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This is what happens when you have a market controlled heavily by one player - they use that to their own advantage.

Not being made in a way that is usable in current systems, not having a commercial scale manufacturing process yet, and not being proven for long term use yet.

As far as GDPR is concerned, I think they are a controller if they are processing data to provide their service they run to customers. The control how that service works, and are n…

A lot of spam is just a link to a page for someone to download malware or enter card details. It is already relatively easy to get these taken down if you care enough to, but a was…

Oh god, it is one thing to have it in Windows on a PC, but imagine having it on a device with a locked bootloader. Obviously you should never pay for a device where they won't supp…

Really hope Akamai don't mess up Linode - I'm a long time happy customer of theirs. I hope this is positive for their employees, who made it what it is, too. I don't have a lot of …

Not sure about this implementation, but most virtualization implementations, including most KVM/libvirtd/QEMU ones, support shared directories.

> how is ARM China going to continue innovating? On their own? Yes. Thery may do badly, but this isn't going to be much of a problem for China for ages. They are unlikely to do tha…

At least for most Linux systems (not sure about other *nix, but I expect the same?), there is a system default encoding, defined by the locale, and I think decoding the filename in…

I thought the same thing as I was reading it, but I think they are probably using larger block sizes than the SSD's blocks for better compression. I'm not certain though. Edit: rea…

I'm pretty sure they are just pointing out that IBM has been selling in Europe for longer than 50 years, but the parent comment to theirs did say 50+.

It isn't an under the table thing, at least in the UK. For the generalloy used frequency bands for this, there was an auction for the spectrum. You can get access to parts not bein…

Do you though? Why is 156 anymore familiar than 9C? I can't imagine 156 things any more than I can 9C things.

You might be able to. Personally I can't raise my ring finger without my little/pinkie finger also being raised. Also, some numbers in finger binary are liable to get you punched i…

So, I can't see how they can argue that the code generated is not a derrivative of at least some of the code that it was trained on, and therefore encumbered by a complicated, and …

Seems like a good reason to never use GitHub, and encourage other people not to.

The problem with the GDPR is that it is only as good as the authority enforcing it. There are complex rules (from memory about a third of the text, but it is a while since I read i…

This is the DB that contains the usernames and (hashed) passwords right? What do they expect? That you have a separate DB for authentication from everything else? What does that ac…

They also desperately need to improve things like the store, which has no wish lists, no way to see all of the titles in specific categories, etc, at least on mobile.

There are multiple third party services which use the API to make daily copies of your documents, exporting them as MS Office documents. Yes, this isn't perfect, and you can lose s…

MS Office 365 and Azure or AWS. You can get collaborative editing of documents in MS Office now, if they are stored on OneDrive/SharePoint I think.

As someone who runs IT for a medium sized organisation using G Suite (now Google Workspace), I can not recomend against it enough. I understand why the decision was taken at the ti…

Not if it discriminates on protected characteristics, in UK law. This isn't, but you can easily imagine many of the countries it operates in hjaving multiple laws that restrict its…

> We're playing the same with messaging, whereas in reality what we'd need is federated providers, competing with their client software which can all write to each other - see SMS …

> Somehow, the big players have managed to convince us to suck up the damage. Not always. The GDPR has some decent provisions against overuse of machine learning, for example (it i…