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Honestly, I'd rather my 0.1% in rent would go to these lawyers than to the scent machine companies. I'm very surprised it even took that long for this to happen. These laws have be…

They may be stretching a bit, but the statistics is still on their side, and their filings are very explicit that they actually demand compliance (sure, they probably had to add th…

This filing is worth a read for the entire situation: * https://colevannote.com/wp-content/uploads/CMP_Greystar.pdf For those unaware, Greystar is a major property management compa…

Found the non-paywall original: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48734824

I recently learned that the CDC has adopted an "Indoor Environmental Quality Policy" in 2009 that has the following text: > In addition, CDC encourages employees to be as fragrance…

Resume Driven Development is why fundamentally people like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk are crucial to ensuring the enshitification is kept in check. Elon Musk may be a bad example in …

IIRC, MasterCard SecureCode and Visa's verified-by-visa were more of a thing in the US maybe like decade or two ago? I think NewEgg and B&H did support it at one point? Afterwards,…

I think during the OVH fire, it was the smoke damage that was deemed to have damaged a lot of the servers. Fans and cooling might be affected by all the debris. Spinning rust drive…

This doesn't even touch the entire resume-driven development issue. The vast majority of all websites today, are designed in such a way as to tout the resumes of all the people res…

An underrated comment. But sunlight is the best disinfectant. I think it's the fundamental issue with these cameras, that it takes pictures of us, but we ourselves cannot access it…

These things just prove that the entire "security" industry is a sham. At one point, every bank would ensure that your password COULD NOT be saved by your browser, because sEcUrItY…

I think the problem here is that all of these services are optimising for the biggest "change-at-all-cost" that there could be. If you have a service that does one thing, and does …

They're so infamous that their infamy even has its own Wikipedia page! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_surrounding_GoDa... And them blocking entire countries from their…

Apparently, GoDaddy is so infamous that their infamy has its own Wikipedia page! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_surrounding_GoDa...

There's been a story a few years ago that GoDaddy was blacklisting entire countries not only from their own website, but also from the DNS provided to their customers. So, at a min…

GoDaddy has also been blocking entire countries from being able to access all services. And to make it far worse, IIRC, at a certain point, those blocks applied not only to GoDaddy…

They've changed usernames they use to post under. That's the only "altered" allegation they've been accused of. BTW, they also alter paywalls and other elements, because otherwise,…

> Change the original source to something that doesn't need an archive (e.g., a source that was printed on paper), or for which a link to an archive is only a matter of convenience…

It's because it's actively maintained, and bypassing the paywalls is its whole selling point, thus, they do have to be good at it. They bypass the rendering issues by "altering" th…

Immutability and reproducibility is great. Depending on unreliable and antiquated hardware, like the USB key sticks, is not. Who exactly has the environment where you can add, let …

The biggest downside of running off of a USB key, is that it's super unreliable. How exactly does it make any sense to use ECC memory and ZFS RAID for error correction and redundan…

I'm not disputing that assertion, yet it does go against the marketing materials we're all presented by all of these services, as for reasons to not run our own mailservers. In oth…