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> I do not like this argument. Does an adult theater let anyone in without an ID? Do movie theaters let kids under 18 into an R rated movie without ID? Why do we think this should …

Wouldn't it be wiser to get out of the market into fixed rate assets like government bonds? Maybe have some into puts on SPY (or QQQ since tech would probably have bigger losses) t…

Not until they get fined pennies on the dollar in a few years and then spend more time in court fighting it until they are actually required to pay said fine, at which point it doe…

Yes, this price hike is only for new servers or if you rescale, unlike the one in April that applied to everyone.

Spain https://speedtest.rediris.es/

The thing is, in many cases the provider selling internet to you isn't the same as whoever owns the cables that arrive to your place. So you may switch between providers (which in …

Yeah, I'll let a company I don't do business with dictate who I actually do business with just because of their money interests. I don't like or use Cloudflare, I believe they are …

We can call it "abuse of market position" then. The United States' Federal Trade Commission[^1] sued Amazon in 2023 with this pretext. In Germany, the Federal Cartel Office fined A…

> It’s just yet another centralized service Yeah, collaboration usually requires some sort of centralisation. Whether that is the LKML+git.kernel.org, gitlab.gnome.org, salsa.debia…

> Do you also dislike the concept of requiring to be a certain age to say enter a strip club or a sex club? You can't compare someone checking your document before entering a strip…

Some also hijack the shortcuts to open devtools (like F12), so you have to find the option in the browser menu itself

What do you miss about Google Maps in OSM? Just business information (schedules, contact info, reviews...), or something else?

Google allows you to use TXT to verify though, since this "feature" of disabling domains because of Safe Search is based only on web contents (A/AAAA/CNAME) they could disable thos…

The problem is "markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent". It doesn't matter when the bubble pops if the governments (especially the US') bail those companies o…

How does `just` compare to Task ( https://taskfile.dev/ )?

Depends on what features of teams you use, since it kind-of became an "everything" app

Why reinvent the wheel when there are already open standards like Matrix or XMPP that can be adapted to your use case?

Yeah, and in his mind the only social networks that exist are Telegram and Twitter. Mastodon doesn't exist, bluesky doesn't either, rr any of Meta's products (including Threads, di…

It's not about it being hard, it's about delegating. Many companies are a bit less sensitive to pricing and would rather pay monthly for someone else to keep their database up, rat…

End-to-end usually means only the data's owner (aka the customer) holds the keys needed. The term most used across password managers and similar tools is "zero knowledge encryption…

At this point, end-to-end encryption is a solved problems when password managers exist. Not doing it means either Microsoft doesn't care enough, or is actually interested on keepin…

It's not. Regulation (EC) No 1370/2007[^1] states in the annex, related to compensation in cases where a public operator operates subsidised public services and commercial, for-pro…

France, for example, has been trying to delay allowing Renfe (Spanish operator) to operate through the country as much as possible, while their public operator SNCF (branded as Oui…

Every government in Spain for the last decade or more has been cutting corners in maintaining the rail networks: high speed (where this accident happened), the conventional network…

On the other hand, it may end up the other way: pressure you or bully you into quitting yourself. Here in Spain it happens sometimes: firing you is expensive and they don't want yo…