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EasyDNS pricing - over 11% increase, from $17 to $19.

If your landlady is frequently brought up on unrelated sites by her other tenants saying she just evicted them without apparent cause or appeal, then maybe your landlady might cause you problems sooner or later.

Is there an instance where this was actually applied?

We read about privacy related fines here and there, but none really seem to take into account the global revenue

> Does he actually spend any time working?

This seems the exact thought process of management wanting people to RTO.

They forget there's time, and life, after working hours. And the less you need to commute, the more free time you have to actually live and enjoy life.

As GP pointed out:

> such regional restrictions are easily bypassed and WhatsApp is popular enough to make people try it. So that would then normalise the practices such as side loading / jail breaking and avoiding regional restrictions.

If people would be doing this (using a VPN, for instance), they would know how to bypass those restrictions.

Breaking encryption is not good for anyone and won't solve absolutely any problems, except the "problem" of right to privacy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_privacy

So, is a manager in this context really needed?

I'm in control, I need to make my case towards a new manager and team if I want to move (basically a new interview process), and try to improve on communication and writing even though +80% (number pulled out of empirical personal experience. YMMV) of my peers want to focus on work and be happy and introvert.

I don't think that's the issue.

The problem is that YouTube/google want "le beurre, l’argent du beurre, et le sourire de la crémière".

They want to (and are managing) to distort the openness of the web: they provide free access to a service, the way the web intended to be; but don't want people to use the tools in the way they are meant to be used.

If they want to charge for the service, fine, it's their prerogative but don't blame the users for using the tools as they are meant to be used.

Why don't they stop free aceess? They can, no one is stopping them from doing business that way.

Because they want everything, that's why. When will their "business" stop? What's the end goal?

IMO offense is taken, not given.

In cases like this the "burden" should be on the party choosing the content they want to see.

Everyone should be able to upload a photo of ice on the sidewalk, but the other users should define that ice or sidewalks are offensive to them.

How has that influenced you?

Is it something you remember frequently? Did you make any decisions keeping that in mind? Would you say it had a positive impact in your life, and gave it more meaning? Or would you rather not have been given that awareness?

I find it a great metaphor, and I'm planning to tell my kid about it

Exactly, and on top of that paying for premium doesn't remove the ads and tracking everywhere google is present.

You'll be paying, and _still_ be the product all around the web.

Link to noyb's site, with a template to request whether your number is processed by TeleSign:

https://noyb.eu/en/telesign-profiles-half-worlds-phone-users

If people use the same email and password to log into other services, then those might get compromised also.

By now no one "should" be using the same password for multiple services, but it most likely still happens

Do you also tip them for being good tenants?

Reddit is using the same approach as Apollo: basing their business on a free resource.

For Apollo it was the api (for which they were willing to pay if the price was fair)

For Reddit is free labour and content, which they still want for free

Not everyone knows about alternatives to streaming. For the daily 10000 (xkcd for reference), that's all they know. It's up to "us" to show them there are alternatives.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

I feel this argument is like saying there's no point in developing free and open software because there are already other pieces of software that were adopted, and are de facto standard.

In my opinion, this actually promotes the development of technology to be shared for the benefit of everyone, not just to help with vendor lock-in.

Amazon seems to be following Microsoft's EEE strategy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...), skipping the Extend

I would argue that they didn't proliferate due to high barriers to entry. I'm sure any "rogue" states that at one point would be ruled by extremists, would invest in those if it would give them a competitive advantage.

AI can be, or will be at one point, developed at home using consumer devices.

So, is this the return of FLoC[0]?

They didn't get buy-in from other browsers, so they are doing it at OS level.

Nice /s

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_Learning_of_Cohort...

I suppose they do it for themselves, a public statement that reinforces and legitimises their choice.

It doesn't contribute or take away anything from society.

It makes them happy and doesn't hurt anyone. Let people be :)

NOTAM notices are not only for planes but for other people and equipment using airspace, like drones, skydivers, ... Those are not always connected with ATC, but need the information from NOTAM to plan their activities

> Croatia will be a net benefactor of EU funds

Do you mean net beneficiary, instead of benefactor?

I find it very refreshing that a company provides such high-quality software for free, and even creates free guides on how to use it.

I started with the free version running on Linux but unfortunately didn't support H.264 (it does on windows, I believe) and I had to do lots of converting of formats, which both wasted time and space.

I ended up getting the speed editor and studio version.

What I'm more surprised about is the Human behind the development of these changes.

I don't think Twitter is full of Musk's fanboys, so people implementing these changes are still working there because they have bills to pay.

How sad we are as a society that people need to put making money to survive in front of principles (assuming people know they are implementing rules against free-speech).

Btw, I don't condemn people doing this, but I hope there would be an alternative, and that we are not just continuing to contribute to this surveillance-capitalism--techno- authoritarianism.

That is the price of dealing with the public, tbf.

People are how they are and will always find the path of least resistance to get their problems solved.

That doesn't exclude them or anyone from providing support to the services they offer, and that people pay for (one way or the other)

> Now, of course, I understand that even Google can't reasonably be expected to provide free 24/7 customer support for the entire Internet. If they had a normal phone number available where anybody could reach a human at any time, every confused person would call them with issues that are completely unrelated to Google's actual products and even Google would be overwhelmed.

That would be the fair consequence of wanting to dominate the whole internet, no?

If any company providing a product would refuse to have a human that is reachable, they would never get to a dominating position.

And IMHO, google should be forced to provide that human service given its dimension, or scale down until it does.

> Apple is behind the first general purpose programmable dive computer

Unless Apple got into it before Heinrichs Weikamp and the OSTC [1]

This is an Open Source dive computer, that is extremely well regarded in the technical diving world. The firmware is open source and there is a "big" community, considering the niche market.

Unless apple came up with a new decompression algorithm that will model how tissues load and offgas, all you need are tables, a bottom timer a depth gauge and to follow your plan (with contingency for depth and time).

Blindly following a computer will get you in trouble if it fails during the dive.

[1] https://heinrichsweikamp.com/

I would still argue that no one ran "out of air" in any of those situations. They panicked and/or ignored their training.

The thing about diving equipment (especially regulators), is that they fail safe, meaning that they fail in a way that allows you to keep breathing.

When a regulator fails, it lets gas go. You can always breathe from it. The cylinder won't empty immediately, so you can get to your next gas source (your buddy, or your next gas switch depth) - cave/mine/wreck excluded.

I don't know why you're being down voted, but you're right.

A diver doesn't just "run out of air". A diver gets low on gas because they failed to look at their gauges, and/or didn't plan properly.

It can happen that you get a free flow on your regulator, inflator, valve or manifold, but none of these make you run out of gas immediately. You have time to swim to a team mate and breathe from their regulator (if you are on a single cylinder and can't close any valves).

If you have a valve rolling-shut (implying you're on a twinset), you _will_ run out of air until you open it again, and you would be trained to calmly open it, or just switch to your secondary regulator.

Running out of gas can be prevented by planning the dive and keeping an eye on your gauge, depth and timer.

Would this work for Fernando Pessoa and all his heteronyms? :)