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An example of a corporation doing the bare minimum required by law.

Laws which they've lobbied and used regulatory capture to slow any updates.

Regulations are important.

These regulations were written a long time ago when physical tape was used. Boeing has since captured the American regulatory system.

For context.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/if-vlc-can-ship-a-free-dvd-player-why-cant-microsoft/

Under French law DVD and Blu-ray codecs aren't patentable and VLC is based in France. The organisation isn't breaking any laws.

Whether using VLC in the US is the legal grey area.

So it's not VideoLAN who might be breaking a law, it's you by circumventing the anti piracy keys in DVDs and Blurays. Millennium copyright act and anywhere that signs up to a treaty containing reciprocal copyright law might have an issue.

Patent infringements might also be possible in the US if you edited that open source code in that country, but US to EU patent treaties don't cover software France deems unpatentable so distributing the codec is probably fine as long as it's of French origin (and non-commercial use as per the GPL licence)

In the UK, the codec might be patentable now after Brexit interestingly but we haven't yet diverged on patent treaties with the EU yet as far as I know and we're part of the US patent treaty still.

Similar things happened with MP3 codecs in Linux before it was also made free. You'd either be prompted to make the choice to install yourself during or after the install. Or perhaps 2 downloads offered, one with and one without.

All to show you as an individual made the choice to use those codecs. If there were any possible damages from an individual download is would be less than $40 in licencing. So a lawyer would have to submit a case for each individual for that as a possible settlement, not even guaranteed.

As long as a large organisation isn't liable for the codec install, it falls into "de minimis" legal territory.

I remember a Live CD install of Ubuntu required some hoops to get codecs at one point in the distant past. I looked it up then out of curiosity.

He supported a book banning law. He's in the wrong.

Now he's not gone back on that, he's complaining the law he supported is applying to his books.

He wants to be above the law while others are not.

As a public, we've gone back to the days when the internet was a techies platform.

The difference now is it's a techies platform Vs. a corporate platform.

The more convenient FOSS social media is, the less techie it will be, and the closer we'll get back to the more open internet for all.

Until then we have an open internet for techies alone.

When they ditched the headphone jack fairphone ditched environmentalism.

The fairphone 3+ was their last fair phone.

It's just another cheap phone now. Made in the same place from the same stuff as other makers, with maybe a year of extra security updates.

They started by doing stuff differently, now they do things the same as everyone else and want to pretend they're different.

The problem is artists often make their actual living doing basic boiler plate stuff that gets forgotten quickly.

In graphics it's Company logos, advertising, basic graphics for businesses.

In writing it's copy for websites, it's short articles, it's basic stuff.

Very few artists want to do these things, they want to create the original work that might not make money at all. That work potentially being a winning lottery ticket but most often being an act of expressing themselves that doesn't turn into a payday.

Unfortunately AI is taking work away from artists. It can't seem to make very good art yet but it can prevent artists who could make good art getting to the point of making it.

It's starving out the top end of the creative market by limiting the easy work artists could previously rely on to pay the bills whilst working on the big ideas.

They value Tesla as a battery manufacturer. I'm not saying that's right but they're hoping other manufacturers will end up using their batteries just like every phone uses Samsung's screens.

I think Tesla has a small lead but is going to be quickly out-developed.

The self driving stuff has always been fluff. The gigafactory not so much.

Once out of curiosity.

It's usually an ad ridden article with AI vomit to make it really long that eventually tells you there's a point update in iOS.

Hitler wasn't a caricature either.

https://youtu.be/WE6mnPmztoQ

The idea that evil has to appear a certain way is from stories we tell to children. Evil people will generally appear pretty normal day to day.

Let's set the sentence for executing an innocent man to, death.

The first barrier to the death penalty is to make sure verdicts are right 100% of the time.

After that you can begin the debate about **whether it's moral at all.

Even if no one does anything, the first book was published 40 years ago. It won't leave copyright for another 62 years.

Copyright is too long.

And as a result the number of school shootings is much, much lower than in the US.

