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We forget that the labels also consider that piracy. For a while there were attempts to make CDs un-rippable.
One of these attempts that I assume most people are familiar with but is an interesting read for those that aren't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...
What I don't understand, based on this: https://howtheyvote.eu/votes/195775 the votes are the other way around, with the majority being for. I'm guessing that site has it reversed then or I don't fully understand the proposal? Looking at which politicians from my country voted "no" on this site it seems to be mostly the ones that I'd expect to vote "yes", so that would support this site just having the options reversed.
Netherlands here. Most people I know (outside of gamers) tend to have a laptop only if they have one for work anyway, they use their phones for banking, tax, searching the correct spelling of words etc. That's in the age groups from like 30 all the way to 70.
I don't think I know any non-gamer that has an actual desktop, just people with laptops.
For the gamers consoles are the vast majority, of the PC gamers pretty much all use Windows. When I tell friends I use Linux it's mostly "oh yeah I looked into that as well when Windows 11 came out but didn't end up switching".
Think the last time I used a pen is about 8-9 years ago when I had to sign something to buy my home. Notes and stuff I just write on my phone or computer and I don't see what else I'd use a pen for.
I feel like one of the most "extreme" examples here can be Path of Exile. Complexity there is high enough(I can't really think of a more complex game from the top of my head) that planning out how you're going to play(making a build) using external tools can be a whole game in itself.
Some people really like to go in depth on mechanics, look up every little mechanic on the wiki and optimize their build. Other people just copy what someone else did and mostly just play the actual game. Both are totally valid ways to play as long as you're having fun.
If I think about how the devs could've designed their game so these tools aren't needed I feel like that'd be nearly impossible without a massive time investment to bring basically those exact tools ingame. The easier path would be to reduce complexity which would make the game appeal less to players who play precisely because they like the complexity. So an external wiki and external tools seems like the right solution here to me.
Makes it much harder to target ads(unless you generate separate video files for every separate audience).
Same, and I watch a lot of Youtube. I've never even seen the warning yet. My theory so far is that it's because I'm on Linux and they're guessing Linux-users tend to do whatever they can to avoid watching ads anyway so we're not included in their testing (yet).
That being said I do get quite some ads on Twitch(and I know there's solutions to this, but they're separate from uBlock origin and I have to keep updating them cause they keep breaking so I stop caring sometimes). The way I solve it there is to just have 2 different streams open in 2 different tabs, one of them muted, as soon as ads start I switch to the different stream.
I assume they mean ads for other shows on the same platform(at least Netflix and Prime Video do this), which in my experience not everyone sees as "ads" in that sense(I still do myself).
Even ignoring the whole spying issue(which you shouldn't). Wouldn't problems like we had with DigiNotar(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiNotar) take much longer to resolve if it had to go through some government revokal process each time?
Besides the payment processor I use allowing these things afaik(but that might be an EU vs USA thing): isn't the point of blockchain that everything is immutable and a full history of every transaction is kept? That means that if your wallet(or w/e you use to pay) is ever connected to you as a person, everyone will know what "morally questionable or financially risky" things you did in the past, which unless you don't care about that will still cause you to be really careful using your money on these type of things(honestly: even more careful than right now probably).
You could be careful to not leak your wallet address of course, but if we'd truly be a cashless society without decentralized currency you'd want to buy your groceries with it too, or order computer parts. What prevents these shops you buy from from having a security issue and leaking your wallet address? You could have a separate wallet per shop, but you need to get money into it somehow which can be traced as well(because it's the blockchain).
Note: I'm not an expert on blockchain/crypto, there might be ways to mitigate this, I'm just legit curious as to how this would be solved in a world like this.
That's true yes. Most of the Path of Building stuff is datamined and/or tested ingame. Interesting that they declined the shop idea, guess they dislike people touching anything to do with their monetization.
I wish we had more open APIs!
Do you mean in Path of Exile or in games in general? Afaik most of the economy stuff in PoE is behind an API that's relatively open(you have to request access, but you pretty much always get it).
The complexity in Path of Exile is less in the economy and more in build creation though. With tools like Path of Building that you can spend almost as many hours in as you're playing the actual game(or you just copy what someone else did like most people).
