thenewnewguy

> Rent-seeking is the extraction of economic rent without providing new wealth

I assume what you mean is "providing new value"? Regardless, Steam doesn't fit this description at all:

- Valve doesn't own the vast majority of games on Steam (i.e. they aren't just buying IP and "rent-seeking" using it)

- Steam adds value that consumers want, which is why it is so popular (friends, achievements, marketplace, workshop, etc)

- Even ignoring the previous point, the basic premise of a game store isn't rent-seeking, because download bandwidth and easy installation are added value by themselves

- Steam isn't a walled garden: they do not prevent you from selling on other stores or pay for exclusives or other similar behavior - Steam wins by out-competing the competition, it doesn't create artificial advantages for itself

Because the argument for streaming services is _convenience_. And that's especially true when we're comparing them to piracy.

Having to switch streaming apps/programs every month is not convenient.

Having to wait up to a month to change services if I learn about a new show I like is not convenient.

Having to pay for multiple streaming services if I happen to like content by multiple producers is not convenient (or cheap).

The streaming industry honestly seems like a "prisoner's dilemma" like scenario. Each streaming company (presumably) benefits over their competitors by having exclusives and limiting where certain shows can be watched. But the streaming market as a whole is held back by this.

This might have been added since your comment, but for me it had a popup that told me to double click a node to expand it on first load.

I think you're overestimating how unpopular those things are with devs/geeks. As a current (comp sci) college student, I can say that while less popular than in the general public - Windows, Facebook, and Apple's ecosystem are still used by a large number of my peers.

Or there's option 3, which is the reason that I've had several people give me: you don't like Windows 10, because of the spying/forced updates/etc. I've converted several of these people to linux and they've been very happy with it.

Directly from the linked page:

> Ssh is a great remote terminal program, and in fact ET uses ssh to initialize the connection. The big difference between ET and ssh is that an ET session can survive network outages and IP roaming. With ssh, one must kill the ssh session and reconnect after a network outage

I'd seriously consider the $99/year if I could install Office on linux. I get that I'm not exactly the average user, but my options as a linux user are rather limited.

Are the first 2 points even made seriously? Obviously they aren't advocating for businesses to compensate people for exactly their specific 'basic expenses', they clearly intend to mean basic expenses for low to middle class in general, not based on the person.

Also, it always seems weird that whenever a minimum wage discussion comes up people jump in with these obviously contrived what if scenarios. How about we care about the real people that can barely/cannot afford food/housing/etc because businesses don't pay enough, rather than these situations with made up people.

The problem with this argument is that is presumes that other forms of compensation can be used to purchase food, healthcare, housing, etc.

Also, unpaid internships are legal in the US (at least federally) if they are primarily for the benefit/training of the worker and that information is made available upfront.

Does that mean you _would_ agree with this position if the qualifier "that has existed for more than X months" or "makes more than $X/year" was added?

Serious question, did you even read the page? Specifically, the part where it makes specific complaints about the 2019 .org registry agreement, such as the ability to raise registration fees without ICANN approval?

> looking at you, Microsoft teams

Teams definitely doesn't block Firefox for me?

> as no one is arguing that any corporate entity simply has the right to exist

Yes, but I do still see people give the "just don't use FaceBook then" argument on every post about this on HN, as if we should just ignore all the problems. Under this insane framework any horrible behavior by a company towards their customers is justified as long as you use their products willingly.

This also ignores the massive existing adoption FaceBook has. If I want to switch to twitter or mastodon or $otherSocialNetwork I have to convince everyone I communicate with on FaceBook to switch too.

It's not the ads that are the problem, it's the widespread tracking + use of personal data that large ad networks like facebook perform. That's why they're using the _data protection_ legislature against facebook.

The point is that the app can just record the old IDFA, and when the IDFA changes whoever is doing the comparison between two apps knows that the old and new IDFA are one and the same.

It happens when you update firefox out from under itself. In other words, don't apply apt updates for firefox until you're ready to restart it.

They removed GA from the startup pages, and you can go straight from those to the telemetry settings (it even prompts you to do so on first launch iirc).

Their own website (https://www.nsogroup.com/) calls themselves by the name NSO. Here's a direct quote of the first sentence on that site:

"NSO creates technology that helps government agencies prevent and investigate terrorism and crime to save thousands of lives around the globe."

Well, it seems like both you and the twitter thread have anecdotal evidence. I'd say that the fact that an internal investigation is being launched leads credence to the belief that the discrimination is at least possible.

Question for HN commenters:

What is the most appropriate way to store names in a way that is unlikely to run into issues?

It might be because of my blocker addon but the article linked isn't paywalled for me.

I doubt the initramfs is (completely) at fault, mine is rather small (and I haven't done anything to try to minimize its size):

    $ lsinitcpio -a /boot/initramfs-linux.img
    ==> Image: initramfs-linux.img
    ==> Created with mkinitcpio 26
    ==> Kernel: 5.3.7-arch1-2-ARCH
    ==> Size: 9.87 MiB
    ==> Compressed with: gzip
      -> Uncompressed size: 25.97 MiB (.379 ratio)
      -> Estimated decompression time: 0.184s
    ...

I don't know how well this would stand up in court, but the obvious difference here seems to be using "an exploit to read your local files" vs an intentionally designed API.

That's a pretty incredible claim, you got a source on that? My searches can't find anything.

It's not 'local', but the FOSS replacement for Facebook/Instagram is email.

GitHub loads similar data and is also written in rails, but long GitHub PRs/issues are significantly faster to load.

Is this a serious argument? It seems very obvious to me that "Tea Party" has very few (if any) other reasonable interpretations than a political party, while "Family Planning" and "Pride" have many possible non-political uses.

Only semi-related, but I wonder if owning the SIM card could be used as some sort of rooting mechanism?

> 'm not sure if it still works like this or not, but up here in Canada with Shaw cable for the longest time, it just started out of nowhere one day, I'd always get redirected to a Shaw landing page or have Shaw ads injected into pages when I was browsing.

I think they're more worried about the untrusted/unauditable part of it. I suspect most people that dislike the ME would be perfectly fine with it if Intel released the code for it and allowed users to build and upload their own copy of the ME code.