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zappb··on The Thin Purple Line
That sounds like what prison life must be like. Get a job cooking for the staff and live the high life in club fed!
zappb··on Uber loses New Zealand appeal, court rules drivers are employees not contractors
Like Curb and the numerous taxi specific apps?
zappb··on AltStore PAL receives Epic Games MegaGrant, will no longer require subscription
That’s copyright and patent law for you! Imaginary property is all about rent seeking.
zappb··on Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay
Sounds like a prison work camp!
zappb··on Empathy for the user having sex with your software
Not one that literally fucks my users up the ass!
zappb··on 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023
Still mad about Amalek.
zappb··on Evolving the ASF Brand
It’d be great if the Apache Nations wanted to control the domain name, but they’re still mostly concerned with basics like clean water and other government services.
zappb··on Evolving the ASF Brand
Things like Maven and numerous other XML namespaces come to mind that can’t exactly move. Then there’s the tons of dirty money to be made by domain squatting apache.org even if all the technical problems were solved because the site has a reputation. It would be like Google changing their domain name and letting the old domain lapse.
zappb··on Evolving the ASF Brand
Maintaining the trademark requires continued use of Apache. Without the domain name in control, the security implications are disastrous considering how much legacy technology has the domain name hard coded.
zappb··on Our website is closed on Sundays
I wonder if they’ll disable ordering on Sundays similar to how some Jewish sites disable forms on Saturdays.
zappb··on US ban on at-home distilling is unconstitutional, Texas judge rules
That’s essentially the argument they used in the past to regulate intrastate commerce of cannabis.
zappb··on Free software hijacked Philip Hazel's life
Software dev machines continue to increase in memory. I’ve seen some using 96 GB in laptops!
zappb··on [dead]
Indeed, it’s the usual Islamofascist propaganda.
zappb··on Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest
Game theory proves otherwise. Defectors must be punished to maintain a stable system.
zappb··on Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest
That’s similar to eminent domain, a right granted to the government in the constitution.
zappb··on Google Fires 28 Employees After Multi-City Protests
Such childish actions are derisive.
zappb··on Guide to bourbon
Those are bottle prices, not shot prices, right?
zappb··on Asus refunds Zenfone buyer for failing to provide bootloader unlock tools
Commercial copyright interests will always seek to maximize their control over the devices that play back copyrighted stuff. Banks at least have more legitimate security concerns since they involve the end user getting screwed rather than the copyright holder.
zappb··on Plight of detained US Binance staffer in Nigeria worsens after colleague escapes
Just one of the many reasons why currencies require nation state backing.
zappb··on Apple appears to be breaking iPhone web apps in the EU
The right for entrepreneurs to make a profit trumps users’ rights to privacy and security.
zappb··on Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on purpose
China represents twice as many people as the EU. This is not an enticing argument. Can you at least qualify this with democratic representation?
zappb··on Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on purpose
That was because Microsoft abused their monopoly in operating systems at the time to force OEMs to use their OS on all their computers in order to maintain the industry discounts on OEM licensing.
zappb··on Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on purpose
It’s not unique to Apple. It’s an inherent problem to securing Turing machines.
zappb··on Growing number of apps help automate pro-Israel activism online
That subreddit has been a forum for nation-state trolls for a long time.
zappb··on UNRWA Ties to Oct. 7 Massacre Exposed – US Suspending Funding
Huh, these posts usually get hundreds of replies. What gives?
zappb··on Remote work won, don't let anyone gaslight you to believe otherwise
Companies already tried offshoring several years ago. It was a disaster for any core competencies, and companies already make extensive use of offshoring (and near shoring). This isn’t going to happen suddenly.
zappb··on Remote work won, don't let anyone gaslight you to believe otherwise
The suburbs aren’t necessarily a low cost of living area, especially suburbs of SF, NY, Seattle, etc. The LCOL areas would be more rural or non-coastal states in general.
zappb··on The New York Times Launches a Strong Case Against Microsoft and OpenAI
Corporations are made up of people. LLMs are merely programs.
zappb··on U.S. moves closer to filing antitrust case against Apple
I believe that’s the joke, yeah.
zappb··on New U.S. immigration rules spur more visa approvals for STEM workers
This argument assumes that economics is a zero sum game which is easily disproven by history.
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