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Literally all we did all day in efnet was call every new, suspicious user a fed. (You can tell I'm old because we used the word "fed" instead of "glowie")

I have no idea, but I guess it doesn't really matter. If you start sending massive amounts of spam through gmail, does it matter if you did it after logging into the site with your user/password or through oauth api access or through smtp?

When you open a comment thread, the upper part of the scrollbar is hidden behind the header. You have to scroll down a bit to be able to see and drag the scrollbar thumb. This on Chrome on Windows.

Precisely why I abandoned Tor and shut down my relays. It went from a technical project that solved an interesting problem to a "human rights" project that wanted to shape the world in a liberal Western fashion. That's a no-no from me.

Why use 1.2/1.2 when you can use 2.4/1.2 ? It makes no sense whatsoever. Reducing download so you can say your connection is symmetric?

In any case GPON is already in its way out, new deployments use XGS-PON which is 10/10

Because technologies like GPON or HFC were designed with asymmetry in place because most users download much, much more than they upload. In the case of HFC the asymmetry can be particularly egregious.

GPON is limited to 2.4 gbps down, 1.2 gbps up. It's asymmetric.

Everything is performance-critical. I buy new hardware so it runs my software as fast as it can. Why would I upgrade my CPU if I knew my programs would start running slower?

I'm sure those options will be dog slow and unreliable.

I buy wintel so I can run my software from 15 years ago without interference. Literally the only reason I don't buy a mac. If they want to take that away, well, good luck to them

I was talking about Apple, sorry.

You can change your account's country by opening the store and tapping on your avatar. It's a bit convoluted (requires you to make up an address) but it's not the end of the world.

Imagine how much you could brag about your attention span if the video was 8 hours long!

In manual cars, it's always felt wrong how much and how fast the car can decelerate by changing to lower gears without the brake light turning on - even if you are not technically using the brake, you can lower the speed so much as to create a dangerous situation with the guy coming behind, and therefore turning on the brake light would be appropriate.

Is that the truth, what they say they do, or what they would like to do?

Knowing Microsoft it's going to be one of those ugly, slow UWP apps. So I assume I will keep having to install 7zip

They didn't update the firmware "to block Bannerbomb3", they fixed a bug in the Settings app.

Many african countries are extremely resource rich. They do have money, but also corruption sapping a lot of it away.

Which is why they need their leaders replaced by Western puppets, which will divert all the riches to the West and leave some crumbs to the citizens. Since the current power structure doesn't leave anything to the citizens, leaving crumbs would be an improvement. See India for example.

You forget the part wher African countries have terrible political stability and no money. The only way of making this work would be neocolonialism, which is ok imo (in the end it benefits both parties), but it's frowned upon by some political circles.

Is it shipped if it cannot execute under any conditions? Philosophical question I'm afraid.

This article is about the AARD code, which was present in a beta release of Windows but was never shipped.

It's very naive to think moving the datacenter to the EU makes it impossible for American agencies to data off it.

Having the datacenter that stores your data in another region does not affect your privacy in any way.

You can't just attach the "human rights" magical pixie dust to anything to make it more serious. Oh wait you said fundamental human rights.

Correct me if wrong but you don't need to request network permissions to be able to make outside connections.

Almost all apps make outside connections and it would make no sense to prompt the user for that.

Non-native English speakers have produced less content in English on the Internet (despite having it easier, since we outnumber native English speakers) and as a result our content is underrepresented. Isn't this the definition of "fucking fair"?

As the country gets more heterogeneous, people will want less to help others, as they know they won't be helping their own.

Of course you can: you can tax phones until most people can't buy new ones. That's what will happen once these laws are imposed and people keep buying new phones because they don't give a fuck. 100% democratic!

Regulations are introduced when neither side of the contract desires the change but still the government wants to interfere.

Showing that orcas can naturally be aggressive and attack humans unprovoked throws a giant wrench on the media machinery that generated the documentary "Blackfish", which revolved on the supposed fact that orcas go crazy when they are held in SeaWorld parks.

As the article says, this bill is not targeting whatsapp specifically. Any other e2e-encrypted chat app will have to leave the UK as well. (Which Telegram isn't, btw)