I think the current pricing of Reddit's API isn't meant to recoup costs of maintaining the API, it's meant to kill 3rd party apps so people switch to the official app, which shows ads. It's not so much the cost of maintaining the API than it is the cost of missed ad revenue.
People who write review would have to upload recent pay slip or after when committing review provide their email at employee to receive some passcode active within 2 months
If I was leaving a review, even if I cared about it a lot, and I'd have to upload a recent pay slip I'd just leave the site and not bother with it anymore.
There's also the argument that at a certain scale the time of a developer is simply more expensive than time on a server.
If I write something in C++ that does a task in 1 second and it takes me 2 days to write, and I write the same thing in Python that takes 2 seconds but I can write it in 1 day, the 1 day of extra dev time might just pay for throwing a more high performance server against it and calling it a day. And then I don't even take the fact that a lot of applications are mostly waiting for database queries into consideration, nor maintainability of the code and the fact that high performance servers get cheaper over time.
If you work at some big corp where this would mean thousands of high performance servers that's simply not worth it, but in small/medium sized companies it usually is.
For me a lot of streaming services have simple stopped working(Amazon Prime) in Firefox or are limited to 720p(Netflix), even though I have the DRM stuff enabled in Firefox. So I use it to be able to stream my "Debian ISOs" in at least full HD.
I remember when the latest DOOM title added a rootkit for anticheat. I had like 4-5h of playtime but still got a refund when I gave the reason "I didn't buy a rootkit". Not in Australia either.
Based on what I see around me Ruby is used by a couple of big companies, while something like PHP(another language that people generally consider as "dying", probably way more so than Ruby is) is used by a lot small companies. Would be interesting to see OP's data, but instead of amount of jobs it's amount of unique companies that offer these jobs to see if I'm correct in that assumption.
This reminds me of another translation Aliexpress (used to?) make for the Dutch version. In English, "China" can mean 2 things:
- The country
- The ceramic material
In Dutch these have 2 different words("China" and "Porselein"). Aliexpress translated "China" in the "Shipping from" section to "Porselein"(so the ceramic material).
I'd say it's mostly personal. For me it was much easier to switch to one meal a day but not pay TOO much attention to what I eat than it was to keep eating multiple times per day but healthy all the time. The hardest part was only drinking water, but that's more a case of just not buying other drinks.
Logitech isn't great with this either. Last I used their "drivers" for my mouse it would randomly reset settings, have constant notifications and a UI that was probably designed by their marketing team. I just removed the driver, used the generic one and booted into Linux where I can adjust settings and save it to the mouse itself through some open-source drivers. Those settings then work in Windows as well as long as I don't install the drivers there.
If you must use a mobile device to log into Facebook via a third party app, I suggest using a new Facebook account each time.
I might be wrong about this as I've not used Facebook for many years now, but doesn't Facebook require a phone number for new accounts nowadays, and requires you to use your real name as well?
As someone who lives in The Netherlands I was kind of confused by this post as well. We have a monthly nationwide test of our emergency warning sirens and every so often the cell broadcast system is tested as well. I thought every/most countries did that?
I bet Scientology and other cults will be just fine as well.
Iirc it's not even an actual law, more of an agreement between all news organizations to not publish names like that. I seem to recall Geenstijl(Dutch "news" site) publishing full names and not getting in trouble over it.
The difference in amount of bikes you see on a rainy/cold day vs a warm spring day is huge though.
I think what he means is that when you want to move a couch/bed/big television for example you don't really have good options, because even disassembled these are usually pretty bulky boxes to move through public transport or by bike.
First thing we'd have to serve then is some place where stuff like that can be discussed though, maybe some sort of "forum" with "comments" and stuff?
But what if people have multi-word passwords? At that point the solutions become so over-engineered(either use some ngram-like setup to detect passwords being posted or save a hash for each separate word of the user's password, which also decreases security since then you know the user has a multi-word password) that you might as well drop that feature.
Is there a way to make sure hola uninstalling the hola extension removed everything hola related from my pc? I can imagine with the level of access this extension had(I didn't even know Chrome extensions could have this level of access) just removing the extension isn't enough.