible. (I would hope not)
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by snackbroken 1y ago
> You still have to do some digging when you go back for the book. There is widespread browser support for linking directly to text fragments[1] which makes it possible to link to arbitrary parts of documents even when the author hasn&#x
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by snackbroken 1y ago
> Here in Sweden I can assure you that the government won't be able to do anything about prosecutions of this sort. Tell this to Julian Assange, or to Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm, and Carl Lundström. Though these a
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by snackbroken 1y ago
Moz also has no love for RSS, having removed support for live bookmarks in Firefox 64 (2018) and no longer displaying the RSS icon anywhere in the UI when a website has any <link rel="alternate" type="application/rs
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by snackbroken 1y ago
It's easy to make something look nice when you drop "being useful" as a requirement.
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by snackbroken 1y ago
Sure, if you want to restrict access to your service or plaster your website with annoying pop-ups just for fun, the law doesn't cover that. It only cares about this in the context of processing personal data. Essentially: If you wis
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by snackbroken 1y ago
If you don't click on anything then you are gated from the service. The service provider may not impose obstacles to using the service without providing consent that are not present when providing consent.
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by snackbroken 1y ago
Like I said upthread, > Not having an option to reject that is as convenient as the one to accept is not compliant with GDPR. The law, guidance provided by regulators, and court rulings are all quite clear on this: Consent must be freely
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by snackbroken 1y ago
Guidance from the regulators has been abundantly clear on this point. You'll notice all the big players have a "reject all" button because they would get fined otherwise. We're well past the point where anyone can make a
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by snackbroken 1y ago
> this page is a great example of the UI ramifications of GDPR. Not having an option to reject that is as convenient as the one to accept is not compliant with GDPR.
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by snackbroken 1y ago
No-schedule works fine if (and only if) service is sufficiently frequent, say every 5 minutes. The overwhelming majority of intra-city trips will have 3 transfers or less in a well designed bus network and when planning to catch a less freq
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by snackbroken 1y ago
> value is created in every transaction Lots of transactions actually destroy value, they just do so in a way that externalizes this cost. A good example is advertising: companies are incentivized to dump all available resources into mar
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by snackbroken 1y ago
Everything except the 30-60 minute manager call is a waste of time and money for everyone involved. You just need to ask a couple of open-ended questions about the candidate's preferred programming language and/or some technical d
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by snackbroken 1y ago
User-agent discrimination is tolerable when it's Joe Webmaster doing it out of ignorance. It is not acceptable if it is being used by a company leveraging their dominant position in one market to gain an advantage over its competitors
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by snackbroken 1y ago
> Does it support infinite loop? Yes, by setting the repeatCount or repeatDur attribute of the <animate> tag to "indefinite". Notably, since <animation> tags effect individual attributes and not the image as a whole
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by snackbroken 1y ago
And as we all know, the book, music and motion picture industries have all ceased operations due to the presence of copyright expiry.

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