Have strong opinions, but I welcome any civil fact-based discussion.
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Can anyone remember a Microsoft update in the last few years that wasn’t causing crashes and failures?
Additionally the “workaround” that someone provided still uses those connected services <…>
It literally didn’t. All it used was API endpoint, which by definition is not proprietary.
“right to repair”
Right to repair is about ownership. If a company can take away features or product you paid for, you don’t own it, you rent it.
Older one in English:
Latest one in German:
Added to the post body.
Only in UK English, US English doesn’t.
The flaws also exposed car owners’ sensitive personal information, including their name, phone number, email address, and physical address, and could have enabled attackers to add themselves as a second user on the targeted vehicles without the owners’ knowledge.
The company does not distinguish between how many posts were removed and how many were labeled.
Best kind of transparency.
Yeah, worse than Google/Apple app store’s 30/70 split which is already a robbery.
Mostly it comes down to hypocrisy. He’s been a vocal critic of identical “products” in the past when released by other companies, but now suddenly everything is fine when it is him doing it.
That’s straight from the mouth of Rabbit founder Jesse Lyu, who gave the number to Fast Company <…>
They are only pro-consumer when it doesn’t evolve Big Tech. They are owned by Big Tech…
Criminal racket 101. Regulations are created so that companies would be forced to pay politicians to bypass those regulations.
While MoneyGram has not shared what type of attack they suffered, the extended outage and loss of connectivity to systems is indicative of a ransomware attack.
Considering MoneyGram’s massive customer base, a potential data breach on the company could have far-reaching repercussions for many people.
I’m not sure if it’s spelled out in the ToS, but there is no way to prevent pull requests on public repos, it’s a functional requirement.
You have to make a fork aka copy and modify to contribute via pull requests. The license is fundamentally broken.
Well, yes, that’s the whole point of their existence. How else would they be able to evaluate the traffic? They can read everything in plain text.
As opposed to giving all that unencrypted traffic to Cloudflare and letting them make money from it?
Only in EU, the rest of the world is still stuck with WebKit. Apple geo locked App Store, so it only works for EU users.
I used SearX/SearXNG metasearch engine for years now. Works great.