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It looks like the like the blog post linked to by Features links to plain search page URLs, which only work for logged-in users. I used the Share feature to get a sharable link. I guess that page needs to be updated.

Yes. Quoting Wikipedia[1]:

> Kagi.com was an e-commerce micropayment platform often used for shareware and e-book purchases, operating from Sept 1994 to July 2016.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kagi

I've generally found searching for symbols to work quite well. It's a mixture of the two. You can check the results for "what is %" here: https://kagi.com/search?q=what+is+%25&r=no_region&sh=Qd1RlT2...

The big difference here is that Runa Capital is a venture capital firm, and they already invested in MariaDB 8 years ago. To be honest I don't really understand how this acquisition makes sense in that context.

> Why collude when you can just hire grey-market high frequency scrapers to detect your competitors' repricing and trigger your own?

What the thread actually said is this:

> My guess was: tacit collusion, meaning, oligopolic price coordination without explicit coordination.

Which is what you described.

> Everything causes the hourglass cursor to pop up - even just clicking on a button in Outlook

As someone who had to use a very slow 10-year-old iMac recently, I would prefer if macOS showed more indicators that it was busy. The macOS UI seems to assume things are near-instant that in that environment weren't even close.

For example it "reopened" XCode after a reboot, and after a while it seemed the system was done doing background stuff. I clicked the System Settings and another app because I was going to need them, then tried to interact with XCode. Then the window turned gray and a spinner showed up that took a few minutes to disappear. It wasn't done at all. It turns out showing a screenshot to seem more responsive only works if you can very quickly back up the lie when necessary.

> Paxos is a regulated Trust Charter

Developments in the crypto world have made clear that this doesn't necessarily mean much in this space, so that's why people remain skeptical. Two examples: Prime Trust filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy last month and turned out to have mishandled many millions in customer assets. Fortress Trust was hacked and then bought by Ripple, presumably to cover the losses, just days ago.

Now neither of these are Paxos, and it's possible that Paxos is well managed, but if all the other trees keep falling at some point people are going to judge the forest as a whole.

> and they've been accumulating Lightning cables for a decade.

This is why I don't think Apple's electronic waste argument makes much sense. All devices I've bought in the last 5 years have been USB-C, while iPhone users were stuck on Lightning. If Apple had switched back then all those users would've been buying 5 years worth of cables that work with everything, rather than cables that work for only a few devices from a single manufacturer.

No, it is only bound to localhost.

> Even more surprisingly was that Tucows – the domain registrar with the third most domains globally – wasn’t mentioned even once.

Tucows doesn't sell domains under their own name. They are the parent company of Hover, which is the brand they do direct sales under. Tucows is at number 5 on the list. (They also have other subsidiaries specifically for resellers.)

There are a few (not that many) things that break on the internet if you turn off third-party cookies, but "I'm no longer being tracked without consent" is not one of them. It's one of the big reasons to get rid of third-party cookies, not an unfortunate side-effect.

> You are meant to press Ctrl with your right hand when you press C-x.

I've been using Emacs for several years now, and I think the real solution is to turn Caps Lock into another Ctrl.

The right Ctrl key is in a very uncomfortable position whether I press it with my pinky or with the base of my hand, so in practice I basically never use it. The left Ctrl key is not as bad, but it's still not comfortable if I need to press it often. Caps Lock, however, only requires a slight adjustment of my left pinky finger to press. Simultaneously pressing x with my left ring finger is slightly weird, but not uncomfortable. There are some other keys on the left side that don't really comfortably combine with left Ctrl or Caps Lock, but I don't run into them often enough for it to be a problem.

> Datatilsynet used an "expedited process" that was unnecessary and did not give the company enough time to answer

The GDPR became enforceable 5 years ago, and this is their core business. This does not concern some ambiguous edge case, it's essentially the fundamental reason the law exists. Either they've been willfully breaking the law for 5 years and the fact that they haven't been fined out of existence should be considered a blessing, or the company is so incompetent that its continued existence is an unacceptable risk to the world.

It's the narrative because it's true. In 2009 the EU told mobile phone manufacturers to standardize on a common charging connector. Then the manufacturers announced they would standardize on micro-USB, and reached an agreement, or Memorandum of Understanding, with the EU[1][2]. This included Apple. Note that complying with an MoU is voluntary.

