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So you don't have a VW employee coming by your house in the evening to check if the key fob is still in you possession? Sometimes he even does a testdrive to make sure it still works with the car.

Maybe I have to ask that guy some questions....

So with that logic, pull requests from the US should also be ignored until they stop their attacks in the straight of hormuz?

Uhh nice, gonna check that out. Do rounded corner and transparency work now with wayland? Didn't get it to work before

What kind of argumentation is this? Just because someone decides to show stuff, everybody else is also required to show themselves? e.g. If I go to a theater where the actors are clearly identified, I have to be okay to get a facial scan as well?

Some people tend to demonize porn, and it might be unethical in their eyes, but fact is: it is not illegal (in most countries). I don't argue that there are issues in the porn industry, but this is an issue with the platforms, that they don't allow the upload of non-consentual material, or and have processes to take it down. This is a 'THEIR' problem (the platform not the victims).

There some of these issues also exist in the standard movie and music industry as well. Hell, it even goes up to company executives and politics. But this is up to law enforcement do their job and to remove the illegal stuff and prosecute the involved persons, not by branding everyone as a suspect.

Funnily enough, there is also the exact opposite discurse in the US regarding firearms; where one side says: that firearms need to somehow be restricted and and it needs more checks to buy a gun. But then the Industry tells the story that in that case only the 'good guys' get restricted, since the 'bad guys' don't really follow the law anyways.

Where with Anti-cheat and DRM only the 'good guys' get hit, since the 'bad guys' don't follow "the law" anyways.

One big hurdle, I guess most new pythonistas stumble over, is the one where you add an create an empty default list in a class:

You would think it creates a new empty list, for each object of this class, but it actually creates one which is shared between all of the objects. I had a lot of fun with that one once.

not the one who asked the questions, but I actually think 4% are not enough.

If Google or Meta makes 10% of their earnings with that shit and they have to pay max 4% they still have a 6% margin over - not doing it.

IMHO there should be a 4% fine additionally to paying back all the illegally generated earnings. Also, more executives should go to jail for it - And that's the C-Level Executives, because it's them which are accountable.

Problem with those things: usually it still hits the little ones harder than the big players...

When the whole SaaS stuff started to pop up as buzzword I actually believed that it would work that way.

You don't pay some heavy license fees for a local installation anymore, but get a login where you get billed a specific amount if you use it that day/week/month etc. I was pretty sad when I saw how it got implemented...

I see what you are suggesting here, I see the same trend but I think the reason why is not the one you are implying.

The HN community, in most topics, is against censoring, echo chambers and that free speech doesn't mean you can say anything without being called out.

IMHO there are two impacted groups here: a) the ones who block everything and everyone that doesn't agree with them (on a public platform) b) the ones who are harassed and stalked and need to use the block as a defense

the change is bad for people in group b) - which most people can agree on. The problem with blocking is, it doesn't solve the problem (it's the equivalent of the EU's great idea of DNS blocking). There should be a system in place that actual (online) harassment can be legally pursued and prevented.

against group a), I think the change is a net-positive

This somehow reminds me of the TV show "Supernatural" where Angels need 'consent' of the people to possess their body. Which basically is "they said yes", and often how they get the 'yes' contains a lot of deceit (pretending to be someone else etc) misdirection and even torture...

I'm still not sure the excessive 15x same advert method increases your chances.

Yeah, I'm pretty torn up between those points. It is probably the only way to get non-Microsoft into the workflow of people, which reduces the lock-in syndrom with companies, where they use MS products because it's the one thing people know.

on the other hand it's an advertising company getting devices with their software to the kids, combined with often IT-Admins School Directors which don't understand how to create policies and implement them correctly.

Yeah, so they don't actively handle them as greek letters and translate the variable name. Nevertheless, if you don't know what those mean, there is a great chance that you do not understand the whole thing enough, that way you shouldn't touch any crypto code.

following the old adage: "never roll your own crypto"

While I also disagree with the 'memefied' version of the quote, the publishers where first to break the social contract, when they removed stuff from libraries which where 'bought'.

The wording in the stores is 'buy' not 'rent'.

yes they have some clauses in the 20 pages long AGBs, which makes it legally ok, but imho it's still a break of the (social) contract.

So, if I 'buy' product A on platform Z and it gets removed without any money returned and they expect me to 'buy' it again on platform Y, I wouldn't have any issues pirating product A

Or if I bought product B v 3.0 with an unlimited licence and they suddently stop the licence server tell me I can't use B 3.0 anymore but I can get B 5.0 as a subscripton, I'd be mad as hell.

