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conciselyverbose,

All memes are dumb. They're supposed to be.

I'm talking about being offended by that.

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lol now I want to know what meme he's so mad about.

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There's a huge difference between not butchering your own chickens and buying some fucking nasty frozen crepes full of preservatives and random filler trash.

If it's premade at a grocery store, it's disgusting and way less healthy on top.

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If it's not from scratch it's not good.

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I get your point that the exploit existed before it was identified, but an unmitigated exploit that people are aware of is worse than an unmitigated exploit people aren't aware of. Security through obscurity isn't security, of course, but exploiting a vulnerability is easier than finding, then exploiting a vulnerability. There is a reason that notifying the company before publicizing an exploit is the standard for security researchers.

You're right that it's never an OK title, because fuck clickbait, but until it's patched and said patch propagates into the real world, more people being aware of the hole does increase the risk (though it doesn't sound like it's actually a huge show stopper, either).

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It would also completely fuck our critical infrastructure. There's enough that needs connectivity for it to cascade to much more.

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I don't want or need continuous updates.

I want to buy something and have it be left alone without trying to steal more money from me for the thing I already bought.

The only possible valid excuse for a subscription to software is services that cannot possibly exist without meaningful spending on server infrastructure. If that's cloud storage as the core of the purchase of the app, computations that are literally impossible to do locally or rely on data that's expensive to maintain, a subscription is legitimate.

If it's anything else it's shitty and you're a shitty person for doing it. Sell actual upgrades when they're actually upgrades, without stealing access to what people bought. It's the only acceptable model.

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Those are two blatantly different things. There's nothing wrong with selling new versions of software.

There's everything wrong with removing the ability to use software you paid for unless you continue to actively pay for it.

Techrights — The Effort to Silence (Squash) GNU/Linux Advocates and Press Coverage (techrights.org)

THE Google ‘News’ (Gulag Noise [1, 2]) mentions of “Linux” diminish again, partly because sites that used to cover GNU/Linux every day suddenly stopped a few weeks ago (our coverage of it had struck a nerve, attracting about 3,000 readers). No need to shame the publisher or anything (it had done a great job until it...

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I couldn't even come up with a take. I guess a conspiracy theory that Microsoft is kidnapping the internet's families to keep them from talking about Linux.

It's mostly just babble.

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This is a mess and a half.

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Best guess literally a bag of precooked, pre scrambled eggs dumped in a warming tray for breakfast.

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No, backing it up is your obligation.

A digital purchase means they owe you access, in the format your purchased, as long as they exist. Nothing short of that can possibly be acceptable if there is any copy protection at all.

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It means the core OS is isolated from all the functionality in a way that allows you to modularly add all the functionality on top of it in a reproducible, robust way.

In theory. I haven't actually dug into any of them personally.

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The level of liability you'd expose yourself actively advertising it as some sort of mental health product is insane.

I do believe someone will be dumb enough, but it's a truly terrible, insanely unsafe idea with anything resembling current tech in any way.

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Have you watched recent Pixar movies? They seem perfectly fine to me.

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Meme was coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene in 1976, and defined as the equivalent of a gene but for more abstract ideas (because the gene is ultimately just a unit of information as well). I don't remember for sure if religion is specifically an example he personally used, but if it's not it's very comfortably in the same vein.

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It's instructions per clock/cycle in a hardware context, because you can't use clock speeds to compare performance between processors.

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Because it's low quality and stuffed with trash.

If it's real food you freeze and reheat it's different.

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No, they are not.

The fact that they're making more net money from those regions than they otherwise would, by definition, makes it literally impossible for you to be subsidizing them. The alternative is not listing in those regions, not lowering prices for you. There is no theoretical world where you get a cheaper price in developed countries without regional pricing in lower income regions.

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"Making more revenue with negligible cost of distribution" and "we're subsidizing poor countries" are not compatible.

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That $1.50 hot dog is actually $1.50. You don't even need to be a member to buy it.

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Nah. It just extends down. Your belief, and any changes over time, are also predetermined as some sum of your inputs.

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Acknowledging literally every change after any news content is published in any context isn't bullying anyone.

It's the absolute bare minimum to not be a piece of shit.

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Give Apollo a contract guaranteeing free API access until the end of time without nonsense restrictions on content and maybe I'd think about it. Short of that I'm all set.

(No it's not just Apollo. But he's the most wronged and the one I use.)

conciselyverbose,

"Slavery's illegal... unless we want you for jury duty." is definitely some horseshit. My job will pay for like a week, but the fact that it's entirely possible to be called for longer and have the state pay you fuckall is ridiculous.

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