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Very cool!

While at uni, I worked on a local fishing boat doing (amongst many things) hardware/software integration, and did some work on equipment communicating via NMEA. Very fun blast-to-the-past, didn't know the standard was used outside of marine environments.

Read your own article. The byline reads:

Google is taking the unprecedented step of paying back users for all the games they bought on its cloud gaming platform.

Google _voluntarily_ refunded their customers. It's unheard of and was, frankly, extremely unexpected. Good for Google and good for Stadia customers.

It's not applicable to clients. A clients traffic never touches another client, only the nodes.

Of course, malicious clients can ruin it for everyone else in the form of DoS attacks but that's clearly not happening here.

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There doesn't exist a corporation on the planet, that doesn't have power over its employees.

Nim, while providing the same memory safety as Rust, doesn't do so without overhead. So Nim very expressly sacrifices performance for safety.

In rust, for example, it's possible to safely share data between threads without incurring costs of a garbage collector. Nim uses a different GC for each thread, so it naturally increases costs on a per-thread basis.

Hey man, just a heads up: You're currently shadow-banned on HN so your comments are automatically hidden. I don't think there's anything you can do about it but I'd want to know.

I feel comfortable telling you because most of your content isn't inflammatory, so I fear you might have been wrongly filtered out.

and after the first year YOU as the consumer have to prove that this fault existed when the goods were delivered.

You have to make it probable, which is very different from proving. A rule favoring consumers, something like "there isn't an excess of scratches" is sufficient in most cases, where the alternative would require an excessive cost in further analysis (read: all electronics).

If you import the component from outside the EU the law doesn't even apply, as you have formed a contract with a trader not bound by this law.

The seller is advertising _and_ shipping his product to the EU, therefor he is bound by its laws. He even features specific advise to EU consumers.

But in this case it's all irrelevant because the item sold is basically a spare-part

This is just nonsense. It's sold direct to consumers, it's a consumer product.

You might be able to torrent any show or movie in high quality with a private tracker, but it's hard to come by 4K HDR content just hanging out for free these days.

Even if that's the case, that's not an issue of DRM, that's an issue of distribution.

It's also just flat out not true. Sure, some of the 4k HDR content might originate from PTP/BTN/scene/w.e., but it's readily available on e.g. RARBG.