I personally have issues where the publishers suddenly alters the deal afterwards. (and tell you that you should be happy they don't alter it further...)

But this 404 article is even worse. The conclusion of the study wasn't tha the results have gotten worse. It was literally the opposite!

In fact, the Google results seem to have improved to some extent since the start of our experiment in terms of the amount of affiliate spam.

But just like the researchers got more attention with the misleading title about what was studied, the journalists at 404 got more clicks by outright lying about the results.

There are some questions if the scraping via Startpage is messing with the result. They are using the Google crawler, but their anonymisation might mess with the results.

I don't agree with you interpretation of the result though. if we take a look on a longer excerpt of the conclusion, they do mention multiple times that the quality is getting lower:

Although we cannot predict the rank of individual pages, at the population level, we can conclude that higher-ranked pages are *on average more optimized, more monetized with affiliate marketing, and they show signs of lower text quality*

and even the part you quoted goes on to mention a downward trend:

In fact, the Google results seem to have improved to some extent since the start of our experiment in terms of the amount of affiliate spam. Yet, we can still find several spam domains and also see an *overall downwards trend in text quality in all three search engines*, so there is still quite a lot of room for improvement.

I do use multiple keys and I like them a lot, but there is a big Issue I don't see mentioned a lot: you can't solo it on most services:

- Google forces you to also keep their stupid "verify on another device", where you can't even untrust specific devices without fully logging out - proton apps don't support fido auth - microsoft account only allows it on edge and afaik not at all on linux - and so on..

I think the only service where I can fully disable other 2FA channels is github.

Edit: a word

Actually two words: bad laywer

If laywer sets up such a contract with you, he can't be a good one.

I'll see myself out...

I'm running the FP5 at the moment and compared to my OnePlus 7T the camera quality is not on par, especially the whitebalance has some issues

Also, Twint (a p2p and b2c payment scheme) has established itself very well in most places. Even for really small businesses or events as the business only needs a QR code an and no additional hardware

(although the b2c charges for the businesses are quite substantial...)

I mean it should be AT LEAST be handled like a copyright infringement itself. As you propose as owner of the copyright...

For stuff that is actually copyrighted that probably could only be triggered by the actual rights holder.

Yes, and we all know how easy it is to get a real person from the big companies to take a look at something... Or even reach one

Problem is, as they are not a goverment agency and don't really see you as customer (more like a product) you have almost no avenue to get your account reinstated...

And as there are some people (and even companies) who rely on google services and their account there it can really shoot you in the knee

There are different places to keep backups

My relevant data is synced regularly to my nas (running a raid-1) and I weekly back the whole thing up to an offsite disk at my parents house.

Can someone who really really want it, get to it? Sure, how big of a target am I against a cloud provider?

It's like the google 2FA where you can accept the login on ANY android device where you are logged in. and you can't disable the feature and the only way to remove the option from a device is to logout your account on the device... I have an tabled and an phone which is used by other people in my family and I definitely don't want the 2FA requests on these devices...

Those cups in themselves are a pain. Why cant they just hand out PET bottles like you get everywhere else? (at least in europe) hand out a reusable sport cap aswell and you have a perfect bottle without the need of a) a straw b) a cup c) a lid

I see that there might be some cases where a straw can be helpful or necessary. But there are handed out so many straws wh ich aren't needed. I never understood why they put a straw into my whiskey cola or cuba libre. We should get there where we just hand out straws if people ask for them as it is with other extras.

But, but if you can just add a microSD with 128gb for 20-40 bucks, how can the poor vendor upsell you an upgrade for 200 extra?

It comes down to the course - a course that just teaches a cargo cult like set of steps is a bad course, one that involves a proper discussion of the fundamentals is a good one.

totally agree here

All I'm saying, the fact that a course uses a particular tool chain isn't the determinant factor to whether a course is good or not.

I totally agree! My comment was related to the commented mentioned that the whole 6 month training is worthless if GA get's blocked

I guess we aren't that far apart :)

I see your point to a certain...eh point. During my studies we also had our ERP course accompanied with some specific tasks on one tool (don't ask me for the name now, its been some time). BUT it was accompanied only, we usually had the concepts presented beforehand. If you want to go a step further...show an alternative from time to time.

But I don't agree with the python comparison. Python is only a language and even Numpy/Pandas still need you to know the concepts and knowledge attained using them are definitely transferable.

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