It turns out there was a loophole there, because the agreement didn't actually require a micro-USB port on the device. Apple complied by providing a USB-based charging block. This was against the spirit of the agreement, but it was allowed. Regulators were not happy.

The MoU expired. A new one was in the cards for USB-C that fixed the loophole, but Apple objected claiming it was too thick, and some other manufacturers said it might be too small. Despite this the industry kept using standardized connectors as they moved to USB-C, with one significant exception: Apple. To fix that in 2020 the process was started to introduce a law that would also force Apple to standardize, and that law is now arriving.

[1]: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_09_... [2]: https://ec.europa.eu/docsroom/documents/2417/attachments/1/t...

This[1] discussion from a month ago seems much less definitive.

[1]: https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-discuss/%3Cjwvfs5o9e0f.f...

> the price point is just not worth it

They mention on the Discord that they're getting close to returning to unlimited searches for $10 per month, so this might improve soon.

> stop using bing

Interestingly, last month Bing was removed from the documentation on search sources[1] and replaced with Mojeek, Yandex, and Marginalia. Running their own crawler at this scale is probably not reasonable.

[1]: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...

This is because NFTs don't actually understand the concept of a "sale". They can be transferred to another wallet, but this wallet may belong to the same person as the previous wallet in which case paying royalties wouldn't make much sense.

Paying royalties is entirely optional. What's built into the contract is a calculation of a value for royalties to be paid, but it's up to the marketplace to use it. Other platforms already ignored it.

It's weirder even: Pressing ctrl-shift-x when the input field is highlighted inserts "rtl", then pressing it again flips the entire user interface but not the input field.

It seems to me whether you're going to make fingerprintable properties be the same or randomize them, you're always going to need to explore every angle. Otherwise a bad actor can just ignore all the properties you randomize and focus on what's left.

mpv only uses yt-dlp to get a video URL, then passes that URL to ffmpeg. ffmpeg doesn't implement the workarounds with range headers, so you get throttled. It's possible to have yt-dlp perform the download, pipe it to mpv and make mpv play from stdin, but it breaks seeking to parts that haven't been downloaded yet. There are many issues about this in the mpv issue tracker.

Firefox on Android actually has a great error message here:

> Nightly Can’t Open This Page

> To protect your security, www.w3.org will not allow Nightly to display the page if another site has embedded it. To see this page, you need to open it in a new window.

> Learn more…[1]

> [Open Site in New Window]

[1]: Links to https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/xframe-neterror-page

I read it as a little joke referring to C++, for what it's worth.

It looks like Bram was the treasurer, so his medical condition could potentially have something to do with it.

> I don't understand "piracy" much anymore

For music I agree for the most part. Tons of music is both available on streaming services, and for sale as a DRM-free download. The rest of the entertainment industry hasn't figured that last part out yet, unfortunately.

Google is one of the sources for Kagi's results, but not the only one. The results are not the same.

The Netherlands has both. "Laster" requires the accusation to be untrue. "Smaad" is the broader form that does not require the accusation to be untrue.

Justifications defined in the law are "necessary defense" and "common interest". The second one is specified as "believed in good faith that the charges were true and that the public interest required the charge." IANAL, but I think this can apply to social media witch hunts to at least some extent.

> But why collect these data points in the first place?

This heading is followed by several paragraphs that don't explain at all why they're collecting several of these data points.

If the IP address is dropped in the de-identification pipeline, why is it stored in the "raw events"? If you don't need an exact timestamp, why are you storing it? Why does the app send all of this identifying data to be stored for 21 days instead of "de-identifying" it beforehand?

> 3. Web EME. "End of the web as an open platform", years later, web is just the same as it always was.

And yet every single paid streaming service refuses to serve high quality video to users on platforms like Linux. This is entirely normalized, and they still get to call themselves "web" sites because this mechanism is now officially part of "the web".

This is very cool. I feel like the Google Cloud documentation does a relatively good job introducing all such complexity as you need it, but I've never seen such a complete overview for it.

(I did have to go through some effort to view the image. On the page it's too small and it's not clickable, then opening it in a new tab does some imgur-like bullshit where you don't get the image but a useless page where it is still small. I had to download the image to view it.)

Here[1]'s an infographic for a report on the Dutch market for Q1 of this year. See the bottom right. iDEAL is by far the biggest payment method.

[1]: https://www.thuiswinkel.org/media/oyhhmgvy/infographic_thuis...