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by tinus_hn 3y ago
The post I replied to claimed subscriptions were ‘moneymakers’. That’s obvious, it’s literally people paying money to be a subscriber. What’s not obvious is if they pay the bills. Chances are that like in most forms of media they don’t. Jus
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
How about we have a talk about Google chat. I don’t remember Google announcing it would be opened up. Or does their requirement only apply to successful services?
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
If we want to protect these rights they need to be guaranteed somewhere where daily politics can’t touch it, like a constitution. Otherwise it’s a battle that will only end when the rights are gone.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Right. So clearly subscriptions don’t pay the bills so we get the alternative, ads, and non-intrusive ads don’t pay the bills either so we get intrusive ads. You would like to decide that a few non-intrusive ads and subscriptions earn enoug
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
I would gladly take all the blame for $20 million. And after that, do it again for another $20 million.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Without external ads and with only promotion for their own properties, how were they supposed to make any money? Is making money ‘blatant’?
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Oh so it’s just the old ‘hurr durr Apple bad’ mantra with no alternative.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
But do keep complaining about how centralization is killing the internet!
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
You prefer fixing Windows computers?
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Exactly the same as what you do with a tray of photographic slides, in case you drop them
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
So here is nginx running on a real computer and a homebrew webserver running on a potato, and your theory is nginx is the limiting factor. And it’s all the fault of encryption and the browser cartel.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Alternatively the facts were not defensible so they came up with an excuse that was.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
If they want to compete they have to agree on something like ACPI so the OS vendors can target their boards without a separate distribution for each board.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
But not in exchange for not tracking you. If you pay, obviously you have to log in and in typical Google fashion have your viewing history tracked, associated with you and stored forever.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
This appears logical but the reality is that the only reason you can’t immediately run MacOS on a generic X64 computer is that it doesn’t contain the licensing chip. If you patch out that requirement (using a Hackintosh installation) and co
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
So just hate on the player that least deserves it. Big brained move.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
It’s actually very easy if you are the government; you just say from 5 years from now, using lead fuel is banned. And then someone else has to do the work.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Tile did exactly that. Except of course according to the privacy policy they track where everything and everyone is.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Thanks, I will not be tuning in to your TED talk. Do you really think anyone is going to read through all that? If you dislike that browser so much, consider using one of the many alternatives.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Base64 encoding is about 75% efficient, so that means that file contains about 7-15 megabytes of thumbnails. As these are probably not compressible that means there really isn’t a whole lot lost compared to the optimal solution.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Seems the court disagrees with you to the tune of $100000. Seems it is the opinion of the court that Google is rebroadcasting and amplifying slander and refuses to stop when notified and when ordered to do so.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
It’s all because the penalty of perjury, which is accepted in the claim, is nothing. Nobody has ever been punished for sending a false DMCA claim. If sending fraudulent claims like this resulted in the sender going to jail this wouldn’t be
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
It got worse after the shoe bomber and then worse again when the airports found out they could make more money selling water after security by only having ‘convenience’ warm water in the toilets. The nickel-and-diming continues.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
In other words, first there was the phase when this was paranoid dystopian tin-foil hat conspiracy theory, and now we have reached the phase where it’s the reality we live in.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
180° on a circle makes a lot of sense, it’s half the circle. Just like a meter makes sense, it’s a unit of distance.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
And then there needs to be some secret software that makes sure any 3D printer parts that are 3D printed are fingerprinted as well? It’s 3d printers all the way down.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
So there’s three options: index at the beginning, index at the end and no index. Index at the beginning means it’s easy to look up, but impossible to add anything. No index, which is tar, means it’s impossible to tell what’s in it without r
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Because there is no way to tell when a thread is done with the buffer, there is no moment when you can be sure you can manipulate it. The options are create a new copy and leak the old one or accept the chance of a segfault.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Interesting. Reminds me of what they were trying to do with MicroXWin, Y, DFB, Xynth and Fresco!
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Before Wayland, 100% of the developer effort went towards X. Was shutting up and using X the sensible thing to do then?

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