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811.
by toyg 2y ago
I expect it comes from reactions to earlier attempts to pass US-made sausages for actual mortadella (aka ”bologna"), as in "that's not Bologna, that's <anglicized distortion of the name>!", which was then sh
812.
by toyg 2y ago
26446199, iirc. I remember the pass but not used in ages, I would have to bust out Pidgin or something...
813.
by toyg 2y ago
I found my (ex)wife on ICQ, or rather she found me.
814.
by toyg 2y ago
Considering sanctions, Ukrainians are probably the largest Spotify consumers of Russian content right now, and obviously will listen to Ukrainian content too. So their engine probably goes "oh you like Russian stuff, so chances are you
815.
by toyg 2y ago
It seems very much like a nuclear bomb used to go hunting for deer. I'm sure it will be useful to some, but it's the sort of specialized activity that is better left to extensions, particularly when they carry heavy infrastructura
816.
by toyg 2y ago
Standardization was an option, but it took laws to actually force the inevitable refuseniks (like Apple) to the table.
817.
by toyg 2y ago
I don't disagree on the overall principle of avoiding the establishment of de-facto extraterritoriality, but it should be said that environmental pollution is not a localized problem. The Earth is a connected system, and what happens i
818.
by toyg 2y ago
I've just been a bit lazy. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40355346
819.
by toyg 2y ago
The great firewall of Britain already exists, just at the DNS level. See my other comment above with the Wikipedia link.
820.
by toyg 2y ago
Someone will build it, and someone else will crack it, and someone else will be very very sorry.
821.
by toyg 2y ago
That's covered by the Online Safety Act 2023, which effectively places responsibility on social media for the content they carry. It's very likely that we'll soon see calls to ban the whole of Reddit, for example. Predictions
822.
by toyg 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_blocking_in_the_United_Kin... Excerpts: "Websites and services are blocked using a combination of data feeds from private content-control technology companies, government agencies
823.
by toyg 2y ago
There is a bit of confusion, because this law was effectively dropped in 2019 but then resurrected and passed in 2023. Enforcement is due to start in 2025, with Ofcom currently exploring feedback from industry and users. People will be su
824.
by toyg 2y ago
The fat lady has not sung yet - terrible movies often become cult hits once they are "rediscovered" for their badness and prices go down. I wouldn't be surprised if Cats eventually became a streaming staple.
825.
by toyg 2y ago
The original idea is sound: "we are squeezing all tools into the iPad". The problem is that you can't squeeze an object without resorting to animation. So instead they went for crushing , which carries destructive undert
826.
by toyg 2y ago
Well, technically it was one of two emperors.
827.
by toyg 2y ago
Evolutionarily, you probably want those types too. An orderly tribe might get slaughtered by some unforeseen situation that they try to fight together; whereas the individualist "I don't give a shit" type might just run away
828.
by toyg 2y ago
Oh, I agree it's not unique of train stations. The Japanese overstaff pretty much anything - it's likely part of the reason for their massive public debt, but it helps maintaining infrastructure to good standards. It's the op
829.
by toyg 2y ago
Effective commercialization of station space is indeed a positive development, but you don't really need to privatize railways to get that (even without going into the whole "privatizing in Japan is not the same as here", sin
830.
by toyg 2y ago
What do you mean by "sensible"? Spotify has playlists, but most listeners simply don't bother. Plus, it's obviously convenient for the platform to actually control what you're going to listen to next, so obviously t
831.
by toyg 2y ago
It was Phoenix first, rebranded to Firebird to avoid confusion with umpteen other existing projects with the same name - including a browser. Unfortunately there was also an existing Firebird (database), so they rebranded again to Firefox.
832.
by toyg 3y ago
Yeah but the way they've done it, iirc, is by cutting libraries out of Core that really should be in there. I remember looking recently at some pretty basic stuff that broke in 6, simply because for some reason the relevant APIs (which
833.
by toyg 3y ago
Apple and Google are not "decades of US engineering". They are two corporations that really exploit decades of (open source) US (and European) engineering to siphon huge profits to tax havens. If they were to exit the EU market,
834.
by toyg 3y ago
> There are no rules that are governing what is or isn't a gatekeeper. Tell me you've not actually read the regulation without telling me you've not read the regulation.
835.
by toyg 3y ago
For all the publicity that the AltStore solo developer tries to push, it's not really a marketplace - it's a hack that Apple let live precisely because it will never get any serious traction.
836.
by toyg 3y ago
Does anyone care about what you do with your own devices? No. Should your position impose any limitation on what people can do with their own devices? Also no.
837.
by toyg 3y ago
> Bob Igor Is he the hunchback brother of Bob Iger, Disney CEO?
838.
by toyg 3y ago
In Italy it's now a part of your energy bill, by law. Basically too many people were opting out (legitimately or not), so they made it non-negotiable: "if you have energy, you must be powering screens! Pay up!" Meanwhile, mai
839.
by toyg 3y ago
Lol, this hyperbole is laughable. Feudal lords were obliged to provide shit for peasants; if such peasants rebelled, 9 times out of 10 they would be massacred on the spot. The degree of arbitrary rule they expressed is something we just los
840.
by toyg 3y ago
> If the mafioso goes too far they lose the support of the locals That's not really the case. The only way people can express a loss of support is by telling authorities where to find this or that boss in hiding, which happens ext

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