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I know it's not perfect but I use the 'dash to panel' extension

The airline is not declaring it lost and does not offer compensation. As usual with contemporary customer service, you only get non-answers and it becomes increasingly hard to talk to a human being that's directly involved with your issue.

Non-paywalled version: https://archive.vn/fELsN

As an experiment, sprinkle some aspartame-based artificial sweetener over an ant and watch what happens.

How about Key Djinn ;-)

Reminds me of the game Capitalism[0] where the player was incentivized to achieve monopoly in markets by selling below-cost, subsidized by the other parts of the business. Vertical integration was also highly encouraged.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism_(video_game)

Some Linux distributions, like Fedora Workstation, will use LVFS to update firmware. It's one of the default repositories.

Weird, and I thought fractional reserve banking was a thing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking

Exactly this. Security is more about about defense-in-depth, incident response and recovery planning.

Personally, I assume the hardware is already compromised and plan for recovery accordingly, starting with the worse case scenario. Then, I ask myself "If this thing isn't compromised yet, how can I help it stay so?", starting probably with the network access, through firmware, all the way to the browser.

In Portugal, if you are an employee or pensioner and have no other sources of income, the tax form is filled in automatically for you. Just confirm if you want, and hit 'send'.

You'll get it to spit out an error if you try to dig too much.

HN is not perfect but it's Pretty Damn Good, and in no small part thanks to Dan.

Happy Hollidays, everybody ;-)

I knew I'd find EWG mentioned here, they're fantastic. Thank you for posting.

So many tropes! :-D

I'm not an American, so I wouldn't know.

The question was: How does it fit in? Because the government is involving itself in actions of censorship, even if it is one step removed.

Similar to how I can still be accused and convicted of a crime, if the only thing I did was facilitating it? I'm not a lawyer, but I hope I'm getting my point across here.

Here is what the first amendment says:

>Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The main question here is whether the government is abridging the freedom of speech.

If they are only requesting for removals and not doing it directly, that may not be against the letter of the law but it certainly goes against the spirit. N.B. I'm not a lawyer.

And I'm not going to go into the times that first amendment alone has been trampled, because life is short.

Where does the first amendment fit in with this?

Such a juvenile comment from a government official.

Couldn't Thierry Breton come up with something more suitable to his position?

They did it so the victims would become passive.

There's nothing merciful about cold blooded murder.

>I haven't looked at ad malware for many years, but when I did, it infected the MBR, so reinstalling Windows alone wouldn't remove it.

In this case, wouldn't the infection go away by formatting the disk?

It's ok to not have structure, but if you feel that the way you are leading your life is not working, then perhaps it is time to change.

I found that, when I was feeling overwhelmed, it was because I was not making choices.

Or, in other words, I was not saying "No" to enough things, so that I had too much on my plate.

I found that choices were hard to make but, once I started simplifying my life by removing elements from it, I started to get a lot more focus.

That focus allowed me to find the motivation and direction that I had needed all my life, but which I never thought I was missing.

Feeling unsatisfied with one's life can really be a great blessing ;-)

That's making too many assumptions.

You assume that I don't work, which is untrue.

And you assume that the only reason anyone would want to advocate for the freedom of information is because they don't like to spend money, which is also untrue.

For example, there are many research papers posted on sci-hub, which would otherwise be kept behind an expensive paywall by academic journals. This includes research that was conducted using public grants.

For those of you who play PC games, how many times have you felt cheated by the hassle a game's DRM or the built-in 'phone home' featured caused on your experience?

How about being electronically denied access to trying to repair your own vehicle, even while fully acknowledging that it would invalidate any warranties and responsibilities on the manufacturer's side?

Some of the laws and regulations impacting intellectual property are quite simply dysfunctional.

Thank you.

I am an advocate of "information should be free", but... creators have to eat.

I don't have an answer for this.

Can you tell us what book it is?

I just happened to find this article today.

It was well written and resonated with my experiences and what I found school to be, as a child growing up. I thought it was a good submission for HN.

In Japan you can rent a family.

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

It says on the announcement that they will grandfather in existing customers.