DRM apologist, like so many of the Steam fanboys. “No, it’s good DRM, you see?”
DRM apologist, like so many of the Steam fanboys. “No, it’s good DRM, you see?”
I wonder sometimes if the advice against pointing DNS records to your own residential IP amounts to a big scare. Like you say, if it’s just a static page served on an up to date and minimal web server, there’s less leverage for an attacker to abuse.
I’ve found that ISPs too often block port 80 and 443. Did you luck out with a decent one?
Glad things turned out favorable for you.
it’s forced some of the long stagnant Telco companies to actually compete and start rolling out fiber of their own.
The fact that they failed to do so of their own volition is reasonable grounds to continue to avoid said Telco even after they’ve finally deployed fiber.
I’ll shortcut this to the logical conclusion:
It’s centralized, proprietary technology.
If it is proprietary it is going to fuck you over, one way or another. It’s not a matter of if, but when.
It is an obvious maneuver, to be fair to Nadella. Not only will this push more over to subscription based word processing, but it also closes one of the easier avenues useds have to avoid aggregated data farming. Their next move should be to turn Notepad into a complementary tiered program:
Tier 1) Use at no charge, but your data pays for it instead.
Tier 2) Notepad becomes an extra pay to unlock feature of 365.
Direct consequence of sourcing all your software from a centralized, huge corporation controlled “app store”. That is hilarious.
Will mobile users ever tire of getting b1tchslapped by their masters?
"Hey we released this new game buuuuut you’re going to need to purchase an entire separate computer system we call a ‘console’ because we refuse to compile the game binary for PC OSes, nor provide the source for you to do so yourself”
I interpret distributors and publishers treating me as a second (or third) class citizen as carte blanche to acquire your content and make the necessary changes to make it work on my environment of choice.
I’ve always wondered that. Why not just throw a git repo behind I2P or onto IPFS? It’s like they want to be attacked.
What starts in China will eventually find its way here. And the scariest part of it is that most people will just passively accept it.
When something grows to that size it becomes recognized as a useful tool with which to conduct social engineering. Reddit has been a weapon of information warfare for well over a decade.
Protests: a pressure valve to release steam. You gotta let them get out there and march around for a little bit. Let them walk it off. Then proceed to implement the next new tyranny a little bit at a time.
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Will Satan himself be attending?
The primary goal is to simply get the information inside your mind. Whether you like or dislike it doesn’t really matter. That preexisting brand/product familiarity is often all that is needed to tip the scales months or years down the road, once you’ve “forgotten” all about the annoying ad, while you find yourself deciding between competing products on a shelf or on a store page.
The fabled HTPC is a fix that few people know exists for a problem that few people know they can do anything about.
While Ubuntu only ever metes out the occasional beating with things like spy lens, Windows has really been hitting it out of the park consistently. It is rivaled only maybe by Mac & iOS when it comes to punishing users for making stupid decisions. Their silently replacing local files with fronted copies served from MS’s own “cloud” was a real banger. I can’t wait to see what creative new ways they’ll come up with next to make normies suffer.
Ah, the downstream effects of compliance teams.
“Hurry we gotta check off all the boxes!!! What do these measures actually address? Don’t know, don’t care! Comply!”
Industry wants to place computer “solutions” between you and the world around you to the maximum extent possible. Data is money.
How many of them had pharmaceutical money behind them, I wonder.