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I agree. There are pretty clear grounds here to think about opening an investigation here into illegal tying, or a misuse of market power. Not sure if the FTC maintains a presence …

I'm not sure if this meets the bar for substantive and thoughtful discussion, but this kind of corporate cowardice, enforced by unelected bureaucrats standing at the bully pulpit i…

It certainly feels like one at times!

Not sure where to start with this one. Can anybody briefly explain what a “rot economist” is? Is it meant to be capitalised “ROT economist” which stands for something? Has my brows…

Off topic but this is a real gripe of mine - analogue speedos that go all the way up to 240 kmph (~150 mph). I am only ever going to do half that speed, so why not just make the di…

The report [0] itself even mentions Apple's abandonment of on-device scanning, as well as its plan to add end-to-end encryption to iCloud. eSafety has been curiously quiet about bo…

I love ncdu and install it on all of my machines. But at the risk of sounding like a broken record - why isn’t its functionality baked into stock file managers on windows and Linux…

> This is just completely wrong - banks only loan out money they have. If you go to a bank and get a loan the bank didn't just edit a database entry - they had that money. Banks lo…

We had a lot of smoke tainted “experimental” wines out from Australian vineyards as 2019 and 2020 releases - some were really interesting, others simply dreadful (with winemakers j…

What a lot of the comments in here are bumping up against with regards to “fairness” is the fact that willingness to pay is a function of both preference intensity and ability to p…

In perfectly competitive markets, producers are price takers. That includes at a wholesale distribution level. Being able to pick and choose your customers (and apply conditions to…

This from the EFF seems to create a bit of a circuit split with Electronic Frontiers Australia [0] - though I hasten to add the two are not affiliated. My only comment is that this…

I know it is gorhill that wrote that, but I completely disagree that uBO is nothing without the filter lists. I use it the way I used to use uMatrix (rip) to default deny bits and …

The issue for commercial cinemas is not necessarily handling storage and playback of DCinema packages - it’s the DRM that the studios insist upon playing nice with the projectors. …

It’s almost worse than that - the common commercial playback servers I’m familiar with run Linux 2.6.x and fail in all kinds of weird and wonderful ways!

This suspension has been a genuine Rorschach test for commentators online. There really is something in it for everyone - unreliable coal generators, the startling reality that we …

I think what this argument misses is the complete monopoly Apple has over distribution. This is not about backwards compatibility and tech debt, this is about distribution. Yes, yo…

You’re right, which is why I didn’t call it bad. I called it a cartel. In fact I probably agree with their demands, but on its face this is a) not a strike and b) in need of author…

Of course you are allowed to change your output - but independently and in reaction to your own circumstances. Collectively agreeing to simultaneously stop selling in order to forc…

They absolutely are warping market forces - that’s the whole point. We can argue about whether or not this is good (by the sounds of it, probably?) but the entire purpose of them a…