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by sofixa 11mo ago
> Meta (and social media more broadly) are the only case where we have (in my opinion) substantiated allegations of a company being aware of a large, negative impact on society (mental wellness, of teens no less), and still prioritizing
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by sofixa 11mo ago
Categorising date rape drugs as weapons will help both men and women raped under the influence of such an attack. No point in bringing the victim's gender here.
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by sofixa 11mo ago
Microsoft with their Surface line? They don't control every part of the hardware, but neither did Apple control even the majority before the M series.
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by sofixa 11mo ago
> And how different is that from "forgetting" to pay your bill and having your production environment brought down? AWS will remind you for months before they actually stop it.
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by sofixa 11mo ago
It's not that it's technically impossible. The very simple problem is that there is no way of providing hard spend caps without giving you the opportunity to bring down your whole production environment when the cap is met. No clo
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by sofixa 11mo ago
> There are many self-hosted alternatives to protect against botnet Whatever you do, unless you have their bandwidth capacity, at some point those "self-hosted" will get flooded with traffic.
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by sofixa 11mo ago
> That actually says more about what the Western "First World" media feeds their people, that the rest of the world is 20 years behind and stuff :') More like, "western" media rarely talks about most countries no
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by sofixa 11mo ago
Not really, but with the amounts of money they're bleeding it's bound to get worse if they are already doing it.
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by sofixa 11mo ago
It would be pretty dystopian when we get to the point where ChatGPT pushed (unannounced) advertisements to those people (the ones forming a parasocial relationship with it). Imagine someone complaining they're depressed and ChatGPT pro
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by sofixa 11mo ago
> I think the explanation is European states spreading FUD, to manufacture further hatred of Russia and consent for an escalation of hostilities. Based on what? > further hatred of Russia Russia, being an agressor terrorist state perp
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by sofixa 11mo ago
This would come at the expense of lowering density and multiplying infrastructure costs by a few orders of magnitude, making everything less accessible in doing so. Hard, hard no.
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by sofixa 11mo ago
> Brexit was a good first step. Not really. The UK having a forum in the EU or not really doesn't change the size of the British society and the complexities of its governance. It only made a million small and medium and large thing
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by sofixa 1y ago
> repeatable setups which you should be doing from the start Yes, but not with > TypeScript and CDK Unless your business includes managing infrastructure with your product, for whatever reason (like you provision EC2 instances for you
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by sofixa 1y ago
> Tricky networking though. And data storage/locality/consistency.
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by sofixa 1y ago
Yes, and? Nobody would fill all annexes. They are annexes because they're not part of the common path, and are only needed in specific scenarios. Their length is kind of irrelevant.
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by sofixa 1y ago
Based on what? The French tax system is pretty simple. Taxes are high, but simple. The website you use to file your taxes is also pretty simple, and every single field has a button that explains what it is about and in which cases you shoul
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by sofixa 1y ago
> Congress. They pass laws. The administration is bound, by the constitution, to follow those laws and to administrate them with "due care." About that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_v._United_States
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by sofixa 1y ago
> In Microsoft's defense, Azure has always been a complete joke. It's extremely developer unfriendly, buggy and overpriced. Don't forget extremely insecure. There is a quarterly critical cross-tenant CVE with trivial exp
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by sofixa 1y ago
> Europe money is only thrown to real estate owners and any enterprising people with a dream are cordially invited to fucking forget about it, shut up, and fall back in line. That's simply not true. Europe is a continent that includ
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by sofixa 1y ago
> France and there will just be massive swathes of land owned by the nobility or 'former' nobility Yeah, no, this isn't even remotely true.
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by sofixa 1y ago
For such sums, you're probably better off calling the best private hospitals in France, UK, Germany, whatever, taking the trip, doing whatever treatment there and paying out of pocket, having some holiday, and you're still ahead.
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by sofixa 1y ago
Got me, I'm not American, but isn't it true? California Consumer Privacy Act is a thing you need to take into account for Californian customers. Illinois has a Biometric Privacy Act. And who knows what Wyoming or South Dakota or O
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by sofixa 1y ago
> Okay, what is the limiting factor A few. A big part is that the EU is a collection of countries that (with very few exceptions) have different languages and laws. For a company to serve Spain and France, for instance, it would need to
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by sofixa 1y ago
> but I started my company in the US because everything is so much easier here Which part is easier? That you have 50 different states with slightly varying laws to consider (e.g. Californian Data protection)? That you have a byzantine s
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by sofixa 1y ago
You know because there is an explicit permission box that pops out and asks if you want to give this website access to a device, and asks you to select that device. Same as your camera/microphone/location.
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by sofixa 1y ago
Nothing is "permanently modifying your files". What happens is that when an application without location permissions tries to get photos, the corresponding OS calls strip the geo location data when passing them. The original pho
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by sofixa 1y ago
Your second point, as well as their so much criticised, especially on HN, attempts at diversification, are trying to fight your first point. Because they're so reliable on Google funding, they're trying to do whatever they can t
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by sofixa 1y ago
How is it governed?
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by sofixa 1y ago
> That strikes me as the right thing to do Yep, and it's there for very goos reasons. However if you don't know about it, it can be quite surprising and challenging to debug. Also it's annoying when your phones permissions
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by sofixa 1y ago
> to try to make up for that they want to make it so only sites they allow can run What do you mean, you can run whatever you want on localhost, and it's quite easy to host whatever you want for whoever you want too. Maybe the bigge

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