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by sipos 3mo ago
This is what happens when you have a market controlled heavily by one player - they use that to their own advantage.
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by sipos 3y ago
Not being made in a way that is usable in current systems, not having a commercial scale manufacturing process yet, and not being proven for long term use yet.
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by sipos 3y ago
As far as GDPR is concerned, I think they are a controller if they are processing data to provide their service they run to customers. The control how that service works, and are not processing data on behalf of a controller explicitly unde
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by sipos 4y ago
A lot of spam is just a link to a page for someone to download malware or enter card details. It is already relatively easy to get these taken down if you care enough to, but a waste of time as the senders have moved on by then. The idea th
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by sipos 5y ago
Oh god, it is one thing to have it in Windows on a PC, but imagine having it on a device with a locked bootloader. Obviously you should never pay for a device where they won't support you, the owner, unlocking the bootloader, but obvio
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by sipos 5y ago
Really hope Akamai don't mess up Linode - I'm a long time happy customer of theirs. I hope this is positive for their employees, who made it what it is, too. I don't have a lot of use for it, but I think their load balancer c
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by sipos 5y ago
Not sure about this implementation, but most virtualization implementations, including most KVM/libvirtd/QEMU ones, support shared directories.
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by sipos 5y ago
> how is ARM China going to continue innovating? On their own? Yes. Thery may do badly, but this isn't going to be much of a problem for China for ages. They are unlikely to do that badly though - among 2 billion people there will b
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by sipos 5y ago
At least for most Linux systems (not sure about other *nix, but I expect the same?), there is a system default encoding, defined by the locale, and I think decoding the filename in that encoding and displaying the resulting string, is proba
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by sipos 5y ago
I thought the same thing as I was reading it, but I think they are probably using larger block sizes than the SSD's blocks for better compression. I'm not certain though. Edit: reading other comments, it looks like their block siz
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by sipos 5y ago
I'm pretty sure they are just pointing out that IBM has been selling in Europe for longer than 50 years, but the parent comment to theirs did say 50+.
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by sipos 5y ago
It isn't an under the table thing, at least in the UK. For the generalloy used frequency bands for this, there was an auction for the spectrum. You can get access to parts not being used by the people who bid on it. You can also get an
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by sipos 5y ago
Do you though? Why is 156 anymore familiar than 9C? I can't imagine 156 things any more than I can 9C things.
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by sipos 5y ago
You might be able to. Personally I can't raise my ring finger without my little/pinkie finger also being raised. Also, some numbers in finger binary are liable to get you punched if shown the wrong way round.
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by sipos 5y ago
So, I can't see how they can argue that the code generated is not a derrivative of at least some of the code that it was trained on, and therefore encumbered by a complicated, and for anyone other than GitHub, impossible to disentangle
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by sipos 5y ago
Seems like a good reason to never use GitHub, and encourage other people not to.
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by sipos 5y ago
The problem with the GDPR is that it is only as good as the authority enforcing it. There are complex rules (from memory about a third of the text, but it is a while since I read it all and this was the bit I was least interested in) on whi
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by sipos 5y ago
This is the DB that contains the usernames and (hashed) passwords right? What do they expect? That you have a separate DB for authentication from everything else? What does that achieve? If you DoS the auth DB, you still DoS the application
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by sipos 6y ago
They also desperately need to improve things like the store, which has no wish lists, no way to see all of the titles in specific categories, etc, at least on mobile.
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by sipos 6y ago
There are multiple third party services which use the API to make daily copies of your documents, exporting them as MS Office documents. Yes, this isn't perfect, and you can lose some info in the files, it is pretty good for the most p
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by sipos 6y ago
MS Office 365 and Azure or AWS. You can get collaborative editing of documents in MS Office now, if they are stored on OneDrive/SharePoint I think.
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by sipos 6y ago
As someone who runs IT for a medium sized organisation using G Suite (now Google Workspace), I can not recomend against it enough. I understand why the decision was taken at the time it was (it was before my time, but it was when G Suite ha
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by sipos 6y ago
Not if it discriminates on protected characteristics, in UK law. This isn't, but you can easily imagine many of the countries it operates in hjaving multiple laws that restrict its freedom to block whatever it likes. Some protect regis
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by sipos 6y ago
> We're playing the same with messaging, whereas in reality what we'd need is federated providers, competing with their client software which can all write to each other - see SMS and email. True, but nothing particularly good
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by sipos 6y ago
> Somehow, the big players have managed to convince us to suck up the damage. Not always. The GDPR has some decent provisions against overuse of machine learning, for example (it is just a shame it is basically unenforceable against glob
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by sipos 6y ago
It isn't hard to make them triggered a different way, it is that it is hard to make them reliable enough and triggered a different way. They are designed to be triggered this way because it makes them simple. They are hard to service (
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by sipos 6y ago
The point is that it is fairly easy to trigger. This is considered safer than having a hard to trigger mechanism and less user caution, because of greater chance of it failing to be triggered when needed. You could have some sort of complex
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by sipos 6y ago
Speaker magnets tend to be strong but small, meaning they would have to be very close. Thanks s is for attaching a charger, so is likely a much larger magnet, so more likely to be an issue.
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by sipos 6y ago
Anecdotal, but I doubt there is much hard evidence about reasons people stop using Google products, or even if individuals do, or whether there is just less growth. I have decided not to buy a Google phone next time, and to start the mamoth
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by sipos 6y ago
It wasn't just Reddit they were fleeing. I think it was Twitter too...

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