As @nokturne213@sopuli.xyz said, this is about much more than software. You can't pirate a gym (excluding the Venn Diagram of probably 0.0000001% of people who both want to go to a gym and know how to hack themselves into said gym's database).
Click-to-cancel hurts every consumer in America and only benefits the providers of any subscription service.
Yeah! I used DDG for quite a while and it's pretty okay. Kagi definitely isn't without fault but for me it's the best true alternative to Google and I happily pay for it. Allows me to save so much time (cumulatively) by just guiding me to the actual result in most cases (instead of sponsored and ad-infested garbage sites)
Alright. I had to read up again on why this is newsworthy in the first place. Because of the language in their new ToS regarding usage of user data. The article I read, asked why they would only now update their terms despite the California Privacy Act having been in effect for a while now.
I'm very sure, optimistically assuming they are honest and really didn't change the way they handle user data, that an auditor found the previous wording of their ToS just not clear enough. Working in Quality Management and having attended quite a number of audits, this happens all the time. Company has a process for years, sometimes decades, but then needs to change the wording in a document because a new and overly by-the-books auditor will demand such to have it not only be "correct in spirit" but also "technically correct". Nothing in the actual process needs to change.
Again, this is me assuming that they really havent done something different in the way they handle data. Isn't Firefox open-source? Could some savvy code-reader go through it to see if something about the data collection has changed?
That is an excellent suggestion!
I recognise that for almost any one task, Linux has a solution that works better than Windows. My issue is just getting Linux to run not only one specific thing but all the dozens of programs with each having their own dependencies and possible quirks without losing my mind, weeks of my life, data or all three.
If Valve (or really any other large entity capable of handling this for tens of thousands of users) stepped in to act as the guide for setting it all up in a safe manner and such that it just works without constant need for tweaking (unless you want to stray from the "installation wizard"), I could see Linux gain a big surge in users.
Wow I just looked up the case of the Hungarian protestor, Maja T.. That's almost exactly the same stuff that's been happening in America lately. Despicable jow my country is failing in these areas, again...
Alexandra is the hero students (and scientists) all over the world need! And I'm so glad that my former profs acknowledged and recommended Sci-Hub to us. So many people wouldn't be able to graduate without debt (or "even more debt" for the Americans) otherwise.
deporting someone to a place where they get starved, shot or lynched should not be permitted in a civilized nation
You're talking about the one American student who might get his student visa revoked? Because the other three are EU citizens and would only be banned from entering Germany (still a very harsh punishment and I don't think justifiable, especially without actual conviction). So they could still freely move in the rest of the Schengen Zone if I understood correctly.
Not only is it voluntary (can confirm that 1&1 doesn't block the subset of sites I just now tried out which are on the list) but Germany's approach seems to be pretty tame in comparison, still. Doesn't make it good, but a lot less bad than it seems by just reading the highlighted section.
While the CUII website lists 24 platforms for blocking, at last count the exposed list contained well over ten times more domains/subdomains, over 300 in total. For perspective, Germany’s site-blocking program is very modest when compared to schemes in the UK, France, Italy, and Spain, for example, where thousands of sites are blocked with information on domains mostly restricted.
Holy cow that's a horrible take. Please, if you can spare the time and money, come visit our country and don't just look at the few high-criminality places or the corruption of key politicians. Yes, they exist and should be criticized, but if your conclusion from that is to think that Germany is still just like during one of the most horrific regimes, then you've been grossly misinformed and need to experience the daily reality instead.
That's much more than I would have guessed, but I learned that anything to do with the universe just explodes my concept of scaling.
Hard agree!
From what I read online, it seems that they may have partaken in criminal offenses (read something about storming a building with improvised weapons), but deporting someone before their trial is due and they have been convicted, is not how it should work in a supposedly-civilised country!
Another post for the post-god.
This is Jacky. He is the sacrifice I make, so that I may leave back to another tab or community.
Amazing how in less than the span of my 31 year lifetime the internet turned from absolutely world-changing great and probably directly or indirectly the most fun and useful tool humans can play around with to not-yet-unusable-but-definitely-closing-in slop where you can't spend an hour without getting mad at some system working against us.
Edit: I hate ending on a dismal note, so let me remind everyone that the "small web" (human-created blogs made with nothing but passion for their craft) exists, even if it's harder to find. Similarly, for most enshittified websites like YouTube, there's an alternative to the enshittification (even if it's just getting something like Grayjay to circumvent the crap on YT)