That would be roughly 340 kB/s

High quality mp3 or low quality wav.

Yes, but magnetic flux causes radio waves and there isn't a guarantee these will turn into heat in the space you are heating.

Firefox has also had issues in this regard.

"Firefox's built-in support for web feeds and Live Bookmarks was removed with the release of Firefox version 64 in December 2018."

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/feed-reader-replacements-firefox

They pushed "Pocket" over RSS.

Now they're depreciating the Mac pocket app and it's clearly not going to do well in the future.

5 years of moving people away from RSS to another service, to then start to depreciate that service.

5 years from the major redesign of google reader from 2008 to 2013 and closing it down.

My lesson. Expect to change your software for the web every 4 years or so. If it lasts longer it's a bonus. But chances are if you make the effort to move to the best (and most recently developed) candidate every 4 years you'll be in a good place.

You know when software gets stale, you know when there are better options, use them.

Sometimes your current choice gets a new round of development, sometimes it goes stale.

It's the result of Netscape losing to anti-trust behaviour by Microsoft and open sourcing their code as a final parting gift.

Netscape was struck down Firefox rose.

"The customers aren't products" is genuinely a decent mantra.

If a company makes you the product avoid it or at least know the value they're getting.

If you get something free, your data and attention is often the price. If you pay for something you should not be exploited further as a resource.

Monetisation?

Licensing the site to AI when there's finally a ruling they can't just scrape the internet for training data while ignoring copyright.

No immobiliser.

So you can hotwire it like a vintage car.

Most cars are much more difficult to start.

Most countries made immobilisers mandatory in the 90s, the US doesn't like regulations that corporations have to follow.

The patient Nintendo gamer has to wait for an emulator and raise the Jolly Roger.

In all seriousness Nintendo games for previous gen (Wii U) are roughly half current gen. In the current gens store. Go back further and they just don't support it.

The real problem now is all console companies just close the store on their old consoles so physical media is the only purchase route that lasts if you want to stay legal and that has scarcity value in the end.

I'd much prefer a 3.5mm jack

New? Ru Paul's drag race hit the mainstream at least 10 years ago.

The stand up bit that launched a career.

Actually yes.

And this kind of thing actually happens occasionally with discharged national debts or medical debts for example.

https://www.reuters.com/article/africa-debt-idUSL5N11L42V20150916/

But the systems still in place tend to just cause debts to rise again.

The UK has humans count pieces of paper with X next to candidates names.

It's pretty cheap and it works really well.

And it's really hard to mess with the thousands of votes needed to swing an election because that's a lot of paper.

Just got the optics I would really avoid "execution gas chambers" being on my product applications sheet if I were a German company.

Human papillomavirus HPV is responsible for warts on feet.

So genital warts, mostly HSV (Herpes). Not nice but not particularly harmful most of the time. Cold sores and genital warts. Mouth, genitals. Won't look nice but you won't die.

HPV - cancer.

Further investigation on the evidence may be required but social acceptability chart above may be justified.

If you have a foot fetish get vaccinated against HPV everyone.

Also not googling this. Please take this comment with the respect and authority it deserves. (None)

It's not only Trump.

It's also Trump voters and voters who stay at home and let him back into office.

I'll be pleasantly surprised if a majority of American voters turn out against him.

Last time it was about 1 in 3 voted for him, 1 in 3 voted against him, and 1 in 3 didn't show up.

If you are generally morbidly curious about odds.

And assuming speculation is right that it's bowel cancer

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/king-charles-brave-words-kind-32054314

https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/bowel-cancer/survival

Depends on what stage, but odds are given the level of care Royals get they've probably caught it at stage 1.

That's a 55% chance he's got 9 or 10 years for something else to get there first.

His father lived to 99 and he's currently 75.

A very old friend at 89 told me they had cancer a week before his 90th. They then laughed and said it was too late to the party.

