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Yeah, the linked article is very shallow. Heise [0] goes a bit more into detail, sadly the actual ruling isn't available yet. Quick Summary from the Heise article: Axel Springer tr…

Most of the prior GPL cases ruled on (including the one you linked) were about redistribution of modified works without providing source and about who actually has standing to sue …

> Can’t access with VPN? How? Your account is unable to access _any_ private repository after being flagged as being from a sanctioned country. That's regardless of where you're ac…

Screen captures aren't too common since they would incur an additional re-encoding step (losing a minor bit of fidelity), so for the more "professional" rippers it isn't a proper o…

Personally I haven't been hit with spam to truly random addresses with my catchall. Is that a common issue people run into? The spam I've received on my catchall is either based on…

> Now that graphics cards have Type C ports for VR (apparently) Had. The VirtualLink standard (for which the ports were supposed to be used), was never wildly adopted and is pretty…

The TS80P also supports Quick Charge in addition to USB-PD, although QC3 limits you to around 18W (versus 30W for USB-PD). I wonder how the ergonomics on the production Pinecil wil…

Aside from the other mentioned issues, a significant part is also the lack of retesting. WD Red drives aren't a fancy new thing and have been on the market for years now. As a resu…

One approach would be to hold social media platforms to the same standard as the government in terms of user rights like freedom of speech - regardless of their terms of service. T…

> Also doesn't gas cost a lot in Germany? Wouldn't that make the total cost of ownership even more compelling for EVs? Electricity also costs a lot in Germany (for consumers at lea…

This seems like a bit of a misconception in the article. The university website [1] states: > For security reasons and in accordance with the legal requirements of the German Natio…

Even if the ISP does everything right, there are a lot of small sites with broken IPv6 setups caused by incorrect server and DNS configurations. While my ISP appears to provide a s…

There have been arguments (e.g. by Bruce Perens [1]) that this kind of behavior violating the GPLv2 section which prohibits the addition of further restrictions to the license, whe…

Yes, Tesla would continue to be bound by the GPL for the new versions as well. However the GPL does not require you to offer the source to the public or any third parties at all th…

I think the question is rather if Tesla is allowed to provide source for current version you have (therefore complying with the GPL), but also refuse to ship any further updates to…

Axel Springer AG (who were the primary lobbyist for the law) actually attempted to use the law against Google in late 2014 for four of their biggest sites. It took two weeks for th…

> They were showing enough information no one was clicking the links. Were they? From the data I found for a very similar law in Germany the opposite seems to be true. Axel Springe…

Google did the same thing in Germany after a similar national version was introduced. News sites quickly noticed a significant decrease in visitors coming from Google. They then at…

The usual approach would be to define requirements in a way that are unsuitable for the specific vendor you want to get rid of. This is more common the other way around, where a go…

It allows a reduction of (useless) merge commits. Assume you have 8 different branches (without conflicts) that you need to merge. Then you can either have 8 merge commits (merged …

It doesn't need to be linked at the factory, you could just make the end user link it to their own Google account. As a cheap seller I'd just put a nice manual in the box which exp…

From the Spectre paper: > We have also verified the attack’s applicability to AMD Ryzen CPUs.

>Also, I'd be remiss to not bemoan the ridiculous fact that as a Windows 10 user I am not able to avoid updates if I so choose. These updates that are forced upon me routinely brea…

Germany for example. The legal argument for it is quite simple. Once a software is sold (in the "buy a license" sense), the manufacturer has no further right to limit your use of t…