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And then even if you do pay, and the show you want is available on one of the services you're subscribed to, you often get a worse experience than with a torrent.

I have a 4k screen, but Netflix's DRM only allows 4K in Microsoft Edge, on Linux I'm stuck with 720p which looks awful on that screen. Amazon Prime Video has ads (for their other shows, but still) and an awful user interface, and so on.

I find it incomprehensible why Netflix still does that since clearly it does nothing to prevent piracy: Every new Netflix show is instantly available as 4K torrent.

This is definitely not true for German law.

If you're on iOS, try https://apolloapp.io/. Using it on an iPad has become my main way of accessing reddit. Super customizable, has keyboard shortcuts and supports pretty much all reddit features. The developer is also very active and quick to respond to bugs.

(I know this is starting to sound like an advertisement which was not my intention, I just really enjoy using that app).

Same from Germany, all of these seem up except for reddit and ft. Maybe we got lucky with our edge node...

Why not just use the Accept-Language header? stripe.com already does this – At least I get redirected to "https://stripe.com/en-de", seemingly based on the combination of header and geolocation

Fair, but one significant advantage of having a specific legal form is that the way the organization is set up is immediately apparent from the legal name. This also means that any non-profit that is not set up as such will automatically be subject to much more scrutiny.

On other other hand, when I read "Signal Messenger LLC" or similar I have no way of easily knowing whether the organization is in fact set up in such a way.

It seems to me like this is a shortcoming of the English (and American) legal system, where non-profit organizations and such can only be founded as "regular" companies and then tax-exempted. This means they are still subject to all the normal procedures surrounding companies like sales, and still tend to have one or a few owners who are solely in charge of everything.

By comparison, many other European countries (Germany, France, Sweden, Belgium, …) have specific types of legal entities for associations that have appropriate restrictions on what can be done with them. For example, they can generally not be sold, are required to be internally democratic with fixed statutes, usually (but not always) have open membership and an elected board. I think that would go a long way to fixing these recurrent issues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_association_(German...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonprofit_organization_laws_by...

For a while I had my laptop set up with a udev rule that would automatically lock it as soon as my USB Yubikey was unplugged. The Yubikey was on my keychain on a lanyard attached to my clothing.

I mostly used that at CCC events where I was paranoid about forgetting to lock my laptop when I left it unattended, but it would also defend against that scenario pretty well.

There's no monopoly on credit cards though. There's multiple providers, some countries have their own (cheaper) debit card networks, and you can still pay with cash.

Personally I really like Wikipedia's preview feature. It makes it easy for me to decide if a link is worth following. The German language version does not have it, and whenever I use that one I quickly start to miss it.

As a C developer who has never really used C++ or Rust I sort of agree. Looking at Rust introductory guides I increasingly get the same feeling as looking at C++ things, where there's just _too much_ of everything. I know it's a subjective feeling that is probably unfair to the language, but it's still the impression I get.

I'm confident if I actually put in the work to learn Rust I would end up liking it and I plan on doing that at some point, but it certainly doesn't help my motivation.

Proponents of nuclear power labelling everyone who does not unequivocally support it "science deniers" is such infuriating populism.

Nuclear power obviously has immense benefits, but there are also undeniable risks associated with it. It's entirely possible to be in favor or against it while considering the exact same scientific facts depending on which of these you consider more important, no "scientific denialism" required.

I also don't see how nuclear power is supposed to be related to the economic left/right spectrum.

Isn't that pretty much exactly what this accomplishes? It means sites first have to request your permission in a popup.

I thought the article made it pretty clear that the heuristics are only intended as a temporary stop-gap measure to prevent every current SSO service from breaking.

Honest question: How is this relevant to Hacker News? As a non-American i was rather bewildered to find this here. Is there a serious overlap between gun enthusiasts and the IT community in the US?

Also the reason I have 80+ contacts in Signal, but 1 (one) in Matrix. Federation just doesn't work for the average person in practice. Email being the large exception because it's been around for so long.

Matrix and Signal seem to have very different use cases to me. I don't think they really "compete" at all

Most Mastodon instances are also collecting donations to cover server costs…

I don't think you can make a blanket statement like this. My experience has been almost the opposite, Chrome always uses significantly more CPU for me.

I think it really depends on hardware, drivers etc.

> Imagine a US company getting approval for a merger from the US and not getting approval from the EU, what happens then? Can China also grant itself this level of influence over American business?

Both of these are already the status quo even before this law

I agree. I've personally noticed time and time again how git-based workflows discourage me personally from making small one-time changes like typo fixes compared to a wiki or similar. It's just so much more overhead to have to start up a CLI, edit the document, push a commit, open a pull request etc…

This is not to say there aren't advantages to the git-based workflow and it might be a valid choice for a technical audience like this, but to claim it as "huge advantage in terms of contribution workflow" seems questionable.

Seems to be auth related. Login does not work, and Youtube is also throwing Internal Server Errors, but only if I'm signed in.

I would love that. There is so much mediocre but popular software out there that uses hard-coded MySQL queries instead of some abstraction layer.

Having to use MySQL/MariaDB after usually dealing with PostgreSQL always feels like such a downgrade.

> Pan-EU laws where a law is really an agreement to pass a bunch of laws by the member nations who then enforce them using whatever enforcement mechanisms they have. By passing the agreement as laws through their own legislatures, they in effect become a part of each member nation’s national laws

These types of EU laws are called EU directives, which as you described first need to be "transcribed" into national law by the respective parliaments. As a result they don't go into into force in all member states at the same time, and there is some more leeway concerning their implementation.

However, there are also EU regulations, which are immediately binding in all member states in their original form as soon as they are passed by the EU, much like US federal laws.

It is true though that even for EU regulations, the EU generally does not have their own enforcement capability and so there can still be differences from state to state on how strictly regulations are interpreted.

The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is an example of the latter kind of law, btw.

When AWS initially started offering domain registrations, I transferred a few domains (that I'd already been using Route 53 for) over to keep everything in one place.

A few months later, I wanted to transfer them elsewhere, but quickly realized that the auth codes in the AWS interface had expired, with no way to renew them. I didn't have a support subscription since I only used the AWS account for these 4 domains + Route 53 and I wasn't about to pay Amazon 30$/month to get them to fix their own mistakes.

I naïvely tried contacting billing support (the only one you can contact for free, go figure) in the hope they could forward the bug report, but while they were very apologetic, there was nothing they could do.

So Amazon took my domains hostage for 6 months until they eventually figured out the bug on their own. Have not touched anything related to AWS ever since.

Also, every single Java application I've ever used has used an entirely unreasonable amount of memory for the job it's supposed to do. I'm sure you can write things in Java that are lightweight on resources, but I've never seen it.

I switched to Apple Maps a few months ago and haven't run into any issues using it in various cities in Germany.

The main missing feature for me used to be public transit routing, but they added that a few updates ago and it generates pretty much identical itineraries to Google Maps.

They way I understand it based on the article is that they were only able to change the email address, then used that to reset the password and log in.

Didn't happen for me either in Germany (despite English iOS). May be US-specific?

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/de/app/corona-warn-app/id1512595757

Right, but the exact same thing could have happened with Google Photos or whatever it's called these days if you don't have 2fa enabled.