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by xorcist 2mo ago
But it's not really a trade barrier if it applies equally for everyone, including domestic products, is it? Then it's just a safety regulation barrier, which also the US has plenty of. It's something else entirely to point
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by xorcist 2mo ago
The name.
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by xorcist 2mo ago
On the contrary. They are free to charge whatever they want.
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by xorcist 2mo ago
Perfectly normal, just like your TV manufacturer taking a cut of every movie you rent. No, wait...
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by xorcist 2mo ago
> a simple 5 percent commission on digital transactions in apps distributed outside the App Store It's straight up protection money. They're not even pretending anymore.
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by xorcist 2mo ago
At least try to make the situation comparable: If you made HATS and sold them at a STORE (is the all caps thing legalese or why do we talk this this?), and the owner of BIGGEST HAT STORE walked into your STORE and told you: "Nice STORE
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by xorcist 2mo ago
The water is fine ! All you have to do is a little song and dance now and then, and you hardly even feel the heat. If it was boiling I'd be out of here in a jiffy.
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by xorcist 2mo ago
That is a lot of words just to make it sound reasonable that a page can be exempt from the underlying screenshot functionality. It isn't. Not without asking the user.
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by xorcist 2mo ago
> both side recognising that their goals cannot be achieved militarily without a very high cost What are "both sides", exactly, and what are their respective goals? To an outside observer, it would seem that the Iranian regime&
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by xorcist 2mo ago
If you want to store logs in a database, just use standard rsyslog. It has supported database backends pretty much since its inception at the dawn of the century. No need to reinvent anything.
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by xorcist 2mo ago
> we abstract away everything about that thing that is not quantifiable It's worse, we simply abstract away everything else, including innumerable things that are quantifiable.
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by xorcist 2mo ago
> When your code dereferences *p, it appears to access the DRAM at p. It does not — p is a virtual address I hate these especially much: It's at the same both both overly dramatic, it's presented as some great reveal that will
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by xorcist 2mo ago
High cost of doing business is what makes societies stagnate. We've seen that over and over again throughout history, and we will see it again it we continue too far on this road.
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by xorcist 2mo ago
The only way that argument makes sense is when inverted. Packet switched networks did not compete with loose wires hand placed by polite women. They competed with circuit switched networks which emulated that network architecture. And packe
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by xorcist 2mo ago
If I am applying for a job, I invest my (valuable) time in them. I expect my counterpart to return that favour. Anything else would be a quick bail for me, and I expect over time anyone who hires in disrespectful ways will get the candidate
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by xorcist 2mo ago
There's no end how complicated you can make things for yourself, if you really want to. What you should do is make software good enough so your users will use it, and publish the source code under a free license. The first Debian devel
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by xorcist 2mo ago
Giving software the rights to overwrite itself is not good design. Mozilla can, because they are so large they can have people spend their days working on it. No one else should.
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by xorcist 2mo ago
TIL that the Worms soundtrack was by Dr. Awesome / Crusaders. Still loving it!
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by xorcist 2mo ago
> Your ISP proactively shares your web history with the state I have no idea what you are referring to here but that is most certainly not the case in most democratic countries. Where common carrier or telecom immunity is a thing they do
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by xorcist 2mo ago
Neither phones, nor email, not even usenet had this impact. Social media did. The problem is not with the technology but those that control it. (Some would probably say, the fact that any one actor controls it in the first place.) Our only
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by xorcist 2mo ago
> years and years of shows where you are 100% certain characters will be unharmed Unless your culture sphere consists solely of children's books and Disney movies, that is just a bizarre thing to say. Heroic deaths and tragedys has
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by xorcist 2mo ago
Are we all pretending we have no empirical data on this? How many RCEs has there been in popular web browsers over the past two decades (dozens? hundreds?), compared to how many RCEs there has been in the OpenSSH client (perhaps we can make
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by xorcist 2mo ago
That is also an unfortunate design on Matrix' part. I had no problem migrating data when changing from ejabberd to Prosody. Because they are open source, so it's not really a problem to export to ad-hoc text and import again. But
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by xorcist 3mo ago
I believe you are supposed to use an LLM on the receiving side to compress them again. This is supposed to help our economic growth during the coming decade.
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by xorcist 3mo ago
Right. LLMs are text production machines. You can also view them as data expansion tools. They expand an input to an arbitrary long text. That text contains roughly the same amount of information as was contained in the input to begin with.
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by xorcist 3mo ago
Network switches typically aren't known for their outstanding security record, but the vlan tags themselves are trivial and should be hard to mess up. Should someone hack your switch all bets are off, but as long as you don't have
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by xorcist 3mo ago
There's also always the flip side: When the police shows up because of your illegal acitivities, you have a rogue proxy server running. All bought in good faith of course. Not legal advice. (It would surprise me greatly if we as a soci
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by xorcist 3mo ago
Exactly! You would have a number of oil states competing, and that's it. They have everything to win. It's opposite of the PGA/LIV situation, the breakout group have the stronger trademark and the better teams. It's baff
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by xorcist 3mo ago
Why only now? UEFA should boycott the world cup, period. It should have been enough even before the Balogun nonsense. They have the best league and the best teams, they have the know how and could easily host the UEFA World Cup. They could
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by xorcist 3mo ago
Just imagine, had this been a Facebook event instead, none of this information would have been available to us outsiders. The open web lives, even if bruised and limping.

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