Giooschi

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Italy demands Google poison DNS under strict Piracy Shield law⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

If Italy really and truly doesn’t want a DNS server that is doing this to be accessible in Italy, go after Italian network service providers

They’re already doing that for blocking IPs, and ended up blocking Google Drive and some Cloudflare CDN IPs.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Surprise! People don't want AI deciding who gets a kidney transplant and who dies or endures years of misery⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
A slightly better metric to train it on would be chances of survival/years of life saved thanks to the transplant. However those also suffer from human bias due to the past decisions that influenced who got a transpant and thus what data we were able to gather.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What went wrong with Skype?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
And then Discord arrived
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looks like Instagram wants some of Discord's market.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
The comparison with Discord makes non sense, the feature seems to be just a normal group chat, like the ones in Telegram/Whatsapp/iMessage. Discord’s killer feature is the ability to have multiple channels within a server, which allows more organization.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Italy to require VPN and DNS providers to block pirated content⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

I don’t get sports fanatics…

Most people just want to watch a match of their home town/favourite team maybe once a week. This is very moderate, what’s so bad about that? However in order to do that they either have to either spend an absurd amount of money to get access to all matches, or spend a bit less money to play lottery and hope the match they wanted to watch gets selected.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Italy to require VPN and DNS providers to block pirated content⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The only options you have are:
- Dazn Standard (45€/month, 35€/month if you pay for 12 months) to get access to all the SerieA matches (and a whole bunch of other sports nobody cares about)
- Dazn Goal Pass (20€/month, 14€/month if you pay for 12 months) to get access to 3 SerieA matches per week which you don’t get to choose (and a bunch of other sports nobody cares about)
- Sky (16€/month for the first 18 months, then whatever Sky wants after that) to get access to 3 SerieA matches per week which you don’t get to choose (and a bunch of other stuff nobody cares about)
Most people care only about some specific matches, so your only option is Dazn.

Dazn is also a very crappy service, it often has connectivity problems and also has ads. Fun fact, if you get a connection issue while watching a Dazn ad, it will restart.

So, as usual, monopoly, high costs and crappy services drive piracy.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

Lots of major companies like Microsoft and IBM also contribute to Linux, it doesn’t make them saints nor even necessarily compare to what they get for using the volunteer dev work inside Linux.

Most of those companies actually contribute to the kernel or to foundational software used on servers, but few contribute to the userspace for desktop consumers on the level that Valve does.