They were right in the end, it was his heart a few years later. Thankfully he was still pretty active and living life until the last couple of weeks. Great guy, genuinely kind and wise. The phrase he gave for his memorial was "It's only sad to die if you haven't lived. I've lived."

Yeah, they fucked up naming categories if a 99 year old now owns the 100+ records.

Even though the summary makes it clear, the summary being necessary is a failure of naming.

Regardless of the reasons for competition, I now want to know who over 100 has the fastest time and it's not this person.

Israel definitely want evacuated Palestinians to give up on returning home and integrate into other countries.

Forcing Palestinians to do this is one of the definitions of genocide.

If someone is suggesting that refugees become citizens of other countries of other countries automatically then that's actually enabling a genocide.

This is the problem with looking at solutions on the small scale when the problem is large scale.

Every individual in those refugee camps would likely have a better life if they "integrated" into another country. It's easy to say those people should get a better life.

But "integrating" into another country is also the language used to suggest the abandonment of culture and claim to their former home.

They are refugees because their homes have been under constant blockade or attack for decades. It's time to give them their homes back.

Ok. If I take 100 dollars off you each month until the police stop me. Stopping me is punishment enough because I lose revenue.

Talking money off you and taking your data and selling it on is different, but both are wrong and both should come with a punishment. Not just an order to stop.

In the EU they wouldn't have tried this in the first place, because they'd get fined.

Fl. Oz are actually nothing to do with weight. They are volume.

For each fluid oz. use 30 ml

It's only approximate but the official measurements for nutrition actually do it in the US so it's not a real unit anyway anymore.

So to disappoint. This is a shopped title.

But the real thing isn't much different.

https://www.discogs.com/release/16531551-Lil-Richard-And-His-Polka-All-Stars-Wine-Girls-And-Goodtimes

Anyway, here's the title track.

https://youtu.be/dzsAUpeMUog?feature=shared

George Carlin was first.

Joan Rivers got there just after.

We've been laughing at jokes about 911 for ages. Being edgy isn't new, even boomers do it

This is everything coming up.

https://www.justsecurity.org/88039/trumps-legal-and-political-calendar-all-the-dates-you-need-to-know/

Have they tried subliminal, liminal, and superluminal recruitment?

You gave the Democrats 48 seats, the Republicans 49 and independents 3.

That's enough power to filibuster, not enact change.

Get back to the rest of us when we see anything close to a supermajority for the democrats and you can call that "total power".

You've given the Democrats some power and it's done you some good. The inflation act is not bad for a 1 seat majority.

Try upping it a bit and you'll do more than just keep the lights on and avoid government shutdowns.

Or don't turn up at the polls and hand an on the record fascist the white house.

Watching from outside the first Trump term was a bizarre result. But he lost the popular vote and won on a personality cult in some key demographics, while idiots decided Hilary Clinton wasn't good enough to turnout for.

If Trump actually wins while his personality and politics are laid bare, after a disastrous 4 years in office domestically and in foreign policy. I honestly don't know what I'll think of the USA.

I'd certainly support any cessation from the states that actually fuel your economy and want to keep democracy.

App developers are unlikely to take themselves off the Apple store it would remove themselves from a huge portion of the market they developed an iOS app for.

But they will find third party stores taking a smaller cut than Apple does. They will pass on some of that saving to the customer or find a way to encourage you not to use the Apple store if they get to keep a higher cut. Like earlier updates and feature releases.

That's the point. Apple currently has a controlling monopoly on a market. Competition will lower prices for the consumer.

Anti-trust laws exist to do exactly this.

All it will take is a trustworthy company to launch a 3rd party app store. Then maybe you won't mind.

Some companies like Cisco might just launch a store instead of putting their apps through Apple as they would like higher security than the App store provides.

Apple will also be forced into a competition to be the most secure app store too.

The likelihood is they'll just play with the margins and do what's necessary to keep a near monopoly but the possibility of competition is useful in itself. At the moment there isn't even that.

Time to start the rejoin in only another 10 years or so I think. We'll be voting on single market membership again before the decade is out I think.