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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony faces another class-action lawsuit over PlayStation Store prices and monopolistic practices⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, absolutely. Companies like Sony, Microsoft and especially Apple would rather pay huge monthly fines than opening up their platforms.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Came to Bargain: Use OneDrive for Device Backup, Opt into Loyalty Program and Use Their Products Till You Earn 1000 Points or Pay $30 and They Might Give You Security Updates till Oct 2026.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Windows has always done this and so do many others. I very much doubt that the EU would fine Microsoft for it. Since when was extended support against EU regulation?

Companies like redhat do the same thing for end of life software: access.redhat.com/articles/rhel-eus

I’m not familiar with Suse but it looks like they pretty much do the same thing: www.suse.com/…/long-term-service-pack-support/.

Ubuntu too: ubuntu.com/security/esm

Of course IBM: www.ibm.com/…/ibm-security-extended-support

And many others.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
And no ads I presume.

Understandable that they would block it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Does grayjay rehost content from YouTube or are they using the YouTube backend for streaming video? I would be quite annoyed if anyone used my website as a host for content that’s being consumed on another website.

A few years ago (and to a lesser degree nowadays) you occasionally came across images which wouldn’t work if you “hotlinked” to them on another website. Images aren’t a huge deal anymore but video absolutely is.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
That’s true but I wouldn’t really classify this as evil.

Serving videos isn’t easy or cheap. It’s hard and expensive.

I obviously use an adblocker everywhere and so should you.

But saying that Google or anyone else is doing anything wrong by blocking adblockers is ridiculous. When they finally succeed, I will just accept that I finally lost after many many years. My usage of YouTube will likely go down substantially as well. Crying about it after you have used their service for free for YEARS, really makes no sense.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I mean is anything iOS really open source?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Nah, you just select domain join. I did that a few weeks ago on a Win 11 enterprise install.

But if you deal with new installs “all the time” you should really consider automating the setup and domain joining, instead of manually creating local accounts and then domain joining.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ai Code Commits⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah probably.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ai Code Commits⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
No need to worry similar stuff will get developed for other platforms as well.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Did it use 45 GB extra or were there just 45 GB worth of changes?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am not a builder… but that does not seem right⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
They probably wanted to figure out what the hell was up with that wall.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'd choose 4 tbh⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I choose 4 and 9. I really have no interest in any of the others.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New dwarf planet spotted at the edge of the solar system⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
This dwarf planet is 90 AU from US not from the sun.

But since the dwarf planets orbit is extremely eccentric that varies heavily.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why 3D-Printing an Untraceable Ghost Gun Is Easier Than Ever (Podcast 18mins)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
And better and people got better at making 3d printed guns.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That depends on where you live. I could get 10 Gbit/s WAN if I wanted to pay the subscription for that but 500 Mbit/s is enough.

Also 10 Gbit/s is mainly useful for LAN. Like connecting to a NAS.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’s making fun of idiots that think like that, not gay people.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosting is having a moment. Ethan Sholly knows why.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah that kinda enforces their point.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosting is having a moment. Ethan Sholly knows why.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Sure, but did your SO set up home assistant?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Well at least you can exclude roughly 81 million eligible non voters. Fuck em.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT does not fuck around⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
No, the spy theory really makes so no sense whatsoever.

Have people completely forgotten that Photoshop exists or what‽
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Read the article man

This feature will be available on Teams desktop applications (both Windows and Mac) and Teams mobile applications (both iOS and Android).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK if you have a library card or are a student, there's a free streaming service called Kanopy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
If bypassing encryption is illegal just download it and cut out the middle man.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3084: Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
What currency?

I doubt the universe accepts Euro or whatever.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't be Evil⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Rick Ashley I assume.

I guess they were a parody account of him earlier but they changed their mind later.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I think the EDPB would have a field day if that was the case.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
While I very much dislike that too, it’s very easy to opt out. Just use Windows Pro, Enterprise, or education.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The entire point of recall is that it’s running locally. That’s why only a very very very small subset of all Windows 11 PCs support it. Only “copilot+” pc supports it which are PCs with very specific processors with AI processing. Most notably the new Snapdragon arm PCs.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Well, half a billion is still a lot of money so it’s great that the union got it so they can spend it on something useful. Half a billion USD is the entire yearly revenue of some fairly large companies in Sweden.

And the fine is not intended to bankrupt Apple, it’s intended to punish them and as a show of force. If Apple still refuses to comply or even pay the fine, the fines would obviously escalate and the max fine on this offence is very very high.

Also remember that the EU generally only cares what they do inside the EU, they care about how it affects EU citizens. So it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to issue brutally high fines based on yearly global revenue yet.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need a tiebreaker⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Any examples?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need a tiebreaker⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Or just killed by reality. Just because it has been (hypothetically) invented doesn’t mean that it’s easy or even possible to manufacture at a large scale and/or at a reasonable price.