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> 1. Never underestimate developing countries' governments' willingness to absolutely bend their people over to extract tax revenue (and then their corrupt representatives extract …

> "...what do you mean, 'World War One?'" Oh sorry, spoilers. (Hell, I miss Capaldi)

Thanks, I didn't know this trick! Perhaps soon we'll need to keep lists of per-site white-listed user agents...

https://archive.is/lHoGG

Would CBP pay the travel costs? :)

> What is your process for automating this checksum twice a year? Backup programs usually do that as a standard feature. Borg, for example, can do a simple checksum verification (f…

Did my best to try to summarize the issue within the length limit but, hell, that's hard to explain with so little words. At least the actual post does a good summary of it.

> Are there any examples where legitimately purchased licenses were made unavailable? From customers point of view, these purchases were legitimate. But the important point is that…

I'm surprised that it had not started before. The cycle o bait → switch → enshittify is faster and faster after all.

Brazil had a similar thing a few weeks ago, but it got drowned in the news because if was related to the Twitter/X block. While the block itself may be legitimate, as the motivatio…

Jokes on Boeing are ok, they are just people with some loose screws.

> I don't understand the hate. They did a very bad decision and had major backlash. Fast-forward one year: they rectified it completely, they greatly improved the free terms compar…

A more fitting quote would be "They gave them the propaganda number".

That's lemmy.ml . See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41143632 edit: they already did.

It still down at the moment. Is there any details on the outage somewhere else?

Funniest thing is that they are the same people who reject Linux because they need to read some docs from time to time.