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by sofixa 1y ago
All the big leagues take "piracy" very seriously and constantly try to clamp down on it. TV rights is one of their main revenue sources, and it's expected to always go up, so they see "piracy" as a fundamental threa
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> Plenty of heavy traffic, high redundancy applications exist without the need for AWS (or any other cloud providers) overpriced "bespoke" systems. And almost all of them need a database, a load balancer, maybe some sort of cac
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> The case of pizza in NYC is the same That's more a question of taste, IMO. I found most pizza in the US to be way too greasy and sugary and salty for my taste; but that's what the local tastes expect.
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> even in France you'll find cheap croissants made with margarine Rare. Most bakeries in France serve their local community, and they won't get repeat business if their croissants are shit. There is actually a standard and you
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> The sad part is France annihilated most of the last small independent bakers a few years ago when they they jacked up energy prices. What? Source? "Last small independent bakers" What? France is full with bakers. There are ba
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There is a world of difference between not having to declare taxes, and having an industry of tax filers. In France you have to declare taxes, but everything known to the tax authorities is pre-filled, leaving you to add any special incomes
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> Someone doing the work for free is not inherently sustainable This does not apply to government / public work that has to be done anyways. Nor to any public service in general for that matter.
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> Most of these non-open-source licenses aren't free software Free as in beer? They are. BSL and SSPL and FSL and friends are free, with some restrictions which are usually extremely reasonable and boil down to forbidding reselling.
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Brew is pretty terrible though. It's slow, and doesn't handle updates/versions/dependencies all that well. I've had it make major (with breaking changes) updates to random software when asked to install something un
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Docker works very weirdly (it's a desktop application you have to install that has usage restrictions in enterprise contexts, and it's inside a VM so some things don't work), or you have to use an alternative with similar res
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> You often don't have to rebuild or redeploy your software if you are using the included batteries as intended Instead, your software's lifecycle is entirely dependent on the OS' lifecycle. That seems worse. And for what
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> sleep works 100% of the time for days on end In my case it works roughly ~50% of the time. Probably because of the Thunderbolt monitor connected to power it, idk. > the basics are still rock solid The basics like the OS flat out ref
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> Deaths, US has 1111 and Europe 662, more than half of which happened in what's more accurately described as a terrorist attack rather than a school shooting (the Beslan school siege [1]). A terrorist attack where the anti-terroris
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The migration guide contains this: > Workers will receive the focus of Cloudflare's development efforts going forwards, so we therefore are recommending using Cloudflare Workers over Cloudflare Pages for any new projects https:&#x2
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> there are school shootings and similar issues on a semi regular basis across Europe Once a decade at most in most countries. Usually less than that. Compared to what in the US, once a month? Yes, guns are still guns and humans are st
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Or a generic secrets manager. Software that can scan your code repos / knowledge bases for exposed secrets is also plenty. There is no good reason to keep secrets in clear text in a doc/code repo/knowledge base.
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But hacking TechCrunch would be a major PR disaster for NSO (again), so maybe they would abstain.
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I'm sorry, but how many activists have any fame or clout that they use in any way other than for causes ? I can only think of Greta Thunberg, but can't really remember her ever using her "fame and clout" for anything oth
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I don't see any mention of a critical remediation step - ensuring there are no credentials in their documentation. Notion being a SaaS, there is always a risk of some misconfiguration or breach leaking the information from it.
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> After sending the messages, Hershowitz declared his comments “off the record,” which requires both parties to agree to the terms in advance. TechCrunch is publishing the responses as there was no agreement made What a failure for a spo
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> The bigger and older the company, the more ossified the structures are that have a want to keep headcount equal, and ideally grow it. I don't know, most of the companies doing regular layoffs wheneveer they can get away with it ar
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> and I am far from sure its a good thing. Why? It's good for consumers (more practical) and the planet (less ewaste). > Right to privacy in various forms far predates the EU. Online? As a concept yes, but as a legal framework, n
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> Everything in EU is overpriced and worse than things coming from outside the EU, and that is by design If nothing else, Airbus says hello and laughs in your face. Throw in Spotify and IKEA, the majority of the world's luxury sec
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> My problem with the EU overall, aside from being inefficient, is that they don't really push towards intrinsic perfection. They kind of look what others do, try to simulate and copy it, usually fail - and then the same pattern is
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Are there any, anywhere in the developed world? Le Figaro in France might count, but pracically every explicitly socially conservative media I can think of has had at least some suspicious events that have lowered or destroyed its reputatio
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> post-partum abortion What the fuck are you talking about?
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Even the low cost Xiaomi and OnePlus models get you a few years (6 for the former, IIRC 4 for the latter) of Android support. As for bloatware, any mobile OS comes with stuff included. I've used both a Xiaomi and a OnePlus device and n
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But they weren't losing money on paid users, and their cost base was never so high.
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But OpenAI's costs are exponentially higher than Google's (even taking into account the various Google freebies they don't charge for).
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This is sadly prevalent in some niches (e.g. low cost travel), but I don't think LLMs would be able to navigate those dark patterns better than humans would.

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